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19-letter words containing ent

  • physical impairment — A physical impairment is a condition in which a part of a person's body is damaged or is not working properly.
  • physical sequential — (file format)   (PS, QSAM, Queued Sequential Access Method) The simplest data set on an IBM mainframe. Sequential files can only be read or written from the beginning: they do not support random access.
  • pinwheel escapement — a clock escapement in which two pallets, usually of unequal length, alternately engage and release pins set on the escape wheel perpendicular to its plane of rotation.
  • police intervention — the physical involvement of police officers in an incident, esp where officers use force to control public disorder, such as a riot
  • political scientist — A political scientist is someone who studies, writes, or lectures about political science.
  • political-scientist — a social science dealing with political institutions and with the principles and conduct of government.
  • preferential voting — a system of voting designed to permit the voter to indicate an order of preference for the candidates on the ballot.
  • presentation skills — the set of techniques and skills required successfully to present oral information to others
  • presidente prudente — a city in central Brazil.
  • preventive medicine — the branch of medical science that deals with prevention of disease.
  • primary containment — Primary containment is the main means of preventing leaks and spills using equipment in direct content with the oil or gas being stored or transported.
  • property settlement — an agreement between a divorcing husband and wife covering the division of their assets
  • pseudo-experimental — pertaining to, derived from, or founded on experiment: an experimental science.
  • pyrenees-orientales — a department in S France. 1600 sq. mi. (4145 sq. km). Capital: Perpignan.
  • radiation potential — the potential in volts that must be applied to an atom or molecule to cause it to emit radiation at one of its characteristic frequencies.
  • recording equipment — devices used for sound reproduction
  • reduction potential — (in a galvanic cell) the potential of the electrode at which reduction occurs.
  • register assignment — (compiler, algorithm)   The phase of a compiler that determines which register to use for each program value selected during register allocation.
  • relative complement — the set of elements contained in a given set that are not elements of another specified set.
  • relative impediment — a fact or circumstance that disqualifies from lawful marriage persons who are closely related.
  • representationalism — Also called representative realism. Epistemology. the view that the objects of perception are ideas or sense data that represent external objects, especially the Lockean doctrine that the perceived idea represents exactly the primary qualities of the external object.
  • resistance movement — a movement fighting (for freedom, etc), often secretly or illegally, against an invader in an occupied country or against the country's government, etc
  • respiratory pigment — any of several colored protein substances, as hemoglobin and hemocyanin, in the circulatory system of animals and some plants, that combine reversibly with oxygen that is carried to the tissues
  • resplendent quetzal — See under quetzal (def 1).
  • revenue enhancement — a new tax or a tax increase.
  • royal correspondent — a journalist who reports on matters relating to royalty
  • sacramento sturgeon — white sturgeon.
  • san clemente island — an island off the coast of S California, in the Santa Barbara (Channel) Islands. 24 miles (38 km) long.
  • scientific notation — a method for expressing a given quantity as a number having significant digits necessary for a specified degree of accuracy, multiplied by 10 to the appropriate power, as 1385.62 written as 1.386 × 10 3 .
  • seasonal adjustment — an adjustment that removes the seasonal component of statistics
  • secondary dentition — the permanent dentition
  • secondary intention — See under intention (def 5b).
  • secondary-intention — an act or instance of determining mentally upon some action or result.
  • segmentation cavity — blastocoel.
  • selective attention — mental focus on sth in particular
  • self identification — identification of oneself with some other person or thing.
  • self-aggrandizement — increase of one's own power, wealth, etc., usually aggressively.
  • self-identification — identification of oneself with some other person or thing.
  • self-representation — the act of representing.
  • sentence substitute — a word or phrase, esp one traditionally classified as an adverb, that is used in place of a finite sentence, such as yes, no, certainly, and never
  • sentential calculus — the branch of symbolic logic dealing with the logical relationships between statements insofar as they can be analyzed into conjunctions, disjunctions, and negations of more elementary statements.
  • sentential function — an expression that contains one or more variables and becomes meaningful when suitable constant terms are substituted for them.
  • sequential analysis — the analysis of data obtained from a sample the size of which is not fixed in advance, but is selected based on the outcome of the sampling as it proceeds.
  • sequential scanning — a system of scanning a television picture along the lines in numerical sequence
  • seventh commandment — “Thou shalt not commit adultery”: seventh of the Ten Commandments.
  • shipping department — a department in a company responsible for arranging, receiving, recording, and sending shipments of goods
  • sixteenth amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1913, authorizing Congress to levy a tax on incomes.
  • slugging percentage — a number expressing a player's average effectiveness in making extra-base hits, calculated by dividing the total number of bases (from all singles, doubles, triples, and home runs) by the number of official at bats
  • small advertisement — a short, simply designed advertisement in a newspaper or magazine, usually set entirely in a small size of type
  • smoking compartment — a compartment of a train where smoking is permitted
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