18-letter words that end in t
- electron transport — the metabolic process in mitochondria or chloroplasts, in which electrons are transferred in stages from energy-rich compounds to molecular oxygen with liberation of energy
- electronic receipt — An electronic receipt is one created in a computerized cash register, or by an online retailer. It will usually show the date and time, how payment is made, and other details of the sale.
- electrostatic unit — any unit that belongs to a system of electrical cgs units in which the electric constant is given the value of unity and is taken as a pure number
- elementary student — primary school pupil
- elizabethan sonnet — Shakespearean sonnet
- equivalent circuit — an arrangement of simple electrical components that is electrically equivalent to a complex circuit and is used to simplify circuit analysis
- ethical investment — an investment in a company whose activities or products are not considered by the investor to be unethical
- ethnomethodologist — A person engaged in ethnomethodology.
- euglenoid movement — the expansion and contraction of the cell body of various flagellates
- examination script — a script with answers written on it by an examination candidate taking a written examination
- 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.
- exercise equipment — equipment that can be used for exercising, such as tread mills, rowing machines, etc
- eyewitness account — a description given by someone who was present at an event
- fall on one's feet — a plural of foot.
- false imprisonment — the unlawful restraint of a person from exercising the right to freedom of movement.
- family-size packet — a packet large enough to be suitable for a family
- feather one's nest — one of the horny structures forming the principal covering of birds, consisting typically of a hard, tubular portion attached to the body and tapering into a thinner, stemlike portion bearing a series of slender, barbed processes that interlock to form a flat structure on each side.
- federal government — pertaining to or of the nature of a union of states under a central government distinct from the individual governments of the separate states, as in federal government; federal system.
- fermat's last post — (humour) A post to a bug tracker, mailing list or forum in which the author claims to have found a simple fix or workaround for a bug, but never says what it is and never shows up again to explain it (even after others have been puzzling over the bug for years).
- first and foremost — primarily
- first things first — You say 'first things first' when you are talking about something that should be done or dealt with before anything else because it is the most important.
- first-in first-out — (algorithm) (FIFO, or "queue") A data structure or hardware buffer from which items are taken out in the same order they were put in. Also known as a "shelf" from the analogy with pushing items onto one end of a shelf so that they fall off the other. A FIFO is useful for buffering a stream of data between a sender and receiver which are not synchronised - i.e. not sending and receiving at exactly the same rate. Obviously if the rates differ by too much in one direction for too long then the FIFO will become either full (blocking the sender) or empty (blocking the receiver). A Unix pipe is a common example of a FIFO. A FIFO might be (but isn't ever?) called a LILO - last-in last-out. The opposite of a FIFO is a LIFO (last-in first-out) or "stack".
- flower arrangement — floral display
- fob shipping point — FOB shipping point is a shipping term indicating that ownership of goods passes when they are transferred to the carrier.
- for the hell of it — the place or state of punishment of the wicked after death; the abode of evil and condemned spirits; Gehenna or Tartarus.
- forced development — the processing of underexposed photographic film to increase the image density
- foreign investment — investment from foreign countries
- forensic scientist — science expert: provides evidence
- forgive and forget — be reconciled
- foundation garment — an undergarment, as a girdle or corset, worn by women to support or give shape to the contours of the body.
- fourth commandment — “Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy”: fourth of the Ten Commandments.
- from first to last — all the way through
- gainful employment — an occupation that pays an income
- gastroenterologist — the study of the structure, functions, and diseases of digestive organs.
- get one's feet wet — to begin to participate in something
- get someone's goat — to cause annoyance to someone
- gladden sb's heart — If you say that something gladdens someone's heart, you mean that it makes them feel pleased and hopeful.
- go back to the mat — to abandon urban civilization
- government deficit — A government deficit is a situation in which a government spends more money than it has.
- gravity escapement — an escapement, used especially in large outdoor clocks, in which the impulse is given to the pendulum by means of a weight falling through a certain distance.
- great sandy desert — a desert in NW Australia. About 300 miles (485 km) long; 500 miles (800 km) wide; about 160,000 sq. mi. (414,400 sq. km).
- gulf saint vincent — a shallow inlet of SE South Australia, to the east of the Yorke Peninsula: salt industry
- have a thing about — If you have a thing about someone or something, you have very strong feelings about them.
- have by the throat — to have compete control over (a person or thing)
- have two left feet — to be very clumsy
- hearing impairment — partial deafness
- heavy middleweight — a professional wrestler weighing 177–187 pounds (81–85 kg)
- high speed connect — (hardware) (HSC) A Hewlett-Packard bus like EISA.
- historical present — the present tense used in narrating a past event as if happening at the time of narration.
- home entertainment — the aggregate of appliances, as stero systems, television, videocassette recorders, or computers, used for diversion in the home.