21-letter words containing s, c, u
- a foregone conclusion — You can refer to something that seems certain to happen as a foregone conclusion.
- a rap on the knuckles — If someone in authority gives you a rap on the knuckles, they criticize you or blame you for doing something they think is wrong.
- absolutely convergent — of or characterized by absolute convergence.
- acceptable use policy — (networking) (AUP) Rules applied by many transit networks which restrict the use to which the network may be put. A well known example is NSFNet which does not allow commercial use. Enforcement of AUPs varies with the network.
- accounting procedures — an established way of keeping company accounts
- acute stress disorder — an anxiety disorder marked by dissociative symptoms and occurring within one month of exposure to a traumatic event, which, if persistent, can become posttraumatic stress disorder.
- adjusted gross income — (in U.S. income-tax returns) the total of an individual's wages, salaries, interest, dividends, etc., minus allowable deductions. Abbreviation: AGI.
- administrative county — a principal administrative division in Great Britain, usually not coextensive with traditional county boundaries.
- adverse drug reaction — An adverse drug reaction is a harmful effect associated with the use of a medication at a normal dosage.
- afro-american studies — black studies.
- alpha centauri system — a star system comprising the binary star Alpha Centauri A and B and Proxima Centauri (also called Alpha Centauri C), which is 0.1 light years closer to the sun. Visual magnitude: 0.01 (A), 1.33 (B); spectral type: G2V (A); distance from earth: 4.3 light years
- alpha piscis austrini — Fomalhaut
- aluminum fluosilicate — a white, water-soluble powder, Al 2 (SiF 6) 3 , used in the manufacture of optical glass and of synthetic sapphires and rubies.
- american red squirrel — either of two reddish-brown squirrels, Tamiasciurus hudsonicus or T. douglasii, inhabiting forests of North America
- amicus humani generis — a philanthropist.
- analects of confucius — Chinese Lun Yü. a compilation of the discourses, maxims, and aphorisms of Confucius, dating from the 4th century b.c.
- apothecaries' measure — a system of liquid volume measure used in pharmacy in which 60 minims equal 1 fluid drachm, 8 fluid drachms equal 1 fluid ounce, and 20 fluid ounces equal 1 pint
- appalachian mountains — a mountain system of E North America, extending from Quebec province in Canada to central Alabama in the US: contains rich deposits of anthracite, bitumen, and iron ore. Highest peak: Mount Mitchell, 2038 m (6684 ft)
- appendicular skeleton — the girdles and skeleton of the limbs
- applications language — Ousterhout's dichotomy
- as a matter of course — If you do something as a matter of course, you do it as part of your normal work or way of life.
- as cool as a cucumber — If you say that someone is as cool as a cucumber, you are emphasizing that they are very calm and relaxed, especially when you would not expect them to be.
- as dull as ditchwater — extremely uninspiring
- as luck would have it — fortunately
- assisted reproduction — the use of medical techniques to bring about the conception and birth of a child, including artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization, egg and embryo donation, and drug therapy.
- astronomical latitude — the angle between the direction of gravity at the observer's position and the plane of the celestial equator
- australian cattle dog — a compact strongly-built dog of a breed with pricked ears and a smooth bluish-grey coat, often used for controlling and moving cattle
- background processing — the ability of a system to perform a low-priority task while, at the same time, dealing with a main application
- bad conduct discharge — a discharge of a person from military service for an offense less serious than one for which a dishonorable discharge is given.
- balance sheet account — A balance sheet account is an account in the chart of accounts that is reported on the balance sheet.
- basis of articulation — a configuration of the speech tract that represents the most neutral articulatory configuration for a given language.
- bernoulli's principle — the principle that in a liquid flowing through a pipe the pressure difference that accelerates the flow when the bore changes is equal to the product of half the density times the change of the square of the speed, provided friction is negligible
- bicameral legislature — two-chamber lawmaking system
- bottlebrush moustache — a short, bristly moustache
- built-in obsolescence — a method of stimulating consumer demand by designing products that wear out or become outmoded after limited use.
- burroughs corporation — (company) A company which merged with Sperry Univac to form Unisys Corporation. They produced the Datatron 200 series among other computers.
- business intelligence — the methods and technologies that gather, store, report, and analyze business data to help people make business decisions: business intelligence software; business intelligence tools.
- butterfly common lisp — A parallel version of Common LISP for the BBN Butterfly computer.
- caroline of brunswick — 1768–1821, wife of George IV of the United Kingdom: tried for adultery (1820)
- cause-effect graphing — (programming) A testing technique that aids in selecting, in a systematic way, a high-yield set of test cases that logically relates causes to effects to produce test cases. It has a beneficial side effect in pointing out incompleteness and ambiguities in specifications.
- charles edward stuart — a member of the royal family that ruled in Scotland from 1371 to 1714 and in England from 1603 to 1714.
- charterhouse of parma — a novel (1839) by Stendhal.
- chequebook journalism — Chequebook journalism is the practice of paying people large sums of money for information about crimes or famous people in order to get material for newspaper articles.
- chinese water torture — a form of torture in which water is made to drip for a long period of time onto a victim's forehead to drive him insane
- chink in one's armour — a small but fatal weakness
- choledochojejunostomy — (medicine) The surgical formation of an opening between the common bile duct and the jejunum.
- church-rosser theorem — (theory) A property of a reduction system that states that if an expression can be reduced by zero or more reduction steps to either expression M or expression N then there exists some other expression to which both M and N can be reduced. This implies that there is a unique normal form for any expression since M and N cannot be different normal forms because the theorem says they can be reduced to some other expression and normal forms are irreducible by definition. It does not imply that a normal form is reachable, only that if reduction terminates it will reach a unique normal form.
- clayton antitrust act — an act of Congress in 1914 supplementing the Sherman Antitrust Act and establishing the FTC.
- clerk to the justices — (in England) a legally qualified person who sits in court with lay justices to advise them on points of law
- closed-angle glaucoma — angle-closure glaucoma. See under glaucoma.
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