22-letter words containing s, e, t, n, a
- bernoulli's lemniscate — Analytic Geometry. lemniscate.
- better business bureau — any of a nationwide system of local organizations, supported by business, whose function is to receive and investigate customer complaints of dishonest business practices. Abbreviation: BBB.
- black-scholes equation — a partial differential equation used to estimate the changing value of an option over time
- bone marrow transplant — the transplantation of bone marrow from donor to recipient
- bone-marrow transplant — Surgery. a technique in which a small amount of bone marrow is withdrawn by a syringe from a donor's pelvic bone and injected into a patient whose ability to make new blood cells has been impaired by a disease, as anemia or cancer, or by exposure to radiation.
- borderline personality — Psychiatry. a personality disorder characterized by instability in many areas, as mood, identity, self-image, and behavior, and often manifested by impulsive actions, suicide attempts, inappropriate anger, or depression.
- cadence design systems — (company) A company that sells electronic design automation software and services. See also Verilog.
- carpal tunnel syndrome — a condition characterized by pain and tingling in the fingers, caused by pressure on a nerve as it passes under the ligament situated across the front of the wrist
- cascading style sheets — (web) (CSS) An extension to HTML to allow styles, e.g. colour, font, size to be specified for certain elements of a hypertext document. Style information can be included in-line in the HTML file or in a separate CSS file (which can then be easily shared by multiple HTML files). Multiple levels of CSS can be used to allow selective overriding of styles.
- cast in one's lot with — to share in the activities or fortunes of (someone else)
- catalyst transfer line — A catalyst transfer line is equipment which provides a smooth and constant catalyst flow.
- catch sight of someone — If you catch sight of someone, you suddenly see them, often briefly.
- catch/take sb unawares — If something catches you unawares or takes you unawares, it happens when you are not expecting it.
- cease-and-desist order — an order by a government agency to a person or corporation to terminate a business practice found by the agency to be illegal or unfair.
- centimeter-gram-second — designating or of a system of measurement in which the centimeter, gram, and second are the units of length, mass, and time, respectively
- central nervous system — Your central nervous system is the part of your nervous system that consists of the brain and spinal cord.
- challenge to the polls — an objection by counsel to one or more of the individual jurors called to a trial
- charity begins at home — If you say charity begins at home, you mean that people should deal with the needs of people close to them before they think about helping others.
- chebyshev's inequality — the fundamental theorem that the probability that a random variable differs from its mean by more than k standard deviations is less than or equal to 1/k2
- checkout test language — (language) (CTL)
- chinese army technique — Mongolian Hordes technique
- chinese water chestnut — a Chinese cyperaceous plant, Eleocharis tuberosa, with an edible succulent corm
- chromosomal aberration — any irregularity or abnormality of chromosome distribution, number, structure, or arrangement.
- classified advertising — advertising compactly arranged, as in newspaper columns, according to subject, under such listings as help wanted and lost and found
- cockles of one's heart — one's deepest feelings (esp in the phrase warm the cockles of one's heart)
- commissioner for oaths — a solicitor authorized to authenticate oaths on sworn statements
- common snapping turtle — a large aggressive North American river turtle, Chelydra serpentina, having powerful hooked jaws and a rough shell
- communication channels — the ways in which people communicate
- communication disorder — any of a number of disorders, as autism or deafness, that partially or totally prevent verbal or written expression or comprehension.
- communications network — a network that provides information
- compactness preserving — (theory) In domain theory, a function f is compactness preserving if f c is compact whenever c is.
- company sergeant major — the senior Warrant Officer II in a British or Commonwealth regiment or battalion, responsible under the company second in command for all aspects of duty and discipline of the NCOs and men in that subunit
- compass deviation card — a card, sheet, or the like, with two compass roses printed on it concentrically, for recording, on a given voyage, the amount of deviation for which the navigator must compensate in using the ship's compass to steer a magnetic course.
- compuserve corporation — (company) The parent organisation of CompuServe Information Service, CompuServe Network Services and CompuServe Remote Computing Services. CompuServe was owned by H.R. Block but is now (1999) owned by America On-Line.
- concurrent massey hope — (language, functional programming) An extension of Massey Hope, by Peter Burgess, Robert Pointon, and Nigel Perry <[email protected]> of Massey University, NZ, that provides multithreading and typed inter-thread communication. It uses C for intermediate code rather than assembly language.
- congressional district — (in the US) an electoral division of a state, entitled to send one member to the US House of Representatives
- conservation of charge — the principle that the total charge of any isolated system is constant and independent of changes that take place within the system
- conservation of energy — the principle that the total energy of any isolated system is constant and independent of any changes occurring within the system
- conservation of matter — the principle that matter is neither created nor destroyed during any physical or chemical change
- conservation of parity — the principle that the parity of the total wave function describing a system of elementary particles is conserved. In fact it is not conserved in weak interactions
- conservative extension — a formal theory that includes among its theorems all the theorems of a given theory
- constructive dismissal — If an employee claims constructive dismissal, they begin a legal action against their employer in which they claim that they were forced to leave their job because of the behaviour of their employer.
- consummatory behaviour — any behaviour that leads directly to the satisfaction of an innate drive, e.g. eating or drinking
- contextual advertising — a form of targeted advertising used on websites or other media, such as content displayed in mobile browsers
- continental philosophy — a general term for related philosophical traditions that originated in 20th-century continental Europe, including critical theory, deconstruction, existentialism, hermeneutics, phenomenology, and structuralism (contrasted with analytic philosophy).
- continuous welded rail — a long, continuous rail formed by welding many short rails.
- contradiction in terms — a term, phrase, or phenomenon containing self-contradictory parts
- conversational quality — (in public speaking) a manner of utterance that resembles the spontaneity and informality of relaxed personal conversation.
- convertible loan stock — a stock or bond that can be converted into a stated number of shares at a particular date
- coronary heart disease — any heart disorder caused by disease of the coronary arteries