15-letter words containing s, r
- (at) first hand — from the original source; directly
- (one's) regrets — a polite expression of regret, as at declining an invitation
- (out) on strike — striking
- a hornet's nest — If you say that someone has stirred up a hornet's nest, you mean that they have done something which has caused a lot of argument or trouble.
- a king's ransom — If you refer to a sum of money as a king's ransom, you are emphasizing that it is very large.
- a shingle short — unintelligent or mentally subnormal
- a small fortune — a very high price or cost
- a stone's throw — If you say that one place is a stone's throw from another, you mean that the places are close to each other.
- a straight face — If you manage to keep a straight face, you manage to look serious, although you want to laugh.
- abraham's bosom — the place where the just repose after death (Luke 16:22)
- absence seizure — petit mal.
- absorbabilities — Plural form of absorbability.
- absorption band — a dark band in the absorption spectrum of a substance, corresponding to a range of wavelengths for which the substance absorbs more strongly than at adjacent wavelengths.
- absorption edge — a discontinuity in the graph of the absorption coefficient of a substance plotted against the wavelength of x-rays being absorbed, representing the minimum energy necessary to free electrons from particular shells of the atoms of the substance.
- abstract number — a number that does not designate the quantity of any particular kind of thing.
- abstract syntax — (language, data) A form of representation of data that is independent of machine-oriented structures and encodings and also of the physical representation of the data. Abstract syntax is used to give a high-level description of programs being compiled or messages passing over a communications link. A compiler's internal representation of a program will typically be an abstract syntax tree. The abstract syntax specifies the tree's structure is specified in terms of categories such as "statement", "expression" and "identifier". This is independent of the source syntax (concrete syntax) of the language being compiled (though it will often be very similar). A parse tree is similar to an abstract syntax tree but it will typically also contain features such as parentheses which are syntactically significant but which are implicit in the structure of the abstract syntax tree.
- accelerationist — a person, especially an economist, who advocates or promotes the acceleration principle.
- accessible room — An accessible room is a room that is easy for disabled people to enter and leave.
- accessorization — to fit or equip with accessories: to accessorize a car with special seat covers.
- accessory fruit — a fruit having enlarged accessory structures in addition to those formed from the ovary, as the strawberry, in which the fleshy tissue is the enlarged receptacle and the true fruits are the small, dry achenes borne on its surface
- accessory nerve — either one of the eleventh pair of cranial nerves, which supply the muscles of the head, shoulders, larynx, and pharynx and the viscera of the abdomen and thorax
- accrued charges — charges incurred in one accounting period that have not been paid by the end of it
- accrued expense — an expense incurred but not yet paid, as accrued interest on notes payable.
- achilles reflex — ankle jerk.
- achlorophyllous — containing no chlorophyll.
- achromatic lens — a system of two or more lenses that is substantially free from chromatic aberration and in which the lenses are made of different substances so that the focal length of the system is the same for two or three wavelengths of light.
- acid test ratio — a ratio of cash, receivables, and marketable securities to current liabilities, used in determining credit risks.
- acoustic guitar — an ordinary guitar, which produces its normal sound through the sounding board and is not amplified in any way
- acoustic screen — a fabric-covered, double-sided screen used in open areas such as offices to absorb noise
- acoustoelectric — electroacoustic.
- acrimoniousness — The quality of being resentful or cynical.
- acroanaesthesia — (pathology) Loss of sensation in the extremities.
- act of congress — a law that has been passed by both houses of the US Congress and signed by the president; if the president has chosen to veto the bill, it can be passed by a two-thirds majority in Congress
- actinide series — a series of 15 radioactive elements with increasing atomic numbers from actinium to lawrencium
- actinium series — a radioactive decay series that starts with uranium-235 and ends with lead-207
- actinochemistry — the branch of chemistry dealing with actinism; photochemistry.
- activity series — a table of metals, listed in the order of their ability to replace other metals while in solution
- acute bisectrix — See under bisectrix (def 1).
- adamawa-eastern — a branch of the Niger-Congo family of languages, centered in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, and the Central African Republic, including Sango and Zande.
- addressing mode — 1. (processor, programming) One of a set of methods for specifying the operand(s) for a machine code instruction. Different processors vary greatly in the number of addressing modes they provide. The more complex modes described below can usually be replaced with a short sequence of instructions using only simpler modes. The most common modes are "register" - the operand is stored in a specified register; "absolute" - the operand is stored at a specified memory address; and "immediate" - the operand is contained within the instruction. Most processors also have indirect addressing modes, e.g. "register indirect", "memory indirect" where the specified register or memory location does not contain the operand but contains its address, known as the "effective address". For an absolute addressing mode, the effective address is contained within the instruction. Indirect addressing modes often have options for pre- or post- increment or decrement, meaning that the register or memory location containing the effective address is incremented or decremented by some amount (either fixed or also specified in the instruction), either before or after the instruction is executed. These are very useful for stacks and for accessing blocks of data. Other variations form the effective address by adding together one or more registers and one or more constants which may themselves be direct or indirect. Such complex addressing modes are designed to support access to multidimensional arrays and arrays of data structures. The addressing mode may be "implicit" - the location of the operand is obvious from the particular instruction. This would be the case for an instruction that modified a particular control register in the CPU or, in a stack based processor where operands are always on the top of the stack. 2. In IBM System 370/XA the addressing mode bit controls the size of the effective address generated. When this bit is zero, the CPU is in the 24-bit addressing mode, and 24 bit instruction and operand effective addresses are generated. When this bit is one, the CPU is in the 31-bit addressing mode, and 31-bit instruction and operand effective addresses are generated.
- adenocarcinomas — Plural form of adenocarcinoma.
- adhesive factor — the ratio of the force that can be exerted on driving wheels with full traction to the weight on the driving wheels, usually expressed as a percentage.
- adjustable-rate — designating or of a debt obligation, esp. a mortgage on real property, having terms which allow the interest rate to change over time
- administrations — Plural form of administration.
- admiralty house — the official residence of the Governor General of Australia, in Sydney
- adoption papers — documentation relating to the adoption of a particular child
- adrenalectomies — Plural form of adrenalectomy.
- adrenaline rush — a feeling of excitement, stimulation and enhanced physical ability produced when the body secretes large amounts of adrenaline in response to a sudden perceived or induced stress situation
- adrenoreceptors — Plural form of adrenoreceptor.
- adventuresomely — In an adventuresome manner.
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