22-letter words containing t, r, a, n, s, e
- go to meet one's maker — to die
- gold-exchange standard — a monetary system in one country in which currency is maintained at a par with that of another country that is on the gold standard.
- graeco-roman wrestling — a style of wrestling in which the legs may not be used to obtain a fall and no hold may be applied below the waist
- graph rewriting system — An extension of a term rewriting system which uses graph reduction on terms represented by directed graphs to avoid duplication of work by sharing expressions.
- gravitational collapse — the final stage of stellar evolution in which a star collapses to a final state, as a white dwarf, neutron star, or black hole, when the star's nuclear reactions no longer generate enough pressure to balance the attractive force of gravity.
- gravitational redshift — (in general relativity) the shift toward longer wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation emitted by a source in a gravitational field, especially at the surface of a massive star.
- great australian bight — a wide bay in S Australia.
- great glen of scotland — Glen More
- green around the gills — the respiratory organ of aquatic animals, as fish, that breathe oxygen dissolved in water.
- guanosine triphosphate — GTP.
- guest services manager — A guest services manager at a hotel is responsible for the services and facilities that the hotel provides for its guests.
- gulf of saint lawrence — a deep arm of the Atlantic off the E coast of Canada between Newfoundland and the mainland coasts of Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia
- hammersmith and fulham — a borough of Greater London on the River Thames: established in 1965 by the amalgamation of Fulham and Hammersmith. Pop: 174 200 (2003 est). Area: 16 sq km (6 sq miles)
- hans christian oersted — Hans Christian [hahns kris-tyahn] /hɑns ˈkrɪs tyɑn/ (Show IPA), 1777–1851, Danish physicist.
- have one's heart in it — to have enthusiasm for something
- hawaiian standard time — the time used in the Hawaiian time zone
- heart is in your mouth — If your heart is in your mouth, you feel very excited, worried, or frightened.
- help a person off with — to assist a person in the removal of (clothes)
- hereford and worcester — a county in W England. 1516 sq. mi. (3926 sq. km).
- horn-rimmed spectacles — spectacles with rims made of material resembling horn
- horse of another color — an entirely different matter
- host control interface — (hardware, wireless) (HCI) A network layer in the Bluetooth Core Protocol Stack, lying between the software and the hardware stacks and serving as the interface through which the software controls two of Bluetooth's four core protocols.
- hue, saturation, value — (graphics) (HSV) A colour model that describes colours in terms of hue (or "tint"), saturation (or "shade") and value (or "tone" or "luminance").
- hundreds and thousands — tiny beads of brightly coloured sugar, used in decorating cakes, sweets, etc
- in (all) fairness (to) — You use fairness in expressions such as in fairness to and in all fairness when you want to add a favourable comment about someone or something that you have just mentioned and to correct a false impression that you might have given.
- in one's birthday suit — naked; nude
- in your wildest dreams — If you say that you could not imagine a particular thing in your wildest dreams, you are emphasizing that you think it is extremely strange or unlikely.
- in/within sb's hearing — If someone says something in your hearing or within your hearing, you can hear what they say because they are with you or near you.
- independent assortment — law of independent assortment.
- indeterminate sentence — a penalty, imposed by a court, that has relatively wide limits or no limits, as one of imprisonment for one to ten years.
- industrial archaeology — the study of past industrial machines, works, etc
- industrial engineering — engineering applied to the planning, design, and control of industrial operations.
- industrialized country — a country characterized by industry on an extensive scale
- inertia-reel seat belt — a type of car seat belt in which the belt is free to unwind from a metal drum except when the drum locks as a result of rapid deceleration
- inferential statistics — the branch of statistics dealing with conclusions, generalizations, predictions, and estimations based on data from samples.
- information processing — processing of information, especially the handling of information by computers in accordance with strictly defined systems of procedure.
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- interactive courseware — (ICW) A training program controlled by a computer that relies on trainee input to determine the order and pace of instruction delivery. The trainee advances through the sequence of instructional events by making decisions and selections. The instruction branches according to the trainee's responses. ICW is a US military term which includes computer-aided instruction and computer-based training.
- interactive television — techniques that enable viewers to interact with what they are watching
- international standard — (standard) The series of standards from ISO and its subcommitees.
- interoperable database — A database front-end which communicates with multiple heterogenous databases and makes them appear as a single homogenous entity with semantic calls. See ODBC.
- interpretive semantics — a school of semantic theory based on the doctrine that the rules that relate sentences to their meanings form an autonomous system, separate from the rules that determine what is grammatical in a language
- interrogator-responsor — a radio or radar transceiver for sending a signal to a transponder and receiving and interpreting the reply.
- investigative new drug — a regulatory classification assigned by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to an unproven drug, allowing its use in approved studies with human patients. Abbreviation: IND.
- java community process — (project) (JCP) An organization controlled by Sun Microsystems to further the growth of the Java language and runtime. The JCP produces standards called Java Standard Requests, which are "requests" in the same sense as RFCs.
- junior sales associate — A junior sales associate is an inexperienced member of the sales staff, usually receiving training or supervised by more experienced staff.
- just around the corner — in the next street
- label switching router — (networking) (LSR) A device that typically resides somewhere in the middle of a network and is capable of forwarding datagrams by label switching. In many cases, especially early versions of MPLS networks, a LSR will typically be a modified ATM switch that forwards datagrams based upon a label in the VPI/VCI field.
- land of the rising sun — Japan.
- landscape architecture — the art of arranging or modifying the features of a landscape, an urban area, etc., for aesthetic or practical reasons.