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18-letter words containing el

  • computer telephony — Computer Telephone Integration
  • concentration cell — a galvanic cell consisting of two electrodes of the same metal each in different concentrations of a solution of the same salt of that metal.
  • consolato del mare — a code of maritime law compiled in the Middle Ages: it drew upon ancient law and has influenced modern law.
  • content data model — (standard, documentation, language)   (CDM) An SGML-based specification for interactive maintenance manuals, developed by the Air Force Human Resourceas Laboratory (AFHRL) with assistance from RJO Enterprises, Incorporated. CDM models data hierachically and data are identified by their content structure with SGML mark-up used to identify information classes such as "system information", "functions", "tasks" and "steps".
  • continental celtic — Celtic as spoken and written in ancient times on the mainland of Europe.
  • continental shield — any of the large, low-lying areas in the Earth's crust that are composed of Precambrian crystalline rocks
  • controlled-release — A controlled-release drug or preparation is released into the body in specified amounts over a specified period of time.
  • cordless telephone — a portable battery-powered telephone with a short-range radio link to a fixed base unit
  • cornell university — (body, education)   A US Ivy League University founded in 1868 by businessman Ezra Cornell and respected scholar Andrew Dickson White. Cornell includes thirteen colleges and schools. On the Ithaca campus are the seven undergraduate units and four graduate and professional units. The Medical College and the Graduate School of Medical Sciences are in New York City. Cornell has 13,300 undergraduates and 6,200 graduate and professional students. See also Concurrent ML, Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University Programming Language, CU-SeeMe, ISIS.
  • counseling service — an advice service
  • counterintuitively — In a manner contrary to intuition or common sense.
  • crown-jewel option — an option given by a company subjected to an unwelcome takeover bid to a friendly firm, allowing this firm to buy one or more of its best businesses if the bid succeeds
  • curvature of field — a monochromatic aberration of a lens or other optical system in which the focal surface is curved, the refracted image of an object oriented perpendicular to the axis of the lens lying on a curved surface rather than in a plane perpendicular to the axis.
  • customer relations — Customer relations are the relationships that a business has with its customers and the way in which it treats them.
  • 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
  • delaware water gap — a gorge on the boundary between E Pennsylvania and NW New Jersey.
  • deliver oneself of — to speak with deliberation or at length
  • delmarva peninsula — a peninsula of the northeast US, between Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic
  • developing country — a nonindustrialized poor country that is seeking to develop its resources by industrialization
  • development period — a length of time during which a company grows
  • development system — a computer system, including hardware and software, that is specifically designed to aid in the development of software and interfaces
  • dialytic telescope — a type of achromatic telescope with a second correcting lens
  • dielectric heating — the heating of a nonconducting substance caused by dielectric loss when the material is placed in a variable electric field.
  • dig in one's heels — to refuse to give up or modify one's opinion, policy, attitude, etc., esp. when faced with opposition
  • dig one's heels in — to refuse stubbornly to move or be persuaded
  • digital television — a television broadcasting technology in which signals are transmitted as a sequence of binary numbers.
  • disproportionately — not proportionate; out of proportion, as in size or number.
  • distributed eiffel — ["Distributed Eiffel: A Language for Programming Multi-Granular Distributed Objects on the Clouds Operating System", L. Gunaseelan et al, IEEE Conf Comp Langs, 1992].
  • do oneself justice — If you do yourself justice, you do something as well as you are capable of doing it.
  • domremy-la-pucelle — a village in Lorraine, NE France, SW of Nancy: birthplace of Joan of Arc.
  • drug-eluting stent — A drug-eluting stent is a tube placed into a blocked artery that slowly releases a drug to prevent another blockage in the artery.
  • eggshell porcelain — a type of very thin translucent porcelain originally made in China
  • eleanor of castile — 1246–90, Spanish wife of Edward I of England. Eleanor Crosses were erected at each place at which her body rested between Nottingham, where she died, and London, where she is buried
  • electoral district — an area that is considered as unit for the purposes of an election
  • electoral register — An electoral register is an official list of all the people who have the right to vote in an election.
  • electric discharge — electricity emitted
  • electric potential — the work required to transfer a unit positive electric charge from an infinite distance to a given point against an electric field
  • electrical circuit — An electrical circuit is a complete route that an electric current can flow around.
  • electrical failure — an instance when an electricity supply stops working
  • electricity strike — a time when workers at an electricity company stop supplying power as a protest at working conditions
  • electroacupuncture — the insertion into the body of one or more needles through which an electric current is passed
  • electrocardiograms — Plural form of electrocardiogram.
  • electrocardiograph — A machine used for electrocardiography.
  • electrocorticogram — a record of brain waves obtained by placing electrodes directly on the surface of the exposed cerebral cortex
  • electrocyclization — (organic chemistry) an electrocyclic reaction.
  • electrodesiccation — The drying of tissue, and the prevention of bleeding, using a high-frequency electric current.
  • 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.
  • electroluminescent — Having the quality of electroluminescence.
  • electron telescope — an astronomical telescope with an attachment for converting the infrared radiation emitted from the surface of planets into a visible image
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