25-letter words containing f, e, m, c, o
- of someone's acquaintance — A person of your acquaintance is someone who you have met and know.
- office of war information — OWI.
- single document interface — (programming) (SDI) A limitation applying to an application program that only shows a single windows giving a view of one document at a time. The opposite is Multiple Document Interface (MDI).
- single wingback formation — an offensive formation in which the wingback lines up outside of and about one yard behind an end, the quarterback lines up lateral to the wingback but about midway between the same end and the center, the fullback is three or four yards behind the middle of the line, and the tailback lines up one yard behind the fullback on the other side of the line from the wingback and quarterback.
- specific fuel consumption — Specific fuel consumption is the amount of fuel consumed by a vehicle for each unit of power output.
- the calm before the storm — You can use the calm before the storm to refer to a quiet period in which there is little or no activity, before a period in which there is a lot of trouble or intense activity.
- the meteorological office — a British Government department supplying weather forecasts
- thermoelectromotive force — the electromotive force developed by the thermoelectric effect.
- time domain reflectometer — (hardware, networking) (TDR) An electronic device for detecting and locating short- or open-circuits in an Ethernet cable. TDRs can also measure how the characteristic impedance of a line varies along its length.
- to catch sight of someone — If you catch sight of someone, you suddenly see them, often briefly.
- to someone's satisfaction — If you do something to someone's satisfaction, they are happy with the way that you have done it.
- too close etc for comfort — If you say that something is, for example, too close for comfort, you mean you are worried because it is closer than you would like it to be.
- uniform naming convention — Universal Naming Convention
- uniform resource citation — (web) (URC) A set of attribute/value pairs describing an object. Some of the values may be URIs of various kinds. Others may include, for example, athorship, publisher, datatype, date, copyright status and shoe size. A URC is not normally considered as a string, but a set of fields and values with some defined free formatting.