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19-letter words containing i, s, t, a

  • fall by the wayside — to cease or fail to continue doing something
  • family-sized packet — a large packet
  • farmers cooperative — an organization of farmers for marketing their products or buying supplies.
  • fashion coordinator — a person in a department store or other establishment who coordinates activities centered upon or related to fashion, as fashion themes, shows, displays, and promotion.
  • 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.
  • feast of dedication — Hanukkah.
  • female impersonator — a male performer who dresses as and impersonates women.
  • financial statement — a document that records the financial activities and state of an organization or person
  • finds its/their way — If something finds its way somewhere, it comes to that place, especially by chance.
  • first international — a socialistic organization (1864–76) formed to unite and promote the interests of workers throughout the world. Compare international (def 6).
  • first law of motion — any of three laws of classical mechanics, either the law that a body remains at rest or in motion with a constant velocity unless an external force acts on the body (first law of motion) the law that the sum of the forces acting on a body is equal to the product of the mass of the body and the acceleration produced by the forces, with motion in the direction of the resultant of the forces (second law of motion) or the law that for every force acting on a body, the body exerts a force having equal magnitude and the opposite direction along the same line of action as the original force (third law of motion or law of action and reaction)
  • first person plural — a grammatical category of pronouns and verbs used by the speaker to refer to or talk about himself together with others
  • first-past-the-post — A first-past-the-post system for choosing members of parliament or other representatives is one in which the candidate who gets most votes wins.
  • first-sale doctrine — a legal principle allowing the purchaser of a lawfully made copy of a copyright-protected work to sell or give away that copy without permission but not to reproduce it.
  • fixed cost contract — a contract in which the costs do not vary
  • floating restaurant — a boat or ship that has been converted for use as a restaurant
  • fluoride toothpaste — toothpaste containing a small amount of fluoride as protection against tooth decay
  • for all it is worth — If someone does something for all it is worth, they do it as much as possible and for as long as they can get benefit from it.
  • for all sb is worth — If you do something for all you are worth, you do it with a lot of energy and enthusiasm.
  • for what it's worth — good or important enough to justify (what is specified): advice worth taking; a place worth visiting.
  • forensic accountant — an accountant who specializes in applying accountancy skills to the purposes of the law
  • forensic psychiatry — the use of psychiatric knowledge and techniques in questions of law, as in determining legal insanity.
  • foundation subjects — the subjects studied as part of the National Curriculum, including the compulsory core subjects
  • fractal compression — (algorithm)   A technique for encoding images using fractals.
  • frameshift mutation — a mutation caused by frameshift.
  • fraternal insurance — insurance underwritten by a fraternal society, under either a legal reserve plan or an assessment plan.
  • from pillar to post — an upright shaft or structure, of stone, brick, or other material, relatively slender in proportion to its height, and of any shape in section, used as a building support, or standing alone, as for a monument: Gothic pillars; a pillar to commemorate Columbus.
  • from rags to riches — a worthless piece of cloth, especially one that is torn or worn.
  • front-fastening bra — a bra which is fastened together at the front of the body
  • functional analysis — the branch of mathematics that deals with the theory of vector spaces and linear functionals.
  • functional calculus — the branch of symbolic logic that includes the sentential calculus and that deals with sentential functions and quantifiers and with logical relations between sentences containing quantifiers.
  • 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].
  • future date testing — (testing)   The process of setting a computer's date to a future date to test a program's (expected or unexpected) date sensitivity. Future date testing only shows the effects of dates on the computer(s) under scrutiny, it does not take into account knock-on effects of dates on other connected systems.
  • gain on translation — A gain on translation is the amount of money that is made by a company by converting another currency used in a transaction into the functional currency of the company.
  • gas central heating — a system of central heating fuelled by combustible gas
  • gastrocolic omentum — the peritoneal fold attached to the stomach and the colon and hanging over the small intestine.
  • gastroenterocolitis — (medicine) inflammation of the stomach, small intestines, and colon.
  • gastroenterological — Of or pertaining to gastroenterology.
  • gender reassignment — the alteration, by surgery and hormone treatments, of a person's physical sex characteristics to approximate those of the opposite sex: Born male, she now lives as a woman but has no plans for a sex change.
  • general anaesthesia — the use of a general anaesthetic
  • general anaesthetic — sth administered to induce unconsciousness
  • general linguistics — the study of the characteristics of language in general rather than of a particular language; theoretical, rather than applied, linguistics.
  • general partnership — a partnership in which each of the partners is fully liable for the firm's debts.
  • general post office — (in the U.S. postal system) the main post office of a city, county, etc., that also has branch post offices. Abbreviation: G.P.O., GPO.
  • gentleman-pensioner — (formerly) a gentleman-at-arms.
  • gestational carrier — surrogate mother (def 3).
  • giant silkworm moth — any silkworm moth of the family Saturniidae.
  • gigabits per second — (unit)   (Gbps) A unit of information transfer rate equal to one billion bits per second. Note that, while a gigabit is defined as a power of two (2^30 bits), a gigabit per second is defined as a power of ten (10^9 bits per second, which is slightly less) than 2^30).
  • give a person a fit — to surprise a person in an outrageous manner
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