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28-letter words containing a, b, s, t

  • a shot across someone's bows — a warning
  • a stick to beat someone with — If you say that something is a stick to beat someone with, you mean that it is used, or could be used, as a basis for criticism.
  • absolute index of refraction — a number indicating the speed of light in a given medium as either the ratio of the speed of light in a vacuum to that in the given medium (absolute index of refraction) or the ratio of the speed of light in a specified medium to that in the given medium (relative index of refraction) Symbol: n.
  • against your better judgment — If something is against your better judgment, you believe that it would be more sensible or better not to do it.
  • angiotensin receptor blocker — any of a class of drugs that block the uptake of angiotensin: used in the treatment of high blood pressure
  • antiballistic missile treaty — an agreement between the U.S. and U.S.S.R., signed May 26, 1972, limiting the number of ABM deployment areas, launchers, and interceptors.
  • antidisestablishmentarianism — opposition to the withdrawal of state support or recognition from an established church, especially the Anglican Church in 19th-century England.
  • arms akimbo/with arms akimbo — If you stand arms akimbo or with arms akimbo, you stand with your hands on your hips and your elbows pointing outwards.
  • as happy etc as can/could be — If someone or something is, for example, as happy as can be or as quiet as could be, they are extremely happy or extremely quiet.
  • attribute translation system — (grammar, tool)   (ATS) A BNF-based parser generator from the University of Saskatchewan(?). ATS generates table-driven LL1 parsers with full insert-only error recovery. It also has full left-attribute semantic handling, which is a dream compared to using YACC's parser actions.
  • bath and north east somerset — a unitary authority in SW England, in Somerset; formerly (1974–96) part of the county of Avon. Pop: 170 900 (2003 est). Area: 351 sq km (136 sq miles)
  • be gathered to one's fathers — to die
  • be hard put/pushed to do sth — If someone is hard put to do something or, in British English if they are hard pushed to do something, they have great difficulty doing it.
  • be in awe of/stand in awe of — If you are in awe of someone or if you stand in awe of them, you have a lot of respect for them and are slightly afraid of them.
  • benign prostatic hyperplasia — a benign condition in which the prostate gland becomes enlarged due to an increase in the number of prostatic cells, usually affecting the flow of urine.
  • between scylla and charybdis — in a predicament in which avoidance of either of two dangers means exposure to the other
  • beyond the shadow of a doubt — to be uncertain about; consider questionable or unlikely; hesitate to believe.
  • bipolar (affective) disorder — a psychotic disorder characterized by alternating periods of mania and mental depression; manic-depressive illness: now the preferred term in psychiatry
  • bite the hand that feeds one — to repay kindness with injury or ingratitude
  • bite your nails to the quick — If someone bites their nails to the quick, they bite off all the white part at the end of each nail.
  • borland software corporation — (company)   A company that sells a variety of PC software development and database systems. Borland was founded in 1983 and initially became famous for their low-cost software, particularly Turbo Pascal, Turbo C, and Turbo Prolog. Current and past products include the Borland C++ C++ and C developement environment, the Paradox and dBASE databases, Delphi, JBuilder, and InterBase. Borland has approximately 1000 employees worldwide and has operations in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. Borland sold Quattro Pro to Novell in 1994 for $100M. Novell later sold the product to Corel Corporation, who also bought Paradox. dBASE was sold in March(?) 1999 to dBase Inc. In Febuary 1998 Borland bought Visigenic Software, Inc.. The company changed its name to Inprise Corporation on 1998-04-29 and then on 2000-11-14 they announced they were changing it back to Borland from the first quarter of 2001. Quarterly sales $69M, profits $61M (Aug 1994). $56M, $6.4M (July 2001) Headquarters: 100 Borland Way, Scotts Valley, CA, 95066, USA. Telephone: +1 (408) 431 1000.
  • bright eyed and bushy tailed — having bright eyes.
  • bright-eyed and bushy-tailed — keen, confident, and alert
  • british standard fine thread — a screw thread having a Whitworth profile but a finer pitch for a given diameter
  • british standard pipe thread — a screw thread of Whitworth profile used for piping and designated by the bore of the pipe
  • burn the candle at both ends — to exhaust oneself, esp by being up late and getting up early to work
  • burst extended data out dram — (storage)   (Burst EDO, BEDO) A variant on EDO DRAM in which read or write cycles are batched in bursts of four. The bursts wrap around on a four byte boundary which means that only the two least significant bits of the CAS address are modified internally to produce each address of the burst sequence. Consequently, burst EDO bus speeds will range from 40MHz to 66MHz, well above the 33MHz bus speeds that can be accomplished using Fast Page Mode or EDO DRAM. Burst EDO was introduced sometime before May 1995.
  • by main force (or strength) — by sheer force (or strength)
  • cerebrospinal nervous system — central nervous system.
  • chief cook and bottle washerchief cook and bottlewasher, a person who does a wide variety of routine, sometimes menial, tasks: He's not just sales manager, he's the chief cook and bottlewasher in this firm.
  • disability rights commission — (in Britain) a body appointed by the Government to enforce anti-discrimination law affecting people with disabilities
  • eat sb out of house and home — If you eat someone out of house and home, you eat a lot of their food, especially when you are living with them.
  • electron probe microanalysis — a technique for the analysis of a very small amount of material by bombarding it with a narrow beam of electrons and examining the resulting X-ray emission spectrum
  • favourable pressure gradient — a decrease of pressure in the direction of flow
  • floating-point specbaseratio — SPECbase_fp92
  • hot standby routing protocol — (protocol)   (HSRP) A CISCO standard, defined in RFC 2281, that calls for a mirrored router in passive mode to send hello packets, wait for a lead router to die and, without dropping a packet, take over from that router. Note: "standby", not "swappable" (and certainly not "swapable").
  • hydrolysed vegetable protein — a powder or liquid that is produced by boiling legumes or cereals in hydrochloric acid and then neutralizing with sodium hydroxide. It is used as a flavouring in some foods, such as soups and bouillon cubes
  • it's a good job/a good thing — If you say it's a good thing that something is the case, you mean that it is fortunate.
  • karelian autonomous republic — an autonomous republic in the NW Russian Federation in Europe. 66,500 sq. mi. (172,240 sq. km). Capital: Petrozavodsk.
  • keep a weather eye on sb/sth — If you keep a weather eye on someone or something, you stay alert so that you will notice if anything unpleasant happens.
  • knowledge systems laboratory — (KSL) An artificial intelligence research laboratory within the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University. Current work focuses on knowledge representation for sharable engineering knowledge bases and systems, computational environments for modelling physical devices, architectures for adaptive intelligent systems, and expert systems for science and engineering.
  • like a lamb to the slaughter — without resistance
  • like water off a duck's back — You say that criticism is like water off a duck's back or water off a duck's back to emphasize that it is not having any effect on the person being criticized.
  • maxwell-boltzmann statistics — statistics for classical physics, based on the assumption that in a given physical system consisting of indistinguishable particles and regions, all possible arrangements of the particles in the various regions have equal probability.
  • national bureau of standards — National Institute of Standards and Technology
  • national labor relations act — an act of Congress (1935) that forbade any interference by employers with the formation and operation of labor unions.
  • national physical laboratory — a UK establishment founded in 1900 at Teddington to carry out research in physics and monitor standards of measurement
  • object persistence framework — (programming)   (OPF) Any system for storing objects so they can be reloaded into a future session. Typically this will use a relational database along with some kind of object relational mapping. Another typical solution would store objects in XML files (a form of serialisation). One of the trickier problems to solve is how to maintain references between objects, e.g. replacing memory pointers with unique names or identifiers. Virtually identical considerations apply to transferring objects, or indeed any kind of data structure, from one process to another via some communications channel, e.g. a TCP/IP connection.
  • online public access catalog — (library)   (OPAC) A computerised system to catalogue and organise materials in a library (the kind that contains books). OPACs have replaced card-based catalogues in many libraries. An OPAC is available to library users (public access).
  • osborne computer corporation — (company)   The unsucessful computer manufacturer founded by Adam Osborne that produced one of the first laptop computers, the Osborne 1.

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