27-letter words containing d, i, a, t, h
- a chicken and egg situation — If you describe a situation as a chicken and egg situation, you mean that it is impossible to decide which of two things caused the other one.
- a spider's web of something — a tangled arrangement
- added to this/added to that — You use added to this or added to that to introduce a fact that supports or widens what you are saying.
- adrenocorticotropic hormone — ACTH
- advanced risc machines ltd. — (company) (ARM) A company formed in 1990 by Acorn Computers Ltd., Apple Computer, Inc. and VLSI Technology to market and develop the Advanced RISC Machine microprocessor family, originally designed by Acorn. ARM Ltd. also designs and licenses peripheral chips and supplies supporting software and hardware tools. In April 1993, Nippon Investment and Finance, a Daiwa Securities company, became ARM's fourth investor. In May 1994 Samsung became the sixth large company to have a licence to use the ARM processor core. The success of ARM Ltd. and the strategy to widen the availability of RISC technology has resulted in its chips now being used in a range of products including the Apple Newton. As measured by an independent authority, more ARM processors were shipped than SPARC chips in 1993. ARM has also sold three times more chips than the PowerPC consortium. E-mail: armltd.co.uk. Address: Advanced RISC Machines Ltd. Fulbourn Road, Cherry Hinton, Cambridge CB1 4JN, UK. Telephone: +44 (1223) 400 400. Fax: +44 (1223) 400 410.
- audio processing technology — (company) (APT) A company that produces codecs based on predictive analysis rather than frequency coding.
- beard the lion (in his den) — to approach, oppose, etc. an influential or feared person, as in a place where that person has the advantage
- blood is thicker than water — People say 'blood is thicker than water' when they mean that their loyalty to their family is greater than their loyalty to anyone else.
- british standards institute — (body, standard) (BSI) The British member of ISO.
- bury one's head in the sand — to refuse to face a problem
- charge of the light brigade — a poem (1854) by Tennyson, celebrating the British cavalry attack on the Russian position at Balaklava during the Crimean War.
- chief cook and bottlewasher — a person or machine that washes bottles.
- chinese restaurant syndrome — a group of symptoms such as dizziness, headache, and flushing thought to be caused in some people by consuming large amounts of monosodium glutamate, esp as used in Chinese food
- chinese-restaurant syndrome — a reaction, as headache, sweating, etc., to monosodium glutamate, sometimes added to food in Chinese restaurants.
- day and night/night and day — If something happens day and night or night and day, it happens all the time without stopping.
- dibasic potassium phosphate — potassium monophosphate. See under potassium phosphate.
- distinguished conduct medal — a decoration awarded for distinguished conduct in operations in the field against an enemy. Abbreviation: D.C.M.
- distinguished service medal — U.S. Military. a decoration awarded for exceptionally meritorious performance of a duty of great responsibility.
- electronic data interchange — (application, communications) (EDI) The exchange of standardised document forms between computer systems for business use. EDI is part of electronic commerce. EDI is most often used between different companies ("trading partners") and uses some variation of the ANSI X12 standard (USA) or EDIFACT (UN sponsored global standard).
- entity-relationship diagram — entity-relationship model
- far be it from me to do sth — You say far be it from me to disagree, or far be it from me to criticize, when you are disagreeing or criticizing and you want to appear less hostile.
- first law of thermodynamics — any of three principles variously stated in equivalent forms, being the principle that the change of energy of a thermodynamic system is equal to the heat transferred minus the work done (first law of thermodynamics) the principle that no cyclic process is possible in which heat is absorbed from a reservoir at a single temperature and converted completely into mechanical work (second law of thermodynamics) and the principle that it is impossible to reduce the temperature of a system to absolute zero in a finite number of operations (third law of thermodynamics)
- german short-haired pointer — one of a German breed of large sporting dogs having a short hard coat, usually liver or liver and white in color, and a docked tail, used as a versatile hunting dog.
- give sb/sthing a wide berth — If you give someone or something a wide berth, you avoid them because you think they are unpleasant, or dangerous, or simply because you do not like them.
- hashemite kingdom of jordan — official name of Jordan.
- healing by second intention — an act or instance of determining mentally upon some action or result.
- health and safety inspector — a person who inspects workplaces, to check that they do not pose dangers to workers
- hertzsprung-russell diagram — the graph showing the absolute magnitude plotted against the surface temperature for a group of stars.
- high speed serial interface — (hardware, communications) (HSSI) A serial port which supports serial transmit speeds of up to 52 megabits per second. It is typically used for leased lines such as DS3 (44.736 Mbps) and E3 (34 Mbps) and for Wide Area Network devices such as routers.
- high-deductible health plan — In the U.S., a high-deductible health plan is a health insurance plan with lower premiums and higher deductibles than usual.
- hoist with one's own petard — being the victim of one's own schemes
- hotline communications ltd. — (company) The company that developes and distributes Hotline Connect.
- interim standard atmosphere — an agreed theoretical description of the atmosphere for altitudes between 50 and 80 km, pending refinement by further measurements
- internet architecture board — (IAB) The technical body that oversees the development of the Internet suite of protocols. It has two task forces: the Internet Engineering Task Force and the Internet Research Task Force. "IAB" previously stood for Internet Activities Board.
- introgressive-hybridization — the introduction of genes from one species into the gene pool of another species, occurring when matings between the two produce fertile hybrids.
- isonicotinic acid hydrazide — isoniazid.
- knight, death and the devil — an engraving (1513) by Albrecht Dürer.
- mechanically recovered meat — an amalgamation of the gristle, cartilage, and fat removed from animal carcasses, sometimes used in the manufacture of meat products such as sausages and hamburgers
- monoamine oxidase inhibitor — any of various substances, as isocarboxazid and phenelzine, that block enzymatic breakdown of certain monoamine neurotransmitters: used to treat severe depression. Abbreviation: MAOI.
- on the understanding (that) — If you agree to do something on the understanding that something else will be done, you do it because you have been told that the other thing will definitely be done.
- plain old telephone service — (communications) (POTS) The traditional voice service provided by phone companies, especially when opposed to data services. Note that the acronym POTS is sometimes expanded as "Plain Old Telephone System" in which sense it is synonymous to Public Switched Telephone Network but used somewhat derogatively.
- potassium hydrogen tartrate — a colourless or white soluble crystalline salt used in baking powders, soldering fluxes, and laxatives. Formula: KHC4H4O6
- rise/raise sb from the dead — When Christians say that Jesus Christ rose from the dead or raised someone from the dead, they mean that Jesus came back to life after he had died, or brought a dead person back to life.
- rough endoplasmic reticulum — a network of tubular membranes within the cytoplasm of the cell, occurring either with a smooth surface (smooth endoplasmic reticulum) or studded with ribosomes (rough endoplasmic reticulum) involved in the transport of materials.
- soft-coated wheaten terrier — one of an Irish breed of medium-sized sporting terriers having an abundant, soft, medium-length coat, any shade of wheat in color, with its head and face profusely covered with coat.
- stand/turn sth on it's head — If you stand an idea or argument on its head or turn it on its head, you think about it or treat it in a completely new and different way.
- stanford research institute — Former name of SRI International.
- take advantage of something — If you take advantage of something, you make good use of it while you can.
- take sth into consideration — If you take something into consideration, you think about it because it is relevant to what you are doing.
- teach an old dog new tricks — to induce a person of settled habits to adopt new methods or ideas
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