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17-letter words containing i, n, c

  • audio description — a facility provided for visually impaired people in which a film, television programme, or play is described through audio technology
  • australia current — a branch of the South Equatorial Current flowing SW from around Fiji to the E coast of Australia and then S along the coast.
  • australopithecine — any of various extinct apelike primates of the genus Australopithecus and related genera, remains of which have been discovered in southern and E Africa. Some species are estimated to be over 4.5 million years old
  • authority control — the establishment and maintainance of consistent forms of terms, as of names, subjects, and titles, to be used as headings in bibliographic records.
  • autocorrelational — Of or pertaining to autocorrelation.
  • automatic vending — selling goods by vending machines
  • automatic writing — writing performed without apparent intent or conscious control, especially to achieve spontaneity or uncensored expression.
  • aviation medicine — the branch of medicine concerned with the effects on man of flight in the earth's atmosphere
  • back on the rails — If something is back on the rails, it is beginning to be successful again after a period when it almost failed.
  • backward analysis — (theory)   An analysis to determine properties of the inputs of a program from properties or context of the outputs. E.g. if the output of this function is needed then this argument is needed. Compare forward analysis.
  • backward chaining — (algorithm)   An algorithm for proving a goal by recursively breaking it down into sub-goals and trying to prove these until facts are reached. Facts are goals with no sub-goals which are therefore always true. Backward training is the program execution mechanism used by most logic programming language like Prolog. Opposite: forward chaining.
  • bacon's rebellion — an unsuccessful uprising by frontiersmen in Virginia in 1676, led by Nathaniel Bacon against the colonial government in Jamestown.
  • bacteriorhodopsin — a purple protein containing retinal and found in the plasma membrane of certain bacteria (genus Halobacterium): it directly supplies electrochemical energy from sunlight
  • baggage screening — the procedure whereby baggage is electronically screened at an airport before it is allowed on the plane
  • bahia de cochinos — Spanish name of Bay of Pigs.
  • balanced literacy — a method of teaching reading in which phonics and whole language approaches are both used to maximize student learning.
  • banking principle — the principle that bank notes are a form of credit and should be issued freely in order to maintain an elastic currency.
  • barbed wire fence — a fence constructed from strong wire that has sharply pointed barbs at close intervals along its length
  • basic proposition — protocol (def 6).
  • be running scared — If you say that a person or group is running scared, you mean that they are frightened of what someone might do to them or what might happen.
  • behind one's back — without one's knowledge; secretly or deceitfully
  • behind the scenes — happening or conducted out of view of the general public: The behind-the-scenes preparations made the convention a huge success.
  • behind-the-scenes — If something is done behind the scenes, it is done secretly rather than publicly.
  • benefit of clergy — sanction by the church
  • benjamin-constant — Henri Benjamin [ahn-ree ban-zha-man] /ɑ̃ˈri bɛ̃ ʒaˈmɛ̃/ (Show IPA), (Benjamin Constant) 1767–1830, French statesman and author, born in Switzerland.
  • beyond comparison — outstanding, without equal
  • billeting officer — an officer who is responsible for billeting
  • binet-simon scale — a test comprising questions and tasks, used to determine the mental age of subjects, usually children
  • binocular rivalry — the phenomenon whereby one is unable to see simultaneously different images presented one to each eye; usually in some areas of the eye the image presented to the left eye is seen, in others that presented to the right eye
  • bioelectrogenesis — the production of electricity by organisms.
  • biological parent — a parent who has conceived (biological mother) or sired (biological father) rather than adopted a child and whose genes are therefore transmitted to the child.
  • biological weapon — a weapon which uses a biological agent to harm people and other living organisms
  • black nationalism — a movement advocating the establishment of a separate black nation within the U.S.
  • black renaissance — a renewal and flourishing of black literary and musical culture during the years after World War I in the Harlem section of New York City.
  • black-box testing — functional testing
  • blackout curtains — thick, lined curtains designed to shut out all daylight and keep a room in complete darkness
  • blackwells island — a former name of Roosevelt Island.
  • bland-allison act — an act of Congress (1878) requiring the federal government to purchase at the market price from two to four million dollars' worth of silver monthly for conversion into silver dollars containing 16 times more silver per coin than gold in dollar coins of gold.
  • blind carbon copy — a duplicate of anything written or typed, or a copy of an email or other electronic document, that is sent to someone whose name is not visible to the primary addressee. Abbreviation: bcc.
  • block association — an association for the residents of a particular block in a neighbourhood to discuss and act on matters of common concern
  • block coefficient — the ratio of the immersed volume of a vessel to the product of its immersed draft, length, and beam.
  • blocking antibody — Immunology. an antibody that partly combines with an antigen and interferes with cell-mediated immunity, thereby preventing an allergic reaction.
  • boatswain's chair — a seat consisting of a short flat board slung from ropes, used to support a person working on the side of a vessel or in its rigging
  • body modification — any method of permanently adorning the body, including tattooing and piercing
  • book depreciation — Book depreciation is depreciation in a company's internal financial records that is different from the amount that is used for taxes.
  • bouncebackability — the ability to recover after a setback, esp in sport
  • bowel obstruction — a blockage in the bowel
  • branch prediction — (processor, algorithm)   A technique used in some processors with instruction prefetch to guess whether a conditional branch will be taken or not and prefetch code from the appropriate location. When a branch instruction is executed, its address and that of the next instruction executed (the chosen destination of the branch) are stored in the Branch Target Buffer. This information is used to predict which way the instruction will branch the next time it is executed so that instruction prefetch can continue. When the prediction is correct (and it is over 90% of the time), executing a branch does not cause a pipeline break. Some later CPUs simply prefetch both paths instead of trying to predict which way the branch will go. An extension of the idea of branch prediction is speculative execution.
  • breakdown service — a service that provides assistance to motorists who break down
  • brezhnev doctrine — the doctrine expounded by Leonid Brezhnev in November 1968 affirming the right of the Soviet Union to intervene in the affairs of Communist countries to strengthen Communism.
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