20-letter words that end in se
- a lick and a promise — something hastily done, esp a hurried wash
- acetylcholinesterase — an enzyme in nerve cells that is responsible for the destruction of acetylcholine and thus for switching off excitation of the nerve
- adams-stokes disease — unconsciousness accompanying atrioventricular heart block, sometimes characterized by weakness, irregular pulse, and intermittent convulsive or nonconvulsive seizures.
- alkaline phosphatase — a phosphatase active in an alkaline medium.
- at someone's expense — If you do something at someone's expense, they provide the money for it.
- back the wrong horse — to bet on a horse that loses the race
- balanced three-phase — A balanced three-phase voltage or current is one in which the size of each phase is the same, and the phase angles of the three phases differ from each other by 120 degrees.
- be on someone's case — an instance of the occurrence, existence, etc., of something: Sailing in such a storm was a case of poor judgment.
- bring down the house — to receive enthusiastic applause from the audience
- brittle bone disease — bone disorder
- common lodging house — a cheap lodging house
- conditioned response — a response that is transferred from the second to the first of a pair of stimuli. A well-known Pavlovian example is salivation by a dog when it hears a bell ring, because food has always been presented when the bell has been rung previously
- cook someone's goose — If you cook someone's goose, you prevent their plans from succeeding.
- depreciation expense — A depreciation expense is the amount deducted from gross profit to allow for a reduction in the value of something because of its age or how much it has been used.
- diamond skin disease — a form of swine erysipelas in which diamond-shaped skin inflammations appear, often accompanied by swollen joints.
- distress merchandise — goods sold below the prevailing price in order to raise cash quickly or to meet some other financial emergency.
- distributed database — A collection of several different databases that looks like a single database to the user. An example is the Internet Domain Name System (DNS).
- diverticular disease — any disease of the colon involving the presence of diverticula
- for better for worse — whatever the subsequent events or changes may be
- go from bad to worse — worsen
- green monkey disease — Marburg disease.
- holder in due course — a person who has received a negotiable instrument in good faith and without notice that it is overdue, that there is any prior claim, or that there is a defect in the title of the person who negotiated it.
- huntington's disease — a hereditary disease of the central nervous system characterized by brain deterioration and loss of control over voluntary movements, the symptoms usually appearing in the fourth decade of life.
- 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.
- 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.
- intravenous drug use — the injection of drugs intravenously
- john o'groat's house — the northern tip of Scotland, near Duncansby Head, NE Caithness, traditionally thought of as the northernmost point of Britain: from Land's End to John o'Groat's House.
- keyboard video mouse — (hardware) (KVM) Used to describe a "KVM switch" that allows one keyboard, one video display and one mouse to be switched between two or more computers.
- lou gehrig's disease — amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
- loyal order of moose — See under moose (def 2).
- motor neuron disease — Motor neuron disease is a disease which destroys the part of a person's nervous system that controls movement.
- niemann-pick disease — a rare, hereditary lipid-storage disease, occurring primarily among Ashkenazic Jews, in which abnormal lipid metabolism results in enlargement of the liver, spleen, and lymph nodes, and in progressive mental and physical deterioration.
- occupation franchise — the right of a tenant to vote in national and local elections
- occupational disease — Also called industrial disease. a disease caused by the conditions or hazards of a particular occupation.
- on course/off course — If a ship or aircraft is on course, it is travelling along the correct route. If it is off course, it is no longer travelling along the correct route.
- operational database — (database) A database containing up-to-date, modifiable data, in contrast to a decision support database.
- organization expense — the costs associated with organizing a business entity and bringing it into existence
- oscillating universe — a variant model of the closed universe in which the universe undergoes cycles of expansion and contraction.
- owner-occupied house — a house that is owned by the person who lives in it
- pay through the nose — the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
- prepositional phrase — a phrase consisting of a preposition, its object, which is usually a noun or a pronoun, and any modifiers of the object, as in the gray desk I use.
- quaker meeting house — a place where Quakers gather for worship
- spirit of enterprise — the motivation to set up and succeed in business or commerce
- state enrolled nurse — a nurse with training and examinations enabling him or her to perform many nursing services
- stokes-adams disease — unconsciousness accompanying atrioventricular heart block, sometimes characterized by weakness, irregular pulse, and intermittent convulsive or nonconvulsive seizures.
- to flog a dead horse — If you say that someone is flogging a dead horse, you mean that they are trying to achieve something impossible.
- woolsorters' disease — pulmonary anthrax in humans, caused by inhaling the spores of Bacillus anthracis, which may contaminate wool fleece.
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