22-letter words containing d, r, o, l
- forth modification lab — (event) (FORML) A Forth conference held every November on the West coast of the USA ().
- four-hundred-day clock — a clock that needs to be wound once a year, having the works exposed under a glass dome and utilizing a torsion pendulum.
- gallamine triethiodide — a neuromuscular blocking drug, C 30 H 60 I 3 N 3 O 3 , similar to curare, used as a skeletal muscle relaxant in conjunction with surgical anesthesia.
- generalized coordinate — Usually, generalized coordinates. one of a minimum set of coordinates needed to specify the state or position of a given system.
- gloria in excelsis deo — the hymn beginning, in Latin, Gloria in Excelsis Deo, “Glory in the highest to God,” and in the English version, “Glory be to God on high.”.
- gold-exchange standard — a monetary system in one country in which currency is maintained at a par with that of another country that is on the gold standard.
- golden needle mushroom — enoki.
- golden-crowned kinglet — a yellowish-green kinglet, Regulus satrapa, of North America, having a yellow or orange patch on the top of the head.
- gravitational redshift — (in general relativity) the shift toward longer wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation emitted by a source in a gravitational field, especially at the surface of a massive star.
- great glen of scotland — Glen More
- green around the gills — the respiratory organ of aquatic animals, as fish, that breathe oxygen dissolved in water.
- gridiron-tailed lizard — zebra-tailed lizard.
- gross national product — the total monetary value of all final goods and services produced in a country during one year. Abbreviation: GNP.
- harvard classification — a classification of stars based on the characteristic spectral absorption lines and bands of the chemical elements present
- hexahydroxycyclohexane — inositol.
- hold the purse strings — hold the purse strings, to have the power to determine how money shall be spent.
- hook, line, and sinker — a curved or angular piece of metal or other hard substance for catching, pulling, holding, or suspending something.
- horn-rimmed spectacles — spectacles with rims made of material resembling horn
- hospital administrator — a person who works in the management team of a hospital
- house of bernarda alba — a drama (1941) by Federico García Lorca.
- hybrid multiprocessing — (parallel) (HMP) The kind of multitasking which OS/2 supports. HMP provides some elements of symmetric multiprocessing, using add-on IBM software called MP/2. OS/2 SMP was planned for release in late 1993.
- hydrocinnamic aldehyde — a colorless liquid, C 9 H 10 O, having a floral odor, used in perfumery and flavoring.
- hydrogen embrittlement — the weakening of metal by the sorption of hydrogen during a pickling process, such as that used in plating
- in all one's born days — so far in one's life
- in on the ground floor — in at the beginning (of a business, etc.) and thus in an especially advantageous position
- in your wildest dreams — If you say that you could not imagine a particular thing in your wildest dreams, you are emphasizing that you think it is extremely strange or unlikely.
- industrial archaeology — the study of past industrial machines, works, etc
- industrialized country — a country characterized by industry on an extensive scale
- initial program loader — (operating system) (IPL) A bootstrap loader which loads the part of an operating system needed to load the remainder of the operating system.
- instruction scheduling — The compiler phase that orders instructions on a pipelined, superscalar, or VLIW architecture so as to maximise the number of function units operating in parallel and to minimise the time they spend waiting for each other. Examples are filling a delay slot; interspersing floating-point instructions with integer instructions to keep both units operating; making adjacent instructions independent, e.g. one which writes a register and another which reads from it; separating memory writes to avoid filling the write buffer. Norman P. Jouppi and David W. Wall, "Available Instruction-Level Parallelism for Superscalar and Superpipelined Processors", Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, pp. 272--282, 1989.
- intermetallic compound — a compound of two or more metals.
- international standard — (standard) The series of standards from ISO and its subcommitees.
- interoperable database — A database front-end which communicates with multiple heterogenous databases and makes them appear as a single homogenous entity with semantic calls. See ODBC.
- it's london to a brick — it is certain
- judge advocate general — the chief legal officer of an army, navy, or air force.
- ketamine hydrochloride — a powerful anesthetic, C13H16ClNO·HCl, used in surgery
- klinefelter's syndrome — an abnormal condition in which at least one extra X chromosome is present in a male: characterized by reduced or absent sperm production, small testicles, and in some cases enlarged breasts.
- lady's not for burning — a verse play (1948) by Christopher Fry.
- land of the rising sun — Japan.
- large magellanic cloud — a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way galaxy, appearing as a hazy cloud in the southern constellations Dorado and Mensa.
- lesser spotted dogfish — a small spotted European shark, Scyliorhinus caniculus
- let sth drop/fall/slip — If you let drop, let fall, or let slip information, you reveal it casually or by accident, during a conversation about something else.
- letter of introduction — a letter given by one person to another, as an introduction to a third party
- liberal democrat party — The Liberal Democrat Party is the third largest political party in Britain and the main centre party. It believes in improving the constitution and the voting system and in providing good welfare services.
- linear induction motor — an electric motor in which a movable part moves in a straight line, with power being supplied by a varying magnetic field set up by a fixed part of the system, as a metal rail on the ground.
- little lord fauntleroy — (italics) a children's novel (1886) by Frances H. Burnett.
- local shared resources — (operating system) (LSR) A way of controlling VSAM buffers in OS/390.
- local standard of rest — a frame of reference for a portion of the universe in which the mean motion of nearby stars is zero.
- lofoten and vesterålen — a group of islands off the NW coast of Norway, within the Arctic Circle. Largest island: Hinnøy. Pop: 54 589 (2004 est). Area: about 5130 sq km (1980 sq miles)
- lord high commissioner — the Queen's representative