20-letter words containing a, c, r, o, n
- (staring) into space — If you are staring into space, you are looking straight in front of you, without actually looking at anything in particular, for example because you are thinking or because you are feeling shocked.
- a coroutine language — (language) (ACL) A Pascal-based implementation of coroutines.
- a drop in the bucket — an amount very small in relation to what is needed or desired
- a lick and a promise — something hastily done, esp a hurried wash
- a repeat performance — If there is a repeat performance of something, usually something undesirable, it happens again.
- a shoulder to cry on — If someone offers you a shoulder to cry on or is a shoulder to cry on, they listen sympathetically as you talk about your troubles.
- a vinculo matrimonii — pertaining to or noting a divorce that absolutely dissolves the marriage bond and releases the spouses from all matrimonial obligations: a divorce a vinculo matrimonii.
- absolute convergence — the property of an infinite series in which the series formed by replacing each term in the original series with its absolute value converges. Compare conditional convergence.
- abstract of accounts — a published condensed summary of a company or organization's annual accounts
- acadia national park — a national park in Maine, on Mount Desert Island. 44 sq. mi. (114 sq. km).
- accommodation bureau — a business that finds accommodation for its clients
- accommodation collar — the arrest of a person on little or no evidence merely to fill a public or political demand for police action.
- accommodation ladder — a flight of stairs or a ladder for lowering over the side of a ship for access to and from a small boat, pier, etc
- accounting standards — a set of standard rules that accountancy companies are obliged to follow
- acetylcholinesterase — an enzyme in nerve cells that is responsible for the destruction of acetylcholine and thus for switching off excitation of the nerve
- acetylmethylcarbinol — acetoin.
- acorn computer group — (company) A holding company for Acorn Computers Limited, Acorn Australia, Acorn New Zealand, Acorn GmbH and Online Media. Acorn Computer Group owns 43% of Advanced RISC Machines Ltd.
- acorn computers ltd. — (company) A UK computer manufacturer, part of the Acorn Computer Group plc. Acorn was founded on 1978-12-05, on a kitchen table in a back room. Their first creation was an electronic slot machine. After the Acorn System 1, 2 and 3, Acorn launched the first commercial microcomputer - the ATOM in March 1980. In April 1981, Acorn won a contract from the BBC to provide the PROTON. In January 1982 Acorn launched the BBC Microcomputer System. At one time, 70% of microcomputers bought for UK schools were BBC Micros. The Acorn Computer Group went public on the Unlisted Securities Market in September 1983. In April 1984 Acorn won the Queen's Award for Technology for the BBC Micro and in September 1985 Olivetti took a controlling interest in Acorn. The Master 128 Series computers were launched in January 1986 and the BBC Domesday System in November 1986. In 1983 Acorn began to design the Acorn RISC Machine (ARM), the first low-cost, high volume RISC processor chip (later renamed the Advanced RISC Machine). In June 1987 they launched the Archimedes range - the first 32-bit RISC based microcomputers - which sold for under UKP 1000. In February 1989 the R140 was launched. This was the first Unix workstation under UKP 4000. In May 1989 the A3000 (the new BBC Microcomputer) was launched. In 1990 Acorn formed Advanced RISC Machines Ltd. (ARM) in partnership with Apple Computer, Inc. and VLSI to develop the ARM processor. Acorn has continued to develop RISC based products. With 1992 revenues of 48.2 million pounds, Acorn Computers was the premier supplier of Information Technology products to UK education and had been the leading provider of 32-bit RISC based personal computers since 1987. Acorn finally folded in the late 1990s. Their operating system, RISC OS was further developed by a consortium of suppliers.
- acquis communautaire — European Union laws
- adirondack mountains — a mountain range in NE New York State. Highest peak: Mount Marcy, 1629 m (5344 ft)
- administrative court — a court that specializes in dealing with cases relating to the way in which government bodies exercise their powers
- adrenocorticosteroid — corticosteroid
- adrenocorticotrophic — stimulating the adrenal cortex
- adrenocorticotrophin — (hormone) adrenocorticotropic hormone.
- african green monkey — a common savanna monkey, Cercopithecus aethiops sabaeus, of West Africa, with a greenish-gray back and yellow tail.
- africanized honeybee — killer bee.
- agricultural run-off — the portion of rainfall that runs over agricultural land and then into streams as surface water rather than being absorbed into ground water or evaporating
- air consignment note — a nonnegotiable shipping document evidencing the contract between shipper and air carrier for transportation and delivery of cargo. Abbreviation: AWB.
- air-raid precautions — measures taken to protect the public from air-raid attacks
- algebraic expression — a symbol or a combination of symbols used in algebra, containing one or more numbers, variables, and arithmetic operations: how to solve algebraic expressions.
- algorithmic language — ALGOL 60
- alternative comedian — someone who practises alternative comedy
- amana church society — a Christian community in Iowa governed by elders, with no ordained clergy: founded in Germany in 1714, in America since 1843
- ambulatory care unit — a part of hospital where treatment is given to non-resident patients
- american globeflower — a plant, Trollius laxus, of the buttercup family, of the northeastern and Great Lakes coastal areas of the U.S., having solitary, yellowish-green flowers.
- american labor party — a U.S. political party (1936–56) organized in New York City to gain independent political status for the labor and liberal factions of the Democratic Party.
- ammonium bicarbonate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, NH 4 HCO 3 , used chiefly in the manufacture of baking powder.
- ammonium chrome alum — chrome alum (def 1).
- analysis of variance — any of a number of techniques for resolving the observed variance between sets of data into components, esp to determine whether the difference between two samples is explicable as random sampling variation with the same underlying population
- anatomically correct — having representations of the sexual organs: An anatomically correct doll was shown to the witness.
- angular acceleration — the rate of change of angular velocity
- anniversary reaction — a psychological reaction, as depression, occurring at a regularly fixed time and associated with the recollection of an emotionally upsetting past experience, as loss of a loved one.
- anti-corn law league — an organization founded in 1839 by Richard Cobden and John Bright to oppose the Corn Laws, which were repealed in 1846
- antidiuretic hormone — vasopressin. Abbreviation: ADH.
- antifriction bearing — a roller bearing or ball bearing.
- antimony oxychloride — a white, water-insoluble powder, SbOCl, used chiefly in the manufacture of antimony salts.
- antony and cleopatra — a tragedy (1606–07?) by Shakespeare.
- aortic insufficiency — abnormal closure of the aortic valve resulting in regurgitation of blood to the left ventricle.
- apparent candlepower — a measure of the luminous intensity of an extended source of light in terms of the candlepower of a point source of light that has an equivalent luminous intensity when placed at the same distance as the extended source.
- apple computer, inc. — (company) Manufacturers of the Macintosh range of personal computers as well as the earlier Apple I, Apple II and Lisa. Founded on 1 April 1976 by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Apples were among the first microcomputers. They originally used the 6502 processor and are still being made (August 1994), now using the 65816. The Apple II line, which includes the Apple I, is the longest existing line of microcomputers. Steve Jobs left Apple (involuntarily) and started NeXT and later returned when Apple bought NeXT in late 1997(?). Quarterly sales $2150M, profits $138M (Aug 1994). http://apple.com/.
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