18-letter words containing y, e, n, t, a
- complementary gene — one of a pair of genes, each from different loci, that together are required for the expression of a certain characteristic
- conductivity water — water that has a conductivity of less than 0.043 × 10–6 S cm–1
- conservative party — The Conservative Party is the main right-of-centre party in Britain.
- constituency party — a branch of a political party operating within a constituency
- continental system — French system.
- coronary care unit — a unit in a hospital dedicated to treating coronary heart disease
- coronary-care unit — a specialized hospital unit for the early care and treatment of heart-attack patients. Abbreviation: CCU.
- corporate identity — business brand
- cot death syndrome — the unexplained sudden death of an infant during sleep
- countercyclicality — The quality of being countercyclical.
- countryside agency — (in England) a government agency that promotes the conservation and enjoyment of the countryside and aims to stimulate employment in rural areas
- cranial osteopathy — osteopathy that focuses on the cranium and the spine
- credibility rating — a supposed measure of how far a person can be believed or trusted
- crystal microphone — a microphone that uses a piezoelectric crystal to convert sound energy into electrical energy
- cyclopean concrete — concrete containing stones larger than 6 inches (15 cm).
- cytoarchitectonics — Cytoarchitecture.
- daisywheel printer — (printer) A kind of impact printer where the characters are arranged on the ends of the spokes of a wheel (resembling the petals on a daisy). The wheel (usually made of plastic) is rotated to select the character to print and then an electrically operated hammer mechanism bends the selected spoke forward slightly, sandwiching an ink ribbon between the character and the paper, as in a typewriter. One advantage of this arrangement over that of a typewriter is that different wheels may be inserted to produce different typefaces.
- daytime television — television broadcasts that are shown during the daytime rather than in the evening
- deficiency account — an account summarizing the financial condition of an individual or company in danger of bankruptcy.
- deficiency payment — a payment made to a commodity producer that represents the difference between the market price and the guaranteed price
- dietary supplement — a substance taken in addition to what you eat in order to promote health
- digital technology — the branch of scientific or engineering knowledge that deals with the creation and practical use of digital or computerized devices, methods, systems, etc.: advances in digital technology.
- dimethyltryptamine — a hallucinogenic drug, C 12 H 16 N 2 , with an action of short duration. Abbreviation: DMT.
- disability pension — a pension paid to people who are unable to continue to work because of a disability
- disproportionately — not proportionate; out of proportion, as in size or number.
- doctype decoration — (humour) When a web author adds a doctype declaration but doesn't bother to write valid HTML.
- domain name system — (networking) (DNS) A general-purpose distributed, replicated, data query service chiefly used on Internet for translating hostnames into Internet addresses. Also, the style of hostname used on the Internet, though such a name is properly called a fully qualified domain name. DNS can be configured to use a sequence of name servers, based on the domains in the name being looked for, until a match is found. The name resolution client (e.g. Unix's gethostbyname() library function) can be configured to search for host information in the following order: first in the local hosts file, second in NIS and third in DNS. This sequencing of Naming Services is sometimes called "name service switching". Under Solaris is configured in the file /etc/nsswitch.conf. DNS can be queried interactively using the command nslookup. It is defined in STD 13, RFC 1034, RFC 1035, RFC 1591.
- dysfunctionalities — Plural form of dysfunctionality.
- east india company — the company chartered by the English government in 1600 to carry on trade in the East Indies: dissolved in 1874.
- electrocyclization — (organic chemistry) an electrocyclic reaction.
- electrodynamometer — An instrument that measures electric current by indicating the strength of repulsion or attraction between the magnetic fields of two sets of coils, one fixed and one movable.
- elementary student — primary school pupil
- elementary teacher — a teacher in an elementary school
- emotional literacy — the ability to deal with one's emotions and recognize their causes
- enantioselectivity — (chemistry) The selectivity of a reaction towards one of a pair of enantiomers.
- environment agency — an official agency providing information on environmental issues, esp rivers, flooding and pollution
- ethnopsychological — Relating to ethnopsychology.
- european community — an economic and political association of European States that came into being in 1967, when the legislative and executive bodies of the European Economic Community merged with those of the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Atomic Energy Community: subsumed into the European Union in 1993
- every now and then — from time to time; occasionally
- evolution strategy — (ES) A kind of evolutionary algorithm where individuals (potential solutions) are encoded by a set of real-valued "object variables" (the individual's "genome"). For each object variable an individual also has a "strategy variable" which determines the degree of mutation to be applied to the corresponding object variable. The strategy variables also mutate, allowing the rate of mutation of the object variables to vary. An ES is characterised by the population size, the number of offspring produced in each generation and whether the new population is selected from parents and offspring or only from the offspring. ES were invented in 1963 by Ingo Rechenberg, Hans-Paul Schwefel at the Technical University of Berlin (TUB) while searching for the optimal shapes of bodies in a flow.
- eyewitness account — a description given by someone who was present at an event
- fantasy basketball — imagination, especially when extravagant and unrestrained.
- fatty degeneration — deterioration of the cells of the body, accompanied by the formation of fat globules within the diseased cells.
- fifth monarchy men — (during the Commonwealth in the 17th century) a militant sect of Puritans who identified the fifth monarchy with the millennial reign of Christ and who believed they should help to inaugurate that reign by force.
- first year infants — a class for young children who have just started school
- fixed-term tenancy — a tenancy arrangement for a particular and fixed period
- flat-panel display — a type of thin, lightweight video display that uses liquid crystals or electroluminescence to reflect images.
- fly in the face of — to move through the air using wings.
- fly off the handle — a part of a thing made specifically to be grasped or held by the hand.
- free-range poultry — poultry kept in natural nonintensive conditions