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19-letter words containing n, a

  • adjustment disorder — a mental disorder that occurs as a maladaptive reaction to an episode of psychological, social, or physical stress, as divorce or a natural disaster.
  • adobe systems, inc. — (company)   A California font foundry and software house. Adobe created the PostScript page description language and wrote the Blue Book, Green Book, Red Book and White Book on it. They also developed PDF. Adobe took over Frame Technology Corporation in late 1995/early 1996. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Address: Silicon Valley, California, USA.
  • adrenocorticotropic — that can stimulate the cortex of the adrenal glands
  • adrenocorticotropin — ACTH.
  • advanced revelation — (database)   (AREV) A database development environment for personal computers available from Revelation Software since 1982. Originally based on the PICK operating system, there are over one million users worldwide in 1996.
  • advertising account — account (def 11c).
  • advocacy journalism — journalism that promotes a cause or expresses a subjective viewpoint.
  • aerial top dressing — the process of spreading lime, fertilizer, etc over farmland from an aeroplane
  • aerodynamic braking — the use of aerodynamic drag to slow spacecraft re-entering the atmosphere
  • aeronautic engineer — engineer involved in the design and construction of aeroplanes
  • african swine fever — a highly contagious fatal disease of pigs caused by a myxovirus. The disease is characterized by fever, blotches on the skin, depression, and lack of coordination
  • afternoon of a faun — L'Après-midi d'un Faune.
  • agency spokesperson — a spokesperson for a government agency
  • agitated depression — severe depression accompanied by extreme anxiety and agitation
  • aglaophon of thasos — flourished 6th to 5th centuries b.c, Greek painter: father and teacher of Polygnotus.
  • agner krarup erlang — (person)   (1878-1929) A Danish mathematician. Erlang the language and unit were named after him. Interested in the theory of probability, in 1908 Erlang joined the Copenhagen Telephone Company where he studied the problem of waiting times for telephone calls. He worked out how to calculate the fraction of callers who must wait due to all the lines of an exchange being in use. His formula for loss and waiting time was published in 1917. It is now known as the "Erlang formula" and is still in use today.
  • air cushion vehicle — ACV (def 2).
  • air traffic control — Air traffic control is the activity of organizing the routes that aircraft should follow, and telling pilots by radio which routes they should take.
  • air-cushion vehicle — a vehicle that travels just above the surface of land or water on a cushion of air provided by a downward jet from its engines, propellers, etc.
  • air-traffic control — a government service that facilitates the safe and orderly movement of aircraft within and between airports by receiving and processing data from radar and devices that monitor local weather conditions and by maintaining radio contact with pilots.
  • aladdin enterprises — (company)   A small, privately owned, US software consulting and development company, founded in 1986, best known as the original developer of Ghostscript. Address: San Francisco Peninsula, California, USA. Not to be confused with Aladdin Systems, Inc..
  • alcazar de san juan — a town in S central Spain: associated with Cervantes and Don Quixote. Pop: 27 229 (2003 est)
  • alcohol consumption — the drinking of alcohol
  • aldridge-brownhills — a town in central England, in Walsall unitary authority, West Midlands: formed by the amalgamation of neighbouring towns in 1966. Pop: 35 525 (2001)
  • alexander technique — a technique for developing awareness of one's posture and movement in order to improve it
  • alexander the great — 356–323 bc, king of Macedon, who conquered Greece (336), Egypt (331), and the Persian Empire (328), and founded Alexandria
  • alexander von kluck — Alexander von [ah-le-ksahn-duh r fuh n] /ˌɑ lɛˈksɑn dər fən/ (Show IPA), 1846–1934, German general.
  • alexis nikolayevich — (Aleksei Nikolayevich) 1904–18, son of Nicholas II of Russia, heir apparent to the Russian throne: executed in the Russian Bolshevik Revolution.
  • alfred thayer mahan — Alfred Thayer [they-er] /ˈθeɪ ər/ (Show IPA), 1840–1914, U.S. naval officer and writer on naval history.
  • algebraic extension — a field containing a given field such that every element in the first field is algebraic over the given field.
  • algebraic operation — any of the mathematical operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, raising to a power, or extraction of a root.
  • algorithmic trading — trading on international stock exchanges using computers that have been programmed to buy and sell shares according to fixed rules
  • alice-in-wonderland — fantastic; irrational
  • all in a day's work — If you say that a task is all in a day's work for someone, you mean that they do not mind doing it although it may be difficult, because it is part of their job or because they often do it.
  • all-points bulletin — An all-points bulletin is a message sent by a police force to all its officers. The abbreviation APB is also used.
  • all-risks insurance — insurance that covers all risks to property except any types that are specifically excluded or limited in the policy
  • all-terrain vehicle — a vehicle with treads or wheels designed to travel on rough ground
  • allegheny mountains — a mountain range in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia: part of the Appalachian system; rising from 600 m (2000 ft) to over 1440 m (4800 ft)
  • alpha canis majoris — Sirius
  • alpha canis minoris — Procyon
  • alpha ursae minoris — Polaris
  • alphabetic language — (human language)   A written human language in which symbols reflect the pronunciation of the words. Examples are English, Greek, Russian, Thai, Arabic and Hebrew. Alphabetic languages contrast with ideographic languages.
  • alphonse and gaston — marked by a ritualistic courtliness in which two often competing participants graciously but stubbornly defer to each other: a kind of Alphonse and Gaston act in which each man insisted the other go through the doorway first.
  • altazimuth mounting — a telescope mounting that allows motion of the telescope about a vertical axis (in azimuth) and a horizontal axis (in altitude)
  • alternating current — An alternating current is an electric current that continually changes direction as it flows. The abbreviation AC is also used.
  • alternating voltage — a voltage that reverses direction in regular cycles.
  • alternative history — a genre of fiction in which the author speculates on how the course of history might have been altered if a particular historical event had had a different outcome
  • alternative pathway — the activation of complement by contact with polysaccharides on bacteria, protozoa, or yeast cells: a nonspecific immune response. Compare classical pathway.
  • alternative society — a society or social group that espouses values different from those of the established social order.
  • aluminium hydroxide — a white crystalline powder derived from bauxite and used in the manufacture of glass and ceramics, aluminium and its salts, and in dyeing. Formula: Al(OH)3 or Al2O3.3H2O
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