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19-letter words containing t, o, r, m, e, n

  • gastrocolic omentum — the peritoneal fold attached to the stomach and the colon and hanging over the small intestine.
  • general of the army — the highest ranking military officer; the next rank above general.
  • 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).
  • geneva nomenclature — an internationally accepted system for naming organic carbon compounds.
  • gentleman-pensioner — (formerly) a gentleman-at-arms.
  • 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.
  • geothermal gradient — the increase in temperature with increasing depth within the earth.
  • go on a/the rampage — If people go on a rampage, they rush around in a wild or violent way, causing damage or destruction.
  • go under the hammer — to be offered for sale by an auctioneer
  • golden lion tamarin — a monkey, Leontopithecus rosalia rosalia, of tropical rain forests of southeastern Brazil, having a silky golden coat and a long golden mane: threatened with extinction.
  • government monopoly — the exclusive control of the market supply of a product or service by the government
  • government-in-exile — a government temporarily moved to or formed in a foreign land by exiles who hope to establish that government in their native country after its liberation.
  • grandmother's clock — a pendulum clock similar to a grandfather's clock but shorter.
  • great idaean mother — Cybele.
  • green mountain boys — the members of the armed bands of Vermont organized in 1770 to oppose New York's territorial claims. Under Ethan Allen they won fame in the War of American Independence
  • grievance committee — a group of representatives chosen from a labor union or from both labor and management to consider and remedy workers' grievances.
  • 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.
  • handlebar moustache — a man's moustache having long, curved ends that resemble the handlebars of a bicycle.
  • heart in your mouth — If your heart is in your mouth, you feel very excited, worried, or frightened.
  • heine-borel theorem — the theorem that in a metric space every covering consisting of open sets that covers a closed and compact set has a finite collection of subsets that covers the given set.
  • hermitian conjugate — adjoint (def 2).
  • human rights record — the facts that are known about the tendency of a country, regime, etc, to observe and protect human rights
  • 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.
  • hypolipoproteinemia — An abnormally low level of lipoprotein in the blood.
  • hysterosalpingogram — An X-ray image taken during hysterosalpingography.
  • identification mark — barcode or serial number
  • immersion objective — a microscope objective of high resolving power in which the space between the front lens and the cover glass is filled with an oil whose index of refraction is close to that of the objective and the cover glass.
  • immigration officer — official administrating incoming foreigners
  • immunocytochemistry — the detection of chemical components of cells by means of antibodies coupled to substances that can be made visible.
  • immunoprecipitation — the separation of an antigen from a solution by the formation of a large complex with its specific antibody.
  • impressionistically — In an impressionistic manner.
  • in commemoration of — in remembrance of
  • in one's right mind — sane
  • incomplete abortion — a miscarriage in which some fetal or placental tissue remains in the uterus.
  • incomplete fracture — a fracture extending partly across the bone.
  • incomprehensibility — impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
  • incremental plotter — a device that plots graphs on paper from computer-generated instructions
  • indeterminate vowel — schwa.
  • inferiority complex — Psychiatry. intense feeling of inferiority, producing a personality characterized either by extreme reticence or, as a result of overcompensation, by extreme aggressiveness.
  • informal settlement — a squatter camp
  • information algebra — Theoretical formalism for DP, never resulted in a language. Language Structure Group of CODASYL, ca. 1962. Sammet 1969, 709.
  • information content — the amount of information in something
  • information officer — someone whose job is to give information to people
  • information science — the study of the nature, collection, and management of information and of its uses, especially involving computer storage and retrievals.
  • information service — a service which provides information
  • information warfare — the use of electronic communications and the internet to disrupt a country's telecommunications, power supply, transport system, etc
  • inorganic chemistry — the branch of chemistry dealing with inorganic compounds.
  • instrumentalisation — (philosophy) The treatment of an idea as an instrument that functions as a guide to action.
  • instrumentalization — Alternative spelling of instrumentalisation.
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