19-letter words containing n, o, c, t, e, m
- free-market economy — an economy based on the free market system
- freezer compartment — in a refrigerator, an enclosed area kept at a temperature low enough to store frozen foods or freeze non-frozen foods
- functional medicine — individualized medical care that recognizes the interactions between genetic and environmental factors and between the body's interconnected systems.
- gastrocolic omentum — the peritoneal fold attached to the stomach and the colon and hanging over the small intestine.
- genetic programming — (programming) (GP) A programming technique which extends the genetic algorithm to the domain of whole computer programs. In GP, populations of programs are genetically bred to solve problems. Genetic programming can solve problems of system identification, classification, control, robotics, optimisation, game playing, and pattern recognition. Starting with a primordial ooze of hundreds or thousands of randomly created programs composed of functions and terminals appropriate to the problem, the population is progressively evolved over a series of generations by applying the operations of Darwinian fitness proportionate reproduction and crossover (sexual recombination).
- geneva nomenclature — an internationally accepted system for naming organic carbon compounds.
- geomagnetic equator — an imaginary line on the earth's surface, the plane of which passes through the center and is midway between the geomagnetic poles.
- grandmother's clock — a pendulum clock similar to a grandfather's clock but shorter.
- grievance committee — a group of representatives chosen from a labor union or from both labor and management to consider and remedy workers' grievances.
- handlebar moustache — a man's moustache having long, curved ends that resemble the handlebars of a bicycle.
- hermitian conjugate — adjoint (def 2).
- hotel accommodation — the facilities and the quality of accommodation provided by a hotel
- human rights record — the facts that are known about the tendency of a country, regime, etc, to observe and protect human rights
- humanist technology — (philosophy) Technology centered around the interests, needs, and well-being of humans.
- identification mark — barcode or serial number
- immersion objective — a microscope objective of high resolving power in which the space between the front lens and the cover glass is filled with an oil whose index of refraction is close to that of the objective and the cover glass.
- immigration officer — official administrating incoming foreigners
- immunocytochemistry — the detection of chemical components of cells by means of antibodies coupled to substances that can be made visible.
- immunohistochemical — (biology) Of, pertaining to, or by means of immunohistochemistry, the use of immunological techniques to study the chemistry of tissues.
- immunoprecipitation — the separation of an antigen from a solution by the formation of a large complex with its specific antibody.
- impressionistically — In an impressionistic manner.
- in commemoration of — in remembrance of
- in someone's pocket — If you say that someone is in someone else's pocket, you disapprove of the fact that the first person is willing to do whatever the second person tells them, for example out of weakness or in return for money.
- in the nick of time — a small notch, groove, chip, or the like, cut into or existing in something.
- incomplete abortion — a miscarriage in which some fetal or placental tissue remains in the uterus.
- incomplete fracture — a fracture extending partly across the bone.
- incomprehensibility — impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
- incremental plotter — a device that plots graphs on paper from computer-generated instructions
- inferiority complex — Psychiatry. intense feeling of inferiority, producing a personality characterized either by extreme reticence or, as a result of overcompensation, by extreme aggressiveness.
- information content — the amount of information in something
- information officer — someone whose job is to give information to people
- information science — the study of the nature, collection, and management of information and of its uses, especially involving computer storage and retrievals.
- information service — a service which provides information
- inorganic chemistry — the branch of chemistry dealing with inorganic compounds.
- interferometrically — By means of interferometry.
- intermediate school — a school for pupils in grades 4 through 6.
- internal-combustion — of or relating to an internal-combustion engine.
- investment compound — investment (def 11).
- jacques montgolfier — Jacques Étienne [zhahk ey-tyen] /ʒɑk eɪˈtyɛn/ (Show IPA), 1745–99, and his brother Joseph Michel [zhaw-zef mee-shel] /ʒɔˈzɛf miˈʃɛl/ (Show IPA) 1740–1810, French aeronauts: inventors of the first practical balloon 1783.
- job creation scheme — a governmental scheme to increase the number of jobs in an area, organization, etc
- kinematic viscosity — the coefficient of viscosity of a fluid divided by the density, usually measured in stokes.
- knock them/'em dead — To knock them dead means to impress people a great deal, especially with your appearance.
- knock-out agreement — an agreement between bidders at an auction or sale not to bid against each other
- land of enchantment — New Mexico (used as a nickname).
- line of demarcation — a separation between things deemed to be distinct
- local area terminal — (protocol) (LAT) A DECnet-related, non-routable network protocol.
- locomotive engineer — engineer (def 3).
- logical unit number — (storage) (LUN) A 3-bit identifier used on a SCSI bus to distinguish between up to eight devices (logical units) with the same SCSI ID.
- loss-of-containment — Loss-of-containment happens when a fluid which is usually contained somewhere escapes from that place.
- machine instruction — (programming) The smallest element of a machine code program.