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21-letter words containing e, t, c

  • get on someone's wick — to cause irritation to a person
  • get on the scoresheet — In football, rugby, and some other sports, if a player gets on the scoresheet, he or she scores one or more goals, tries, or points.
  • get one's breath back — When you get your breath back after doing something energetic, you start breathing normally again.
  • get-rich-quick scheme — a scheme that promises to make a person extremely wealthy over a short period of time, often at with little effort and at no risk
  • gilt-edged securities — government securities on which interest payments will certainly be met and that will certainly be repaid at par on the due date
  • give place to someone — to make room for or be superseded by someone
  • glacier national park — a national park in NW Montana: glaciers; lakes; forest reserve. 1534 sq. mi. (3970 sq. km).
  • glyceryl tripalmitate — palmitin.
  • gobject introspection — (programming)   A GNOME project that defines a syntax for introspection annotation pragmas to be used in the GObject library source code. Rather than actual introspection, these are intended to allow automatic generation of bindings (APIs) to expose the library to higher-level languages. The sort of information provided is the type and direction (in, out, inout) of function parameters and the responsibility for freeing memory used by data structures.
  • goldbach's conjecture — the conjecture that every even number greater than two is the sum of two prime numbers
  • government securities — securities issued by the US Government
  • gram-molecular weight — gram molecule. Abbreviation: GMW.
  • grammatical inference — Deducing a grammar from given examples. Also known as "inductive inference" and recently as "computational learning".
  • great victoria desert — a desert in SW central Australia. 125,000 sq. mi. (324,000 sq. km).
  • greek orthodox church — the branch of the Orthodox Church constituting the national church of Greece.
  • greenwich observatory — the national astronomical observatory of Great Britain, housed in a castle in E Sussex; formerly located at Greenwich.
  • ground-effect machine — ACV (def 2).
  • guaranteed scheduling — (algorithm)   A scheduling algorithm used in multitasking operating systems that guarantees fairness by monitoring the amount of CPU time spent by each user and allocating resources accordingly.
  • harriet beecher stowe — Harriet (Elizabeth) Beecher, 1811–96, U.S. abolitionist and novelist.
  • have a strong stomach — not to be prone to nausea
  • have it coming to one — to deserve what one is about to suffer
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • hierarchical database — (database)   A kind of database management system that links records together like a family tree such that each record type has only one owner, e.g. an order is owned by only one customer. Hierarchical structures were widely used in the first mainframe database management systems. However, due to their restrictions, they often cannot be used to relate structures that exist in the real world.
  • high court of justice — an English court formed in 1873 from several superior courts and consisting of a court of original jurisdiction (High Court of Justice) and an appellate court (Court of Appeal)
  • 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.
  • historic places trust — (in New Zealand) the statutory body concerned with the conservation of historic buildings, esp with ancient Māori sites
  • homogeneous catalysis — Homogeneous catalysis is catalysis in which the catalyst takes part in the reaction that it increases.
  • 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
  • hubble classification — a method of classifying galaxies depending on whether they are elliptical, spiral, barred spiral, or irregular
  • hypercholesterolaemia — the condition of having a high concentration of cholesterol in the blood
  • hyperkinetic disorder — another name for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
  • hypothetico-deductive — pertaining to or governed by the supposed method of scientific progress whereby a general hypothesis is tested by deducing predictions that may be experimentally tested. When such a prediction is falsified the theory is rejected and a new hypothesis is required
  • 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
  • ieee computer society — (body)   The society of the IEEE which publishes the journal "Computer".
  • immaculate conception — the dogma of the unique privilege by which the Virgin Mary was conceived in her mother's womb without the stain of original sin through the anticipated merits of Jesus Christ. Compare virgin birth (def 1).
  • immediate constituent — one of the usually two largest constituents of a construction: The immediate constituents of He ate his dinner are he and ate his dinner; of ate his dinner are ate and his dinner; etc. Abbreviation: IC.
  • 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.
  • immunohistochemically — By means of or in regard to immunohistochemistry.
  • imperfect competition — economics: when sb has excessive influence on market price
  • imprecise probability — (probability)   A probability that is represented as an interval (as opposed to a single number) included in [0,1].
  • in (or out of) place — in (or out of) the customary, proper, or assigned place
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