20-letter words containing t, a, b, l, i, n

double fertilization — the fertilization process characteristic of flowering plants, in which one sperm cell of a pollen grain fertilizes an egg cell while a second fuses with two polar nuclei to produce a triploid body that gives rise to the endosperm.
electoral boundaries — the way that a country or area is divided for the purposes of voting in an election
elizabeth of hungary — Saint. 1207–31, Hungarian princess who devoted herself to charity and asceticism. Feast day: Nov 17 and 19
enabling legislation — legislation conferring certain specified powers on a person or organization
endorsement in blank — an endorsement on a bill of exchange, cheque, etc, naming no payee and thus making the endorsed sum payable to the bearer
environment variable — (programming, operating system) A variable that is bound in the current environment. When evaluating an expression in some environment, the evaluation of a variable consists of looking up its name in the environment and substituting its value. Most programming languages have some concept of an environment but in Unix shell scripts it has a specific meaning slightly different from other contexts. In shell scripts, environment variables are one kind of shell variable. They differ from local variables and command line arguments in that they are inheritted by a child process. Examples are the PATH variable that tells the shell the file system paths to search to find command executables and the TZ variable which contains the local time zone. The variable called "SHELL" specifies the type of shell being used. These variables are used by commands or shell scripts to discover things about the environment they are operating in. Environment variables can be changed or created by the user or a program. To see a list of environment variables type "setenv" at the csh or tcsh prompt or "set" at the sh, bash, jsh or ksh prompt. In other programming languages, e.g. functional programming languages, the environment is extended with new bindings when a function's parameters are bound to its actual arguments or when new variables are declared. In a block-structured procedural language, the environment usually consists of a linked list of activation records.
equilibrium constant — The equilibrium constant is the ratio between the amount of reactants and the amount of product for a particular chemical reaction, used to calculate chemical behavior.
fontainebleau school — a group of artists, many of them Italian and Flemish, who worked on the decorations of the palace of Fontainebleau in the 16th century.
football hooliganism — the actions or behaviour of a football hooligan
for sb's delectation — If you do something for someone's delectation, you do it to give them enjoyment or pleasure.
gorno-altai republic — a constituent republic of S Russia: mountainous, rising over 4350 m (14 500 ft) in the Altai Mountains of the south. Capital: Gorno-Altaisk. Pop: 202 900 (2002). Area: 92 600 sq km (35 740 sq miles)
hyperbolic cotangent — a hyperbolic function that is the ratio of cosh to sinh, being the reciprocal of tanh; coth
in a class by itself — unique
in the public domain — able to be discussed and examined freely by the general public
independent variable — Mathematics. a variable in a functional relation whose value determines the value or values of other variables, as x in the relation y = 3 x 2 . Compare dependent variable (def 1).
indistinguishability — The state of being indistinguishable.
information builders — Distributors of LEVEL5 OBJECT. Telephone +1 800 969 INFO.
intelligent database — (database) A database management system which performs data validation and processing traditionally done by application programs. Most DBMSs provide some data validation, e.g. rejecting invalid dates or alphabetic data entered into money fields, but often most processing is done by application programs. There is however no limit to the amount of processing that can be done by an intelligent database as long as the process is a standard function for that data. Examples of techniques used to implement intelligent databases are constraints, triggers and stored procedures. Moving processing to the database aids data integrity because it is guaranteed to be consistent across all uses of the data. Mainframe databases have increasingly become more intelligent and personal computer database systems are rapidly following.
intervening variable — a hypothetical variable postulated to account for the way in which a set of independent variables control a set of dependent variables
intestinal amebiasis — amebic dysentery.
laboratory assistant — laboratory technician, lab assistant
laboratory diagnosis — scientific analysis of a disease
laboratory equipment — apparatus for scientific research and experiments
like a ton of bricks — (used esp of the manner of punishing or reprimanding someone) with great force; severely
live and breathe sth — be passionately interested in sth
longitude by account — the longitude of the position of a vessel as estimated by dead reckoning.
marginal probability — (in a multivariate distribution) the probability of one variable taking a specific value irrespective of the values of the others
member of parliament — A Member of Parliament is a person who has been elected by the people in a particular area to represent them in a country's parliament. The abbreviation MP is often used.
membranous labyrinth — an intricate combination of paths or passages in which it is difficult to find one's way or to reach the exit. Synonyms: maze, network, web.
meta-dichlorobenzene — a colorless liquid, C 6 H 4 Cl 2 , soluble in alcohol and ether: used as a fumigant and insecticide.
multiplication table — Arithmetic. a tabular listing of the products of any two numbers of a set, usually of the integers 1 through 10 or 1 through 12.
net realizable value — the net value of an asset if it were to be sold, taking into account the cost of making the sale and of bringing the asset into a saleable state
nickel tetracarbonyl — nickel carbonyl.
northern leaf blight — a disease of corn caused by the fungus Exsherohilum turcicum, characterized by elongate tan-gray elliptical spots with subsequent blighting and necrosis of leaves.
nostalgie de la boue — a desire for or attraction to crudity, vulgarity, depravity, etc.
operational database — (database) A database containing up-to-date, modifiable data, in contrast to a decision support database.
particle beam weapon — a weapon that fires particle beams into the atmosphere or space
pentobarbital sodium — a barbiturate drug used in medicine as a sedative and hypnotic. Formula: C11H17N2O3Na
periodontal membrane — the collagenous, fibrous connective tissue between the cementum of the tooth and the alveolus.
pipeline burst cache — (hardware, storage) (PB Cache) A synchronous cache built from pipelined SRAM. A cache in which reading or writing a new location takes multiple cycles but subsequent locations can be accessed in a single cycle. On Pentium systems in 1996, pipeline burst caches are frequently used as secondary caches. The first 8 bytes of data are transferred in 3 CPU cycles, and the next 3 8-byte pieces of data are transferred in one cycle each.
potassium binoxalate — a white, crystalline, hygroscopic, poisonous solid, KHC 2 O 4 , that is usually hydrated: used chiefly for removing ink stains, cleaning metal and wood, and in photography.
probability function — the function the values of which are probabilities of the distinct outcomes of a discrete random variable
public administrator — an official of a city, county, or state government.
queen elizabeth land — an area of British Antarctic Territory, situated south of Weddell Sea and between longitudes 20°W and 80°W, stretching from Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf to the South Pole. Area: 437 000 sq km (169 000 sq miles)
receivables turnover — A receivables turnover is a measure of cash flow that is calculated by dividing net credit sales by average accounts receivable.
royal british legion — an organization founded in 1921 to provide services and assistance for former members of the armed forces
saint john ambulance — an organization that provides first aid and first-aid training
self-belaying system — (in climbing) equipment used to pay out rope as required and thus enable a climber to self-belay
set the ball rolling — to open or initiate (an action, discussion, movement, etc)
spherical aberration — variation in focal length of a lens or mirror from center to edge, due to its spherical shape.

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