29-letter words containing a, u, p
- put sb/go through their paces — If you put someone through their paces or make them go through their paces, you get them to show you how well they can do something.
- put someone through his paces — to test the ability of someone
- put the cart before the horse — a heavy two-wheeled vehicle, commonly without springs, drawn by mules, oxen, or the like, used for the conveyance of heavy goods.
- put the cat among the pigeons — to introduce some violently disturbing new element
- put the moves (or a move) on — to attempt to seduce by the use of deceptive tricks or devices
- resource reservation protocol — (protocol) (RSVP) A protocol that supports quality of service.
- roll out the red carpet (for) — to welcome and entertain in a grand and impressive style
- royal canadian mounted police — Canadian police on horseback
- run something up the flagpole — to pursue a tentative course of action in order to gauge the reaction it receives
- scanning tunneling microscope — a device that uses a moving needle and the tunnel effect to generate a maplike image of the atomic surface structure of matter, thereby achieving even greater magnification than the scanning electron microscope.
- secure file transfer protocol — SSH File Transfer Protocol
- suppressed carrier modulation — an amplitude-modulated wave in which only the sidebands are transmitted, the carrier being removed
- surgical specialist registrar — a hospital doctor senior to a house officer but junior to a consultant, specializing in surgery
- to keep your head above water — If you keep your head above water, you just avoid getting into difficulties; used especially to talk about business.
- training opportunities scheme — a former government scheme offering vocational training to unemployed people
- united kingdom unionist party — a political party (1995–2008), based in Northern Ireland: it was non-sectarian but opposed to a united Ireland
- visual basic for applications — (programming) (VBA) Microsoft's common language for manipulating components of its Microsoft Office suite. It is used as the macro language for these applications and is the primary means of customising and extending them. A VBA program operates on objects representing the application and the entities it manipulates, e.g. a spreadsheet or a range of cells in Microsoft Excel.
- war of the spanish succession — a war (1701–14) fought by Austria, England, the Netherlands, and Prussia against France and Spain, arising from disputes about the succession in Spain after the death of Charles II of Spain.