25-letter words containing f, e, o, r, s
- tess of the d'urbervilles — a novel (1891) by Thomas Hardy.
- 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 department of defense — the United States federal department concerned with national security
- the first epistle of john — an epistle attributed to the apostle John which counters claims that Jesus Christ came only in spirit and not in the flesh
- the high priestess of sth — if you call a woman the high priestess of a particular thing, you are saying in a slightly mocking way that she is considered by people to be expert in that thing
- the knives are out for sb — If a lot of people want something unpleasant to happen to someone, for example if they want them to lose their job, you can say that the knives are out for that person.
- the leaning tower of pisa — the bell tower of Pisa Cathedral
- the mother of parliaments — the British Parliament: the model and creator of many other Parliaments
- the scholastic profession — the profession of teaching
- the third epistle of john — an epistle attributed to the apostle John and addressed to a man called Gaius, who is praised in the letter
- the trash heap of history — a figurative or imaginative place where forgotten things or people go
- there are no flies on him — he is no fool
- throw dust in the eyes of — to confuse or mislead
- to be on first-name terms — (of two people) knowing each other well enough to call each other by their first names, rather than having to use a more formal title.
- to give someone free rein — If you give free rein to someone, you give them a lot of freedom to do what they want.
- to have irons in the fire — If someone has a lot of irons in the fire, they are involved in several different activities or have several different plans.
- 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.
- trading standards officer — a person who works for a trading standards office
- transport layer interface — (networking, programming) (TLI, or "Transport Level Interface") A protocol-independent interface for accessing network facilities, modelled after the ISO transport layer (level 4), that first appeared in Unix SVR3. TLI is defined by SVID as transport mechanism for networking interfaces, in preference to sockets, which are biased toward IP and friends. A disavantage is that a process cannot use read/write directly, but has to use backends using stdin and stdout to communicate with the network connection. TLI is implemented in SVR4 using the STREAMS interface. It adds no new system calls, just a library, libnsl_s.a. The major functions are t_open, t_bind, t_connect, t_listen, t_accept, t_snd, t_rcv, read, write. According to the Solaris t_open man page, XTI (X/OPEN Transport Interface) evolved from TLI, and supports the TLI API for compatibility, with some variations on semantics.
- transport level interface — Transport Layer Interface
- under the aegis of sb/sth — Something that is done under the aegis of a person or organization is done with their official support and backing.
- 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.
- university of east london — (body, education) (UEL) A UK University with six academic Faculties: Design and The Built Environment, East London Business School, Institute Of Health and Rehabilitation, Faculty Of Science, Social Sciences and Technology.
- world council of churches — an ecumenical organization formed in 1948 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, comprising more than 160 Protestant and Eastern churches in over 48 countries, for the purpose of cooperative, coordinated action in theological, ecclesiastical, and secular matters.
- world's oldest profession — prostitution.