20-letter words containing t, r, a, c, s, e

economic rationalism — an economic policy based on the efficiency of market forces, characterized by minimal government intervention, tax cuts, privatization, and deregulation of labour markets
edward the confessor — Saint, 1002?–66, English king 1042–66: founder of Westminster Abbey.
effective resistance — the resistance to an alternating current, expressed as the ratio of the power dissipated to the square of the effective current.
electoral boundaries — the way that a country or area is divided for the purposes of voting in an election
electrohydrodynamics — (physics) the study of the dynamics of electrically conducting fluid.
electronic signature — electronic proof of a person's identity
electrophysiological — Of or pertaining to electrophysiology.
electroshock therapy — a form of shock therapy in which electric current is applied to the brain
entry qualifications — the qualifications people wishing to enter an organization, university, etc, have to have
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.
erythema infectiosum — a mild infectious disease of childhood, caused by a virus, characterized by fever and a red rash spreading from the cheeks to the limbs and trunk
exercise, left as an — Used to complete a proof in technical books when one doesn't mind a handwave, or to avoid one entirely. The complete phrase is: "The proof [or "the rest"] is left as an exercise for the reader." This comment *has* occasionally been attached to unsolved research problems by authors possessed of either an evil sense of humour or a vast faith in the capabilities of their audiences.
explicit parallelism — A feature of a programming language for a parallel processing system which allows or forces the programmer to annotate his program to indicate which parts should be executed as independent parallel tasks. This is obviously more work for the programmer than a system with implicit parallelism (where the system decides automatically which parts to run in parallel) but may allow higher performance.
fast-breeder reactor — a breeder reactor in which there is no moderator and fission is caused by high-energy neutrons.
feast of tabernacles — Sukkoth.
feather in one's cap — one of the horny structures forming the principal covering of birds, consisting typically of a hard, tubular portion attached to the body and tapering into a thinner, stemlike portion bearing a series of slender, barbed processes that interlock to form a flat structure on each side.
federal constitution — Constitution of the United States.
file descriptor leak — (programming) (Or "fd leak" /F D leek/) A kind of programming bug analogous to a core leak, in which a program fails to close file descriptors ("fd"s) after file operations are completed, and thus eventually runs out of them. See leak.
financial instrument — A financial instrument is a document or contract that can be traded in a market, that represents an asset to one party and a liability or equity to the other.
firearms certificate — a certificate that entitles the holder to own and keep a firearm
first earl of cromer — 1st Earl of, Evelyn Baring.
first-cause argument — an argument for the existence of God, asserting the necessity of an uncaused cause of all subsequent series of causes, on the assumption that an infinite regress is impossible.
for sb's delectation — If you do something for someone's delectation, you do it to give them enjoyment or pleasure.
frosting on the cake — a sweet mixture, cooked or uncooked, for coating or filling cakes, cookies, and the like; icing.
fundamental research — research carried out to deepen understanding of the fundamental or basic principles of something
generative semantics — a theory of generative grammar holding that the deep structure of a sentence is equivalent to its semantic representation, from which the surface structure can then be derived using only one set of rules that relate underlying meaning and surface form rather than separate sets of semantic and syntactic rules.
go like the clappers — to move extremely fast
grade school teacher — a teacher in a grade school
graphics accelerator — (graphics, hardware) Hardware (often an extra circuit board) to perform tasks such as plotting lines and surfaces in two or three dimensions, filling, shading and hidden line removal.
gravimetric analysis — analysis by weight.
great-circle sailing — sailing between two points more or less according to an arc of a great circle, in practice almost always using a series of rhumb lines of different bearings to approximate the arc, whose own bearing changes constantly unless it coincides with a meridian or the equator.
hard gelatin capsule — A hard gelatin capsule is a type of capsule that is usually used to contain medicine in the form of dry powder or very small pellets.
heteropolysaccharide — (carbohydrate) any polysaccharide formed from two or more different kinds of monosaccharide.
hipparchus satellite — an astronometric satellite launched in 1989 by the European Space Agency that measured the position, proper motion, and brightness of 118 218 stars down to 12th magnitude and the magnitude and colour of a million stars down to 10th magnitude
hire-purchase system — a system of payment for a commodity in regular installments while using it.
honeysuckle ornament — anthemion.
horizontal scan rate — (hardware) (HSR) The measure of how many scan lines of pixels a monitor can display in one second, expressed in kHz (generally somewhere between 20 and 100 kHz). The HSR is controlled by the horizontal sync signal generated by the video controller, but is limited by the speed with which the monitor can scan the electron beam horizontally across the screen and then return it to the beginning of the next line.
hydrostatic pressure — Hydrostatic pressure is the pressure exerted by a liquid that depends on how deep it is.
hyperadrenocorticism — Cushing's syndrome.
hypercholesterolemia — the presence of an excessive amount of cholesterol in the blood.
hyperhomocysteinemia — (medicine) The presence of an excessive amount of homocysteine in the blood.
implicit parallelism — (parallel) A feature of a programming language for a parallel processing system which decides automatically which parts to run in parallel. The best way of providing implicit parallelism is still (1995) an active research topic. The problem is to generate the right number of parallel tasks of the right size (or "granularity"). Too many tasks and the system gets bogged down in house-keeping, or memory for waiting tasks runs out, too few tasks and processors are left idle. The best performance is usually achieved with explicit parallelism where the programmer can annotate his program to indicate which parts should be executed as independent parallel tasks.
in bad circumstances — (of a person) in a bad financial situation
in the circumstances — a condition, detail, part, or attribute, with respect to time, place, manner,agent, etc., that accompanies, determines, or modifies a fact or event; a modifying or influencing factor: Do not judge his behavior without considering every circumstance.
in-service education — training and education given to employed teachers throughout their career
income tax inspector — a person whose job is to assess individuals' income tax liability
incremental analysis — (testing) Partial analysis of an incomplete product to allow early feedback on its development.
indicated horsepower — the horsepower of a reciprocating engine as shown by an indicator record. Abbreviation: ihp, IHP.
industrial democracy — control of an organization by the people who work for it, esp by workers holding positions on its board of directors
industrial insurance — industrial life insurance.

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