32-letter words containing e, r, c, h, t
- systems application architecture — (programming) (SAA) IBM's family of standard interfaces which enable software to be written independently of hardware and operating system.
- take one's courage in both hands — to nerve oneself to perform an action
- the courage of one's convictions — the confidence to act in accordance with one's beliefs
- the game is not worth the candle — If you say that the game is not worth the candle, you mean that something is not worth the trouble or effort needed to achieve or obtain it.
- the strategic defense initiative — the proposal to have a ground- and space-based systems to protect against nuclear attack
- time-of-flight mass spectroscopy — a technique for separating ions according to the time required for them to traverse a set distance.
- to have by the short and curlies — to have completely in one's power
- to nail your colours to the mast — If someone nails their colours to the mast, they say what they really think about something.
- to pervert the course of justice — If someone perverts the course of justice, they deliberately do something that will make it difficult to discover who really committed a particular crime, for example, destroying evidence or lying to the police.
- to point the finger of suspicion — To point the finger of suspicion or blame at someone means to make people suspect them of doing wrong or blame them for doing wrong.
- to put the cart before the horse — If you say that someone is putting the cart before the horse, you mean that they are doing things in the wrong order.
- to throw off the shackles of sth — to reject something or free oneself from it because it was preventing one from doing what one wanted to do
- to vanish from the radar screens — to go missing; to no longer be visible or able to be detected by anyone
- virtual sequential access method — Virtual Storage Access Method
- wash one's dirty linen in public — fabric woven from flax yarns.
- weighted average cost of capital — The weighted average cost of capital is the cost of capital that is adjusted according to the percentages of debt financing and equity financing.
- yet another scheme object system — (language) (YASOS) A system for object-oriented programming in Scheme. E-mail: Ken Dickey <[email protected]>