19-letter words containing ll
- coherent parallel c — (language) A data parallel version of C.
- collect on delivery — payment in cash when a purchase or shipment is delivered
- collective behavior — the spontaneous, unstructured, and temporary behavior of a group of people in response to the same event, situation, etc.
- collective security — a system of maintaining world peace and security by concerted action on the part of the nations of the world
- collector electrode — See under Klystron.
- college-preparatory — preparing a student for academic work at the college level.
- collision detection — (networking) A class of methods for sharing a data transmission medium in which hosts transmit as soon as they have data to send and then check to see whether their transmission has suffered a collision with another host's. If a collision is detected then the data must be resent. The resending algorithm should try to minimise the chance that two hosts's data will repeatedly collide. For example, the CSMA/CD protocol used on Ethernet specifies that they should then wait for a random time before re-transmitting. See also backoff. This contrasts with slotted protocols and token passing.
- collision insurance — insurance protecting an automobile owner against loss or damage to the automobile resulting from a collision or other accident.
- commercially-minded — knowledgeable about business; interested in making money
- comptroller general — the director of the General Accounting Office
- computer-controlled — controlled by computers, esp without direct human intervention
- conceptualistically — In a conceptualistic sense.
- concurrentsmalltalk — (language) A concurrent variant of Smalltalk.
- cordillera oriental — the eastern ranges of the Andes, in Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru.
- counterintelligence — Counterintelligence consists of actions that a country takes in order to find out whether another country is spying on it and to prevent it from doing so.
- countersurveillance — The art of evading surveillance.
- crystallized fruits — fruits that are covered in sugar which is melted and then allowed to harden
- crystallized ginger — sugar-coated ginger
- culler-fried system — A system for interactive mathematics.
- depletion allowance — a tax allowance granted in certain industries, such as the oil and gas industries, to compensate for the depletion of the oil, gas, etc owned by the company
- distillation column — a type of still fitted with interior baffles, used for fractional distillation. Compare still2 (def 1).
- do well for oneself — to thrive or succeed
- dollard-des-ormeaux — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada: suburb of Montreal.
- double yellow lines — parallel yellow lines painted down the centre of a roadway to indicate that overtaking is not permitted in either direction
- drill-down analysis — drill down
- dynatron oscillator — type of oscillator
- electromagnetically — By means of electromagnetism.
- electromechanically — In an electromechanical way.
- electrophoretically — By means of electrophoresis.
- elevator controller — An archetypal dumb embedded-systems application, like toaster (which superseded it). During one period (1983--84) in the deliberations of ANSI X3J11 (the C standardisation committee) this was the canonical example of a really stupid, memory-limited computation environment. "You can't require "printf(3)" to be part of the default run-time library - what if you're targeting an elevator controller?" Elevator controllers became important rhetorical weapons on both sides of several holy wars.
- exhibitionistically — In an exhibitionistic manner.
- expressionistically — In an expressionistic manner.
- fall by the wayside — to cease or fail to continue doing something
- fall in love (with) — to begin to feel love (for)
- fallacy of division — the fallacy of inferring that a property of the whole is also a property of parts or members of the whole (opposed to fallacy of composition).
- fellow countrywoman — a fellow countrywoman is a female citizen of the same state as the person speaking, writing, or being referred to
- fellow-servant rule — the common-law rule that the employer is not liable to an employee for injuries resulting from the negligence of a fellow employee.
- flexible kelly hose — A flexible kelly hose is a hose which carries mud to the kelly.
- follow-up interview — a second interview following an initial interview
- for all it is worth — If someone does something for all it is worth, they do it as much as possible and for as long as they can get benefit from it.
- for all sb is worth — If you do something for all you are worth, you do it with a lot of energy and enthusiasm.
- frederick william i — 1688–1740, king of Prussia 1713–40.
- frill-necked lizard — a large arboreal insectivorous Australian lizard, Chlamydosaurus kingi, having an erectile fold of skin around the neck: family Agamidae (agamas)
- from pillar to post — an upright shaft or structure, of stone, brick, or other material, relatively slender in proportion to its height, and of any shape in section, used as a building support, or standing alone, as for a monument: Gothic pillars; a pillar to commemorate Columbus.
- full-wave rectifier — a rectifier that transmits both halves of a cycle of alternating current as a direct current.
- gallipoli peninsula — peninsula in S European Turkey, forming the NW shore of the Dardanelles: c. 55 mi (89 km) long
- genetic counselling — the provision of advice for couples with a history of inherited disorders who wish to have children, including the likelihood of having affected children and the course and management of the disorder, etc
- geocentric parallax — the apparent displacement of an observed object due to a change in the position of the observer.
- germander speedwell — a speedwell, Veronica chamaedrys, having blue flowers.
- give sb the willies — If someone or something gives you the willies, they make you feel nervous or frightened.