17-letter words containing ens
- active suspension — a type of suspension in a car that is controlled by an onboard computer and improves the vehicle's roadholding so that it takes corners, accelerates, and brakes more smoothly
- all-expenses-paid — (of a holiday, trip, etc) free, with everything paid for
- antihypertensives — Plural form of antihypertensive.
- anzhero-sudzhensk — a city in the S Russian Federation in Central Asia.
- at the expense of — If you achieve something at the expense of someone, you do it in a way which might cause them some harm or disadvantage.
- autosensitization — autoimmunization.
- capital-intensive — Capital-intensive industries and businesses need the investment of large sums of money. Compare labour-intensive.
- character defense — a personality trait, as a habitual tendency to idealize or rationalize, that serves some unconscious defensive purpose.
- chelsea pensioner — an old ex-soldier resident in the Chelsea Royal Hospital
- collision density — the rate at which collisions are occurring per unit volume per unit time, usually pertaining to the collisions of neutrons in a nuclear reactor.
- compensated grade — a grade that has been reduced along a curve to offset the additional resistance due to the curve.
- comprehensibility — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
- comprehensiveness — of large scope; covering or involving much; inclusive: a comprehensive study of world affairs.
- condensing boiler — an energy-efficient boiler that makes use of what would otherwise be waste heat
- consensus gentium — agreement of the people.
- context-sensitive — behaving, responding, or interpreted differently depending on context
- counteroffensives — Plural form of counteroffensive.
- defense mechanism — A defense 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.
- dispensationalism — the interpreting of history as a series of divine dispensations.
- extension courses — courses offered to outsiders by an educational establishment
- forensic evidence — evidence obtained by the use of science, for example DNA evidence, etc
- forensic medicine — the application of medical knowledge to questions of civil and criminal law, especially in court proceedings.
- fractal dimension — (mathematics) A common type of fractal dimension is the Hausdorff-Besicovich Dimension, but there are several different ways of computing fractal dimension. Fractal dimension can be calculated by taking the limit of the quotient of the log change in object size and the log change in measurement scale, as the measurement scale approaches zero. The differences come in what is exactly meant by "object size" and what is meant by "measurement scale" and how to get an average number out of many different parts of a geometrical object. Fractal dimensions quantify the static *geometry* of an object. For example, consider a straight line. Now blow up the line by a factor of two. The line is now twice as long as before. Log 2 / Log 2 = 1, corresponding to dimension 1. Consider a square. Now blow up the square by a factor of two. The square is now 4 times as large as before (i.e. 4 original squares can be placed on the original square). Log 4 / log 2 = 2, corresponding to dimension 2 for the square. Consider a snowflake curve formed by repeatedly replacing ___ with _/\_, where each of the 4 new lines is 1/3 the length of the old line. Blowing up the snowflake curve by a factor of 3 results in a snowflake curve 4 times as large (one of the old snowflake curves can be placed on each of the 4 segments _/\_). Log 4 / log 3 = 1.261... Since the dimension 1.261 is larger than the dimension 1 of the lines making up the curve, the snowflake curve is a fractal. [sci.fractals FAQ].
- frankenstein food — any foodstuff that has been genetically modified
- go to ... expense — If you go to the expense of doing something, you do something which costs a lot of money. If you go to great expense to do something, you spend a lot of money in order to achieve it.
- graduated pension — the money that an employee receives after retirement if they have paid into the graduated pension scheme
- greensand process — a process for casting iron with sand not previously heated.
- high-density disk — a computer storage disk capable of holding more than 720 kilobytes of data
- high-tensile wire — wire which can withstand great strain without breaking or becoming deformed
- homo floresiensis — a possible species of very small, primitive human: its fossils were discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003.
- huygens principle — the principle that all points on a wave front of light are sources of secondary waves and that surfaces tangential to these waves define the position of the wave front at any point in time.
- huygens' eyepiece — a telescope eyepiece consisting of two planoconvex lenses separated by a distance equal to half the sum of their focal lengths, which are in the ratio of three to one, and oriented so that their curved surfaces face the incident light
- hyposensitization — The state or process of being reduced in sensitivity especially to an allergen.
- image intensifier — any of various devices for amplifying the intensity of an optical image, sometimes used in conjunction with an image converter
- in the past tense — using a past tense verb
- incomprehensively — In an incomprehensive manner.
- indispensableness — The characteristic of being indispensable; indispensability.
- intensive farming — battery rearing of animals
- kensington palace — a royal residence in Kensington Gardens, in the London borough of Kensington and Chelsea; dating from the 17th century, it was improved and extended by Sir Cristopher Wren
- learner's license — a provisional driving licence
- level compensator — an automatic gain control device used in the receivers of telegraphic circuits.
- make sense of sth — When you make sense of something, you succeed in understanding it.
- mensural notation — a system of musical notation of the 13th to the late 16th centuries, marked by the use of note symbols such as the longa and brevis, the absence of bar lines and ties, and the equivalence in value of one note to either two or three of the next smaller degree.
- microdensitometer — a densitometer for measuring the density of minute areas of photographic negatives.
- missense mutation — a type of mutation to a specific protein, that results from the substitution, during translation, of one amino acid for another
- motion of censure — a motion by opposition parties criticizing the government
- muenster (cheese) — a mild light-yellow semisoft cheese
- non-comprehension — the act or process of comprehending.
- nonsense syllable — any of numerous letter combinations without meaning, used in learning experiments.
- old age pensioner — An old age pensioner is a person who is old enough to receive an pension from their employer or the government.
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