19-letter words containing d, y, a, s
- dynamic translation — (architecture) A virtual machine implementation approach, used to speed up execution of byte-code programs. To execute a program unit such as a method or a function, the virtual machine compiles its bytecodes into (hardware) machine code. The translated code is also placed in a cache, so that next time that unit's machine code can be executed immediately, without repeating the translation. This technique was pioneered by the commercial Smalltalk implementation currently known as VisualWorks, in the early 1980s. Currently it is also used by some implementations of the Java Virtual Machine under the name JIT (Just In Time compilation).
- dynatron oscillator — type of oscillator
- electrodynamometers — Plural form of electrodynamometer.
- fall by the wayside — to cease or fail to continue doing something
- fallacy of division — the fallacy of inferring that a property of the whole is also a property of parts or members of the whole (opposed to fallacy of composition).
- family-sized packet — a large packet
- finds its/their way — If something finds its way somewhere, it comes to that place, especially by chance.
- free alongside quay — (of a shipment of goods) delivered to the quay without charge to the buyer
- gray-cheeked thrush — a North American thrush, Catharus minimus, having olive upper parts and grayish cheeks.
- heavy goods vehicle — a large road vehicle for carrying goods
- hermetically sealed — airtight
- highways department — the department of a state, council, etc, responsible for the upkeep of roads and highways
- holy innocents' day — December 28, a day of religious observance commemorating the slaughter of the children of Bethlehem by Herod's order.
- hydrostatic balance — a balance for finding the weight of an object submerged in water in order to determine the upthrust on it and thus determine its relative density
- hyperfocal distance — the distance, at a given f number, between a camera lens and the nearest point (hyperfocal point) having satisfactory definition when focused at infinity.
- hyperparathyroidism — overactivity of the parathyroid gland, characterized by softening of the bones, with consequent pain, tenderness, and a tendency to spontaneous fractures, and by muscular weakness and abdominal cramps.
- hyperphosphorylated — Simple past tense and past participle of hyperphosphorylate.
- hypophosphoric acid — a tetrabasic acid, H 4 P 2 O 6 , produced by the slow oxidation of phosphorous in moist air.
- imperial presidency — a U.S. presidency that is characterized by greater power than the Constitution allows.
- in this day and age — these days
- indemnity insurance — insurance covering against damage or loss
- individualistically — a person who shows great independence or individuality in thought or action.
- industrial capacity — the amount of resources (workforce, factories, etc) present in a place that will enable an industry or industries to produce goods
- interdisciplinarity — Any academic or scientific study that draws on the expertise of more than one discipline.
- intermediate system — (networking) (IS) An Open Systems Interconnection system which performs network layer forwarding. It is analogous to an IP router.
- john maynard keynes — John Maynard, 1st Baron, 1883–1946, English economist and writer.
- keyboard instrument — any musical instrument that is played using a keyboard
- knock someone bandy — to amaze or astound
- lay down one's arms — to stop fighting; surrender
- lead someone astray — If someone or something leads you astray, they make you believe something that is not true, causing you to make a wrong decision.
- learning disability — a disorder, as dyslexia, usually affecting school-age children of normal or above-normal intelligence, characterized by difficulty in understanding or using spoken or written language, and thought to be related to impairment or slowed development of perceptual motor skills.
- least recently used — (operating systems) (LRU) A rule used in a paging system which selects a page to be paged out if it has been used (read or written) less recently than any other page. The same rule may also be used in a cache to select which cache entry to flush. This rule is based on temporal locality - the observation that, in general, the page (or cache entry) which has not been accessed for longest is least likely to be accessed in the near future.
- lipopolysaccharides — Plural form of lipopolysaccharide.
- magnesium hydroxide — a white, crystalline, slightly water-soluble powder, Mg(OH) 2 , used chiefly in medicine as an antacid and as a laxative.
- mashye and mashyane — (in the Avesta) the first couple, man and woman, created by Ahura Mazda from a rhubarb plant grown from the seed of Gayomart.
- mucopolysaccharides — Plural form of mucopolysaccharide.
- multidimensionality — The property of being multidimensional.
- multimedia analysis — Multimedia analysis is the consideration of all possible risks relating to pollution and waste management.
- munchausen syndrome — a factitious disorder in which otherwise healthy individuals seek to hospitalize themselves with feigned or self-induced pathology in order to receive surgical or other medical treatment.
- necessary condition — prerequisite
- neuropsychodynamics — The theoretical synthesis of neuroscience and psychodynamics.
- nine--days---wonder — an event or thing that arouses considerable but short-lived interest or excitement.
- novell data systems — (company) A small computer hardware company building CP/M Z80-based systems. They later went on to become Novell, Inc. and develop Novell Netware.
- one's pride and joy — Someone or something that is your pride and joy is very important to you and makes you feel very happy.
- ordnance survey map — An Ordnance Survey map is a detailed map produced by the British or Irish government map-making organization.
- orthopaedic surgery — surgery concerned with disorders of the spine and joints and the repair of deformities of these parts
- over sb's dead body — You can say over my dead body to emphasize that you feel very strongly that something should not happen, and that you will do everything you can to prevent it.
- overplay one's hand — If you say that someone is overplaying something such as a problem, you mean that they are making it seem more important than it really is.
- palisade parenchyma — the upper layer of ground tissue in a leaf, consisting of elongated cells beneath and perpendicular to the upper epidermis and constituting the primary area of photosynthesis.
- peritoneal dialysis — a form of dialysis in which the peritoneum is used as an autogenous semipermeable membrane