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16-letter words containing tr

  • bermuda triangle — an area in the Atlantic Ocean bounded by Bermuda, Puerto Rico, and Florida where ships and aeroplanes are alleged to have disappeared mysteriously
  • bertrand russell — (person)   (1872-1970) A British mathematician, the discoverer of Russell's paradox.
  • beta abstraction — [lambda-calculus] The conversion of an expression to an application of a lambda abstraction to an argument expression. Some subterm of the original expression becomes the argument of the abstraction and the rest becomes its body. E.g. 4+1 --> (\ x . x+1) 4 The opposite of beta abstraction is beta reduction. These are the two kinds of beta conversion.
  • bimetallic strip — a strip consisting of two metals of different coefficients of expansion welded together so that it buckles on heating: used in thermostats, etc
  • biometric device — biometrics
  • black-light trap — a trap for insects that uses ultraviolet light as an attractant.
  • block-structured — (language)   Any programming language in which sections of source code contained within pairs of matching delimiters such as "" and "" (e.g. in C) or "begin" and "end" (e.g. Algol) are executed as a single unit. A block of code may be the body of a subroutine or function, or it may be controlled by conditional execution (if statement) or repeated execution (while statement, for statement, etc.). In all but the most primitive block structured languages a variable's scope can be limited to the block in which it is declared. Block-structured languages support structured programming where each block can be written without detailed knowledge of the inner workings of other blocks, thus allowing a top-down design approach. See also abstract data type, module.
  • blunt instrument — something such as a hammer, used as a weapon
  • bootstrap loader — (operating system)   A short program loaded from non-volatile storage and used to bootstrap a computer. On early computers great efforts were expended on making the bootstrap loader short, in order to make it easy to toggle in via the front panel switches. It was just clever enough to read in a slightly more complex program (usually from punched cards or paper tape), to which it handed control. This program in turn read the application or operating system from a magnetic tape drive or disk drive. Thus, in successive steps, the computer "pulled itself up by its bootstraps" to a useful operating state. Nowadays the bootstrap loader is usually found in ROM or EPROM, and reads the first stage in from a fixed location on the disk, called the "boot block". When this program gains control, it is powerful enough to load the actual OS and hand control over to it. A diskless workstation can use bootp to load its OS from the network.
  • bootstrap memory — memory that allows new programs to be entered because some simple preliminary instructions or information are already built in.
  • brass instrument — a musical wind instrument of brass or other metal with a cup-shaped mouthpiece, as the trombone, tuba, French horn, trumpet, or cornet.
  • burgundy trefoil — alfalfa.
  • butterfly stroke — a swimming stroke in which the arms are plunged forward together in large circular movements
  • cabbage-tree hat — a broad-brimmed hat made from cabbage-tree leaves.
  • calorimetrically — In a calorimetric manner.
  • careers mistress — a female teacher who gives pupils advice and information about careers
  • cartridge player — an audio or video system that reads cartridges of magnetic tape
  • cash transaction — a piece of business, for example an act of buying or selling something
  • cassia-bark tree — a lauraceous tree, Cinnamomum cassia, of eastern Asia.
  • catastrophically — of the nature of a catastrophe, or disastrous event; calamitous: a catastrophic failure of the dam.
  • central american — of or relating to Central America or its inhabitants
  • central cylinder — stele (def 4).
  • central european — involving or denoting the people, countries, cultures, or languages of Central Europe
  • central tendency — the tendency of the values of a random variable to cluster around the mean, median, and mode
  • centrally heated — A centrally heated building or room has central heating.
  • centrifugal pump — a pump having a high-speed rotating impeller whose blades throw the water outwards
  • chamber of trade — a national organization representing local chambers of commerce
  • character string — a series of characters that can be manipulated as a group, but do not necessarily represent anything
  • charitable trust — a trust set up for the benefit of a charity that complies with the regulations of the Charity Commissioners to enable it to be exempt from paying income tax
  • chemoautotrophic — producing organic matter by the use of energy obtained by oxidation of certain chemicals with carbon dioxide as the carbon source
  • chemoheterotroph — an organism that obtains its energy from the oxidation of organic compounds
  • chemolithotrophs — Plural form of chemolithotroph.
  • child psychiatry — the branch of psychiatry specializing in the treatment of children.
  • chymotrypsinogen — the inactive precursor of chymotrypsin
  • chytridiomycosis — An infectious disease of amphibians caused by the chytrid fungus.
  • circuit training — Circuit training is a type of physical training in which you do a series of different exercises, each for a few minutes.
  • citronella grass — a tropical Asian grass, Cymbopogon (or Andropogon) nardus, with bluish-green lemon-scented leaves
  • civil air patrol — a voluntary organization performing emergency services, as assisting the U.S. Air Force on search missions, and offering aerospace-education and youth programs: founded 1941. Abbreviation: CAP.
  • coadministration — Joint administration.
  • coherent control — the use of nonrandom radiation, especially a laser beam, to change an atomic, electronic, or molecular system's behavior.
  • colorimetrically — (analytical chemistry) By means of colorimetry or by using a colorimeter.
  • column extractor — A column extractor is a tall vessel in which one liquid removes something from another liquid using physical contact.
  • common partridge — a small Old World gallinaceous game bird, Perdix perdix
  • community centre — A community centre is a place that is specially provided for the people, groups, and organizations in a particular area, where they can go in order to meet one another and do things.
  • confidence trick — A confidence trick is a trick in which someone deceives you by telling you something that is not true, often to trick you out of money.
  • constructability — Alternative form of constructibility.
  • constructed type — (types)   A type formed by applying some type constructor function to one or more other types. The usual constructions are functions: t1 -> t2, products: (t1, t2), sums: t1 + t2 and lifting: lift(t1). (In LaTeX, the lifted type is written with a subscript \perp). See also algebraic data type, primitive type.
  • constructibility — The condition of being constructible.
  • constructionally — In a constructional manner.
  • constructionists — Plural form of constructionist.
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