26-letter words containing a, n, o, d, i, s
- fixed-point representation — the representation of numbers by a single set of digits such that the radix point has a predetermined location, the value of the number depending on the position of each digit relative to the radix point
- franklin d. roosevelt lake — a reservoir in NE Washington, formed by the Grand Coulee Dam. 130 sq. mi. (337 sq. km).
- german shorthaired pointer — one of a German breed of large sporting dogs having a short hard coat, usually liver or liver and white in color, and a docked tail, used as a versatile hunting dog.
- give a piece of one's mind — (in a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc.: the processes of the human mind.
- give someone to understand — If someone is given to understand that something is the case, it is communicated to them that it is the case, usually without them being told directly.
- go to hell in a handbasket — a small basket with a handle for carrying by hand.
- golden wedding anniversary — marriage: 50 years
- grammar-translation method — a traditional technique of foreign-language teaching based on explicit instruction in the grammatical analysis of the target language and translation of sentences from the native language into the target language and vice versa.
- hanging gardens of babylon — ornamental gardens planted on the terraces of the ziggurats of ancient Babylon.
- hardware abstraction layer — (operating system) (HAL) The layer of Microsoft Windows NT where they have isolated their assembly language code.
- have had one's fill of sth — If you have had your fill of something, you have had enough of it, and do not want to experience it any more or do it any more.
- have one's cake and eat it — to enjoy both of two desirable but incompatible alternatives
- have one's fingers crossed — to hope for or against something
- have yet to (do something) — to have not yet (done something)
- head normalisation theorem — Under the typed lambda-calculus, beta/delta reduction of the left-most redex (normal order reduction) is guaranteed to terminate with a head normal form if one exists. See also Church-Rosser theorem.
- heard and mcdonald islands — a group of islands in the S Indian Ocean: an external territory of Australia from 1947. Area: 412 sq km (159 sq miles)
- hoist with your own petard — If someone who has planned to harm someone else is hoist with their own petard or hoist by their own petard, their plan in fact results in harm to themselves.
- horse of a different color — a large, solid-hoofed, herbivorous quadruped, Equus caballus, domesticated since prehistoric times, bred in a number of varieties, and used for carrying or pulling loads, for riding, and for racing.
- in a cold sweat/in a sweat — If someone is in a cold sweat or in a sweat, they feel frightened or embarrassed.
- individualized instruction — a teaching method tailored to the skills, abilities, and interests of the individual student
- inflammatory bowel disease — any intestinal inflammatory disease, especially Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, of unknown cause. Abbreviation: IBD.
- integrated data processing — IDP.
- intermodulation distortion — (electronics, communications) (IMD) Nonlinear distortion in a system or transducer, characterised by the appearance in the output of frequencies equal to the sums and differences of integral multiples of the two or more component frequencies present in the input waveform.
- international grand master — a chess player in the highest class of ability, as determined through specified types of international competitions.
- international screw thread — a metric system for screw threads relating the pitch to the diameter
- irreconcilable differences — disagreements between people, esp two married people, that cannot be resolved
- java database connectivity — (database, programming) (JDBC) Part of the Java Development Kit which defines an application programming interface for Java for standard SQL access to databases from Java programs. See also Open Database Connectivity.
- jefferson davis's birthday — June 3 or the first Monday in June, observed as a legal holiday in some Southern states.
- knights of the round table — a legendary order of knights created by King Arthur.
- law of diminishing returns — diminishing returns (def 2).
- leave to one's own devices — to allow to do as one wishes
- lossless audio compression — (audio, compression) Any kind of audio compression in which the original signal and the decoded signal are bitwise identical. Lossless audio compression algorithms are usually based on a data compression algorithm like PKzip or gzip but specialized for PCM audio data. The signal is divided into predictable tonal components and unpredictable noisy components. Tonal components are stored as coefficients of a predictor, the remaining signal is coded by Rice coding, Huffman coding or arithmetic coding.
- made one's bed...lie in it — If you say that someone has made their bed and must lie in it, you mean that since they have chosen to do a particular thing, they must now accept the unpleasant results of their action.
- make (or be) friends with — to become (or be) a friend of
- many-worlds interpretation — an interpretation of quantum mechanics based on the idea that every possible event exists in its own world
- micronetics standard mumps — (MSM) A version of MUMPS for the IBM PC RT and R6000.
- mongolian hordes technique — (programming, jargon) (Or "Chinese Army technique") Assigning a large number of inexperienced programmers to a job which would better performed by a few skilled ones. The term was first used by Dr. Fred Brooks in his book "The Mythical Man-Month", Chapter 3. According to Dr. Brooks, he had in mind the vision of the Mongol Hordes sweeping across Asia and Europe when he created the term.
- monobasic sodium phosphate — Chemistry. sodium phosphate (def 1).
- monochrome display adapter — (hardware, graphics) (MDA) One of IBM's earliest hardware video display standards for use in IBM PC. MDA can display only monochrome 80*25 text (IBM PC video mode 7). It is now obsolete.
- most-favored-nation clause — a clause in a commercial treaty or contract by which each signatory agrees to give the other the same treatment that is or will be accorded any other nation.
- mutual assured destruction — a U.S. doctrine of reciprocal deterrence resting on the U.S. and Soviet Union each being able to inflict unacceptable damage on the other in retaliation for a nuclear attack.
- national database language — (database, standard) (NDL) A US standard for portability of database definitions and application programs.
- netware directory services — (networking) (NDS) Novell, Inc.'s directory services for Netware, Windows NT, and Unix. The NDS directory represents each network resource (user, hardware, or application) as an object of a certain class, where each class has certain properties. For example, User and Print Server are object classes and a user has over 80 properties such as name, login, password, department, and title. The directory is hierarchical, divided into branches by rules of containment. A given object can only belong to a given container (or branch). The rules governing classes, properties and, rules of containment are known as the schema.
- newfoundland standard time — one of the standard times used in Canada, three and a half hours behind Greenwich Mean Time
- nondeterministic automaton — (theory) (Or "probabilistic automaton") An automaton in which there are several possible actions (outputs and next states) at each state of the computation such that the overall course of the computation is not completely determined by the program, the starting state, and the initial inputs. See also nondeterministic Turing Machine.
- not get a word in edgeways — If you say that you cannot get a word in edgeways, you are complaining that you do not have the opportunity to speak because someone else is talking so much.
- not get a word in edgewise — If you say that you cannot get a word in edgewise, you are complaining that you do not have the opportunity to speak because someone else is talking so much.
- obscene publications squad — a division of the police force which deals with illegal books, pictures, or films which are judged obscene because they deal with sex or violence in a way that is considered offensive to the general public
- official production system — (language) (OPS) The first production system (i.e. rule based) programming language, developed at CMU in 1970 and used for building expert systems. OPS was originally written in Franz Lisp and later ported to other LISP dialects.
- on the straight and narrow — If something keeps people on the straight and narrow, it helps to keep them living an honest or healthy life.