15-letter words containing s, e, i, n, t
- thermanesthesia — loss of ability to feel cold or heat; loss of the sense or feeling of temperature.
- thermodiffusion — thermal diffusion.
- thermosensitive — readily affected by heat or a change in temperature.
- thickness piece — a narrow flat or board used in scenic construction to give the illusion of depth or solidity to a door, wall, window, or the like.
- thing-in-itself — reality as it is apart from experience; what remains to be postulated after space, time, and all the categories of the understanding are assigned to consciousness. Compare noumenon (def 3).
- third dimension — the additional dimension by which a solid object is distinguished from a planar projection of itself or from any planar object.
- thirtysomething — a person in her or his thirties
- thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
- thunderstricken — Archaic. to strike with a thunderbolt.
- tibetan mastiff — a heavy well-built dog of a Tibetan breed with a long thick coat and a bushy tail carried curled over its back, often used as a guard dog
- tibetan spaniel — one of a breed of small alert dogs originally developed in Tibet, with a double coat of any color, well-feathered, pendent ears, and a plumed tail curled over the back.
- tie one's hands — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- tiffany setting — a setting, as in a ring, in which the stone is held with prongs.
- tightfistedness — the quality or state of being tightfisted
- tim berners-lee — (person) The man who invented the web while working at the Center for European Particle Research (CERN). Now Director of the web Consortium. Tim Berners-Lee graduated from the Queen's College at Oxford University, England, 1976. Whilst there he built his first computer with a soldering iron, TTL gates, an M6800 processor and an old television. He then went on to work for Plessey Telecommunications, and D.G. Nash Ltd (where he wrote software for intelligent printers and a multi-tasking operating system), before joining CERN, where he designed a program called 'Enquire', which was never published, but formed the conceptual basis for today's web. In 1984, he took up a fellowship at CERN, and in 1989, he wrote the first web server, "httpd", and the first client, "WorldWideWeb" a hypertext browser/editor which ran under NEXTSTEP. The program "WorldWideWeb" was first made available within CERN in December, and on the Internet as a whole in the summer of 1991. In 1994, Tim joined the Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 1999, he became the first holder of the 3Com Founders chair. He is also the author of "Weaving the Web", on the past present and future of the Web. In 2001, Tim was made a fellow of The Royal Society. Tim is married to Nancy Carlson. They have two children, born 1991 and 1994.
- tintagel castle — a ruined castle on a promontory in SW England on the W coast of Cornwall, which is the legendary birthplace of King Arthur
- tirso de molina — Luis [loo-ees] /luˈis/ (Show IPA), 1535–1600, Spanish Jesuit theologian.
- tissue-matching — identification of specific genetically linked antigens in tissue in order to minimize antigenic differences between donor and recipient tissue in organ transplantation.
- title insurance — insurance protecting the owner or mortgagee of real estate from lawsuits or claims arising from a defective title.
- to err is human — If you say that to err is human, you mean that it is natural for human beings to make mistakes.
- to lie in state — If the dead body of an important person lies in state, it is publicly displayed for a few days before it is buried.
- to make friends — If you make friends with someone, you begin a friendship with them. You can also say that two people make friends.
- to one's credit — commendation or honor given for some action, quality, etc.: Give credit where it is due.
- tokelau islands — a group of islands in the S Pacific Ocean belonging to New Zealand. 4 sq. mi. (10 sq. km).
- torsion balance — an instrument for measuring small forces, as electric attraction or repulsion, by determining the amount of torsion or twisting they cause in a slender wire or filament.
- touch-sensitive — Touch-sensitive equipment is operated by the user touching it.
- towers of hanoi — (games) A classic computer science problem, invented by Edouard Lucas in 1883, often used as an example of recursion. "In the great temple at Benares, says he, beneath the dome which marks the centre of the world, rests a brass plate in which are fixed three diamond needles, each a cubit high and as thick as the body of a bee. On one of these needles, at the creation, God placed sixty-four discs of pure gold, the largest disc resting on the brass plate, and the others getting smaller and smaller up to the top one. This is the Tower of Bramah. Day and night unceasingly the priests transfer the discs from one diamond needle to another according to the fixed and immutable laws of Bramah, which require that the priest on duty must not move more than one disc at a time and that he must place this disc on a needle so that there is no smaller disc below it. When the sixty-four discs shall have been thus transferred from the needle on which at the creation God placed them to one of the other needles, tower, temple, and Brahmins alike will crumble into dust, and with a thunderclap the world will vanish." The recursive solution is: Solve for n-1 discs recursively, then move the remaining largest disc to the free needle. Note that there is also a non-recursive solution: On odd-numbered moves, move the smallest sized disk clockwise. On even-numbered moves, make the single other move which is possible.
- training course — practical programme of study
- training scheme — a scheme for teaching people skills in a particular field or profession
- training wheels — a pair of small wheels attached one on each side of the rear wheel of a bicycle for stability while one is learning to ride.
- trainspotterish — obsessed with trivial details, esp of a subject generally considered uninteresting
- transequatorial — of, relating to, or near an equator, especially the equator of the earth.
- transfer window — the period during the year in which a football club can transfer players from other teams into their own
- transferability — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
- transgressional — of or relating to transgression
- transilluminate — to cause light to pass through.
- transition team — a group of people who manage the transition between one system, administrative regime, etc and another
- transitive verb — a verb accompanied by a direct object and from which a passive can be formed, as deny, rectify, elect.
- transliteration — to change (letters, words, etc.) into corresponding characters of another alphabet or language: to transliterate the Greek Χ as ch.
- transmissometer — an instrument for measuring visibility or the transmission of light in the atmosphere.
- transverse axis — the axis of a hyperbola that passes through the two foci.
- travel sickness — nausea caused by motion
- treasure island — (italics) a novel (1883) by R. L. Stevenson.
- tricotyledonous — having three cotyledons.
- trine immersion — a form of baptism in which the candidate is immersed three times, once for each person of the Trinity.
- trojan asteroid — one of a number of asteroids that have the same mean motion and orbit as Jupiter, preceding or following the planet by a longitude of 60°
- troubleshooting — to act or be employed as a troubleshooter: She troubleshoots for a large industrial firm.
- trout fisherman — a fisherman who catches trout
- trustworthiness — deserving of trust or confidence; dependable; reliable: The treasurer was not entirely trustworthy.
- tuberculin test — a test for tuberculosis in which a hypersensitive reaction to a given quantity of tuberculin indicates a past or present infection.