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25-letter words containing a, d, n, t

  • go through fire and water — to undergo great difficulties or dangers
  • grand teton national park — a national park in NW Wyoming, including a portion of the Teton Range. 148 sq. mi. (383 sq. km).
  • graphic design department — a group of people in a company who work in graphic design
  • graphic display interface — (hardware)   (GDI) graphics adaptor.
  • 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.
  • hardening of the arteries — medical condition: arteriosclerosis
  • harris semiconductor ltd. — (company)   Address: Riverside Way, Camberley, Surrey, CU15 3YQ, UK. Telephone: +44 (1276) 686 886. Fax: +44 (1276) 682 323.
  • have an ear to the ground — to give careful attention to the trends of public opinion
  • have it on good authority — If you say you have it on good authority that something is true, you mean that you believe it is true because you trust the person who told you about it.
  • have sth at one's command — If you have a particular skill or particular resources at your command, you have them and can use them fully.
  • here today, gone tomorrow — short-lived; transitory
  • high voltage differential — (hardware)   (HVD) Differential SCSI scheme that has been in use for years. The terminators run on 5 Volts DC. See also LVD.
  • 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.
  • i didn't change anything! — An aggrieved cry often heard as bugs manifest during a regression test. The canonical reply to this assertion is "Then it works just the same as it did before, doesn't it?" See also one-line fix. This is also heard from applications programmers trying to blame an obvious applications problem on an unrelated systems software change, for example a divide-by-0 fault after terminals were added to a network. Usually, their statement is found to be false. Upon close questioning, they will admit some major restructuring of the program that shouldn't have broken anything, in their opinion, but which actually hosed the code completely.
  • i don't know (about that) — You can use I don't know to indicate that you do not completely agree with something or do not really think that it is true.
  • idealized instruction set — (language)   (IIS) The assembly language for the Flagship parallel machine.
  • immediate-release coating — An immediate-release coating is a tablet coating that breaks down immediately in the body.
  • immigration border patrol — (in the US) a law enforcement agency responsible for issues regarding border laws and immigration
  • in the palm of one's hand — If you have someone or something in the palm of your hand, you have control over them.
  • indirect characterization — the process by which the personality of a fictitious character is revealed through the character's speech, actions, appearance, etc.
  • 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 life insurance — life insurance having a relatively low face value in which premiums are paid weekly or monthly to an agent.
  • 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.
  • infrared data association — (standard, body)   (IrDA) A non-profit trade association providing standards to ensure the quality and interoperability of infrared (IR) hardware. The association currently has a membership of over 160 companies from around the world, representing computer and telecommunications hardware, software, components and adapters. IrDA typically uses direct infrared i.e. point-to-point, line-of-sight, one-to-one communications. The standards include: IrDA Data (SIR, FIR, VFIR), IrDA Control, and AIR. Ports built to the above standards can be found in products such as PDAs, Palm devices, printers, desktop adapters, notebooks, and digital cameras.
  • initial microprogram load — (operating system)   (IML) Loading microcode into microcode memory.
  • instrumental conditioning — conditioning (def 1).
  • interactive data language — (IDL) A commercial array-oriented language with numerical analysis and display features, first released in 1977. It supports interactive reduction, analysis, and visualisation of scientific data. It is sold by Research Systems, Inc. Version: 3.6.1 runs under Unix, MS-DOS, MS Windows, VAX/VMS and Macintosh. Not to be confused with any of the other IDLs. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • interlocking directorates — a corporate directorate that includes one or more members who serve simultaneously in the directorates of other corporations.
  • 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.
  • intermittent claudication — pain and cramp in the calf muscles, aggravated by walking and caused by an insufficient supply of blood
  • internal field separators — (operating system)   ($IFS) A predefined environment variable in the Unix Bourne shell whose default value is the three-character string containing space, tab and line feed. Any string of one or more of these characters separates the command and each of its arguments in a command line. $IFS also tells the shell's built-in read command where to split an input line when reading into multiple variables. E.g. setting IFS=: would be appropriate for reading a file with ':'-separated fields, such as /etc/passwd.
  • it is a good/bad thing to — You say it is a good thing to do something to introduce a piece of advice or a comment on a situation or activity.
  • jean-maurice-Émile baudot — (person)   (1845-1903) The inventor of the Baudot code. Baudot joined the French Post & Telegraph Administration in 1869 as a telegraph operator. In his own time he developed a code for sending several messages at once. In 1874 Baudot patented his first printing telegraph where signals were translated onto paper tape. The Baudot code was adopted first in France and then by other nations for and transmissions. The unit of transmission speed, baud, is named after him.
  • keep an ear to the ground — If you keep or have your ear to the ground, you make sure that you find out about the things that people are doing or saying.
  • kwantung leased territory — a strategic territory of NE China, at the S tip of the Liaodong Peninsula of Manchuria: leased forcibly by Russia in 1898; taken over by Japan in 1905; occupied by the Soviet Union in 1945 and subsequently returned to China on the condition of shared administration; made part of Liaoning province by China in 1954. Area: about 3400 sq km (1300 sq miles)
  • land of the little sticks — the part of the north of Canada that lies south of the tree line but contains only stunted evergreens or dwarf deciduous trees.
  • language sensitive editor — (LSE) A language-sensitive editor from DEC.
  • language-sensitive editor — An editor that is aware of the syntactic, semantic and in some cases the structural rules of a specific programming language and provides a framework for the user to enter source code. Programs or changes to previously stored programs are incrementally parsed into an abstract syntax tree and automatically checked for correctness.
  • lead down the garden path — a plot of ground, usually near a house, where flowers, shrubs, vegetables, fruits, or herbs are cultivated.
  • 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.
  • letter of acknowledgement — a letter that you receive from someone, telling you that something you have sent to them has arrived
  • letters of administration — a formal document nominating a specified person to take over, administer, and dispose of an estate when there is no executor to carry out the testator's will
  • licensed vocational nurse — a person with specified training who has become licensed to provide vocational assistance to patients. Abbreviation: LVN.
  • limited liability company — a company which operates with limited liability
  • limited-slip differential — an automotive differential that can transfer power from a wheel that has lost traction to one that has not.
  • local education authority — a body that is responsible for education in a particular area
  • lowest common denominator — least common denominator.
  • magnetic character reader — a device that automatically scans and interprets characters printed with magnetic ink. It operates by the process of magnetic character recognition
  • magnetohydromagnetic wave — Physics. Alfvén wave.
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