27-letter words containing a, d, e, n, y, l
- as sensible as a dictionary — (humour) In Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass and what Alice found there, in the chapter The Garden of Live Flowers, the Red Queen is talking to Alice about what she's been up to: "I only wanted to see what the garden was like, your Majesty -" "That's right," said the Queen, patting her on the head, which Alice didn't like at all, "though, when you say "garden" - I've seen gardens, compared with which this would be a wilderness." Alice didn't dare argue the point, but went on: "- and I thought I'd try and find my way to the top of that hill -" "When you say "hill"", the Queen interrupted, "I could show you hills, in comparison with which you'd call that a valley." "No, I shouldn't," said Alice, surprised into contradicting her at last: "a hill can't be a valley, you know. That would be nonsense -" The Red Queen shook her head. "You may call it "nonsense" if you like," she said, "but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!" Alice curtseyed again, as she was a little afraid from the Queen's tone that she was a little offended: and they walked on in silence till they got to the top of the little hill. Thanks to Simon James for the text and to Sean Gugler for the URLs.
- audio processing technology — (company) (APT) A company that produces codecs based on predictive analysis rather than frequency coding.
- balance of payments deficit — a situation in which imports of goods, services, investment income and transfers exceed the exports of goods, services, investment income and transfers.
- binary-coded decimal system — a numerical system in which each decimal digit is represented by a unique collection of binary digits, not necessarily the same as those used in binary notation. Abbreviation: BCD.
- condensation polymerization — the act or process of forming a polymer or polymeric compound.
- countably additive function — a set function that upon operating on the union of a countable number of disjoint sets gives the same result as the sum of the functional values of each set.
- crude oil refining capacity — The crude oil refining capacity is the amount that is produced in a refinery each day.
- dataless management utility — (operating system) (DMU) A Dataless Management Services (DMS) utility for managing the sharing of installed operating software between DMS servers and clients. It allows users to install, configure, show and delete DMS environments and add, list, modify and remove DMS clients.
- democratic-republican party — the antifederalist party originally led by Thomas Jefferson, which developed into the modern Democratic Party
- disability living allowance — a tax-free allowance made by the government to people who have difficulty in walking or need help with personal care
- doesn't suffer fools gladly — If you do not suffer fools gladly, you are not patient with people who you think are stupid.
- duchenne muscular dystrophy — a common hereditary form of muscular dystrophy, usually affecting young males, characterized by the severe weakening of the skeletal muscles, esp. the respiratory muscles
- dynamic address translation — (architecture) (DAT) Conversion of a virtual address into a physical address, as performed by a memory management unit and an operating system which supports virtual memory.
- entity-relationship diagram — entity-relationship model
- familiarity breeds contempt — Familiarity is used especially in the expression familiarity breeds contempt to say that if you know a person or situation very well, you can easily lose respect for that person or become careless in that situation.
- federal republic of germany — official name of Germany.
- first law of thermodynamics — any of three principles variously stated in equivalent forms, being the principle that the change of energy of a thermodynamic system is equal to the heat transferred minus the work done (first law of thermodynamics) the principle that no cyclic process is possible in which heat is absorbed from a reservoir at a single temperature and converted completely into mechanical work (second law of thermodynamics) and the principle that it is impossible to reduce the temperature of a system to absolute zero in a finite number of operations (third law of thermodynamics)
- fly-on-the-wall documentary — a documentary made by filming people as they do the things they normally do, rather than by interviewing them or asking them to talk directly to the camera
- fully qualified domain name — (networking) (FQDN) The full name of a system, consisting of its local hostname and its domain name, including a top-level domain (tld). For example, "venera" is a hostname and "venera.isi.edu" is an FQDN. An FQDN should be sufficient to determine a unique Internet address for any host on the Internet. This process, called "name resolution", uses the Domain Name System (DNS). With the explosion of interest in the Internet following the advent of the web, domain names (especially the most significant two components, e.g. "sun.com", and especially in the ".com" tld) have become a valuable part of many companies' "brand". The allocation of these, overseen by ICANN, has therefore become highly political and is performed by a number of different registrars. There are different registries for the different tlds. A final dot on the end of a FQDN can be used to tell the DNS that the name is fully qualified and so needs no extra suffixes added, but it is not required. See also network, the, network address.
- general dynamics canada ltd — (company) A Canadian defence electronics company that makes direct and indirect fire control systems, vehicle electronics, reconnaissance vehicle surveillance systems, computerised laser sight for anti-tank weapons, tactical communication systems, headquarters information distribution system, tactical voice and distribution systems, acoustic signal processing, ASW mission systems, sonobuoy processors, active sonar systems, towed array sonar systems, tactical acoustic trainer, Mil-Spec electroluminiscent displays, large multi-sensor displays, coastal intrusion detection systems and fibre-optic distribution systems. The company was founded in 1948 as "Computing Devices Canada Ltd.", part of the Ceridian group of companies. It was renamed General Dynamics Canada Ltd. on 2002-01-01.
- healing by second intention — an act or instance of determining mentally upon some action or result.
- health and safety inspector — a person who inspects workplaces, to check that they do not pose dangers to workers
- insulin resistance syndrome — Pathology. a group of medical conditions present simultaneously in a patient, as high blood pressure, low HDL cholesterol levels, and an excess of abdominal fat, that increases a person's risk of heart disease, stroke, and diabetes. Also called insulin resistance syndrome.
- international monetary fund — an international organization that promotes the stabilization of the world's currencies and maintains a monetary pool from which member nations can draw in order to correct a deficit in their balance of payments: a specialized agency of the United Nations. Abbreviation: IMF, I.M.F.
- joint and several liability — legal responsibility for the whole of a debt for which you are only partially responsible
- keep body and soul together — the physical structure and material substance of an animal or plant, living or dead.
- knowledge management system — (KMS) A distributed hypermedia system for managing knowledge in organisations. KMS is a commercial system from Knowledge Systems, Inc. running on workstations, based on previous research with ZOG at Carnegie Mellon University.
- laban dance notation system — a system of movement notation, using symbols on a staff, that records the parts of a dancer's body, direction inspace, dynamics, and tempo for all kinds of movement: used to record and reconstruct forms of dance and movement.
- little-lord-fauntleroy-suit — (italics) a children's novel (1886) by Frances H. Burnett.
- magnetostrictive delay line — (storage, history) An early storage device that used tensioned wires of nickel alloy carrying longitudinal waves produced and detected electromagnetically. They had better storage behaviour than mercury delay lines.
- measure of central tendency — a statistic that in some way specifies the central tendency of a sample of measurements, as the mean, median, or mode.
- mechanically recovered meat — an amalgamation of the gristle, cartilage, and fat removed from animal carcasses, sometimes used in the manufacture of meat products such as sausages and hamburgers
- military-industrial complex — a network of a nation's military force together with all of the industries that support it.
- old chestnut/hoary chestnut — If you refer to a statement, a story, or a joke as an old chestnut or a hoary chestnut, you mean that it has been repeated so often that it is no longer interesting.
- orderly marketing agreement — any of various formal arrangements by which the volume of certain imported commodities, as steel or textiles, is voluntarily reduced. Abbreviation: OMA.
- pelvic inflammatory disease — an inflammation of the female pelvic organs, most commonly the fallopian tubes, usually as a result of bacterial infection. Abbreviation: PID.
- post-viral fatigue syndrome — Post-viral fatigue syndrome is a long-lasting illness that is thought to be caused by a virus. Its symptoms include feeling tired all the time and muscle pain.
- product liability insurance — Product liability insurance is insurance for a producer or supplier of goods against injury to third parties or loss of or damage to their property that is caused by a fault in the goods.
- recommended daily allowance — the amount of something (such as fat, salt, alcohol etc) officially suggested by medical experts as being appropriate or safe to consume each day
- sudden adult death syndrome — the unexpected death of a young adult, usually due to undetected inherited heart disease
- systems analysis definition — (programming) (SAD) The analysis of the role of a proposed system and the identification of the requirements that it should meet. SAD is the starting point for system design. The term is most commonly used in the context of commercial programming, where software developers are often classed as either systems analysts or programmers. The systems analysts are responsible for identifying requirements (i.e. systems analysis) and producing a design. The programmers are then responsible for implementing it.
- third law of thermodynamics — any of three principles variously stated in equivalent forms, being the principle that the change of energy of a thermodynamic system is equal to the heat transferred minus the work done (first law of thermodynamics) the principle that no cyclic process is possible in which heat is absorbed from a reservoir at a single temperature and converted completely into mechanical work (second law of thermodynamics) and the principle that it is impossible to reduce the temperature of a system to absolute zero in a finite number of operations (third law of thermodynamics)
- thyroid stimulating hormone — thyrotropin. Abbreviation: TSH.
- thyroid-stimulating hormone — thyrotropin. Abbreviation: TSH.
- to be suspended on full pay — if someone is suspended on full pay they are temporarily barred from work (due to misconduct, etc) while receiving full salary
- to make your blood run cold — If you say that something makes your blood run cold or makes your blood freeze, you mean that it makes you feel very frightened.
- trichlorophenoxyacetic acid — an insoluble crystalline solid; 2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid. It is a plant hormone and is used as a weedkiller. Formula: C8H5Cl3O3
- united states naval academy — an institution founded in 1845 at Annapolis, Maryland, for the training of U.S. naval officers.
- yeoman of the (royal) guard — a member of a ceremonial guard for the British royal family, made up traditionally of 100 men
- you wouldn't/won't catch me — You can say things such as 'You wouldn't catch me doing that' to emphasize that you would never do a particular thing.
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