17-letter words containing enc
- abstinence theory — the theory that interest is payment for conserving current income.
- actuarial science — Actuarial science is a specialist branch of mathematics applying the laws of statistics and probability to insurance.
- angular frequency — the frequency of a periodic process, wave system, etc, expressed in radians per second
- anti-interference — intended to reduce electronic interference during radio transmissions
- audience research — research into the make-up and habits of the audience of a particular television or radio programme or network
- balanced sentence — a sentence consisting of two or more clauses that are parallel in structure.
- barbed wire fence — a fence constructed from strong wire that has sharply pointed barbs at close intervals along its length
- buttock-clenching — making one tighten the buttocks through extreme fear or embarrassment
- cache consistency — cache coherency
- call-by-reference — (programming) An argument passing convention where the address of an argument variable is passed to a function or procedure, as opposed to passing the value of the argument expression. Execution of the function or procedure may have side-effects on the actual argument as seen by the caller. The C language's "&" (address of) and "*" (dereference) operators allow the programmer to code explicit call-by-reference. Other languages provide special syntax to declare reference arguments (e.g. ALGOL 60). See also call-by-name, call-by-value, call-by-value-result.
- capacity audience — a situation when the maximum number of people possible are watching an event
- chemiluminescence — the phenomenon in which a chemical reaction leads to the emission of light without incandescence
- chemoluminescence — (chemistry) The emission of light as the result of a chemical reaction.
- chinagraph pencil — a coloured pencil used for writing on china, glass, etc
- christian science — Christian Science is a type of Christianity which emphasizes the use of prayer to cure illness.
- cognitive science — the scientific study of cognition, including elements of the traditional disciplines of philosophy, psychology, semantics, and linguistics, together with artificial intelligence and computer science
- collection agency — A collection agency is an organization that obtains payments from people who owe money to others.
- commercial agency — a concern that investigates for the benefit of its subscribers the financial standing, reputation, and credit rating of individuals, firms, corporations, or others.
- common difference — the positive or negative constant added to each term in an arithmetic progression
- compound sentence — a sentence containing at least two coordinate clauses
- conference centre — a large venue designed for conferences often consisting of a large hall as well as a number of smaller lecture rooms and other facilities
- conscience clause — a clause in a law or contract exempting persons with moral scruples
- contingency table — an array having the frequency of occurrence of certain events in each of a number of samples
- convenience goods — goods which make people's lives easier
- convenience store — A convenience store is a shop which sells mainly food and which is usually open until late at night.
- counter-influence — the capacity or power of persons or things to be a compelling force on or produce effects on the actions, behavior, opinions, etc., of others: He used family influence to get the contract.
- counterinsurgency — action taken by a government to counter the activities of rebels, guerrillas, etc
- deceptive cadence — a cadence consisting of a dominant harmony followed by a resolution to a harmony other than the tonic.
- defence mechanism — A defence mechanism is a way of behaving or thinking which is not conscious or deliberate and is an automatic reaction to unpleasant experiences or feelings such as anxiety and fear.
- defence secretary — the member of a government who is responsible for the country's armed forces
- deferred sentence — a sentence that is postponed for a specific period to allow a court to examine the conduct of the offender during the deferment
- definite sentence — (logic) A collection of definite clauses.
- difference engine — (computer, history) Charles Babbage's design for the first automatic mechanical calculator. The Difference Engine was a special purpose device intended for the production of mathematical tables. Babbage started work on the Difference Engine in 1823 with funding from the British Government. Only one-seventh of the complete engine, about 2000 parts, was built in 1832 by Babbage's engineer, Joseph Clement. This was demonstrated successfully by Babbage and still works perfectly. The engine was never completed and most of the 12,000 parts manufactured were later melted for scrap. It was left to Georg and Edvard Schuetz to construct the first working devices to the same design which were successful in limited applications. The Difference Engine No. 2 was finally completed in 1991 at the Science Museum, London, UK and is on display there. The engine used gears to compute cumulative sums in a series of registers: r[i] := r[i] + r[i+1]. However, the addition had the side effect of zeroing r[i+1]. Babbage overcame this by simultaneously copying r[i+1] to a temporary register during the addition and then copying it back to r[i+1] at the end of each cycle (each turn of a handle).
- domestic violence — physical abuse in the home
- echoencephalogram — a graphic record produced by an echoencephalograph.
- efficiency expert — a person who studies the methods, procedures, and job characteristics of a business or factory with the object of devising ways to increase the efficiency of equipment and personnel.
- electrified fence — a barrier that uses electric shocks to deter animals or people from crossing a boundary
- emergency landing — an occasion when a place is forced to land: for example, because of a mechanical fault, bad weather, terrorism, etc.
- emergency rations — food and drink that is designated for use in an emergency: for example, in a famine, after a plane crash, when hill-walkers or mountaineers are stranded, etc.
- emergency service — a department within a bigger organization that deals with emergencies
- emergency session — an urgent meeting held by parliament, ministers, etc. to discuss what measures should be taken to deal with an emergency
- employment agency — company: finds jobs
- encephalomyelitic — Relating to encephalomyelitis.
- encephalomyelitis — Inflammation of the brain and spinal cord, typically due to acute viral infection.
- energy efficiency — a measure of how efficiently an appliance, building, organization or country uses energy
- enzyme deficiency — failure of the body to produce a specific enzy
- equivalence class — (mathematics) An equivalence class is a subset whose elements are related to each other by an equivalence relation. The equivalence classes of a set under some relation form a partition of that set (i.e. any two are either equal or disjoint and every element of the set is in some class).
- escaping tendency — a property of a gas, related to its partial pressure, that expresses its tendency to escape or expand, given by d(log ef) = dμ/ RT, where μ is the chemical potential, R the gas constant, and T the thermodynamic temperature
- experience rating — Experience rating is a method of adjusting the premium for a risk based on past loss experience for that risk compared to loss experience for an average risk.
- finite difference — difference (def 9c).
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