22-letter words containing d, i, t, o, g
- pavlovian conditioning — conditioning (def 2).
- picture of dorian gray — a novel (1891) by Oscar Wilde.
- play one's cards right — a usually rectangular piece of stiff paper, thin pasteboard, or plastic for various uses, as to write information on or printed as a means of identifying the holder: a 3″ × 5″ file card; a membership card.
- potassium-argon dating — a method for estimating the age of a mineral or rock, based on measurement of the rate of decay of radioactive potassium into argon.
- primate of all england — a title of the archbishop of Canterbury.
- privileged instruction — A machine code instruction that may only be executed when the processor is running in supervisor mode. Privileged instructions include operations such as I/O and memory management.
- productivity agreement — an agreement whereby the employees of an organization agree to changes which are intended to improve productivity in return for an increase in pay or other benefits
- programmed instruction — a progressively monitored, step-by-step teaching method, employing small units of information or learning material and frequent testing, whereby the student must complete or pass one stage before moving on to the next.
- pyridostigmine bromide — a cholinesterase inhibitor, C 9 H 1 3 BrN 2 O 2 , used in its bromide form in the treatment of myasthenia gravis.
- range of accommodation — the range of distance over which an object can be accurately focused on the retina by accommodation of the eye.
- rectangular coordinate — Usually, rectangular coordinates. either of two Cartesian coordinates in which the axes meet at right angles.
- registered shareholder — someone who holds or owns a stock registered to their name
- restricted users group — a group of people who, with knowledge of a secret password, or by some other method, have access to restricted information stored in a computer
- retrograde ejaculation — ejaculation of semen backward toward the bladder instead of forward through the urethra.
- santiago de compostela — a city in and the capital of Chile, in the central part.
- satellite broadcasting — the transmission of television or radio programmes from an artificial satellite at a power suitable for direct reception in the home
- see the light (of day) — to come into existence
- sleeping accommodation — place where people can sleep
- social disorganization — disruption or breakdown of the structure of social relations and values resulting in the loss of social controls over individual and group behavior, the development of social isolation and conflict, and a sense of estrangement or alienation from the mainstream of one's culture; the condition or state of anomie.
- structured programming — the design and coding of programs by a methodology (top-down) that successively breaks problems into smaller, nested subunits.
- swings and roundabouts — If you say that a situation is swings and roundabouts, you mean that there are as many gains as there are losses.
- take something as read — to take something for granted as a fact; understand or presume
- tapered roller bearing — a rolling bearing that uses tapered rollers running in coned races and is able to accept axial thrust as well as providing shaft location
- targa graphics adaptor — (graphics, file format) (TGA) The Truevision Targa Graphics Adaptor file format. The TGA format is a common bitmap file format for storage of 24-bit images. It supports colourmaps, alpha channels, compression and comments. More information is available from Truevision and The Graphics File Format Page.
- the (great) depression — the period of economic depression which began in 1929 and lasted through most of the 1930s
- the golden gate bridge — a bridge crossing the strait between the Pacific and San Francisco Bay, with a central span of 1280 m (4200 ft)
- through thick and thin — having relatively great extent from one surface or side to the opposite; not thin: a thick slice.
- to be in running order — if something is in running order it is functioning correctly and efficiently
- to get/be carried away — If you get carried away or are carried away, you are so eager or excited about something that you do something hasty or foolish.
- to ride roughshod over — If you say that someone is riding roughshod over a person or their views, you disapprove of them because they are using their power or authority to do what they want, completely ignoring that person's wishes.
- underground combustion — Underground combustion is the process of heating oil to allow it to flow more easily and make it easier to recover.
- video graphics adapter — Video Graphics Array
- video graphics adaptor — Video Graphics Array
- wardour street english — affectedly archaic speech or writing
- wrong end of the stick — a complete misunderstanding of a situation, explanation, etc