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18-letter words containing ne

  • complementary gene — one of a pair of genes, each from different loci, that together are required for the expression of a certain characteristic
  • comprehensibleness — The quality of being comprehensible; comprehensibility.
  • computer-generated — produced by a computer program
  • conditioned reflex — a reflex in which the response (e.g., secretion of saliva in a dog) is occasioned by a secondary stimulus (e.g., the ringing of a bell) repeatedly associated with the primary stimulus (e.g., the sight of meat)
  • connected subgraph — (mathematics)   A connected graph consisting of a subset of the nodes and edges of some other graph.
  • container terminal — a transport terminal that handles containerized cargo
  • continental celtic — Celtic as spoken and written in ancient times on the mainland of Europe.
  • continental divide — the watershed of a continent, esp (often caps.) the principal watershed of North America, formed by the Rocky Mountains
  • continental margin — the offshore zone, consisting of the continental shelf, slope, and rise, that separates the dry-land portion of a continent from the deep ocean floor.
  • continental shield — any of the large, low-lying areas in the Earth's crust that are composed of Precambrian crystalline rocks
  • continental system — French system.
  • 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.
  • corps of engineers — a branch of the U.S. Army responsible for military and many civil engineering projects.
  • creatine phosphate — phosphocreatine.
  • cry one's eyes out — to weep bitterly
  • crystal microphone — a microphone that uses a piezoelectric crystal to convert sound energy into electrical energy
  • cultural awareness — Someone's cultural awareness is their understanding of the differences between themselves and people from other countries or other backgrounds, especially differences in attitudes and values.
  • cut one's eyeteeth — to become experienced or sophisticated
  • cut one's teeth on — to use at an early age or stage
  • defensive medicine — the practice by a doctor of ordering extensive, often unnecessary tests in order to minimize liability if accused of negligence
  • deliver oneself of — to speak with deliberation or at length
  • demilitarized zone — an area from which military presence or function has been removed
  • 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
  • dimethyltryptamine — a hallucinogenic drug, C 12 H 16 N 2 , with an action of short duration. Abbreviation: DMT.
  • diphtheria vaccine — a vaccine used to produce immunity against diphtheria
  • divine inspiration — insight provided by higher power
  • do one's own thing — a material object without life or consciousness; an inanimate object.
  • do oneself justice — If you do yourself justice, you do something as well as you are capable of doing it.
  • domain engineering — (systems analysis)   1. The development and evolution of domain specific knowledge and artifacts to support the development and evolution of systems in the domain. Domain engineering includes engineering of domain models, components, methods and tools and may also include asset management. 2. The engineering process of analysing and modelling a domain, designing and modelling a generic solution architecture for a product line within that domain, implementing and using reusable components of that architecture and maintaining and evolving the domain, architecture and implementation models. 3. A reuse-based approach to defining the scope (domain definition), specifying the structure (domain architecture) and building the Assets (requirements, designs, software code, documentation) for a class of systems, subsystems or applications. Domain engineering can include domain definition, domain analysis, developing the domain architecture domain implementation.
  • domenico veneziano — died 1461, Italian painter, noted for the St Lucy Altarpiece
  • double white lines — parallel white lines on a roadway, usually indicating a barrier to crossing
  • down on one's luck — the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities: With my luck I'll probably get pneumonia.
  • dragline excavator — a power shovel that operates by being dragged by cables at the end of an arm or jib: used for quarrying, opencast mining, etc
  • duchenne dystrophy — the most common form of muscular dystrophy, usually affecting only boys
  • each and every one — all
  • earned run average — a measure of the effectiveness of a pitcher, obtained by dividing the number of earned runs scored against the pitcher by the number of innings pitched and multiplying the result by nine. A pitcher yielding three earned runs in nine innings has an earned run average of 3.00. Abbreviation: ERA, era.
  • electroluminescent — Having the quality of electroluminescence.
  • elizabethan sonnet — Shakespearean sonnet
  • embryonic membrane — any of several living membranes enclosing or closely associated with the developing vertebrate embryo, as the allantois, amnion, yolk sac, etc.
  • energy consumption — amount of energy used
  • entrepreneurialism — The spirit or state of acting in an entrepreneurial manner.
  • equine herpesvirus — a viral disease of horses that may cause respiratory signs, abortion, neonatal death, and paresis. A vaccine is available against this disease
  • expressionlessness — The state of being without an expression.
  • extemporaneousness — The degree or property of being extemporaneous.
  • eyewitness account — a description given by someone who was present at an event
  • fabric conditioner — a product used when washing clothes to make them feel softer
  • fall on one's feet — a plural of foot.
  • fatty degeneration — deterioration of the cells of the body, accompanied by the formation of fat globules within the diseased cells.
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