19-letter words containing t, e, n, d, r
- extradition warrant — a warrant for somebody's extradition
- fair-weather friend — a person who cannot be relied on in situations of hardship or difficulty
- few and far between — not many but more than one: Few artists live luxuriously.
- finds its/their way — If something finds its way somewhere, it comes to that place, especially by chance.
- finite differencing — strength reduction
- first-sale doctrine — a legal principle allowing the purchaser of a lawfully made copy of a copyright-protected work to sell or give away that copy without permission but not to reproduce it.
- fixed cost contract — a contract in which the costs do not vary
- fixed exchange rate — finance: set rate of exchange
- fixed-term contract — a contract for a particular and fixed period
- fixed-wing aircraft — a heavier-than-air aircraft capable of flight whose lift is generated not by wing motion relative to the aircraft, but by forward motion through the air
- florida velvet bean — a tropical vine, Mucuna deeringiana, of the legume family, having showy, purple flowers in drooping clusters and black, hairy pods: grown as an ornamental.
- forward integration — the acquisition of all or part of a distribution chain by a firm that sells the goods distributed, so that the firm becomes or become closer to the direct seller of the goods
- friend of the court — amicus curiae.
- front-end financing — money or costs required or incurred in advance of a project in order to get it under way
- front-end processor — a small computer or other dedicated device that performs preliminary processing of data for a host computer.
- future date testing — (testing) The process of setting a computer's date to a future date to test a program's (expected or unexpected) date sensitivity. Future date testing only shows the effects of dates on the computer(s) under scrutiny, it does not take into account knock-on effects of dates on other connected systems.
- galactic coordinate — Usually, galactic coordinates. a member of a system of coordinates that define the position of a celestial body with reference to the Milky Way.
- gedanken experiment — thought experiment.
- gender reassignment — the alteration, by surgery and hormone treatments, of a person's physical sex characteristics to approximate those of the opposite sex: Born male, she now lives as a woman but has no plans for a sex change.
- gentile da fabriano — 1370?–1427, Italian painter.
- geothermal gradient — the increase in temperature with increasing depth within the earth.
- geraldton waxflower — an evergreen shrub, Chamelaucium uncinatum, native to W Australia, cultivated for its pale pink flowers
- get one's dander up — to become or to cause someone to become annoyed or angry
- gigabits per second — (unit) (Gbps) A unit of information transfer rate equal to one billion bits per second. Note that, while a gigabit is defined as a power of two (2^30 bits), a gigabit per second is defined as a power of ten (10^9 bits per second, which is slightly less) than 2^30).
- give one credit for — to commend one for
- go under the hammer — to be offered for sale by an auctioneer
- goldbach conjecture — an unproved theorem that every even integer greater than 2 can be written as the sum of two prime numbers.
- golden lion tamarin — a monkey, Leontopithecus rosalia rosalia, of tropical rain forests of southeastern Brazil, having a silky golden coat and a long golden mane: threatened with extinction.
- goods received note — a document created by a buyer on receipt of merchandise and which describes each good and details the quantity of each received
- grade point average — a measure of scholastic attainment computed by dividing the total number of grade points received by the total number of credits or hours of course work taken.
- grandfather's chair — wing chair.
- grandfather's clock — a pendulum floor clock having a case as tall as or taller than a person; tall-case clock; long-case clock.
- grandmother's clock — a pendulum clock similar to a grandfather's clock but shorter.
- gravitational field — the attractive effect, considered as extending throughout space, of matter on other matter.
- great idaean mother — Cybele.
- great indian desert — a desert in NW India and S Pakistan. About 77,000 sq. mi. (200,000 sq. km).
- great-grandchildren — a grandchild of one's son or daughter.
- great-granddaughter — a granddaughter of one's son or daughter.
- grosse pointe woods — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- hairdryer treatment — (esp in sport) the practice of shouting at someone at close quarters in order to express one's displeasure at something he or she has done
- halt and catch fire — (humour, processor) (HCF) Any of several undocumented and semi-mythical machine instructions with destructive side-effects, supposedly included for test purposes on several well-known architectures going as far back as the IBM 360. The Motorola 6800 microprocessor was the first for which an HCF opcode became widely known. This instruction caused the processor to read every memory location sequentially until reset.
- handlebar moustache — a man's moustache having long, curved ends that resemble the handlebars of a bicycle.
- have an ax to grind — an instrument with a bladed head on a handle or helve, used for hewing, cleaving, chopping, etc.
- heel-and-toe racing — race walking.
- henry david thoreau — Henry David, 1817–62, U.S. naturalist and author.
- highways department — the department of a state, council, etc, responsible for the upkeep of roads and highways
- hold no terrors for — If something holds no terrors for you, you are not at all frightened or worried by it.
- horizontal encoding — (processor) An instruction set where each field (a bit or group of bits) in an instruction word controls some functional unit or gate directly, as opposed to vertical encoding where instruction fields are decoded (by hard-wired logic or microcode) to produce the control signals. Horizontal encoding allows all possible combinations of control signals (and therefore operations) to be expressed as instructions whereas vertical encoding uses a shorter instruction word but can only encode those combinations of operations built into the decoding logic. An instruction set may use a mixture of horizontal and vertical encoding within each instruction. Because an architecture using horizontal encoding typically requires more instruction word bits it is sometimes known as a very long instruction word (VLIW) architecture.
- human rights record — the facts that are known about the tendency of a country, regime, etc, to observe and protect human rights
- hydropneumatization — utilization of air pressure in the housing of a water turbine to keep the level of water that has been used from rising to interfere with the rotor blades.