24-letter words containing a, l, t, e
- a bit of slap and tickle — sexual play
- a chip off the old block — If you describe someone as a chip off the old block, you mean that they are just like one of their parents in character or behaviour.
- a close call/shave/thing — If you describe an event as a close shave, a close thing, or a close call, you mean that an accident or a disaster very nearly happened.
- a licence to print money — If you describe a commercial activity as a licence to print money, you mean that it allows people to gain a lot of money with little effort or responsibility.
- a manufacturing language — (language, robotics) (AML) A high-level language developed by IBM in the 1980s for industrial robots.
- a night/out on the tiles — If someone has a night on the tiles or is out on the tiles, they go out in the evening, for example to a bar or a club, and do not return home until very late.
- a parse request language — (language) (APAREL) A PL/I extension to provide BNF parsing routines, for IBM 360.
- above-the-line promotion — Above-the-line promotion is the use of promotional methods that cannot be directly controlled by the company selling the goods or service, such as television or press advertising. Compare below-the-line promotion.
- accelerated depreciation — a method by which a company depreciates a fixed asset in such a way that the amount of depreciation is higher at the start of that asset's life
- acceleration coefficient — the ratio of change in capital investment to the change in consumer spending.
- acceptable quality level — a quality standard that indicates the maximum percentage of defects allowed in a production process
- accidental death benefit — a life insurance benefit, usually in the form of a rider or policy addition, under which the proceeds are payable to the beneficiary only if the insured dies by accident.
- adaptable user interface — (tool, product) (AUI, Oracle Toolkit) A toolkit from Oracle allowing applications to be written which will be portable between different windowing systems. AUI provides one call level interface along with a resource manager and editor across a range of "standard" GUIs, including Macintosh, Microsoft Windows and the X Window System.
- additional member system — a system of voting in which people vote separately for the candidate and the party of their choice. Parties are allocated extra seats if the number of constituencies they win does not reflect their overall share of the vote
- adjustable-rate mortgage — a mortgage that provides for periodic changes in the interest rate, based on changing market condtions. Abbreviation: ARM.
- administrative-law judge — an official of a federal or state agency who hears, weighs, and decides on evidence in administrative proceedings, and makes recommendations for any necessary legal action.
- aeronautical engineering — the branch of engineering concerned with the design, production, and maintenance of aircraft
- agricultural engineering — the branch of engineering involved with the design of farm machinery, with soil management, land development, and mechanization and automation of livestock farming, and with the efficient planting, harvesting, storage, and processing of farm commodities.
- alexandre gustave eiffel — Alexandre Gustave [a-lek-sahn-druh gys-tav] /a lɛkˈsɑ̃ drə güsˈtav/ (Show IPA), 1832–1923, French civil engineer and pioneer aerodynamic researcher.
- alienation of affections — the estrangement by a third person of one spouse from the other.
- almost periodic function — a function that repeats its values approximately at almost equally spaced intervals of its domain.
- alternating bit protocol — (networking) (ABP) A simple data link layer protocol that retransmits lost or corrupted messages. Messages are sent from transmitter A to receiver B. Assume that the channel from A to B is initialised and that there are no messages in transit. Each message contains a data part, a checksum, and a one-bit sequence number, i.e. a value that is 0 or 1. When A sends a message, it sends it continuously, with the same sequence number, until it receives an acknowledgment (ACK) from B that contains the same sequence number. When that happens, A complements (flips) the sequence number and starts transmitting the next message. When B receives a message from A, it checks the checksum. If the message is not corrupted B sends back an ACK with the same sequence number. If it is the first message with that sequence number then it is sent for processing. Subsequent messages with the same sequence bit are simply acknowledged. If the message is corrupted B sends back an negative/error acknowledgment (NAK). This is optional, as A will continue transmitting until it receives the correct ACK. A treats corrupted ACK messages, and NAK messages in the same way. The simplest behaviour is to ignore them all and continue transmitting.
- amantadine hydrochloride — a white, crystalline drug, C10H17N·HCl, used to prevent and treat certain forms of influenza and to treat parkinsonism
- ammonium chromic sulfate — chrome alum (def 1).
- animal rights campaigner — a person who campaigns for the rights of animals to be protected from exploitation and abuse by humans
- antimicrobial resistance — the ability of an organism to resist the actions of the class of drugs that destroys or inhibits the growth of disease-causing microbes
- assembly of the notables — notable (def 5).
- assembly-of-the-notables — a prominent, distinguished, or important person.
- australian silky terrier — a small compact variety of terrier with pricked ears and a long straight silky coat
- automated teller machine — a computerized cash dispenser
- automated-teller machine — an electronic banking machine that dispenses cash, accepts deposits, and performs other services when a customer inserts a plastic card and pushes the proper coded buttons. Abbreviation: ATM.
- automatic-teller machine — automated-teller machine.
- avian pneumoencephalitis — Newcastle disease.
- azimuthal quantum number — the quantum number that designates the orbital angular momentum of a particular quantum state of an electron in an atom and that assumes integral values from zero to one less than the value of the principal quantum number.
- bacillus calmette-guerin — a weakened strain of the tubercle bacillus, Mycobacterium bovis, used in the preparation of BCG vaccine.
- back electromotive force — counter electromotive force.
- backup domain controller — (networking) (BDC) A server in a network of Microsoft Windows computers that maintains a copy of the SAM database and handles access requests that the Primary Domain Controller (PDC) doesn't respond to. There may be zero or more BDCs in a network. They increase reliability and reduce load on the PDC.
- basic multilingual plane — (text, standard) (BMP) The first plane defined in Unicode/ISO 10646, designed to include all scripts in active modern use. The BMP currently includes the Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Devangari, hiragana, katakana, and Cherokee scripts, among others, and a large body of mathematical, APL-related, and other miscellaneous characters. Most of the Han ideographs in current use are present in the BMP, but due to the large number of ideographs, many were placed in the Supplementary Ideographic Plane.
- bay of mont-saint-michel — an inlet of the Gulf of St Malo
- be at sb's beck and call — If one person is at another's beck and call, they have to be constantly available and ready to do whatever is asked, and this often seems unfair or undesirable.
- be called within the bar — to be appointed as a Queen's Counsel
- be left holding the baby — If you are left holding the baby, you are put in a situation where you are responsible for something, often in an unfair way because other people fail or refuse to take responsibility for it.
- bidouilleurs sans argent — (body) (BSA, French for "Moneyless Hackers") An association which aim is to help computer users who can't afford to buy commercial software. The main purpose of the association is the promotion of free software, and distribution of ex-commercial software. This is clearly an answer to the repressive attitude of the "other" BSA. Among BSA members are Richard Stallman, creator of the GNU project.
- bottom-up implementation — (programming) The opposite of top-down design. It is now received wisdom in most programming cultures that it is best to design from higher levels of abstraction down to lower, specifying sequences of action in increasing detail until you get to actual code. Hackers often find (especially in exploratory designs that cannot be closely specified in advance) that it works best to *build* things in the opposite order, by writing and testing a clean set of primitive operations and then knitting them together.
- bradley fighting vehicle — a 25-ton, tracked U.S. armored personnel carrier of the 1980s, designed to carry nine soldiers into battle and armed with a 25mm rapid-fire cannon, a machine gun, and an antitank missile launcher.
- bread-and-butter pickles — a sweet pickle relish made of sliced cucumbers, onions, and, often, bell peppers with mustard seed, turmeric, etc.
- broad-leaved bottle tree — any of several trees of the genus Brachychiton, native to Australia, characterized by a bottle-shaped swelling of the trunk, as B. rupestris (narrow-leaved bottle tree) or B. australis (broad-leaved bottle tree)
- broadleaved spindle tree — a flowering tree, Euonymus Latifolius, native to some parts of Western Europe and widely planted as an ornamental
- browning automatic rifle — an air-cooled, fully automatic rifle capable of firing 200 to 350 rounds per minute. Abbreviation: BAR.
- bull information systems — (company) A multinational I.T. group based in Europe with 21,000 people and operations in more than 85 countries. In 1997, Bull earned revenues of over $4 billion, including over 65% outside of France, its country of origin. The company is ranked as the third largest systems integrator in Europe.
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