24-letter words containing c, o, r, e, i, g

in someone's good graces — elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action: We watched her skate with effortless grace across the ice. Synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity. Antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness.
instructional technology — (education) Design, development, use, management and evaluation of process and resources for learning. Instructional technology aims to promote the application of validated, practical procedures in the design and delivery of instruction. It is often defined either in terms of media and other technology used (e.g. audiovisual media and equipment and computers), or in terms of a systematic process which encompasses instructional design, development, delivery and evaluation.
interlocking directorate — a corporate directorate that includes one or more members who serve simultaneously in the directorates of other corporations.
kick with the wrong foot — to be of the opposite religion to that which is regarded as acceptable or to that of the person who is speaking
laryngotracheobronchitis — A respiratory disease, a form of croup.
laugh in a person's face — to show open contempt or defiance towards a person
local government officer — an employee of a local council
logical block addressing — (storage) (LBA) A hard disk sector addressing scheme used on all SCSI hard disks, and on ATA-2 conforming IDE hard disks. The addressing conversion is performed by the hard disk firmware. Prior to LBA, combined limitations of IBM PC BIOS and ATA restricted the useful capacity of IDE hard disks on IBM PCs and compatibles to 1024 cylinders * 63 sectors per track * 16 heads * 512 bytes per sector = 528 million bytes = 504 megabytes. Modern BIOSes select LBA mode automatically, and work around the 1024-cylinder BIOS limit by representing a hard disk to the OS as having e.g. half as many cylinders and twice as many heads. However, there is still an unbreakable BIOS disk size limit of 1024 cylinders * 63 sectors per track * 256 heads * 512 bytes per sector = 8 gigabytes, but modern OSes (including Windows 9x, Windows NT and Linux) are not affected by it, since they issue direct LBA-based calls, bypassing the BIOS hard disk services completely.
long-spined sea scorpion — Cottus bubalis or Taurulus bubalis
long-term care insurance — Long-term care insurance is insurance for people who may require long-term health or nursing care, and pays for things such as nursing homes and adult day care.
mach interface generator — (tool, programming) (MIG) An implementation of a subset of Matchmaker that generates C and C++ remote procedure call interfaces for interprocess communication between Mach tasks.
magnetothermoelectricity — thermoelectricity induced or affected by a magnetic field.
maker interchange format — (MIF) A language used to describe a FrameMaker document in a text file. MIF is used to exchange information between FrameMaker and other applications.
medium-scale integration — MSI.
meteorological satellite — an artificial satellite that gathers data concerning the earth's atmosphere and surface in order to aid meteorologists in understanding weather patterns and producing weather forecasts.
nongonococcal urethritis — a widespread sexually transmitted infection of the urethra, caused by the parasite Chlamydia trachomatis, or the mycoplasm Ureaplasma urealyticum, characterized in males by painful urination and discharge from the penis and in females by frequent, painful urination and cervical erosion. Abbreviation: NGU.
object-oriented language — object-oriented programming
officers' training corps — part of the British Army which provides military leadership training to students at UK universities
oligodeoxyribonucleotide — (biochemistry) Any oligonucleotide composed of deoxyribose monomemers.
on the right/wrong track — If you are on the right track, you are acting or progressing in a way that is likely to result in success. If you are on the wrong track, you are acting or progressing in a way that is likely to result in failure.
optical signal processor — optical computing
orographic precipitation — precipitation caused by the lifting of moist air over a mountain barrier.
parallel cousin marriage — marriage between the children of two brothers or two sisters.
physiological atmosphere — ecosphere.
private-key cryptography — (cryptography) As opposed to public-key cryptography, a cryptographic method in which the same key is used to encrypt and decrypt the message. Private-key algorithms include the obsolescent Data Encryption Standard (DES), triple-DES (3DES), the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), also known as Rijndael, Blowfish, Twofish RC2, RC4, RC5 and RC6. A problem with private-key cryptography is that the sender and the recipient of the message must agree on a common key via some alternative secure channel.
privileged communication — a communication that one cannot legally be compelled to divulge, as that to a lawyer from a client
programmable array logic — (hardware) (PAL) A family of fuse-programmable logic integrated circuits originally developed by MMI. Registered or combinatorial output functions are modelled in a sum of products form. Each output is a sum (logical or) of a fixed number of products (logical and) of the input signals. This structure is well suited for automatic generation of programming patterns by logic compilers. PAL devices are programmed by blowing the fuses permanently using overvoltage. Today, more complex devices based on the same original architecture are available (CPLD's for Complex PLD's) that incorporate the equivalent of several original PAL chips. PAL chips are, however, still popular due to their high speed.
progressive conservative — a member of the Progressive Conservative party of Canada.
pure functional language — purely functional language
recharge one's batteries — If you recharge a battery, you put an electrical charge back into the battery by connecting it to a machine that draws power from another source of electricity.
regular checking account — a checking account for which the monthly fee is usually based on the average balance maintained and the number of transactions recorded.
reproductive imagination — the faculty of imagining, or of forming mental images or concepts of what is not actually present to the senses.
revolving charge account — a charge plan offerring revolving credit.
ring down the curtain on — to give forth a clear resonant sound, as a bell when struck: The doorbell rang twice.
scalable vector graphics — (graphics, web) A W3C standard for vector graphics, based on XML.
self-fulfilling prophecy — a prophecy that comes true because of the expectation that it will
senegambia confederation — an economic and political union (1982–89) between Senegal and The Gambia
shadow foreign secretary — the member of the main opposition party in Parliament who would hold the office of Foreign Secretary if their party were in power
she is no spring chicken — she is no longer young
single european currency — the official currency, also known as the Euro, of some of the members of the European Union
stereographic projection — a one-to-one correspondence between the points on a sphere and the extended complex plane where the north pole on the sphere corresponds to the point at infinity of the plane.
teacher training college — a higher-education college that specializes in teacher training
to light the touch paper — if someone lights the touch paper or lights the blue touch paper, they do something which causes anger or excitement
to rise to the challenge — If someone rises to the challenge, they act in response to a difficult situation which is new to them and are successful.
trading standards office — an office of the local authority department that deals with trading standards
video cassette recording — a recording made using a tape recorder for vision and sound signals using magnetic tape in closed plastic cassettes: used for recording and playing back television programmes and films
where one is coming from — to approach or move toward a particular person or place: Come here. Don't come any closer!
work/go/run like a charm — If you say that something worked like a charm, you mean that it was very effective or successful.

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