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26-letter words containing c, r, o, s, d

  • 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.
  • human resources department — the department in an organization dealing with matters involving employees, as hiring, training, labor relations, and benefits.
  • hydrogenated glucose syrup — a syrup produced by the incomplete hydrolysis of starch followed by the hydrogenation of the glucose syrup, and used as a sweetener in confectionery, etc
  • individualized instruction — a teaching method tailored to the skills, abilities, and interests of the individual student
  • integrated data processing — IDP.
  • 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
  • keep one's fingers crossed — any of the terminal members of the hand, especially one other than the thumb.
  • lead someone a merry chase — to cause someone trouble by luring into a vain pursuit
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • organophosphorus-compounds — Biochemistry. any of a variety of organic compounds that contain phosphorus and often have intense neurotoxic activity: originally developed as nerve gases, now widely used as insecticides and fire retardants.
  • pick up the threads of sth — If you pick up the threads of an activity, you start it again after an interruption. If you pick up the threads of your life, you become more active again after a period of failure or bad luck.
  • post-and-beam construction — wall construction in which beams rather than studs are used to support heavy posts.
  • provence-alpes-côte d'azur — metropolitan region of SE France: 12,124 sq mi (31,401 sq km); pop. 4,258,000; chief city, Marseille
  • psychophysiologic disorder — any of a group of disorders, as tension headache, characterized by physical symptoms that are partly induced by emotional factors.
  • quasi-stellar radio source — a quasar having detectable radio emission. Abbreviation: QSS.
  • record management services — (operating system)   (RMS) Procedures in the VMS operating system that programs call to process files and records within files. RMS allows programs to issue GET and PUT requests at the record level (record I/O) as well as read and write blocks (block I/O). VMS RMS is an integral part of the system software; its procedures run in executive mode.
  • red-backed squirrel monkey — a related species, Saimiri oerstedi, of Central America, having a reddish coat and dark brown limbs
  • reticuloendothelial system — the aggregate of the phagocytic cells, including certain cells of the bone marrow, lymphatic system, liver, and spleen, that have reticular and endothelial characteristics and function in the immune system's defense against foreign bodies. Abbreviation: RES.
  • richardson ground squirrel — a ground squirrel, Citellus richardsoni, of sagebrush and grassland areas of the northwestern U.S. and adjacent regions in Canada.
  • sangre de cristo mountains — a mountain range in S Colorado and N New Mexico: part of the Rocky Mountains. Highest peak: Blanca Peak, 4364 m (14 317 ft)
  • santiago de los caballeros — a city in the N central Dominican Republic.
  • schroder-bernstein theorem — the theorem of set theory that if two sets are so related that each can be placed in one-to-one correspondence with a subset of the other, then the sets are equivalent.
  • service discovery protocol — (protocol)   (SDP) A Bluetooth protocol in the Core Protocol Stack that allows devices to connect to other services.
  • song of the three children — a book of the Apocrypha, included as part of the third chapter of Daniel in the Douay Bible.
  • statistical-thermodynamics — the science that deals with average properties of the molecules, atoms, or elementary particles in random motion in a system of many such particles and relates these properties to the thermodynamic and other macroscopic properties of the system.
  • straight-line depreciation — Straight-line depreciation is a method of depreciation in which an equal amount of depreciation is taken each year.
  • subscriber identity module — (telecommunications, wireless)   (SIM or "SIM card") A component, usually in the form of a miniature smart-card, that is theoretically tamper-proof and is used to associate a mobile subscriber with a mobile network subscription. The SIM holds the subscriber's unique MSISDN along with secret information such as a private encryption key and encryption and digital signature algorithms. Most SIMs also contain non-volatile storage for network and device management, contact lists, text messages sent and received, logos and in some cases even small Java programs.
  • super video graphics array — (hardware)   (SVGA) A video display standard created by VESA for IBM PC compatible personal computers. The resolution is 800 x 600 4-bit pixels. Each pixel can therefore be one of 16 colours. See Video Graphics Array.
  • system product interpreter — Restructured EXtended eXecutor
  • the other side of the coin — You use the other side of the coin to mention a different aspect of a situation.
  • the short end of the stick — the worst of a deal
  • to be pressed into service — To press someone or something into service means to use them temporarily for a particular purpose.
  • to get down to brass tacks — If you get down to brass tacks, you discuss the basic, most important facts of a situation.
  • to set the record straight — If you set the record straight or put the record straight, you show that something which has been regarded as true is in fact not true.
  • transport driver interface — (networking)   (TDI) Developed by SUN, IBM, and Microsoft (and others?), the TDI is a software interface between the protocols and application programing interface layers of the Windows NT network model.
  • udmurt autonomous republic — an autonomous republic in the Russian Federation in Europe. 16,250 sq. mi. (42,088 sq. km). Capital: Izhevsk.
  • ulster defence association — (in Northern Ireland) a Loyalist paramilitary organization
  • united states marine corps — Marine Corps. Abbreviation: USMC.
  • universal time coordinated — incorrect term for coordinated universal time.
  • very long instruction word — (language, architecture)   (VLIW) Used to describe a machine code instruction set implemented using horizontal microcode. A horizontally encoded instruction word which encodes four or more operations might be considered "very long". VLIW architectures are sometimes classified as a type of static superscalar architecture. They are static in the sense that which units operate in parallel is determined by the instruction rather than by dynamic scheduling at run time. Producing code for VLIW machines is difficult; trace scheduling is a helpful compiler technique. The most famous VLIW machine was built by (the late) Multiflow Computer, Inc.
  • victoria and albert museum — a museum of the fine and applied arts in London, originating from 1856 and given its present name and site in 1899
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