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21-letter words containing c, r, e, n

  • have the inside track — If you say that someone has the inside track, you mean that they have an advantage, for example special knowledge about something.
  • hawaiian honeycreeper — any small to medium-sized finches of the subfamily Drepanidinae, native to the Hawaiian Islands and including many rare and extinct species.
  • hay-pauncefote treaty — an agreement (1901) between the U.S. and Great Britain giving the U.S. the sole right to build a canal across Central America connecting the Atlantic and Pacific.
  • hazard warning device — an appliance fitted to a motor vehicle that operates the hazard lights
  • heliocentric parallax — the apparent displacement of an observed object due to a change in the position of the observer.
  • henry steele commager — Henry Steele, 1902–98, U.S. historian, author, and teacher.
  • hexachlorocyclohexane — (chemistry) A six-chlorine substituted cyclohexane, a polyhalogenated compound used in pesticides.
  • higher-order function — (HOF) A function that can take one or more functions as argument and/or return a function as its value. E.g. map in (map f l) which returns the list of results of applying function f to each of the elements of list l. See also curried function.
  • highest common factor — greatest common divisor. Abbreviation: H.C.F.
  • hindu-arabic numerals — Arabic numeral.
  • homolosine projection — an equal-area projection of the world, distorting ocean areas in order to minimize the distortion of the continents.
  • horns and halo effect — a tendency to allow one's judgement of another person, esp in a job interview, to be unduly influenced by an unfavourable (horns) or favourable (halo) first impression based on appearances
  • hyperkinetic disorder — another name for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
  • ibm customer engineer — (job)   (CE) A hardware guy from IBM.
  • identical proposition — a proposition in which the subject and predicate have the same meaning, as, “That which is mortal is not immortal.”.
  • identification papers — documents that serve to establish someone's identity
  • identification parade — a group of persons including one suspected of having committed a crime assembled for the purpose of discovering whether a witness can identify the suspect
  • immunoelectrophoresis — a technique for the separation and identification of mixtures of proteins, consisting of electrophoresis followed by immunodiffusion.
  • immunoelectrophoretic — a technique for the separation and identification of mixtures of proteins, consisting of electrophoresis followed by immunodiffusion.
  • imperfect competition — economics: when sb has excessive influence on market price
  • in (or out of) place — in (or out of) the customary, proper, or assigned place
  • in good circumstances — (of a person) in a good financial situation
  • in no uncertain terms — If you say that someone tells a person something in no uncertain terms, you are emphasizing that they say it strongly and clearly so that there is no doubt about what they mean.
  • in saecula saeculorum — for ever and ever.
  • in someone's presence — If you are in someone's presence, you are in the same place as that person, and are close enough to them to be seen or heard.
  • in the course of time — eventually
  • in the first instance — You say in the first instance to mention something that is the first step in a series of actions.
  • indicated horse-power — the horsepower of a reciprocating engine as shown by an indicator record. Abbreviation: ihp, IHP.
  • induced radioactivity — artificial radioactivity.
  • infant welfare clinic — a medical facility that specializes in the health and well-being of young babies
  • infectious ectromelia — ectromelia (def 2).
  • information appliance — (hardware)   (IA) A consumer device that performs only a few targeted tasks and is controlled by a simple touch-screen interface or push buttons on the device's enclosure.
  • information scientist — someone who works in information science
  • insulin shock therapy — a former treatment for mental illness, especially schizophrenia, employing insulin-induced hypoglycemia as a method for producing convulsive seizures.
  • insurance certificate — a certificate that shows that a person or organization has insurance
  • insurance underwriter — sb who assesses eligibility for insurance policies
  • integer specbaseratio — SPECbase_int92
  • intellectual property — Law. property that results from original creative thought, as patents, copyright material, and trademarks.
  • internal iliac artery — iliac artery (def 3).
  • internet chess server — (networking, games)   An interactive meeting-place on the Internet where people can play chess against each other.
  • intracoastal waterway — a mostly inland water route, partly natural and partly artificial, extending 1550 miles (2500 km) along the Atlantic coast from Boston to Florida Bay (Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway) and 1116 miles (1800 km) along the Gulf coast from Carrabelle, Fla., to Brownsville, Tex. (Gulf Intracoastal Waterway) constructed to protect small craft from the hazards of the open sea.
  • irish republican army — an underground Irish nationalist organization founded to work for Irish independence from Great Britain: declared illegal by the Irish government in 1936, but continues activity aimed at the unification of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Abbreviation: IRA, I.R.A.
  • isopropylideneacetone — mesityl oxide.
  • java native interface — (programming)   (JNI) A native programming interface for Java that allows Java code running inside a Java Virtual Machine to interoperate with applications and libraries written in other programming languages such as C, C++ and assembly language.
  • jean jacques rousseau — Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), ("Le Douanier") 1844–1910, French painter.
  • jobseeker's allowance — (in Britain) a National Insurance or social security payment for unemployed people; replaced unemployment benefit in 1996
  • keyboard send receive — (hardware)   (KSR) Part of a designation for a hard-copy terminal, manufactured by Teletype Corporation. The KSR range were lower cost versions of the ASR models.
  • kicking and screaming — If you say that someone is dragged kicking and screaming into a particular course of action, you are emphasizing that they are very unwilling to do what they are being made to do.
  • knock someone for six — to upset or overwhelm someone completely; stun
  • laboratory technician — sb who assists in a laboratory
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