19-letter words containing i, n, s, u, l, e

corporal punishment — Corporal punishment is the punishment of people by hitting them.
countersurveillance — The art of evading surveillance.
cudgel one's brains — to think hard about a problem
cult of personality — a cult promoting adulation of a living national leader or public figure, as one encouraged by Stalin to extend his power.
current liabilities — business liabilities maturing within a year
customs declaration — a form declaring the nature and value of goods, etc, for customs purposes
customs regulations — the regulations relating to customs in a particular country
deindustrialisation — Alternative spelling of deindustrialization.
deindustrialization — the decline in importance of manufacturing industry in the economy of a nation or area
deinstitutionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of deinstitutionalize.
deoxyribonucleoside — a compound composed of deoxyribose and either a purine or a pyrimidine.
distinguishableness — The state or quality of being distinguishable.
double yellow lines — parallel yellow lines painted down the centre of a roadway to indicate that overtaking is not permitted in either direction
double-density disk — a disk with more than the normal capacity for storage
educational adviser — a person who provides advice and training to teachers about teaching methods and educational policies
eight queens puzzle — (algorithm) A puzzle in which one has to place eight queens on a chessboard such that no queen is attacking any other, i.e. no two queens occupy the same row, column or diagonal. One may have to produce all possible such configurations or just one. It is a common students assignment to devise a program to solve the eight queens puzzle. The brute force algorithm tries all 64*63*62*61*60*59*58*57 = 178,462,987,637,760 possible layouts of eight pieces on a chessboard to see which ones meet the criterion. More intelligent algorithms use the fact that there are only ten positions for the first queen that are not reflections of each other, and that the first queen leaves at most 42 safe squares, giving only 10*42*41*40*39*38*37*36 = 1,359,707,731,200 layouts to try, and so on. The puzzle may be varied with different number of pieces and different size boards.
electroluminescence — Luminescence produced electrically, especially in a phosphor by the application of a voltage.
electrostatic units — the system of CGS electric and magnetic units that assigns the value of one to the dielectric constant of a vacuum
end-to-end solution — (jargon) (E2ES) A term that suggests that the supplier of an application program or system will provide all the hardware and/or software components and resouces to meet the customer's requirement and no other supplier need be involved. Compare: turn-key solution.
equal opportunities — Equal opportunities refers to the policy of giving everyone the same opportunities for employment, pay and promotion, without discriminating against particular groups.
evaluation strategy — reduction strategy
exclusion principle — Pauli exclusion principle
false consciousness — a Marxist theory that people are unable to see things, especially exploitation, oppression, and social relations, as they really are; the hypothesized inability of the human mind to develop a sophisticated awareness of how it is developed and shaped by circumstances.
fault tree analysis — (programming) A form of safety analysis that assesses hardware safety to provide failure statistics and sensitivity analyses that indicate the possible effect of critical failures.
fault-based testing — (testing) Software testing using test data designed to demonstrate the absence of a set of pre-specified faults; typically, frequently occurring faults. For example, to demonstrate that the software handles or avoids divide by zero correctly, the test data would include zero.
female circumcision — clitoridectomy.
finger on the pulse — If you have your finger on the pulse of something, you know all the latest opinions or developments concerning it.
first person plural — a grammatical category of pronouns and verbs used by the speaker to refer to or talk about himself together with others
floating restaurant — a boat or ship that has been converted for use as a restaurant
foregone conclusion — an inevitable conclusion or result.
four eyes principle — the requirement that a business transaction be approved by at least two individuals
fraternal insurance — insurance underwritten by a fraternal society, under either a legal reserve plan or an assessment plan.
free alongside quay — (of a shipment of goods) delivered to the quay without charge to the buyer
functional database — (database, language) A database which uses a functional language as its query language. Databases would seem to be an inappropriate application for functional languages since, a purely functional language would have to return a new copy of the entire database every time (part of) it was updated. To be practically scalable, the update mechanism must clearly be destructive rather than functional; however it is quite feasible for the query language to be purely functional so long as the database is considered as an argument. One approach to the update problem would use a monad to encapsulate database access and ensure it was single threaded. Alternative approaches have been suggested by Trinder, who suggests non-destructive updating with shared data structures, and Sutton who uses a variant of a Phil Wadler's linear type system. There are two main classes of functional database languages. The first is based upon Backus' FP language, of which FQL is probably the best known example. Adaplan is a more recent language which falls into this category. More recently, people have been working on languages which are syntactically very similar to modern functional programming languages, but which also provide all of the features of a database language, e.g. bulk data structures which can be incrementally updated, type systems which can be incrementally updated, and all data persisting in a database. Examples are PFL [Poulovassilis&Small, VLDB-91], and Machiavelli [Ohori et al, ACM SIGMOD Conference, 1998].
gallipoli peninsula — peninsula in S European Turkey, forming the NW shore of the Dardanelles: c. 55 mi (89 km) long
gastrocolic omentum — the peritoneal fold attached to the stomach and the colon and hanging over the small intestine.
general linguistics — the study of the characteristics of language in general rather than of a particular language; theoretical, rather than applied, linguistics.
genetic counselling — the provision of advice for couples with a history of inherited disorders who wish to have children, including the likelihood of having affected children and the course and management of the disorder, etc
giraldus cambrensis — literary name of Gerald de Barri. ?1146–?1223, Welsh chronicler and churchman, noted for his accounts of his travels in Ireland and Wales
glorious revolution — the events of 1688–89 in England that resulted in the ousting of James II and the establishment of William III and Mary II as joint monarchs
go round in circles — to engage in energetic but fruitless activity
grand duke nicholas — of Cusa [kyoo-zuh] /ˈkyu zə/ (Show IPA), 1401–1464, German cardinal, mathematician, and philosopher. German Nikolaus von Cusa.
greenhouse whitefly — See under whitefly.
haute vulgarisation — vulgarization, or popularization, on a higher level, esp. as done by academics, scholars, etc.
heat of sublimation — the heat absorbed by one gram or unit mass of a substance in the process of changing, at a constant temperature and pressure, from a solid to a gaseous state. Compare sublime (def 10).
house of councilors — the upper house of the Japanese diet.
household insurance — an arrangement in which you pay money to a company, and they pay money to you if your household goods are stolen or damaged
housing development — a group of houses or apartments, usually of the same size and design, often erected on a tract of land by one builder and controlled by one management.
hudson river school — a group of American painters of the mid-19th century whose works are characterized by a highly romantic treatment of landscape, especially along the Hudson River.
humanist technology — (philosophy) Technology centered around the interests, needs, and well-being of humans.

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