19-letter words containing tor
- a storm in a teacup — If you describe a situation as a storm in a teacup, you think that a lot of fuss is being made about something that is not important.
- absolutory sentence — a sentence that acquits the accused
- accredited investor — An accredited investor is an organization or a wealthy individual that is considered to be financially knowledgeable, and can buy securities that are not registered with the SEC.
- alternative history — a genre of fiction in which the author speculates on how the course of history might have been altered if a particular historical event had had a different outcome
- anticipatory breach — a declaration by one party to a contract that it does not intend to fulfil its obligations to the second party, who can then accept this declaration and choose not to be bound by the contract
- arecibo observatory — an observatory in Puerto Rico at which the world's largest dish radio telescope (diameter 305 m) is situated. It is operated by the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center
- aromatase inhibitor — any of a class of drugs that inhibit the action of aromatase: used in the treatment of breast and ovarian cancer
- associative storage — a storage device in which the information is identified by content rather than by an address
- beginning inventory — A beginning inventory is all of the goods, services, or materials that a business has available for use or sale at the start of a new accounting period.
- building contractor — an individual or company that contracts for the construction of houses, etc
- carnot refrigerator — a device operating on the Carnot cycle in which the first temperature is higher than the second.
- caterpillar tractor — a tractor powered by a Caterpillar track
- character generator — a device used in television studios to incorporate text or other symbols into the television screen image.
- claims investigator — A claims investigator is a person who is employed by an insurance company to obtain information necessary to evaluate a claim.
- cock and bull story — an absurd, improbable story presented as the truth: Don't ask him about his ancestry unless you want to hear a cock-and-bull story.
- cock-and-bull story — If you describe something that someone tells you as a cock-and-bull story, you mean that you do not believe it is true.
- collector electrode — See under Klystron.
- college-preparatory — preparing a student for academic work at the college level.
- common de-nominator — Mathematics. a number that is a multiple of all the denominators of a set of fractions.
- contributing factor — something that is partly responsible for a development or phenomenon
- counterdemonstrator — Someone who demonstrates in opposition to another demonstration that is happening nearby at the same time.
- detective inspector — a police officer who investigates crime and who ranks above a detective sergeant but below a detective chief inspector
- direction indicator — aerial used in wireless communication
- director of studies — a member of staff at an educational institution who has responsibility for overseeing the curriculum
- directory enquiries — Directory enquiries is a service which you can telephone to find out someone's telephone number.
- dynatron oscillator — type of oscillator
- elevator controller — An archetypal dumb embedded-systems application, like toaster (which superseded it). During one period (1983--84) in the deliberations of ANSI X3J11 (the C standardisation committee) this was the canonical example of a really stupid, memory-limited computation environment. "You can't require "printf(3)" to be part of the default run-time library - what if you're targeting an elevator controller?" Elevator controllers became important rhetorical weapons on both sides of several holy wars.
- engineering factory — a factory where engineering products are made
- equatorial mounting — an astronomical telescope mounting that allows motion of the telescope about two mutually perpendicular axes, one of which is parallel to the earth's axis
- 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
- extraterritoriality — (legal) immunity from the local laws of a certain area, especially due to diplomatic negotiation.
- fashion coordinator — a person in a department store or other establishment who coordinates activities centered upon or related to fashion, as fashion themes, shows, displays, and promotion.
- female impersonator — a male performer who dresses as and impersonates women.
- fighter-interceptor — a fighter plane used for the defense of a region against air attack, especially by attacking bombers.
- geomagnetic equator — an imaginary line on the earth's surface, the plane of which passes through the center and is midway between the geomagnetic poles.
- harmonic distortion — distortion caused by nonlinear characteristics of electronic apparatus, esp of audio amplifiers, that generate unwanted harmonics of the input frequencies
- heavy-water reactor — a nuclear reactor that uses heavy water as moderator
- henry the navigator — Prince, 1394–1460, prince of Portugal.
- historic episcopate — the derivation of the episcopate of a Church in historic succession from the apostles
- historiographically — In a historiographical manner; by means of a historiography.
- index expurgatorius — a list of books now included in the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, forbidden to be read except from expurgated editions.
- internal translator — (language, mathematics) (IT) An early compiler for mathematics developed by A.J. Perlis et al at Carnegie Tech ca 1957. IT was originally written for the Burroughs 205, then the IBM 650. IT was the forerunner of RUNCIBLE, GATE, CORRELATE and GAT. IT source code was converted to PIT, thence to SPIT. IT-2 produced machine language directly, IT-3 developed at Carnegie added double-precision floating-point.
- ionotropic receptor — a receptor that functions directly by opening ion channels that enable specific ions to stream in an out of the cell
- junction transistor — a bipolar transistor consisting of two p-n junctions combined to form either an n-p-n or a p-n-p transistor, having the three electrodes, the emitter, base, and collector
- language laboratory — a special room or rooms with sound-recording and -reproducing equipment for use by students to practice speaking foreign languages, usually with an instructor monitoring the program.
- lightning conductor — A lightning conductor is a long thin piece of metal on top of a building that attracts lightning and allows it to reach the ground safely.
- mercator projection — a conformal projection on which any rhumb line is represented as a straight line, used chiefly in navigation, though the scale varies with latitude and areal size and the shapes of large areas are greatly distorted.
- motor generator set — A motor generator set is an alternating current motor that is attached to a generator.
- motorway restaurant — a restaurant on a motorway
- mushroom ventilator — a ventilator having at the top of a vertical shaft a broad rounded cap that can be screwed down to close it.
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