21-letter words containing e, d

model-view-controller — (programming) (MVC) A way of partitioning the design of interactive software; a software architecture pattern. The "model" is the internal workings of the program (the data objects and algorithms), the "view" is how the user sees the state of the model and the "controller" is how the user changes the state or provides input. MVC was the original kind of what is now sometimes called an MV* pattern. Trygve Reenskaug introduced it into Smalltalk-76 while visiting Xerox PARC in the 1970s.
modern apprenticeship — an arrangement that allows a school leaver to gain vocational qualifications while being trained in a job
modulus of elasticity — the ratio of the stress applied to a body or substance to the resulting strain within the elastic limit
mohammed reza pahlavi — 1919-80; shah of Iran (1941-79); deposed
monochloroacetic acid — chloroacetic acid.
mother-of-pearl cloud — nacreous cloud.
motherwell and wishaw — a burgh in the Motherwell district, in S Scotland.
motor neurone disease — Motor neurone disease is a disease which destroys the part of a person's nervous system that controls movement.
move heaven and earth — the abode of God, the angels, and the spirits of the righteous after death; the place or state of existence of the blessed after the mortal life.
mucopolysaccharidoses — Plural form of mucopolysaccharidosis.
multi-ringed compound — A multi-ringed compound is a compound which has 70 or more carbon atoms, often a residual compound.
munchausen's syndrome — a mental disorder in which a patient feigns illness to obtain hospital treatment
muon-catalysed fusion — an experimental form of nuclear fusion in which hydrogen and deuterium muonic atoms are formed. Because the mass of the muon is much larger than that of the electron, the atoms are smaller, and the nuclei are close enough for fusion to occur
near-death experience — A near-death experience is a strange experience that some people who have nearly died say they had when they were unconscious.
needs no introduction — If you say that someone or something needs no introduction, you mean that they are so well known that everyone knows who or what they are.
neither hide nor hair — nothing whatsoever
network administrator — (job) A person who manages a communications network within an organisation. Responsibilities include network security, installing new applications, distributing software upgrades, monitoring daily activity, enforcing licensing agreements, developing a storage management program and providing for routine backups.
nine-banded armadillo — an armadillo, Dasypus novemcinctus, of the southern U.S. to Argentina, having nine hinged bands of bony plates, the female of which usually gives birth to quadruplets that are always of the same sex.
nominative of address — a noun naming the person to whom one is speaking.
non-maintainer upload — (operating system) (NMU) A release of a Debian package by someone other than its usual maintainer. E.g. "The bug was fixed in a recent NMU."
non-repeating decimal — a decimal representation of any irrational number, having the property that no sequence of digits is repeated ad infinitum.
noncustodial sentence — a punishment given by a court of law that does not involve a prison term, such as a fine or a restriction order
nonexecutive director — a director of a commercial company who is not a full-time member of the company but is brought in to advise the other directors
northumberland strait — the part of the Gulf of St. Lawrence that separates Prince Edward Island from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, in SE Canada. About 200 miles (320 km) long; 9–30 miles (15–48 km) wide.
not hold one's breath — If you say that you won't hold your breath, you mean that you do not expect something to happen even though someone has suggested that it might.
notre-dame-des-vertus — an industrial suburb of Paris, on the Seine. Pop: 63 136 (1999)
occupational guidance — advice and guidance relating to employment issues and career choices
of time and the river — a novel (1935) by Thomas Wolfe.
old spanish practices — irregular practices among a group of workers to gain increased financial allowances, reduced working hours, etc
one thing and another — You can use the expression 'one thing and another' to suggest that there are several reasons for something or several items on a list, but you are not going to explain or mention them all.
one-dimensional array — (types) An array with only one dimension; the simplest kind of array, consisting of a sequence of items ("elements"), all of the same type. An element is selected by an integer index that normally starts at zero for the first element and increases by one. The index of the last element is thus the length of the array minus one. A one-dimensional array is also known as a vector. It should not be confused with a list. In some languages, e.g. Perl, all arrays are one-dimensional and higher dimensions are represented as arrays of pointers to arrays (which can have different sizes and can themselves contain pointers to arrays and so on). A one-dimensional array maps simply to memory: the address of an element with index i is A(i) = A0 + i * s where A0 is the base address of the array and s is the size of storage used for each element, the "stride". Elements may be padded to certain address boundaries, e.g. machine words, to increase access speed, in which case the stride will be larger than the amount of data in an element.
open trading protocol — Internet Open Trading Protocol
opposed-piston engine — a reciprocating engine, as a diesel engine, in which each cylinder has two pistons that move simultaneously away from or toward the center.
optical double (star) — double star (sense 2)
ortho-dichlorobenzene — a colorless liquid with a pleasant odor, C 6 H 4 Cl 2 , used as a solvent for a wide range of organic materials.
over and over (again) — repeatedly; time after time
overcurrent detection — Overcurrent detection is a method of establishing that the value of current in a circuit exceeds a particular value for a particular length of time.
overhead-valve engine — I-head engine.
pacific daylight time — the version of Pacific Standard Time that is in use when daylight saving time is being observed
pacific standard time — See under standard time.
packed encoding rules — (protocol, standard) (PER) ASN.1 encoding rules for producing a compact transfer syntax for data structures described in ASN.1, defined in 1994. PER provides a much more compact encoding then BER. It tries to represents the data units using the minimum number of bits. The compactness requires that the decoder knows the complete abstract syntax of the data structure to be decoded, however. Documents: ITU-T X.691, ISO 8825-2.
painter and decorator — a person who paints and decorates houses as a trade
paradoxical intention — (in psychotherapy) the deliberate practice of a neurotic habit or thought, undertaken in order to remove it
partially ordered set — a set in which a relation as “less than or equal to” holds for some pairs of elements of the set, but not for all.
pass the hat (around) — In British English, if you pass the hat around, you collect money from a group of people, for example in order to give someone a present. In American English, you just say pass the hat.
past its sell-by date — the last date on which perishable food should be sold, usually established with some allowance for home storage under refrigeration. Compare shelf life.
paternal grandparents — the parents of someone's father
pathfinder prospectus — a prospectus regarding the flotation of a new company that contains only sufficient details to test the market reaction
payload assist module — a U.S. solid-propellant rocket used to boost a medium-weight spacecraft from a circular low-earth orbit to an elliptical transfer orbit for later insertion into a geosynchronous orbit. Abbreviation: PAM.
pdp assembly language — (language) (PAL) The assembly language for the PDP-8 and PDP-11.

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