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23-letter words containing u, n, s, e, t, c

  • public sector borrowing — government borrowing to fund the public sector
  • put through one's paces — a rate of movement, especially in stepping, walking, etc.: to walk at a brisk pace of five miles an hour.
  • quantum electrodynamics — the quantum field theory that deals with the electromagnetic field and its interaction with electrons and positrons. Abbreviation: QED.
  • quay financial software — CSK Software
  • queen charlotte islands — a group of about 150 islands off the W coast of Canada: part of British Columbia. Pop: about 6000 (latest est). Area: 9596 sq km (3705 sq miles)
  • quota share reinsurance — Quota share reinsurance is a form of reinsurance in which the reinsurer accepts a certain percentage of all or certain parts of the business of the reinsured person or company.
  • quote chapter and verse — [by analogy with the mainstream phrase] To cite a relevant excerpt from an appropriate bible. "I don't care if "rn" gets it wrong; "Followup-To: poster" is explicitly permitted by RFC 1036. I'll quote chapter and verse if you don't believe me." See also legalese, language lawyer, RTFS (sense 2).
  • rectangular coordinates — Usually, rectangular coordinates. either of two Cartesian coordinates in which the axes meet at right angles.
  • residual current device — a circuit-breaking device installed in electrical equipment to protect the operator from electrocution
  • residual debt insurance — Residual debt insurance is a type of risk insurance that banks often require when granting a loan, which is used to guarantee that the loan is repaid in the event of death or disability.
  • rsa data security, inc. — (cryptography, company)   (After Rivest, Shamir, Adleman - see RSA) A recognised world leader in cryptography, with millions of copies of its software encryption and authentication installed and in use worldwide. RSA's technologies are the global de facto standard for public key cryptography and digital signatures, and are part of existing and proposed standards for the Internet, ITU-T, ISO, ANSI, PKCS, IEEE and business and financial networks around the world.
  • securities exchange act — a law passed in 1934 establishing the SEC.
  • security association id — (networking)   (SAID) A 32-bit field added to packet headers for encryption and authentication in the proposed Internet Protocol Version 6.
  • settle (one's) accounts — To settle accounts with an enemy or opponent means to bring your fight or quarrel to an end by defeating them.
  • social education centre — a daycentre, run by a local authority, for people with learning disabilities and sometimes also for people who have physical disabilities or are mentally ill
  • social security payment — a payment of social security made to an individual
  • stand up and be counted — express opinion
  • state-trading countries — countries whose export and import trading is government controlled
  • stew in one's own juice — to cook (food) by simmering or slow boiling.
  • strategic business unit — an autonomous division or section with its own mission within a larger organization
  • stream of consciousness — unpunctuated prose
  • stream-of-consciousness — of, relating to, or characterized by a manner of writing in which a character's thoughts or perceptions are presented as occurring in random form, without regard for logical sequences, syntactic structure, distinctions between various levels of reality, or the like: a stream-of-consciousness novel; a stream-of-consciousness technique.
  • structural unemployment — unemployment caused by basic changes in the overall economy, as in demographics, technology, or industrial organization.
  • sub specie aeternitatis — from the standpoint of eternity; from a universal perspective
  • subscription television — pay television.
  • superposition principle — principle of superposition.
  • supplementary insurance — Supplementary insurance is insurance coverage that is purchased in addition to an insurance policy to provide additional benefits or coverage.
  • sustainable agriculture — any of a number of environmentally friendly farming methods that preserve an ecological balance by avoiding depletion of natural resources.
  • system control language — (language)   (SCL) The command language for the VME/B operating system on the ICL2900. SCL was block structured and supported strings, lists of strings ("superstrings"), integer, Boolean, and array types. You could trigger a block whenever a condition on a variable value occured. It supported macros and default arguments. Commands were treated like procedure calls.
  • tangible user interface — (interface)   An attempt to give physical form to digital information, making bits directly manipulable and perceptible by people. Tangible Interfaces will make bits accessible through augmented physical surfaces (e.g. walls, desktops, ceilings, windows), graspable objects (e.g. building blocks, models, instruments) and ambient media (e.g. light, sound, airflow, water-flow, kinetic sculpture) within physical environments.
  • terminal user interface — Textual User Interface
  • text processing utility — (language)   (TPU) A DEC language for creation of text-processing interfaces, used to implement DEC's Extensible VAX Editor (EVE).
  • thank one's lucky stars — any of the heavenly bodies, except the moon, appearing as fixed luminous points in the sky at night.
  • the numbers game/racket — If you refer to the numbers game, the numbers racket, or the numbers, you are referring to an illegal lottery or illegal betting.
  • thompson submachine gun — a portable, .45-caliber, automatic weapon designed to be fired from the shoulder or hip.
  • to call someone's bluff — If you call someone's bluff, you tell them to do what they have been threatening to do, because you are sure that they will not really do it.
  • to count your blessings — If you tell someone to count their blessings, you are saying that they should think about how lucky they are instead of complaining.
  • to keep your nose clean — If you keep your nose clean, you behave well and stay out of trouble.
  • to make your skin crawl — If something makes your skin crawl or makes your flesh crawl, it makes you feel shocked or disgusted.
  • to your heart's content — as much as you please
  • transcendental argument — an argument designed to make explicit the conditions under which a certain kind of knowledge is possible, esp those of Kant
  • transcendental equation — an equation that involves transcendental functions.
  • transcendental function — a function that is not an algebraic function.
  • trellis code modulation — (TCM) A modulation technique with hardware error detection and correction.
  • turn a cold shoulder to — to treat with disdain; snub
  • ulster defence regiment — a former reserve regiment of the British Army based in Northern Ireland
  • unconditional discharge — the release of a defendant without having to spend time on parole or probation
  • unconstitutional strike — a stoppage of work which violates the dispute procedure agreed between the employer and the trade union or trade unions concerned
  • under 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.
  • unincorporated business — a privately owned business, often owned by one person who has unlimited liability as the business is not legally registered as a company
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