20-letter words containing a, d, s
- (god) save the mark! — an exclamation of humorous astonishment, irony, contempt, etc.
- a double-edged sword — If you say that something is a double-edged sword or a two-edged sword, you mean that it has negative effects as well as positive effects.
- a lick and a promise — something hastily done, esp a hurried wash
- a safe pair of hands — If you say that someone is or has a safe pair of hands, you mean that they are reliable and will not make any serious mistakes.
- 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.
- absolute undertaking — a legally binding promise to do something that is not restricted or qualified in any way
- accounting standards — a set of standard rules that accountancy companies are obliged to follow
- acetylsalicylic acid — aspirin
- 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.
- action at a distance — the supposed interaction of two separated bodies without any intervening medium. In modern theories all interactions are assumed to require a field of force
- activex data objects — (database, Microsoft, programming) (ADO) Microsoft's library for accessing data sources through OLE DB. Typically it is used to query or modify data stored in a relational database.
- adams-stokes disease — unconsciousness accompanying atrioventricular heart block, sometimes characterized by weakness, irregular pulse, and intermittent convulsive or nonconvulsive seizures.
- add insult to injury — to make an unfair or unacceptable situation even worse
- adirondack mountains — a mountain range in NE New York State. Highest peak: Mount Marcy, 1629 m (5344 ft)
- administration order — an order by a court appointing a person to manage a company that is in financial difficulty, in an attempt to ensure the survival of the company or achieve the best realization of its assets
- administrative court — a court that specializes in dealing with cases relating to the way in which government bodies exercise their powers
- administrative leave — leave, as from a government agency or department, arranged by special permission or directive: During the investigation she was placed on administrative leave with pay.
- adrenocorticosteroid — corticosteroid
- adult onset diabetes — diabetes (def 4).
- adult-onset diabetes — any of several disorders characterized by increased urine production.
- advertising campaign — An advertising campaign is a planned series of advertisements.
- after-dinner speaker — person paid to make an entertaining speech at a formal dinner
- after-hours drinking — drinking in a pub after its legal closing time
- aids-related complex — a condition that may develop into AIDS, characterized by the enlargement of the lymph nodes
- air-raid precautions — measures taken to protect the public from air-raid attacks
- alaska standard time — a standard time used in the zone which includes all of Alas. except the W Aleutian Islands, corresponding to the mean solar time of the 135th meridian west of Greenwich, England: it is nine hours behind Greenwich time
- all-ordinaries index — an index of share prices on the Australian Stock Exchange giving a weighted arithmetic average of 245 ordinary shares
- ambient air standard — the highest concentration of a specific air pollutant at a particular outdoor location, in a specified unit of time, that is not considered hazardous to humans: The ambient air standard for gas X is 3 parts per million per hour.
- amicus usque ad aras — a friend to the last degree.
- anglo-egyptian sudan — territory jointly administered by Egypt & Great Britain (1899-1956)
- angular displacement — the angle through which a point, line, or body is rotated about a specific axis in a given direction
- anomalous dispersion — a sudden change in the refractive index of a material for wavelengths in the vicinity of absorption bands in the spectrum of the material.
- antidandruff shampoo — a shampoo that prevents or treats dandruff
- antidisestablishment — Opposed to the separation of church and state.
- antigestational drug — a drug that averts a pregnancy by preventing the fertilized egg from becoming implanted in the uterine wall.
- antonello da messina — ?1430–?79, Italian painter, born in Sicily. His paintings include St Jerome in His Study and Portrait of a Man
- apollonius of rhodes — 3rd century bc, Greek epic poet and head of the Library of Alexandria. His principal work is the four-volume Argonautica
- argument from design — the argument for the existence of God based on the assumption that order in the universe implies an orderer and cannot be a natural feature of the universe.
- arrested development — physical development that is not complete
- as straight as a die — perfectly honest
- aschheim-zondek test — a test used to detect whether a woman is pregnant by noting the effect on the ovaries of an immature mouse or rabbit injected with her urine.
- asexual reproduction — reproduction, as budding, fission, or spore formation, not involving the union of gametes.
- assessment procedure — an established method of assessing students or workers
- associated statehood — the semi-independent political status of various former British colonies in the Caribbean from 1967 until each became an independent state in the British Commonwealth, by which Britain retained responsibility for defence and some aspects of foreign affairs. The associated states were Anguilla, Antigua, Dominica, Grenada, St Kitts-Nevis, St Lucia, and St Vincent and the Grenadines
- backwards compatible — backward compatibility
- balanced three-phase — A balanced three-phase voltage or current is one in which the size of each phase is the same, and the phase angles of the three phases differ from each other by 120 degrees.
- baptism for the dead — the baptism of a living person in the place of and for the sake of one who has died unbaptized: now practiced chiefly by Mormons.
- barrack-room ballads — a volume of poems (1892) by Rudyard Kipling, including Gunga Din, Danny Deever, and Mandalay.
- barred spiral galaxy — a spiral galaxy whose center has the form of an extended bar.
- bartramian sandpiper — upland sandpiper.
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