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25-letter words containing a, b, s, e, n

  • abstract machine notation — (language)   (AMN) A language for specifying abstract machines in the B-Method, based on the mathematical theory of Generalised Substitutions.
  • antidisestablishmentarian — a person who advocates antidisestablishmentarianism.
  • antiestablishmentarianism — a policy or attitude that views a nation's power structure as corrupt, repressive, exploitive, etc.
  • aristophanes of byzantium — 257?–180? b.c, Greek scholar; librarian at Alexandria, Egypt.
  • assembly of first nations — the national organization which represents the First Nations in Canada
  • at the back of one's mind — not in one's conscious thoughts
  • australian rules football — a variation of rugby played almost exclusively in Australia, engaging two teams of eighteen players each on an oval-shaped field about 180 yards (165 meters) long with four upright posts at each end, the object being to kick a rugby ball between these posts.
  • banded florida tree snail — a tree-dwelling snail, Liguus fasciatus, of Florida and nearby keys, having a long, conical shell in many color variations: now greatly reduced in numbers.
  • barbed wire entanglements — obstructions consisting of entangled barbed wires that hinder attacking troops
  • be perturbed at something — to be alarmed at something
  • beard the lion in his den — to approach a feared or influential person, esp in order to ask a favour
  • beat someone's brains out — to kill by knocking severely about the head
  • bernardin de saint-pierre — Jacques Henˈri (ʒɑkɑ̃ˈʀi) ; zhäkänrēˈ) 1737-1814; Fr. writer
  • blow someone's brains out — To blow someone's brains out means to shoot them in the head, killing them.
  • bring pressure to bear on — If you bring pressure or influence to bear on someone, you use it to try and persuade them to do something.
  • by general/common consent — You can use by general consent or by common consent to indicate that most people agree that something is true.
  • by the seat of your pants — If you fly by the seat of your pants or do something by the seat of your pants, you use your instincts to tell you what to do in a new or difficult situation rather than following a plan or relying on equipment.
  • care of sb, in care of sb — If someone sends you a letter or parcel care of a particular person or place, they send it to that person or place, and it is then passed on to you. In American English, you can also say in care of.
  • computer-aided publishing — desktop publishing. Abbreviation: CAP.
  • decision support database — A database from which data is extracted and analysed statistically (but not modified) in order to inform business or other decisions. This is in contrast to an operational database which is being continuously updated. For example, a decision support database might provide data to determine the average salary of different types of workers, whereas an operational database containing the same data would be used to calculate pay check amounts. Often, decision support data is extracted from operation databases.
  • develop-mentally disabled — a disability, as mental retardation or cerebral palsy, that begins at an early age and continues indefinitely, leading to substantial handicap.
  • díaz del castillo, bernal — (bɛʀˈnɑl) ; bernälˈ) 1492?-1581?; Sp. historian & soldier with Cortés
  • edward trowbridge collinsEdward Trowbridge ("Eddie") 1887–1951, U.S. baseball player.
  • extended backus-naur form — (language)   Any variation on the basic Backus-Naur Form (BNF) meta-syntax notation with (some of) the following additional constructs: square brackets "[..]" surrounding optional items, suffix "*" for Kleene closure (a sequence of zero or more of an item), suffix "+" for one or more of an item, curly brackets enclosing a list of alternatives, and super/subscripts indicating between n and m occurrences. All these constructs can be expressed in plain BNF using extra productions and have been added for readability and succinctness.
  • federal bureau of prisons — the agency of the US Department of Justice responsible for the administration of prisons
  • flexible spending account — an account to which an employee contributes a portion of earnings to pay for certain expenses such as medical and dependent care: contributions are exempt from payroll taxes. Abbreviation: FSA.
  • give someone the dingbats — to make someone nervous
  • global positioning system — GPS (def 1).
  • guantánamo bay naval base — a US naval base on Guantánamo Bay; since 2002, a detainment camp for suspected al-Qaeda and Taliban operatives
  • hailsham of st marylebone — Baron, title of Quintin (McGarel) Hogg (ˈkwɪntɪn). 1907–2001, British Conservative politician; Lord Chancellor (1970–74; 1979–87). He renounced his viscountcy in 1963 when he made an unsuccessful bid for the Conservative Party leadership; he became a life peer in 1970
  • hand sth to sb on a plate — If you say that someone has things handed to them on a plate, you disapprove of them because they get good things easily.
  • have bats in one's belfry — any of numerous flying mammals of the order Chiroptera, of worldwide distribution in tropical and temperate regions, having modified forelimbs that serve as wings and are covered with a membranous skin extending to the hind limbs.
  • have one's wits about one — the keen perception and cleverly apt expression of those connections between ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure. Synonyms: drollery, facetiousness, waggishness, repartee.
  • hoist by one's own petard — an explosive device formerly used in warfare to blow in a door or gate, form a breach in a wall, etc.
  • house of the seven gables — a novel (1851) by Hawthorne.
  • human embryonic stem cell — a stem cell obtained from the blastocyst of a human embryo
  • in the foreseeable future — If you say that something will happen in the foreseeable future you mean that you think it will happen fairly soon.
  • industrial injury benefit — money paid to an employee who has been injured or who has developed a disease because of their job, and who is consequently unable to work
  • industrial rehabilitation — the treatment of people who have acquired a disability or disease during the course of their work, with the aim of allowing them to return to work or to a new job
  • industrial robot language — (language, robotics)   (IRL) A high-level language for programming industrial robots.
  • intermediate vector boson — one of the three particles that are believed to transmit the weak force: the positively charged W particle, the negatively charged W particle, and the neutral Z 0 particle.
  • keep one's wits about one — the keen perception and cleverly apt expression of those connections between ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure. Synonyms: drollery, facetiousness, waggishness, repartee.
  • leaf distribution limited — A UK connectivity software supplier which also provides SERVELAN, a country-wide Internet access service. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Address: 7 Elmwood, Chineham Business Park, Crockford Lane, BASINGSTOKE RG24 0WG. Telephone: +44 (1256) 707 777. Fax: +44 (1256) 707 555.
  • maintenance of membership — an arrangement or agreement between an employer and a labor union by which employees who are members of the union at the time the agreement is made, or who subsequently join, must either remain members until the agreement expires, or be discharged.
  • make one's blood run cold — the fluid that circulates in the principal vascular system of human beings and other vertebrates, in humans consisting of plasma in which the red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets are suspended.
  • massachusetts bay company — a company, chartered in England in 1629 to establish a colony on Massachusetts Bay, that founded Boston in 1630.
  • multi-scene control board — preset board.
  • national enterprise board — a public corporation established in 1975 to help the economy of the UK. In 1981 it merged with the National Research and Development Council to form the British Technology Group
  • national insurance number — a number allocated to UK citizens so that they can pay national insurance
  • never do things by halves — If you say that someone never does things by halves, you mean that they always do things very thoroughly.

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