19-letter words containing a, t, e, m, p, o
- complimentary close — the part of a letter that by convention immediately precedes the signature, as “Very truly yours,” “Cordially,” or “Sincerely yours.”.
- comptroller general — the director of the General Accounting Office
- computed tomography — computerized axial tomography. Abbreviation: CT.
- computer dictionary — Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
- computer peripheral — a device that is attached to and controlled by a computer, such as a scanner, printer, or external hard drive
- computer programmer — a person whose job is to write computer programs
- computer simulation — an event, process, or scenario that is created on a computer
- contemplative order — a religious order whose members are devoted to prayer rather than works.
- contemporaneousness — The state or characteristic of being contemporaneous.
- contract programmer — (job, programming) A programmer who works on a fixed-length or temporary contract, and is often employed to write certain types of code or to work on a specific project. Despite the fact that contractors usually cost more than hiring a permanent employee with the same skills, it is common for organisations to employ them for extended periods, sometimes renewing their contracts for many years, due to lack of certainty about the future or simple lack of planning. A contract programmer may be independent or they may work in a supplier's professional services department, providing consultancy and programming services for the supplier's products.
- corporal punishment — Corporal punishment is the punishment of people by hitting them.
- counter-programming — to schedule (a broadcast on radio or television) to compete with one on another station.
- cuboidal epithelium — epithelium consisting of one or more layers of cells of cuboid or polyhedral shape.
- de-compartmentalize — to divide into categories or compartments.
- deflate compression — deflate
- department of labor — the department of the U.S. federal government that promotes and improves the welfare, opportunities, and working conditions of wage earners. Abbreviation: DOL.
- department of state — the department of the U.S. federal government that sets forth and maintains the foreign policy of the U.S., especially in negotiations with foreign governments and international organizations. Abbreviation: DOS.
- departmentalisation — Alternative spelling of departmentalization.
- departmentalization — to divide into departments.
- development company — a company that buys land and builds houses, offices, shops, or factories on it, or buys existing buildings and makes them more modern
- disambiguation page — a page on a website that lists various websites or web pages that have or could have the same title. The user is able to select from the list that page, site etc that he or she actually wants
- ecatepec de morelos — a city in S central Mexico, a suburb of Mexico City: on a 12th-century Aztec site.
- electron micrograph — a photograph or image of a specimen taken using an electron microscope
- employment tribunal — (in England, Scotland, and Wales) a tribunal that rules on disputes between employers and employees regarding unfair dismissal, redundancy, etc
- entitlement program — a government program providing defined sectors of the population with social benefits
- european parliament — law: assembly in Strasbourg
- exophthalmic goiter — a disease of unknown cause characterized by enlargement of the thyroid gland, overproduction of the thyroid hormone, and abnormal protrusion of the eyeballs
- exophthalmic goitre — a form of hyperthyroidism characterized by enlargement of the thyroid gland, protrusion of the eyeballs, increased basal metabolic rate, and weight loss
- extreme programming — a discipline of software engineering following a specific structure, designed to simplify and speed up the development process
- facultative apomict — a plant that can reproduce sexually or asexually.
- family practitioner — medical specialization in general practice, requiring training beyond that of general practice and leading to board certification.
- farmers cooperative — an organization of farmers for marketing their products or buying supplies.
- female impersonator — a male performer who dresses as and impersonates women.
- fractal compression — (algorithm) A technique for encoding images using fractals.
- freezer compartment — in a refrigerator, an enclosed area kept at a temperature low enough to store frozen foods or freeze non-frozen foods
- genetic programming — (programming) (GP) A programming technique which extends the genetic algorithm to the domain of whole computer programs. In GP, populations of programs are genetically bred to solve problems. Genetic programming can solve problems of system identification, classification, control, robotics, optimisation, game playing, and pattern recognition. Starting with a primordial ooze of hundreds or thousands of randomly created programs composed of functions and terminals appropriate to the problem, the population is progressively evolved over a series of generations by applying the operations of Darwinian fitness proportionate reproduction and crossover (sexual recombination).
- gentleman-pensioner — (formerly) a gentleman-at-arms.
- go jump in the lake — a body of fresh or salt water of considerable size, surrounded by land.
- go on a/the rampage — If people go on a rampage, they rush around in a wild or violent way, causing damage or destruction.
- grosse pointe farms — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- hamiltonian problem — (computability) (Or "Hamilton's problem") A problem in graph theory posed by William Hamilton: given a graph, is there a path through the graph which visits each vertex precisely once (a "Hamiltonian path")? Is there a Hamiltonian path which ends up where it started (a "Hamiltonian cycle" or "Hamiltonian tour")? Hamilton's problem is NP-complete. It has numerous applications, sometimes completely unexpected, in computing.
- have a problem with — to be unable to understand or do
- hepatoportal system — a vascular arrangement in vertebrates through which blood is transported into the liver from capillaries of the stomach, spleen, duodenum, pancreas, and intestines.
- hop, step, and jump — triple jump.
- hydropneumatization — utilization of air pressure in the housing of a water turbine to keep the level of water that has been used from rising to interfere with the rotor blades.
- hypercholesteraemia — (medicine) An abnormally high level of cholesterol in the blood.
- hyperparathyroidism — overactivity of the parathyroid gland, characterized by softening of the bones, with consequent pain, tenderness, and a tendency to spontaneous fractures, and by muscular weakness and abdominal cramps.
- hypocholesterolemia — an abnormally low amount of cholesterol in the blood.
- hypolipoproteinemia — An abnormally low level of lipoprotein in the blood.
- hysterosalpingogram — An X-ray image taken during hysterosalpingography.