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19-letter words containing e, n

  • at one's fingertips — readily available and within one's mental grasp
  • at sb's convenience — If something is arranged to happen at your convenience, it happens at a time which is most suitable for you.
  • at sixes and sevens — If you say that someone or something is at sixes and sevens, you mean that they are confused or disorganized.
  • at your convenience — at a time suitable to you
  • atherton technology — (company)   The comapny that developed the Software BackPlane CASE framework. Their Atherton Tool Integration Services were the basis for the ATIS standard.
  • atmospheric braking — a technique of reentry in which the vehicle is maneuvered in the upper atmosphere so as to lose velocity by utilizing drag without overheating.
  • attachment disorder — an emotional and behavioral disorder arising from a failure to form a strong bond with one’s primary caregiver in early childhood and affecting one’s social relationships in later childhood and adulthood. See also attachment (def 3a).
  • attendance register — an official list of people who are present at an institution such as a school
  • attractive nuisance — Law. a doctrine of tort law under which a person who creates or permits to exist on his or her land a dangerous condition attractive to children, as an unfenced swimming pool, is liable for their resulting injuries, even though the injured are trespassers.
  • audio response unit — a device that enables a computer to give a spoken response by generating sounds similar to human speech.
  • augmented cognition — the study of the augmenting of human mental functions by computer programs
  • augsburg confession — the statement of beliefs and doctrines of the Lutherans, formulated by Melanchthon and endorsed by the Lutheran princes, which was presented at the Diet of Augsburg in 1530 and which became the chief creed of the Lutheran Church.
  • auricular appendage — auricle (def 1b).
  • auricular-appendage — Anatomy. the projecting outer portion of the ear; pinna. Also called auricular appendage. an ear-shaped appendage projecting from each atrium of the heart. (loosely) the atrium.
  • auriculoventricular — atrioventricular.
  • australian tea tree — a shrubby Australian tree, Leptospermum laevigatum, of the myrtle family, having lance-shaped leaves and white, bell-shaped flowers.
  • author's alteration — a correction or change made in typeset copy that is not a correction of an error introduced by the compositor. Abbreviation: AA, A.A., a.a., aa.
  • ave regina coelorum — a Latin hymn in honor of the Virgin Mary as Queen of Heaven.
  • awareness programme — a programme designed to increase awareness of something
  • axiomatic semantics — (theory)   A set of assertions about properties of a system and how they are effected by program execution. The axiomatic semantics of a program could include pre- and post-conditions for operations. In particular if you view the program as a state transformer (or collection of state transformers), the axiomatic semantics is a set of invariants on the state which the state transformer satisfies. E.g. for a function with the type: sort_list :: [T] -> [T] we might give the precondition that the argument of the function is a list, and a postcondition that the return value is a list that is sorted. One interesting use of axiomatic semantics is to have a language that has a finitely computable sublanguage that is used for specifying pre and post conditions, and then have the compiler prove that the program will satisfy those conditions. See also operational semantics, denotational semantics.
  • baader-meinhof gang — a group of left-wing West German terrorists, active in the 1970s, who were dedicated to the violent overthrow of capitalist society
  • bachelor of science — A Bachelor of Science is a first degree in a science subject. In British English, it can also mean a person with that degree. The abbreviation BSc or , BSc is also used.
  • bacillary dysentery — shigellosis.
  • balance of payments — A country's balance of payments is the difference, over a period of time, between the payments it makes to other countries for imports and the payments it receives from other countries for exports.
  • balfour declaration — the statement made by Arthur Balfour in 1917 of British support for the setting up of a national home for the Jews in Palestine, provided that the rights of "existing non-Jewish communities" in Palestine could be safeguarded
  • bandar seri begawan — the capital of Brunei. Pop: 64 000 (2005 est)
  • bang for one's buck — value for money
  • bank reconciliation — A bank reconciliation is the process of adjusting a bank statement to show transactions that have occurred since the date of issue, or a document showing this.
  • banker's acceptance — a draft or bill of exchange drawn on a bank and accepted by it
  • bankruptcy petition — an official request for protection under bankruptcy laws, which initiates bankruptcy proceedings
  • barometric gradient — pressure gradient
  • batterie de cuisine — cooking utensils collectively; pots and pans, etc
  • battle-ground state — a state of the U.S. in which the Democratic and Republican candidates both have a good chance of winning and that is considered key to the outcome of a presidential election: the swing states of Ohio and Indiana.
  • battles of bull run — two battles fought at Manassas Junction near a stream named Bull Run, during the American Civil War (July, 1861 and August, 1862), in both of which the Federal army was routed by the Confederates
  • bbc networking club — (body)   A bulletin board run by the British Broadcasting Corporation Education department from April 1994 to 30 Nov 1995.
  • be burnt to a crisp — If something is burnt to a crisp, it is completely burnt.
  • be greek to someone — to be incomprehensible or unintelligible to someone
  • be of use/be no use — If something or someone is of use, they are useful. If they are no use, they are not at all useful.
  • be one's own master — If you say that you are your own master, you mean that your decisions are not controlled by other people and you are free to do what you want.
  • be one's own person — a human being, whether an adult or child: The table seats four persons.
  • be someone's junior — to be younger than someone
  • be up to one's neck — the part of the body of an animal or human being that connects the head and the trunk.
  • beat someone hollow — to defeat someone thoroughly and convincingly
  • beauty preparations — the cosmetics, creams etc used to improve someone's beauty
  • beggar-my-neighbour — a card game in which one player tries to win all the cards of the other player
  • beginning inventory — A beginning inventory is all of the goods, services, or materials that a business has available for use or sale at the start of a new accounting period.
  • behavioral genetics — an interdisciplinary field studying the effects of genetics and hereditary factors on animal and human behavior.
  • behavioral medicine — an interdisciplinary field that uses the concepts and techniques of the behavioral sciences to improve physical and emotional health.
  • behavioural science — the application of scientific methods to the study of the behaviour of organisms
  • behind closed doors — If people have talks and discussions behind closed doors, they have them in private because they want them to be kept secret.
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