19-letter words containing t, l, y
- diversional therapy — the structured use of leisure time in recreation and play as a form of or supplement to conventional therapy
- double-density disk — a disk with more than the normal capacity for storage
- dynamic translation — (architecture) A virtual machine implementation approach, used to speed up execution of byte-code programs. To execute a program unit such as a method or a function, the virtual machine compiles its bytecodes into (hardware) machine code. The translated code is also placed in a cache, so that next time that unit's machine code can be executed immediately, without repeating the translation. This technique was pioneered by the commercial Smalltalk implementation currently known as VisualWorks, in the early 1980s. Currently it is also used by some implementations of the Java Virtual Machine under the name JIT (Just In Time compilation).
- dynatron oscillator — type of oscillator
- electric typewriter — typewriting machine: uses electricity
- electrocardiography — The measurement of electrical activity in the heart and the recording of such activity as a visual trace (on paper or on an oscilloscope screen), using electrodes placed on the skin of the limbs and chest.
- electroconductivity — Electrical conductivity.
- electrodynamometers — Plural form of electrodynamometer.
- electrohydrodynamic — (physics) Of or pertaining to electrohydrodynamics.
- electromagnetically — By means of electromagnetism.
- electromechanically — In an electromechanical way.
- electronic keyboard — a typewriter keyboard used to operate an electronic device such as a computer, word processor, etc
- electropalatography — the study of the movements of the tongue during speech using touch-sensitive electrodes in the mouth linked to a computer
- electrophoretically — By means of electrophoresis.
- electrophysiologist — A physiologist whose speciality is electrophysiology.
- elementary particle — any of several entities, such as electrons, neutrons, or protons, that are less complex than atoms and are regarded as the constituents of all matter
- emergency telephone — a public telephone intended for use in emergencies: for example, at the side of a motorway
- employment tribunal — (in England, Scotland, and Wales) a tribunal that rules on disputes between employers and employees regarding unfair dismissal, redundancy, etc
- enabling technology — technology that enables the user to perform a task or to improve his or her overall performance: e.g. the internet
- english toy spaniel — breed of dog
- entry qualification — the qualifications and conditions required to join an organization, club, etc
- environmental lobby — a group of people who promote environmental issues to government, the public, and business
- evaluation strategy — reduction strategy
- exhibitionistically — In an exhibitionistic manner.
- expert systems ltd. — (company) (ESL) Distributors of ESLPDPRO. Adderss: Magdalen Centre, Oxford Science Park, Oxford, OX4 4GA. Telephone +44 (865) 784474.
- expressionistically — In an expressionistic manner.
- extraterritoriality — (legal) immunity from the local laws of a certain area, especially due to diplomatic negotiation.
- fall by the wayside — to cease or fail to continue doing something
- family practitioner — medical specialization in general practice, requiring training beyond that of general practice and leading to board certification.
- family-sized packet — a large packet
- farnesyltransferase — One of the three enzymes in the prenyltransferase group, believed to play an important role in development of progeria and various cancers.
- fault tree analysis — (programming) A form of safety analysis that assesses hardware safety to provide failure statistics and sensitivity analyses that indicate the possible effect of critical failures.
- february revolution — Russian Revolution (def 1).
- february-revolution — Also called February Revolution. the uprising in Russia in March, 1917 (February Old Style), in which the Czarist government collapsed and a provisional government was established.
- feel strongly about — to have decided opinions concerning
- fellow countrywoman — a fellow countrywoman is a female citizen of the same state as the person speaking, writing, or being referred to
- fertility treatment — the application of any of various methods or procedures to a woman or man to increase the woman's chances of conceiving a baby
- fetch-execute cycle — (architecture, processor) The sequence of actions that a central processing unit performs to execute each machine code instruction in a program. At the beginning of each cycle the CPU presents the value of the program counter on the address bus. The CPU then fetches the instruction from main memory (possibly via a cache and/or a pipeline) via the data bus into the instruction register. From the instruction register, the data forming the instruction is decoded and passed to the control unit which sends a sequence of control signals to the relevant function units of the CPU to perform the actions required by the instruction such as reading values from registers, passing them to the ALU to add them together and writing the result back to a register. The program counter is then incremented to address the next instruction and the cycle is repeated. The fetch-execute cycle was first proposed by John von Neumann.
- fly in the ointment — Also called true fly. any of numerous two-winged insects of the order Diptera, especially of the family Muscidae, as the common housefly.
- for crying out loud — exasperation
- fractional currency — coins or paper money of a smaller denomination than the basic monetary unit.
- frontier technology — innovative or new technology
- functional analysis — the branch of mathematics that deals with the theory of vector spaces and linear functionals.
- functional currency — Functional currency is the main currency used by a business.
- general of the army — the highest ranking military officer; the next rank above general.
- glyceryl trinitrate — nitroglycerin.
- government monopoly — the exclusive control of the market supply of a product or service by the government
- greenhouse whitefly — See under whitefly.
- hatfield-mccoy feud — a blood feud between two mountain clans on the West Virginia–Kentucky border, the Hatfields of West Virginia and the McCoys of Kentucky, that grew out of their being on opposite sides during the Civil War and was especially violent during 1880–90.
- hepatoportal system — a vascular arrangement in vertebrates through which blood is transported into the liver from capillaries of the stomach, spleen, duodenum, pancreas, and intestines.