21-letter words containing s, e, t, c, r, u
- counterdemonstrations — Plural form of counterdemonstration.
- court of common pleas — (formerly) a superior court exercising jurisdiction in civil actions between private citizens
- credit card insurance — Credit card insurance is coverage for situations in which someone fraudulently uses your credit card.
- credit life insurance — insurance guaranteeing payment of the unpaid portion of a loan if the debtor should die.
- customer satisfaction — When customers are pleased with the goods or services they have bought, you can refer to customer satisfaction.
- department of justice — the department of the U.S. federal government charged with the responsibility for the enforcement of federal laws. Abbreviation: DOJ.
- differential calculus — the branch of mathematics that deals with differentials and derivatives.
- discretionary account — an account in which the stockbroker is allowed complete control over the purchase and sale of securities on the customer's behalf.
- disruptive technology — A disruptive technology is a new technology, such as computers and the Internet, which has a rapid and major effect on technologies that existed before.
- distributed processes — (DP) The first concurrent language based on remote procedure calls.
- draft once reuse many — (jargon) (DORUM) Reusing parts of a document to produce parts of an entirely new document. The term normally refers to text documents but the practise is equally common in programming.
- eccles-jordan circuit — flip-flop
- electric flux density — Electric flux density is electric flux passing through a unit area perpendicular to the direction of the flux.
- electromagnetic pulse — a surge of electromagnetic radiation, esp one resulting from a nuclear explosion, which can disrupt electronic devices and, occasionally, larger structures and equipment
- electronic publishing — Electronic publishing is the publishing of documents in a form that can be read on a computer, for example as a CD-ROM.
- endoplasmic reticulum — an extensive intracellular membrane system whose functions include synthesis and transport of lipids and, in regions where ribosomes are attached, of proteins
- entrance requirements — the grades in school examinations required for admission to university
- exposure compensation — the act of overriding a camera's automatic exposure in order to achieve a particular effect or due to difficult lighting conditions
- ferric sodium oxalate — an emerald-green, crystalline, extremely water-soluble salt, used in photography and blueprinting.
- fraudulent conversion — conversion committed with the intent to defraud
- gastrohepatic omentum — lesser omentum.
- get-rich-quick scheme — a scheme that promises to make a person extremely wealthy over a short period of time, often at with little effort and at no risk
- gilt-edged securities — government securities on which interest payments will certainly be met and that will certainly be repaid at par on the due date
- goldbach's conjecture — the conjecture that every even number greater than two is the sum of two prime numbers
- government securities — securities issued by the US Government
- guaranteed scheduling — (algorithm) A scheduling algorithm used in multitasking operating systems that guarantees fairness by monitoring the amount of CPU time spent by each user and allocating resources accordingly.
- high court of justice — an English court formed in 1873 from several superior courts and consisting of a court of original jurisdiction (High Court of Justice) and an appellate court (Court of Appeal)
- historic places trust — (in New Zealand) the statutory body concerned with the conservation of historic buildings, esp with ancient Māori sites
- ibm customer engineer — (job) (CE) A hardware guy from IBM.
- ieee computer society — (body) The society of the IEEE which publishes the journal "Computer".
- immunoelectrophoresis — a technique for the separation and identification of mixtures of proteins, consisting of electrophoresis followed by immunodiffusion.
- in good circumstances — (of a person) in a good financial situation
- in no uncertain terms — If you say that someone tells a person something in no uncertain terms, you are emphasizing that they say it strongly and clearly so that there is no doubt about what they mean.
- in the course of time — eventually
- infectious ectromelia — ectromelia (def 2).
- insulin shock therapy — a former treatment for mental illness, especially schizophrenia, employing insulin-induced hypoglycemia as a method for producing convulsive seizures.
- insurance certificate — a certificate that shows that a person or organization has insurance
- insurance underwriter — sb who assesses eligibility for insurance policies
- lafcadio's adventures — French Les Caves du Vatican. a novel (1914) by André Gide.
- learning difficulties — difficulty experienced in reaching the average standard of people of the same age group as regards intellectual and cognitive skills and performance
- leave sb in the lurch — If someone leaves you in the lurch, they go away or stop helping you at a very difficult time.
- loch ness monster bug — (humour) (Or "Bugfoot") A bug which cannot be reproduced or has only been sighted by one person. Named after the mythical creature claimed to inhabit Loch Ness in Scotland.
- magnesium trisilicate — a white, fine, odorless and tasteless powder, Mg 2 O 8 Si 3 ⋅nH 2 O, used industrially to absorb odors and decolorize and pharmaceutically as an antacid.
- manufacturing process — chain of production
- marketable securities — Marketable securities are securities that can easily be sold quickly on the open market.
- mechanical instrument — a musical instrument, such as a barrel organ or music box, that plays a preselected piece of music by mechanical means
- medium access control — Media Access Control
- multichannel analyser — an electronic instrument, such as a pulse height analyser, that splits an input waveform into a large number of channels in accordance with a particular parameter of the input
- needs no introduction — If you say that someone or something needs no introduction, you mean that they are so well known that everyone knows who or what they are.
- negotiable securities — securities that are legally transferable in title from one party to another