19-letter words containing it
- electroconductivity — Electrical conductivity.
- electronegativities — Plural form of electronegativity.
- electronic ignition — any system that uses an electronic circuit to supply the voltage to the sparking plugs of an internal-combustion engine
- electrostatic units — the system of CGS electric and magnetic units that assigns the value of one to the dielectric constant of a vacuum
- entitlement program — a government program providing defined sectors of the population with social benefits
- environmental audit — the systematic examination of an organization's interaction with the environment, to assess the success of its conservation or antipollution programme
- equal opportunities — Equal opportunities refers to the policy of giving everyone the same opportunities for employment, pay and promotion, without discriminating against particular groups.
- equatorial zenithal — a type of map projection in which part of the earth's surface is projected onto a plane tangential to it at the equator
- euclidean algorithm — Euclid's Algorithm
- executive committee — the executive committee or board of an organization is a committee within that organization which has the authority to make decisions and ensures that these decisions are carried out
- exhibitionistically — In an exhibitionistic manner.
- exophthalmic goiter — a disease of unknown cause characterized by enlargement of the thyroid gland, overproduction of the thyroid hormone, and abnormal protrusion of the eyeballs
- exophthalmic goitre — a form of hyperthyroidism characterized by enlargement of the thyroid gland, protrusion of the eyeballs, increased basal metabolic rate, and weight loss
- expeditionary force — An expeditionary force is a group of soldiers who are sent to fight in a foreign country.
- extradition warrant — a warrant for somebody's extradition
- extraterritoriality — (legal) immunity from the local laws of a certain area, especially due to diplomatic negotiation.
- factitious disorder — any of various syndromes, as Münchausen syndrome, characterized by physical or psychological symptoms intentionally produced by a person and under voluntary control.
- fall in love (with) — to begin to feel love (for)
- family practitioner — medical specialization in general practice, requiring training beyond that of general practice and leading to board certification.
- ferrite core memory — (storage) (Or "core") An early form of non-volatile storage built (by hand) from tiny rings of magnetisable material threaded onto very fine wire to form large (e.g. 13"x13" or more) rectangluar arrays. Each core stored one bit of data. These were sandwiched between printed circuit boards(?). Sets of wires ran horizontally and vertically and where a vertical and horizontal wire crossed, a core had both wires threaded through it. A single core could be selected and magnetised by passing sufficient current through its horizontal and vertical wires. A core would retain its magnetisation until it was re-magnetised. The two possible polarities of magnetisation were used to represent the binary values zero and one. A third "sense" wire, passed through the core and, if the magnetisation of the core was changed, a small pulse would be induced in the sense wire which could be detected and used to deduce the core's original state. Some core memory was immersed in a bath of heated oil to improve its performance. Core memory was rendered obsolete by semiconductor memory. For example, the 1970s-era NCR 499 had two boards, each with 16 kilobytes of core memory.
- fertility treatment — the application of any of various methods or procedures to a woman or man to increase the woman's chances of conceiving a baby
- finds its/their way — If something finds its way somewhere, it comes to that place, especially by chance.
- finite differencing — strength reduction
- floating-point unit — (hardware) (FPU) A floating-point accelerator, usually in a single integrated circuit, possible on the same IC as the central processing unit.
- for all it is worth — If someone does something for all it is worth, they do it as much as possible and for as long as they can get benefit from it.
- for what it's worth — good or important enough to justify (what is specified): advice worth taking; a place worth visiting.
- freedom of the city — nominal citizenship in a city, conferred as an honor upon important visitors.
- gastroenterocolitis — (medicine) inflammation of the stomach, small intestines, and colon.
- gigabits per second — (unit) (Gbps) A unit of information transfer rate equal to one billion bits per second. Note that, while a gigabit is defined as a power of two (2^30 bits), a gigabit per second is defined as a power of ten (10^9 bits per second, which is slightly less) than 2^30).
- give a person a fit — to surprise a person in an outrageous manner
- give one credit for — to commend one for
- glyceryl trinitrate — nitroglycerin.
- goes without saying — If something goes without saying, it is obvious.
- gratuitous contract — a contract for the benefit of only one of the parties, the other party receiving nothing as consideration.
- gravitational field — the attractive effect, considered as extending throughout space, of matter on other matter.
- greenhouse whitefly — See under whitefly.
- grievance committee — a group of representatives chosen from a labor union or from both labor and management to consider and remedy workers' grievances.
- gross profit margin — A gross profit margin is a measure of the profitability of a company, that is calculated by dividing gross profit by net sales.
- have a problem with — to be unable to understand or do
- have one's way with — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
- hermitian conjugate — adjoint (def 2).
- holiday entitlement — the number of days of paid holiday in a year that a worker is entitled to take
- horizontal mobility — movement from one position to another within the same social level, as changing jobs without altering occupational status, or moving between social groups having the same social status.
- hospital facilities — the equipment and services provided by a hospital
- hypersuggestibility — subject to or easily influenced by suggestion.
- immunoprecipitation — the separation of an antigen from a solution by the formation of a large complex with its specific antibody.
- in association with — jointly with
- in conjunction with — together with, in association with
- in definite pronoun — a pronoun, as English some, any, somebody, that leaves unspecified the identity of its referent.
- in the tradition of — If you say that something or someone is in the tradition of a person or thing from the past, you mean that they have many features that remind you of that person or thing.