20-letter words containing s

i daresay/i dare say — You can use 'I daresay' or 'I dare say' before or after a statement to indicate that you believe it is probably true.
ibm systems engineer — (job) (SE) A software person from IBM.
ideal of pure reason — God, seen as an idea of pure reason unifying the personal soul with the cosmos.
ieee standard 1149.1 — Joint Test Action Group
ignatius (of) loyola — Saint(born Iñigo López de Recalde) (1491-1556); Sp. priest: founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuit order): his day is July 31
ignotum per ignotius — an explanation that is obscurer than the thing to be explained
immunohistochemistry — the application of immunologic techniques to the chemical analysis of cells and tissues.
implicit parallelism — (parallel) A feature of a programming language for a parallel processing system which decides automatically which parts to run in parallel. The best way of providing implicit parallelism is still (1995) an active research topic. The problem is to generate the right number of parallel tasks of the right size (or "granularity"). Too many tasks and the system gets bogged down in house-keeping, or memory for waiting tasks runs out, too few tasks and processors are left idle. The best performance is usually achieved with explicit parallelism where the programmer can annotate his program to indicate which parts should be executed as independent parallel tasks.
in a class by itself — unique
in a state of nature — completely naked
in any shape or form — If you say, for example, that you will not accept something in any shape or form, or in any way, shape or form, you are emphasizing that you will not accept it in any circumstances.
in bad circumstances — (of a person) in a bad financial situation
in case/just in case — If you do something in case or just in case a particular thing happens, you do it because that thing might happen.
in contact (with sb) — If you are in contact with someone, you regularly meet them or communicate with them.
in the circumstances — a condition, detail, part, or attribute, with respect to time, place, manner,agent, etc., that accompanies, determines, or modifies a fact or event; a modifying or influencing factor: Do not judge his behavior without considering every circumstance.
in the driver's seat — If you say that someone is in the driver's seat, you mean that they are in control in a situation.
in the last analysis — after everything has been given due consideration
in the nature of sth — If you say that one thing is in the nature of another, you mean that it is like the other thing.
in-service education — training and education given to employed teachers throughout their career
in/to someone's eyes — You use expressions such as in his eyes or to her eyes to indicate that you are reporting someone's opinion and that other people might think differently.
income tax inspector — a person whose job is to assess individuals' income tax liability
incomprehensibleness — The state of being incomprehensible.
incontrovertibleness — The quality of being incontrovertible.
incremental analysis — (testing) Partial analysis of an incomplete product to allow early feedback on its development.
indicated horsepower — the horsepower of a reciprocating engine as shown by an indicator record. Abbreviation: ihp, IHP.
indistinguishability — The state of being indistinguishable.
inductive statistics — the branch of statistics dealing with conclusions, generalizations, predictions, and estimations based on data from samples.
industrial democracy — control of an organization by the people who work for it, esp by workers holding positions on its board of directors
industrial espionage — the stealing of technological or commercial research data, blueprints, plans, etc., as by a person in the hire of a competing company.
industrial insurance — industrial life insurance.
industrial relations — (used with a plural verb) the dealings or relations of an industrial concern with its employees, with labor in general, with the public, etc.
industrial sociology — the sociological study of social relationships and social structures in business settings.
inelastic scattering — a scattering of particles due to an inelastic collision that also changes their wavelengths and phases.
inertial upper stage — a U.S. two-stage, solid-propellant rocket used to boost a relatively heavy spacecraft from a low earth orbit into a planetary trajectory or an elliptical transfer orbit. Abbreviation: IUS.
infectious hepatitis — hepatitis A.
information builders — Distributors of LEVEL5 OBJECT. Telephone +1 800 969 INFO.
information industry — businesses that involve collecting and using information
inland revenue stamp — a certificate issued by the Inland Revenue to acknowledge payment of tax
innerspring mattress — a mattress with built-in coil springs
insolvency provision — the right of employees of a firm that goes bankrupt or into receivership to receive money owed to them as wages, etc
institutionalisation — The process of embedding something within an organization or society as an established custom or norm.
institutionalization — to make institutional.
instruction mnemonic — (programming) A word or acronym used in assembly language to represent a binary machine instruction operation code. Different processors have different instruction sets and therefore use a different set of mnemonics to represent them. E.g. ADD, B (branch), BLT (branch if less than), SVC, MOVE, LDR (load register).
instruction prefetch — (architecture) A technique which attempts to minimise the time a processor spends waiting for instructions to be fetched from memory. Instructions following the one currently being executed are loaded into a prefetch queue when the processor's external bus is otherwise idle. If the processor executes a branch instruction or receives an interrupt then the queue must be flushed and reloaded from the new address. Instruction prefetch is often combined with pipelining in an attempt to keep the pipeline busy. By 1995 most processors used prefetching, e.g. Motorola 680x0, Intel 80x86.
insulin-coma therapy — a former treatment for mental illness, especially schizophrenia, employing insulin-induced hypoglycemia as a method for producing convulsive seizures.
integration by parts — Mathematics. a method of evaluating an integral by use of the formula, ∫udv = uv − ∫vdu.
integrity constraint — (database) A constraint (rule) that must remain true for a database to preserve data integrity. Integrity constraints are specified at database creation time and enforced by the database management system. Examples from a genealogical database would be that every individual must be their parent's child or that they can have no more than two natural parents.
intelligence service — the government department that is responsible for collecting and analyzing information about enemies
intelligent database — (database) A database management system which performs data validation and processing traditionally done by application programs. Most DBMSs provide some data validation, e.g. rejecting invalid dates or alphabetic data entered into money fields, but often most processing is done by application programs. There is however no limit to the amount of processing that can be done by an intelligent database as long as the process is a standard function for that data. Examples of techniques used to implement intelligent databases are constraints, triggers and stored procedures. Moving processing to the database aids data integrity because it is guaranteed to be consistent across all uses of the data. Mainframe databases have increasingly become more intelligent and personal computer database systems are rapidly following.
intercalary meristem — meristem in the internode of a stem.

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