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27-letter words containing a, d, v, o

  • add 1 to cobol giving cobol — (humour, language)   (From COBOL's equivalent syntax to C's C++) A tongue-in-cheek suggestion by Bruce Clement for an object-oriented COBOL.
  • advanced gas-cooled reactor — a nuclear reactor using carbon dioxide as the coolant, graphite as the moderator, and ceramic uranium dioxide cased in stainless steel as the fuel
  • analog to digital converter — An analog to digital converter is a device or circuit used to convert an analog signal to a digital signal across a pair of terminals.
  • applicative order reduction — (programming)   An evaluation strategy under which an expression is evaluated by repeatedly evaluating its leftmost innermost redex. This means that a function's arguments are evaluated before the function is applied. This method will not terminate if a function is given a non-terminating expression as an argument even if the function is not strict in that argument. Also known as call-by-value since the values of arguments are passed rather than their names. This is the evaluation strategy used by ML, Scheme, Hope and most procedural languages such as C and Pascal. See also normal order reduction, parallel reduction.
  • cardiovascular conditioning — enhancement of heart and circulatory function produced by regular vigorous aerobic exercise, as jogging, swimming, or cycling.
  • central provinces and berar — a former province of central India: renamed Madhya Pradesh in 1950, Berar being transferred to Maharashtra in 1956
  • competitive access provider — (networking)   (CAP, or "Bypass Carrier") A company which provides network links between the customer and the IntereXchange Carrier or even directly to the Internet Service Provider. CAPs operate private networks independent of Local Exchange Carriers.
  • component based development — (programming)   (CBD) The creation, integration, and re-use of components of program code, each of which has a common interface for use by multiple systems.
  • cosmic microwave background — electromagnetic radiation coming from every direction in the universe, considered the remnant of the big bang and corresponding to the black-body radiation of 3 K, the temperature to which the universe has cooled.
  • 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.
  • customer service department — a department of a company concerned with customer service
  • digital to analog converter — (electronics)   (DAC) A device which takes a digital value and outputs a voltage which is proportional to the input value. Typical uses include digital generation of audio signals or conversion of a bitmap image to a signal to drive a CRT.
  • disability living allowance — a tax-free allowance made by the government to people who have difficulty in walking or need help with personal care
  • get (or have) the goods on — to discover (or know) something incriminating about
  • give (or have) a free hand — to give (or have) liberty to act according to one's judgment
  • go over like a lead balloon — Chemistry. a heavy, comparatively soft, malleable, bluish-gray metal, sometimes found in its natural state but usually combined as a sulfide, especially in galena. Symbol: Pb; atomic weight: 207.19; atomic number: 82; specific gravity: 11.34 at 20°C.
  • haul/drag sb over the coals — If a person in authority hauls or drags someone over the coals, they speak to them severely about something foolish or wrong that they have done.
  • indefinite relative pronoun — a relative pronoun without an antecedent, as whoever in They gave tickets to whoever wanted them.
  • introgressive-hybridization — the introduction of genes from one species into the gene pool of another species, occurring when matings between the two produce fertile hybrids.
  • java remote method protocol — (protocol)   (JRMP) A proprietary wire-level protocol designed by Sun Microsystems to transport Java RMI. JRMP serves the same function as IIOP, but also supports object passing. Sun plans to offer IIOP as an alternative to JRMP. Sun do not appear to use this term any longer, simply referring to the "RMI transport protocol".
  • joint and several guarantee — a legal guarantee undertaken by multiple people in which any one guarantor can be held fully responsible for repaying the whole of the debt despite each guarantor only being partially responsible for that debt
  • joint and several liability — legal responsibility for the whole of a debt for which you are only partially responsible
  • keep one's head above water — If you keep your head above water, you just avoid getting into difficulties; used especially to talk about business.
  • language acquisition device — a hypothesized innate mental faculty present in infants that enables them to construct and internalize the grammar of their native language on the basis of the limited and fragmentary language input to which they are exposed. Abbreviation: LAD.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • open-end investment company — an investment company that issues shares continuously and is obligated to repurchase them from shareholders on demand.
  • pelvic inflammatory disease — an inflammation of the female pelvic organs, most commonly the fallopian tubes, usually as a result of bacterial infection. Abbreviation: PID.
  • plain old telephone service — (communications)   (POTS) The traditional voice service provided by phone companies, especially when opposed to data services. Note that the acronym POTS is sometimes expanded as "Plain Old Telephone System" in which sense it is synonymous to Public Switched Telephone Network but used somewhat derogatively.
  • 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.
  • provisional driving licence — a temporary driving licence issued to learner drivers
  • public broadcasting service — a network of independent, noncommercial television stations that operate with public and government funding instead of with revenues from advertising. Abbreviation: PBS.
  • public service broadcasting — publicly-funded broadcasting
  • seasonal affective disorder — recurrent winter depression characterized by oversleeping, overeating, and irritability, and relieved by the arrival of spring or by light therapy. Abbreviation: SAD.
  • serbs, croats, and slovenes — former name (1918–29) of Yugoslavia.
  • take advantage of something — If you take advantage of something, you make good use of it while you can.
  • the devil take the hindmost — You can say the devil take the hindmost to describe or comment on a situation you disapprove of because people do only what is best for themselves without thinking about other people.
  • the odds are in sb's favour — If you say that the odds are in someone's favour, you mean that they are likely to succeed in what they are doing.
  • to fall over yourself to do — If you say that people are falling over themselves to do something, you mean that they are very enthusiastic about doing it, and often that you disapprove of this.
  • to give someone a free hand — If someone gives you a free hand, they give you the freedom to use your own judgment and to do exactly as you wish.
  • to invade someone's privacy — If someone or something invades your privacy, they interfere in your life without your permission.
  • tonguing-and-grooving plane — a plane for cutting the edges of boards into tongues and grooves.
  • united service organization — a private, non-profit organization that provides morale and recreational services to members of the US military, with programmes in 140 centres worldwide

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