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21-letter words containing on

  • a foregone conclusion — You can refer to something that seems certain to happen as a foregone conclusion.
  • a piece of the action — If someone wants to have a piece of the action or a slice of the action, they want to take part in an exciting activity or situation, usually in order to make money or become more important.
  • a rap on the knuckles — If someone in authority gives you a rap on the knuckles, they criticize you or blame you for doing something they think is wrong.
  • a run for one's money — a strong challenge or close competition
  • a string to one's bow — If someone has more than one string to their bow, they have more than one ability or thing they can use if the first one they try is not successful.
  • absolutely convergent — of or characterized by absolute convergence.
  • absorption hygrometer — a hygrometer that uses a hygroscopic chemical to absorb atmospheric moisture.
  • accommodation address — an address on letters, etc, to a person or business that does not wish or is not able to receive post at a permanent or actual address
  • accommodation officer — a person employed by an institution or organization, whose job it is to find accommodation for the people who attend that institution, esp for students at a university or college
  • accreditation officer — a person who is responsible for all aspects of the accreditation of an educational institution
  • adversative asyndeton — a staccato effect produced by omitting adversative connectives from between two or more items forming a group, as in “I liked all there was to buy in the store … I didn't get anything.”.
  • adverse drug reaction — An adverse drug reaction is a harmful effect associated with the use of a medication at a normal dosage.
  • affine transformation — (mathematics)   A linear transformation followed by a translation. Given a matrix M and a vector v, A(x) = Mx + v is a typical affine transformation.
  • after one's own heart — appealing to one's own disposition, taste, or tendencies
  • afternoon performance — a performance during the afternoon, rather than the evening
  • algorithm description — (language)   (ALDES) ["The Algorithm Description Language ALDES", R.G.K. Loos, SIGSAM Bull 14(1):15-39 (Jan 1976)].
  • all things considered — You say all things considered to indicate that you are making a judgment after taking all the facts into account.
  • aluminum monostearate — a white, water-insoluble powder, Al(OH) 2 C 18 H 35 O 2 , used as a drier in paints and as a thickener in lubricating oils.
  • america on-line, inc. — (company, communications)   (AOL) A US on-line service provider based in Vienna, Virginia, USA. AOL claims to be the largest and fastest growing provider of on-line services in the world, with the most active subscriber base. AOL offers its three million subscribers electronic mail, interactive newspapers and magazines, conferencing, software libraries, computing support, and on-line classes. In October 1994 AOL made Internet FTP available to its members and in May 1995, full Internet access including web. AOL's main competitors are Prodigy and Compuserve.
  • ammonioferric oxalate — ferric ammonium oxalate.
  • amnesty international — an international organization founded in Britain in 1961 that works to secure the release of people imprisoned for their beliefs, to ban the use of torture, and to abolish the death penalty
  • analects of confucius — Chinese Lun Yü. a compilation of the discourses, maxims, and aphorisms of Confucius, dating from the 4th century b.c.
  • analytic continuation — a method of finding a function that coincides with a given analytic function in a domain and that remains analytic in a larger domain.
  • anders jonas ångström — Anders Jonas [an-derz joh-nuh s;; Swedish ahn-duh rs-yoo-nahs] /ˈæn dərz ˈdʒoʊ nəs;; Swedish ˈɑn dərsˈyu nɑs/ (Show IPA), 1814–74, Swedish astronomer and physicist.
  • angle of polarization — the law that light will receive maximum polarization from a reflecting surface when it is incident to the surface at an angle (angle of polarization or polarizing angle) having a tangent equal to the index of refraction of the surface.
  • angular magnification — the ratio of the angle subtended at the eye by an image formed by an optical instrument to the angle subtended at the unaided eye by the object
  • antarctic convergence — the fairly well-defined boundary that exists between the cold antarctic waters and the warmer waters to the north and can be traced around the world.
  • antimony pentasulfide — a deep-yellow, water-insoluble powder, Sb 2 S 5 , used chiefly as a pigment in oil and water colors.
  • anton van leeuwenhoek — Anton van [ahn-tawn vahn] /ˈɑn tɔn vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1632–1723, Dutch naturalist and microscopist.
  • appellation controlee — a designation on the label of certain French wines, brandies, etc. guaranteeing that the contents meet established standards, as type of grape and location of vineyard
  • appendicular skeleton — the girdles and skeleton of the limbs
  • application developer — (job)   Someone who does application development.
  • application executive — (language)   (AE) An embeddable language, written as a C interpreter by Brian Bliss at UIUC. AE is compiled with an application and thus exists in the same process and address space. It includes a dbx symbol table scanner to access compiled variables and routines, or you can enter them manually by providing a type/name declaration and the address. When the interpreter is invoked, source code fragments are read from the input stream (or a string), parsed, and evaluated immediately. The user can call compiled functions in addition to a few built-in intrinsics, declare new data types and data objects, etc. Different input streams can be evaluated in parallel on Alliant computers. AE has been ported to SunOS (cc or gcc), Alliant FX and Cray YMP (soon).
  • applications language — Ousterhout's dichotomy
  • applications software — application program
  • appropriation account — an account showing how funds have been used
  • as good as one's word — doing what one has undertaken or promised to do
  • assisted reproduction — the use of medical techniques to bring about the conception and birth of a child, including artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization, egg and embryo donation, and drug therapy.
  • astronomical distance — the distance from one celestial body to another, measured in astronomical units, light-years, or parsecs.
  • astronomical latitude — the angle between the direction of gravity at the observer's position and the plane of the celestial equator
  • astronomical triangle — the spherical triangle formed by the great circles connecting a celestial object, the zenith, and the celestial pole.
  • astronomical twilight — the period of time during which the sun is 18° below the horizon
  • atmospheric inversion — inversion (def 12).
  • atmospheric-inversion — an act or instance of inverting.
  • atomic disintegration — a process resulting in the change of a radioactive nucleus, either by emission of an alpha, beta, or gamma ray or by fission, and producing a change in the original mass, atomic number, or energy
  • automatic hyphenation — (text)   A feature of some word processors which can insert hyphens into words which would otherwise extend beyond the right hand margin of the page. More advanced word processors may have options to control the position of the hyphen, to restrict certain words from being hyphenated, and to allow custom dictionaries of hyphenation points to be built up.
  • aversive conditioning — a type of behavior conditioning in which noxious stimuli are associated with undesirable or unwanted behavior that is to be modified or abolished, as the use of nausea-inducing drugs in the treatment of alcoholism.
  • background projection — the projection from the rear of previously photographed material on a translucent screen, used as background for a television or motion-picture shot.
  • bad conduct discharge — a discharge of a person from military service for an offense less serious than one for which a dishonorable discharge is given.
  • barbiturate poisoning — poisoning caused by overdose of a barbiturate

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