26-letter words containing f, e, a, s, t

master chief petty officer — a noncommissioned rank above a senior chief petty officer. Abbreviation: MCPO.
master of the king's music — (in Britain when the sovereign is male) a court post dating from the reign of Charles I. It is an honorary title and normally held by an established English composer
mean time between failures — (specification) (MTBF, or "Mean Time Between Faults") The average time (usually expressed in hours) that a component works without failure. It is calculated by dividing the total number of failures into the total number of operating hours observed. The term can also mean the length of time a user may reasonably expect a device or system to work before an incapacitating fault occurs. See also Mean Time To Recovery.
metropolitan museum of art — the principal museum in New York City: founded in 1870 and housed in its present premises in Central Park since 1880
most-favored-nation clause — a clause in a commercial treaty or contract by which each signatory agrees to give the other the same treatment that is or will be accorded any other nation.
national rifle association — a lobbying organization which advocates the right to own and use firearms
network information system — (spelling) A mis-expansion of NIS.
new business profit margin — A new business profit margin is a system used by insurers to measure the cost of and profit from writing new policies.
newfoundland standard time — one of the standard times used in Canada, three and a half hours behind Greenwich Mean Time
not know someone from adam — to have no knowledge of or acquaintance with someone
official production system — (language) (OPS) The first production system (i.e. rule based) programming language, developed at CMU in 1970 and used for building expert systems. OPS was originally written in Franz Lisp and later ported to other LISP dialects.
on demand: usu phr after v — If something is available or happens on demand, you can have it or it happens whenever you want it or ask for it.
pick up the threads of sth — If you pick up the threads of an activity, you start it again after an interruption. If you pick up the threads of your life, you become more active again after a period of failure or bad luck.
professional office system — (messaging) (PROFS) An office messaging system from IBM, used worldwide, mainly on IBM mainframes.
put your best foot forward — do your best
quite apart from something — used to indicate that you are aware of one aspect of a situation, but that you are going to focus on another aspect
register transfer language — (RTL) 1. A kind of hardware description language (HDL) used in describing the registers of a computer or digital electronic system, and the way in which data is transferred between them. 2. An intermediate code for a machine with an infinite number of registers, used for machine-independent optimisation. RTL was developed by Chris Fraser <[email protected]> and J. Davidson <[email protected]> at the University of Arizona in the early 1980s. RTL is used by the GNU C compiler, gcc and by Davidson's VPCC (Very Portable C compiler).
remembrance of things past — a novel (1913–27) by Marcel Proust.
resistance transfer factor — R factor.
scares the life out of you — If you want to emphasize that something scares you a lot, you can say that it scares the hell out of you or scares the life out of you.
sixty-four-dollar question — the critical or basic question or problem: Whether the measure will get through Congress this session or not is the sixty-four-dollar question.
software writer's language — (language) (SWL) /swil/ An industrial strength dialect of Pascal that allowed multiple source code files, originally developed at Control Data Corporation (CDC) prior to 1973. Development continued at the Integrated Systems Laboratory. SWL was adopted by NCR as its corporate operating system and compiler implementation language (1978-1982+). The NCR SWL dialect was renamed NCRL (NCR Language) in 1981 and continued development [until ?].
ssh file transfer protocol — (networking) (SFTP) A version of File Transfer Protocol (FTP) using an encrypted network connection provided by Secure Shell (SSH), usually SSH 2. The SFTP protocol allows for a range of operations on remote files, making it more like a remote file system protocol. SFTP clients can resume interrupted transfers, get directory listings and remove remote files. SFTP has largely replaced Secure Copy (SCP).
staffordshire bull terrier — one of an English breed of strong, stocky, muscular dogs having a broad skull and a smooth coat, in combinations of red, white, black, or blue, originally raised for bullbaiting and later dogfighting, but now bred as a companion dog.
stand in the way of sth/sb — If you stand in the way of something or stand in a person's way, you prevent that thing from happening or prevent that person from doing something.
state of the union address — an annual message to Congress in which the president reports on the state of the nation and outlines a legislative program: required by the Constitution (Article II, Section 3). Abbreviation: SOTU.
state of the union message — an annual message to Congress in which the president reports on the state of the nation and outlines a legislative program: required by the Constitution (Article II, Section 3). Abbreviation: SOTU.
straight from the shoulder — direct, honest, and forceful in expression; outspoken.
straight-from-the-shoulder — direct, honest, and forceful in expression; outspoken.
take leave of one's senses — to go mad or become irrational
take someone's word for it — to accept or believe what someone says
take something for granted — If you take something for granted, you believe that it is true or accept it as normal without thinking about it.
the fruits of your labours — the profits or gains achieved as a result of hard work
to be a dead ringer for sb — a person who is very similar in appearance to someone else
to catch hold of something — Hold is used in expressions such as grab hold of, catch hold of, and get hold of, to indicate that you close your hand tightly around something, for example to stop something moving or falling.
to hold someone for ransom — If a kidnapper is holding a person for ransom, they keep that person prisoner until they are given what they want.
to laugh in someone's face — If someone laughs in your face, they are openly disrespectful towards you.
to lay a finger on someone — If you say that someone did not lay a finger on a particular person or thing, you are emphasizing that they did not touch or harm them at all.
to lay oneself open to sth — If you lay yourself open to criticism or attack, or if something lays you open to it, something you do makes it possible or likely that other people will criticize or attack you.
to see the back of someone — If you say that you will be glad to see the back of someone, you mean that you want them to leave.
to take a lot/it out of sb — If something takes a lot out of you or takes it out of you, it requires a lot of energy or effort and makes you feel very tired and weak afterwards.
tourist information office — an office that supplies information to people who are visiting an area for pleasure or interest, for example advice on things to see, accommodation, etc
transformational component — a set of transformational rules that convert the deep structure of sentences into their surface structures
transport driver interface — (networking) (TDI) Developed by SUN, IBM, and Microsoft (and others?), the TDI is a software interface between the protocols and application programing interface layers of the Windows NT network model.
two sides of the same coin — opposite but connected ideas
ulster defence association — (in Northern Ireland) a Loyalist paramilitary organization
united states of indonesia — former official name of the Republic of Indonesia.
university of pennsylvania — (body, education) The home of ENIAC and Machiavelli. Address: Philadelphia, PA, USA.
vitamin deficiency disease — an illness caused by a lack of a particular vitamin or vitamins
when the shit hits the fan — at the time that a crisis point is reached or disaster takes place

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