31-letter words containing c, o, d, e, t, r
- the economic and monetary union — a union of nations within the European Union sharing a single market and a single currency (the Euro)
- to burn the candle at both ends — If you burn the candle at both ends, you try to do too many things in too short a period of time so that you have to stay up very late at night and get up very early in the morning to get them done.
- to pour cold water on something — If you pour cold water on an idea or suggestion, you show that you have a low opinion of it.
- training and enterprise council — one of the local bodies established in England and Wales in the early 1990s to administer publicly-funded training-for-work programmes, esp for school leavers
- united states air force academy — an institution at Colorado Springs, Colorado, for the training of U.S. Air Force officers.
- valediction forbidding mourning — a poem (1612) by John Donne.
- web service definition language — (architecture) (WSDL) An XML format for describing network services as a set of endpoints operating on messages containing either "document oriented" or "procedure oriented" information. The operations and messages are described abstractly, and then bound to a concrete network protocol and message format to define an endpoint. Related concrete endpoints are combined into abstract endpoints (services). WSDL is typically used with SOAP over HTTP but it is extensible to allow description of endpoints and their messages independent of what message formats or network protocols.
- western diamondback rattlesnake — an extremely venomous diamondback rattlesnake, Crotalus atrox, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
- windows internet naming service — (networking) (WINS) Software which resolves NetBIOS names to IP addresses.
- zenithal equidistant projection — azimuthal equidistant projection.