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28-letter words containing a, d, r, e

  • a poster child for something — a person who is a good, or typical example of something; a prominent exemplar of something
  • a square peg in a round hole — If you describe someone as a square peg in a round hole, you mean that they are completely unsuitable for the job they are doing or the situation they are in.
  • a tools integration standard — (software, library)   (ATIS) An object-oriented interface to a set of services that allows the saving, accessing and managing of information in a common repository. Developed by Atherton Technology and DEC, based on an extended version of the Software BackPlane, proposed as an industry standard.
  • 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.
  • address verification service — Address verification service is a system which, in order to limit credit card fraud, permits merchants to electronically check a buyer's billing address against the credit card holder's address to see if they match.
  • advanced encryption standard — (cryptography, algorithm)   (AES) The NIST's replacement for the Data Encryption Standard (DES). The Rijndael /rayn-dahl/ symmetric block cipher, designed by Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen, was chosen by a NIST contest to be AES. AES is Federal Information Processing Standard FIPS-197. AES currently supports 128, 192 and 256-bit keys and encryption blocks, but may be extended in multiples of 32 bits.
  • advanced micro devices, inc. — (company)   (AMD) A US manufacturer of integrated circuits, founded in 1969. AMD was the fifth-largest IC manufacturer in 1995. AMD focuses on the personal and networked computation and communications market. They produce microprocessors, embedded processors and related peripherals, memories, programmable logic devices, circuits for telecommunications and networking applications. In 1995, AMD had 12000 employees in the USA and elsewhere and manufacturing facilities in Austin, Texas; Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan; Bangkok, Thailand; Penang, Malaysia; and Singapore. AMD made the AMD 2900 series of bit-slice TTL components and clones of the Intel 80386 and Intel 486 microprocessors. Address: Sunnyvale, CA, USA.
  • 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.
  • american federation of labor — the first permanent national labour movement in America, founded in 1886. It amalgamated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955
  • antidisestablishmentarianism — opposition to the withdrawal of state support or recognition from an established church, especially the Anglican Church in 19th-century England.
  • apple-touch-icon-precomposed — (programming)   An alternative form of apple-touch-icon that is not subject to automatic modification (rounding, drop-shadow, reflective shine) as applied by iOS versions prior to iOS 7. A web page specifies a pre-composed icon by including an element in the like:
  • application service provider — (business, networking)   (ASP) A service (usually a business) that provides remote access to an application program across a network protocol, typically HTTP. A common example is a website that other websites use for accepting payment by credit card as part of their online ordering systems. As this term is complex-sounding but vague, it is widely used by marketroids who want to avoid being specific and clear at all costs.
  • at the discretion of someone — If something happens at someone's discretion, it can happen only if they decide to do it or give their permission.
  • augmented transition network — (in certain schools of linguistics) a formalism, usually expressed as a diagram, having the power of a Turing machine, used as the basis of processes transforming sentences into their syntactic representations
  • automated engineering design — (language)   (AED) (Or "ALGOL Extended for Design") A systems language for the IBM 7090 and IBM 360 developed at MIT System Laboratory ca. 1965 by a team led by Douglas T. Ross (now at Softech). AED is an extension of ALGOL 60 with records ("plexes"), pointers, and dynamic allocation. DYNAMO II was written in AED, as was the first BCPL compiler. Versions: AED-0, AED-1, AED-JR.
  • 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.
  • between scylla and charybdis — in a predicament in which avoidance of either of two dangers means exposure to the other
  • biological response modifier — a therapeutic substance that is produced naturally or synthesized as a drug to stimulate the body's immune defense against disease or infection. Abbreviation: BRM.
  • bipolar (affective) disorder — a psychotic disorder characterized by alternating periods of mania and mental depression; manic-depressive illness: now the preferred term in psychiatry
  • birendra bir bikram shah dev — 1945–2001, king of Nepal (1972–2001): he, his queen, and six other members of the royal family were shot dead by his son, Crown Prince Dipendra, who then committed suicide
  • 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
  • bring a child into the world — If a woman brings a child into the world, she gives birth to it.
  • 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.
  • case data interchange format — (CDIF) An emerging standard for interchange of data between CASE tools.
  • cellular digital packet data — (communications, protocol)   (CDPD) A wireless standard providing two-way, 19.2 kbps packet data transmission over exisiting mobile telephone channels.
  • certificate of admeasurement — a certificate issued by a government authority, showing the registered tonnages of a commercial vessel.
  • charge d'affaires ad interim — Also called chargé d'affaires ad interim. an official placed in charge of diplomatic business during the temporary absence of the ambassador or minister.
  • 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.
  • college of further education — an institution that provides further education
  • common intermediate language — (language)   (CIL)
  • computer-aided manufacturing — the use of specially designed computers to improve and regulate manufacturing processes; a type of automation in which computers control and monitor industrial machinery.
  • computer-assisted tomography — the process of producing a CAT scan.
  • congressional medal of honor — the highest U.S. military decoration, awarded by Congress to a member of the armed forces for gallantry and bravery in combat, at the risk of life and above and beyond the call of duty.
  • consolidated school district — a large school district formed by the amalgamation of two or more separate districts
  • correlatives and conversions — The data description language used in the Pick operating system.
  • council of economic advisers — a board, consisting of three members, established in 1946 to advise the president on economic matters. Abbreviation: CEA.
  • council of economic advisors — (in the US) a body of economists who advise the President on economic issues and whose chairperson can speak on behalf of the administration on economic issues
  • court of international trade — a court that sits in New York City and rules on questions relating to trade and customs
  • cross word puzzle dictionary — a dictionary that lists common clues found in crossword puzzles with potential answer words. In books, the lists are usually sorted by the number of letters in the answer, while an online crossword dictionary, such as the Dictionary.com Crossword Solver, is able to analyze queries electronically, examining either the clue or the number and pattern of letters already filled in to arrive at suggested answers.
  • cruel and unusual punishment — treatment: barbaric
  • data link provider interface — (networking)   (DLPI) The interface that a network driver presents to the (higher level) logical link layer for driving the network at the datagram level in a Unix STREAMS environment and possibly elsewhere. DLPI corresponds to ISO 8802/2 (LLC) which covers both connection-oriented and connectionless protocols.
  • dataless management services — (operating system)   (DMS)
  • datastorm technologies, inc. — (company)   The original suppliers of Procomm. Address: Columbia MO, USA.

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