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19-letter words containing o, n, p

  • electron micrograph — a photograph or image of a specimen taken using an electron microscope
  • electron microscope — An electron microscope is a type of very powerful microscope that uses electrons instead of light to produce a magnified image of something.
  • electron multiplier — a device for amplifying and measuring a flux of electrons. Each electron hits an anode surface and releases secondary electrons that are accelerated to a second surface; after several such stages a measurable pulse of current is obtained
  • electronic graphics — (on television) the production of graphic designs and text by electronic means
  • emergency telephone — a public telephone intended for use in emergencies: for example, at the side of a motorway
  • employment tribunal — (in England, Scotland, and Wales) a tribunal that rules on disputes between employers and employees regarding unfair dismissal, redundancy, etc
  • empty-nest syndrome — a condition, often involving depression, loneliness, etc, experienced by parents living in a home from which the children have grown up and left
  • english toy spaniel — breed of dog
  • entitlement program — a government program providing defined sectors of the population with social benefits
  • equal opportunities — Equal opportunities refers to the policy of giving everyone the same opportunities for employment, pay and promotion, without discriminating against particular groups.
  • european commission — the executive body of the European Union formed in 1967, which initiates action in the EU and mediates between member governments
  • european parliament — law: assembly in Strasbourg
  • evaporative cooling — a method of reducing temperature that uses evaporation
  • exclusion principle — Pauli exclusion principle
  • expeditionary force — An expeditionary force is a group of soldiers who are sent to fight in a foreign country.
  • expressionistically — In an expressionistic manner.
  • extendible compiler — (language)   (ETC) A Fortran-like compiler that can be extended with macros.
  • extreme programming — a discipline of software engineering following a specific structure, designed to simplify and speed up the development process
  • family practitioner — medical specialization in general practice, requiring training beyond that of general practice and leading to board certification.
  • female impersonator — a male performer who dresses as and impersonates women.
  • fighter-interceptor — a fighter plane used for the defense of a region against air attack, especially by attacking bombers.
  • 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
  • flat-joint pointing — pointing having flush joints of common mortar.
  • floating-point unit — (hardware)   (FPU) A floating-point accelerator, usually in a single integrated circuit, possible on the same IC as the central processing unit.
  • flowering raspberry — a shrub, Rubus ordoratus, of eastern North America, having loose clusters of showy purplish or rose-purple flowers and inedible, dry, red fruit.
  • focal plane shutter — an opaque shield in a camera, lying in the focal plane of the lens, that, when tripped, admits light to expose the film or plate for a predetermined period, usually a fraction of a second
  • focal-plane shutter — a camera shutter situated directly in front of the film.
  • follow-up interview — a second interview following an initial interview
  • forensic psychiatry — the use of psychiatric knowledge and techniques in questions of law, as in determining legal insanity.
  • four eyes principle — the requirement that a business transaction be approved by at least two individuals
  • fractal compression — (algorithm)   A technique for encoding images using fractals.
  • franco-prussian war — the war between France and Prussia, 1870–71.
  • free alongside ship — (of a shipment of goods) delivered to the dock without charge to the buyer, but excluding the cost of loading onto the vessel
  • freezer compartment — in a refrigerator, an enclosed area kept at a temperature low enough to store frozen foods or freeze non-frozen foods
  • front-end processor — a small computer or other dedicated device that performs preliminary processing of data for a host computer.
  • gallipoli peninsula — peninsula in S European Turkey, forming the NW shore of the Dardanelles: c. 55 mi (89 km) long
  • 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.
  • generic programming — (programming)   A programming technique which aims to make programs more adaptable by making them more general. Generic programs often embody non-traditional kinds of polymorphism; ordinary programs are obtained from them by suitably instantiating their parameters. In contrast with normal programs, the parameters of a generic programs are often quite rich in structure. For example they may be other programs, types or type constructors or even programming paradigms.
  • 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).
  • gentleman-pensioner — (formerly) a gentleman-at-arms.
  • geocentric parallax — the apparent displacement of an observed object due to a change in the position of the observer.
  • get one's dander up — to become or to cause someone to become annoyed or angry
  • 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
  • go jump in the lake — a body of fresh or salt water of considerable size, surrounded by land.
  • go off the deep end — final or ultimate: the end result.
  • go on a/the rampage — If people go on a rampage, they rush around in a wild or violent way, causing damage or destruction.
  • governing principle — a fundamental moral rule that guides and influences how something is done
  • government monopoly — the exclusive control of the market supply of a product or service by the government
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