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26-letter words containing a, t, e, m, p, o

  • metropolitan museum of art — the principal museum in New York City: founded in 1870 and housed in its present premises in Central Park since 1880
  • micronetics standard mumps — (MSM) A version of MUMPS for the IBM PC RT and R6000.
  • 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.
  • national merit scholarship — one of some 6000 college scholarships awarded annually since 1956, by the nonprofit, grant-supported National Merit Scholarship Corporation, to high-school students (National Merit Scholars) on the basis of scholastic record, personal character, and score on a test administered nationally.
  • new business profit margin — A new business profit margin is a system used by insurers to measure the cost of and profit from writing new policies.
  • 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 demand: usu phr after v — If something is available or happens on demand, you can have it or it happens whenever you want it or ask for it.
  • open document architecture — (standard)   (ODA) ISO standard (8613) for describing documents. It allows text, graphics, and facsimile documents to be transferred between different systems.
  • period-luminosity relation — the relationship between the period of light variation and of the absolute magnitude of Cepheid variable stars.
  • plain old telephone system — Public Switched Telephone Network
  • pokémon exception handling — (programming, humour)   A humourous term for a try-catch exception handling construct with no constraint on which exceptions will be caught, for when you just "Gotta Catch 'Em All." (a slogan used in the Pokémon media empire). Pokémon is a trademark of the Pokémon Company of Japan.
  • political action committee — A political action committee is an organization which campaigns for particular political policies, and that gives money to political parties or candidates who support those policies. The abbreviation PAC is also used.
  • portable forth environment — (language)   (PFE) A highly portable Forth development system based on the ANSI standard for Forth, by Dirk-Uwe Zoller of FHT, Mannheim, Germany. PFE aims to be correct, complete, usable, and simple but it isn't optimised for speed. It supports all dpANS word sets. It runs on Linux, RS/6000, and HP-UX. E-mail: Guido Draheim <[email protected]>.
  • post-and-beam construction — wall construction in which beams rather than studs are used to support heavy posts.
  • postprandial thermogenesis — the rate at which food is broken down after a meal and used by your body
  • powerpc reference platform — PowerPC Platform
  • professional office system — (messaging)   (PROFS) An office messaging system from IBM, used worldwide, mainly on IBM mainframes.
  • pulse-amplitude modulation — modulation of the amplitude of a train of electric pulses used to carry signals (pulse carrier) Abbreviation: PAM.
  • put a bug in someone's ear — Also called true bug, hemipteran, hemipteron. a hemipterous insect.
  • quite apart from something — used to indicate that you are aware of one aspect of a situation, but that you are going to focus on another aspect
  • real-time operating system — (operating system)   (RTOS) Any operating system where interrupts are guaranteed to be handled within a certain specified maximum time, thereby making it suitable for control of hardware in embedded systems and other time-critical applications. RTOS is not a specific product but a class of operating systems.
  • remembrance of things past — a novel (1913–27) by Marcel Proust.
  • replacement cost insurance — Replacement cost insurance is insurance in which the cost of replacing property is calculated without a reduction for depreciation.
  • retained object complement — an object complement that is kept in its predicative position following the verb when the verb is transformed into the passive voice, as genius in He was considered a genius from (They) considered him a genius.
  • ritz combination principle — the principle that the frequencies of lines in atomic spectra can be represented as differences of a smaller number of terms, all characteristic of the emitting system, interpreted in quantum theory as the emission of exactly one photon in a transition between energy levels.
  • scintillation spectrometer — a scintillation counter adapted for measuring the energy distribution of particles emitted in radioactive processes.
  • search engine optimization — the process of adjusting the content, structure, etc, of a website so that it will be displayed prominently by a search engine
  • simple algebraic extension — a simple extension in which the specified element is a root of an algebraic equation in the given field.
  • stamped addressed envelope — A stamped addressed envelope is an envelope with a stamp on it and your own name and address, which you send to someone so that something can be sent back to you. The abbreviation s.a.e. is also used.
  • tabulating machine company — (company)   The company founded in 1896 by Herman Hollerith to exploit his invention of the punched card. It became part of IBM in 1924.
  • take someone's temperature — If you take someone's temperature you use an instrument called a thermometer to measure the temperature of their body in order to see if they are ill.
  • take steps to do something — to undertake measures with a view to the attainment of some end
  • technological unemployment — unemployment caused by technological changes or new methods of production in an industry or business.
  • the department of the navy — the United States federal department that supports and leads the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps
  • the liberal democrat party — a political party in Britain which was formed from a merger of the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party
  • the single european market — the free trade policy that operates between members of the European Union
  • thematic apperception test — a projective technique in which stories told by a subject about each of a series of pictures are assumed to reveal dominant needs or motivations. Abbreviation: TAT.
  • three-dimensional printing — the creation of solid objects by building up multiple layers, each layer corresponding to a plan held in a digital file
  • to be made public property — to become known to everyone
  • to pip someone at the post — If someone is pipped at the post or pipped to the post they are just beaten in a competition or in a race to achieve something.
  • to spare someone's blushes — If you spare someone's blushes or save someone's blushes, you avoid doing or saying something that will embarrass them.
  • transformational component — a set of transformational rules that convert the deep structure of sentences into their surface structures
  • traveling salesman problem — any mathematical problem that involves determination of the shortest path through several points.
  • triple combination therapy — treatment with three different drugs
  • udmurt autonomous republic — an autonomous republic in the Russian Federation in Europe. 16,250 sq. mi. (42,088 sq. km). Capital: Izhevsk.
  • united states marine corps — Marine Corps. Abbreviation: USMC.
  • upper side-band modulation — (communications)   (USB) A kind of modulation applied to a sinusoidal carrier.
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