18-letter words containing ten
- angiotensinogenase — (enzyme) renin.
- attendance figures — the number of people present at events such as football matches or concerts
- attendance officer — someone whose job is to keep records of students' attendance at school and to encourage students to attend
- attention-grabbing — An attention-grabbing remark or activity is one that is intended to make people notice it.
- bone of contention — If a particular matter or issue is a bone of contention, it is the subject of a disagreement or argument.
- cap of maintenance — a ceremonial cap or hat worn or carried as a symbol of office, rank, etc
- chemical potential — a thermodynamic function of a substance in a system that is the partial differential of the Gibbs function of the system with respect to the number of moles of the substance
- content data model — (standard, documentation, language) (CDM) An SGML-based specification for interactive maintenance manuals, developed by the Air Force Human Resourceas Laboratory (AFHRL) with assistance from RJO Enterprises, Incorporated. CDM models data hierachically and data are identified by their content structure with SGML mark-up used to identify information classes such as "system information", "functions", "tasks" and "steps".
- contents insurance — the insurance for the personal property in a household
- custodial sentence — a sentence given by a court that involves a term of imprisonment
- drug-eluting stent — A drug-eluting stent is a tube placed into a blocked artery that slowly releases a drug to prevent another blockage in the artery.
- electric potential — the work required to transfer a unit positive electric charge from an infinite distance to a given point against an electric field
- erectile impotence — impotence caused by the inability of the penis to become sufficiently firm to penetrate the vagina
- executable content — (operating system) Executable programs sent by one computer to another via a network. For example a Java applet is executable content. Usage: rare.
- filename extension — (filename extension) The portion of a filename, following the final point, which indicates the kind of data stored in the file - the file type. Many operating systems use filename extensions, e.g. Unix, VMS, MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows. They are usually from one to three letters (some sad old OSes support no more than three). Examples include "c" for C source code, "ps" for PostScript, "txt" for arbitrary text. Apart from informing the user what type of content the file holds, filename extensions are typically used to decide which program to launch when a file is "run", e.g. by double-clicking it in a GUI file browser. They are also used by Unix's make to determine how to build one kind of file from another. Compare: MIME type.
- fixed-term tenancy — a tenancy arrangement for a particular and fixed period
- grand penitentiary — See under penitentiary (def 3).
- high-tensile steel — low-alloy steel which can withstand great strain without breaking or becoming deformed, having a yield strength range of 50,000 to 100,000 pounds per square inch
- house of detention — a place maintained by the civil authorities for persons charged with a crime, and sometimes for witnesses, awaiting trial.
- income maintenance — a government program that provides financial assistance to needy people so that they can maintain a certain income level.
- indiscriminateness — The state of being indiscriminate.
- intensional object — the object of a propositional attitude that may or may not exist, as in Robert is dreaming of the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. This must be an intensional (or opaque) context, for otherwise, since there is no pot of gold, Robert would be dreaming of nothing
- intention movement — behavior that is preparatory to another behavior, as a crouch before a leap.
- intermittent fever — a malarial fever in which feverish periods lasting a few hours alternate with periods in which the temperature is normal.
- johannes gutenberg — Johannes [yoh-hahn-uh s] /yoʊˈhɑn əs/ (Show IPA), (Johann Gensfleisch) c1400–68, German printer: credited with invention of printing from movable type.
- lieutenant colonel — a commissioned officer ranking next below a colonel and next above a major.
- lieutenant general — a commissioned officer ranking next below a general and next above a major general.
- luminous intensity — the luminous flux in lumens emitted per unit solid angle by a light source, measured in candles.
- magnetic potential — a scalar quantity, analogous to the electric potential, defined at each point in a given magnetic field to be equal to the work done in bringing a unit north pole from infinity to the point.
- microsoft extended — (computer) (MSX) A Range of computers created in an attempt by the industry to create a standard for home computers, similar to VHS did with home video. The basic MSX machine contained a Z80 CPU working at 3.58MHz. MSX machines were produced by such giants as Sony, Yamaha, Panasonic, Toshiba, Daewoo, and Philips. The MSX standard was designed by a company called ASCII in cooperation with Microsoft who provided a firmware version of its BASIC for the machine. Because this BASIC version was an extended version of MicroSoft Basic, it was called "MicroSoft eXtended BASIC"; Hence "MSX". Microsoft also produced MSX-DOS - a stripped-down version of MS-DOS. Extensions to the MSX included MSX2, MSX2+ and TurboR.
- optical brightener — an additive that dyes and brightens fabric or paper
- persistent cruelty — conduct causing fear of danger to the life or health of a spouse (used in matrimonial proceedings before magistrates)
- potential gradient — the rate of change of potential with respect to distance in the direction of greatest change.
- research-intensive — focusing financial and other resources on research and development as opposed to capital and labor; noting or pertaining to a high ratio of expenditure on research in relation to the value of net output.
- rotational latency — (storage, hardware) The time for the start of the required sector on a disk to appear underneath the read/write head. The worst case is where it has just passed the head when the request is received. For a disk drive with N heads per surface, rotating at R revolutions per minute, the average rotational latency will be L = 30/NR seconds. Rotational latency is one component of access time.
- rotten to the core — person: wicked
- security of tenure — (in Britain) the right of a tenant to continue to occupy a dwelling or site unless the landlord obtains a court order for possession of the property or termination of the tenancy agreement
- sentence connector — a word or phrase that introduces a clause or sentence and serves as a transition between it and a previous clause or sentence, as for example also in I'm buying eggs and also I'm looking for a dessert for tonight. It may be preceded by a coordinating conjunction such as and in the above example
- sentence structure — syntax
- sequence of tenses — the sequence according to which the tense of a subordinate verb in a sentence is determined by the tense of the principal verb, as in I believe he is lying, I believed he was lying, etc
- stand at attention — military: stand straight
- subsistence farmer — a farmer who consumes most of the produce he grows, leaving little or nothing to be marketed
- suspended sentence — law: deferred decision
- tender loving care — considerate and kindly care, as of someone who is ill, upset, etc
- threatened species — a species likely, in the near future, to become an endangered species within all or much of its range.
- tighten one's belt — a band of flexible material, as leather or cord, for encircling the waist.
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