31-letter words containing a, c, i, d, e
- simple transcendental extension — a simple extension in which the specified element is not a root of any algebraic equation in the given field.
- states' rights democratic party — a political party formed by dissident southern Democrats who opposed the candidacy of Harry Truman in 1948 and campaigned on a platform of states' rights.
- supplementary ideographic plane — (text, standard) (SIP) The third plane (plane 2) defined in Unicode/ISO 10646, designed to hold all the ideographs descended from Chinese writing (mainly found in Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese and Chinese) that aren't found in the Basic Multilingual Plane. The BMP was supposed to hold all ideographs in modern use; unfortunately, many Chinese dialects (like Cantonese and Hong Kong Chinese) were overlooked; to write these, characters from the SIP are necessary. This is one reason even non-academic software must support characters outside the BMP.
- take sb captive/hold sb captive — If you take someone captive or hold someone captive, you take or keep them as a prisoner.
- terminal productivity executive — (operating system) (TPX) A multiple session manager used to access mainframe applications. It was written by Morgan Stanley, acquired by Duquesne Systems and is now owned by Computer Associates. TPX allows you to work in multiple mainframe applications concurrently; lock and unlock your TPX screen; place your applications on hold; logon to TPX from a different terminal without losing your place; customize your TPX menu and send a screen image to another TPX user. TPX runs on MVS and VM. On VM, like VTAM, it uses the MVS-like facilities of GCS. It has a complete scripting facility and lets you see other user's sessions. The client-server version allows each managed session to open in its own window. Richard Kuebbing has built a complete e-mail system into it.
- the charge of the light brigade — a poem (1854) by Tennyson, celebrating the British cavalry attack on the Russian position at Balaklava during the Crimean War.
- the early bird catches the worm — If you say that the early bird catches the worm, you mean that the person who arrives first in a place is most likely to get what they want.
- the economic and monetary union — a union of nations within the European Union sharing a single market and a single currency (the Euro)
- the health and safety executive — the department of the United Kingdom government responsible for the regulation of health, safety, and welfare in the workplace
- to pour cold water on something — If you pour cold water on an idea or suggestion, you show that you have a low opinion of it.
- training and enterprise council — one of the local bodies established in England and Wales in the early 1990s to administer publicly-funded training-for-work programmes, esp for school leavers
- united states air force academy — an institution at Colorado Springs, Colorado, for the training of U.S. Air Force officers.
- valediction forbidding mourning — a poem (1612) by John Donne.
- web service definition language — (architecture) (WSDL) An XML format for describing network services as a set of endpoints operating on messages containing either "document oriented" or "procedure oriented" information. The operations and messages are described abstractly, and then bound to a concrete network protocol and message format to define an endpoint. Related concrete endpoints are combined into abstract endpoints (services). WSDL is typically used with SOAP over HTTP but it is extensible to allow description of endpoints and their messages independent of what message formats or network protocols.
- western diamondback rattlesnake — an extremely venomous diamondback rattlesnake, Crotalus atrox, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
- windows internet naming service — (networking) (WINS) Software which resolves NetBIOS names to IP addresses.
- you could have heard a pin drop — You can say you could have heard a pin drop when a place is extremely quiet, especially because everyone is waiting for someone to speak or when someone has made a shocking remark.
- zenithal equidistant projection — azimuthal equidistant projection.