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16-letter words containing r, y, s

  • synchrocyclotron — a type of cyclotron that synchronizes its accelerating voltage with particle velocity in order to compensate for the relativistic mass increase of the particle as it approaches the speed of light.
  • synchronous dram — Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
  • synchronous idle — (character)   (SYN) The mnemonic for ASCII character 22.
  • synthetic rubber — any of several substances similar to natural rubber in properties and uses, produced by the polymerization of an unsaturated hydrocarbon, as butylene or isoprene, or by the copolymerization of such hydrocarbons with styrene, butadiene, or the like.
  • sysdeco mimer ab — (company)   Part of the international software group Sysdeco Group AS. They developed the MIMER RDBMS. Address: Uppsala, Sweden.
  • systematic error — a persistent error that cannot be attributed to chance.
  • systemic grammar — a grammar in which description is founded on the relationships among the various units at different ranks of a language, and in which language is viewed as a system of meaning-creating choices
  • systems engineer — an engineer who specializes in the implementation of production systems.
  • systems software — Computers. a collection of system programs for use with a particular computer system.
  • t-carrier system — (communications)   A series of wideband digital data transmission formats originally developed by the Bell System and used in North America and Japan. The basic unit of the T-carrier system is the DS0, which has a transmission rate of 64 Kbps, and is commonly used for one voice circuit. Originally the 1.544 megabit per second T1 format carried 24 pulse-code modulated, time-division multiplexed speech signals each encoded in 64 kilobit per second streams, leaving 8 kilobits per second of framing information which facilitates the synchronisation and demultiplexing at the receiver. T2 and T3 circuits channels carry multiple T1 channels multiplexed, resulting in transmission rates of up to 44.736 Mbps. The T-carrier system uses in-band signaling, resulting in lower transmission rates than the E-carrier system. It uses a restored polar signal with 303-type data stations. Asynchronous signals can be transmitted via a standard which encodes each change of level into three bits; two which indicate the time (within the current synchronous frame) at which the transition occurred, and the third which indicates the direction of the transition. Although wasteful of line bandwidth, such use is usually only over small distances. T1 lines are made free of direct current signal components by in effect capacitor coupling the signal at the transmitter and restoring that lost component with a "slicer" at the receiver, leading to the description "restored polar".
  • taimyr peninsula — a peninsula in the N Russian Federation in Asia, between the Kara and Laptev seas.
  • take by surprise — to strike or occur to with a sudden feeling of wonder or astonishment, as through unexpectedness: Her beauty surprised me.
  • take holy orders — to become ordained
  • terms of payment — The terms of payment of a sale state how and when an invoice is to be paid.
  • tertiary bursary — a noncompetitive award granted to all pupils who have passed a university entrance examination
  • the easter bunny — the rabbit that brings Easter eggs
  • the first family — a President's family
  • the great gatsby — a novel (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
  • the honor system — a reliance on people to behave properly without supervision
  • the oil industry — the industry that produces and delivers petroleum and petroleum products
  • the roaring days — the period of the Australian goldrushes
  • the sex industry — a commercial sector that employs sex workers in prostitution, pornography, etc.
  • the story of mel — The story of Mel, a Real Programmer
  • the west country — the southwest of England, esp Cornwall, Devon, and Somerset
  • the years of sth — the period when sth happened or existed
  • the yellow press — (formerly) popular newspapers publishing sensational stories
  • the-card-players — a painting (1892) by Paul Cézanne.
  • there's no hurry — If you say to someone 'There's no hurry' or 'I'm in no hurry' you are telling them that there is no need for them to do something immediately.
  • thermal analysis — any analysis of materials in which properties relating to heat, such as freezing and boiling temperatures, the heat of fusion, the heat of vaporization, etc., are measured.
  • thermoplasticity — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
  • time sovereignty — control by an employee of the use of his or her time, involving flexibility of working hours
  • to dip your toes — If you dip your toes into something or dip your toes into the waters of something, you start doing that thing slowly and carefully, because you are not sure whether it will be successful or whether you will like it.
  • to get your oats — to have sexual intercourse regularly
  • to sow your oats — (of a young person) to behave in a rather uncontrolled way, esp by having a lot of sexual relationships
  • tobacco industry — business of selling smoking products
  • top drive system — A top drive system is a system which includes a motor that turns the drill string, used instead of the kelly.
  • tourist industry — the people, activities, and organizations involved in providing services for people on holiday, for example hotels, restaurants, and tour guides
  • trans-fatty acid — a polyunsaturated fatty acid that has been converted from the cis-form by hydrogenation: used in the manufacture of margarine
  • transcendentally — transcendent, surpassing, or superior.
  • transcrystalline — situated within or passing through the crystals of a substance.
  • transfer company — a company that transports people or luggage for a relatively short distance, as between terminals of two railroad lines.
  • transfer payment — any payment made by a government for a purpose other than that of purchasing goods or services, as for welfare benefits.
  • transmethylation — the transfer of a methyl group from one compound to another.
  • transmissibility — capable of being transmitted.
  • two-party system — a political system consisting chiefly of two major parties, more or less equal in strength.
  • two-stroke cycle — See under two-cycle.
  • uncompromisingly — not admitting of compromise or adjustment of differences; making no concessions; inaccessible to flexible bargaining; unyielding: an uncompromising attitude.
  • undiscriminatory — characterized by or showing prejudicial treatment, especially as an indication of bias related to age, color, national origin, religion, sex, etc.: discriminatory practices in housing; a discriminatory tax.
  • urinary calculus — a calcareous concretion in the urinary tract.
  • user-defined key — a key on the keyboard of a computer that can be used to carry out any of a limited number of predefined actions as selected by the user
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