32-letter words containing f, n
- queen mary and westfield college — (QMW) One of the largest of the multi-faculty schools of the University of London. QMW has some 6000 students and over 600 teaching and research staff organised into seven faculties. QMW was one of the first colleges in the University of London to develop fully the course-unit, or modular, approach to degree programmes. Cross faculty courses are encouraged and the physical proximity of all the College buildings is a major factor in enabling students to adopt an interdisciplinary approach to their studies.
- resource access control facility — (RACF) IBM's large system security product. It originally ran only under MVS but has since been ported to run under VM.
- severe combined immunodeficiency — a group of rare congenital disorders in which both cell-mediated and humoral immunity are lacking, causing susceptibility to a wide variety of illnesses and an inability to live in a normal environment. Abbreviation: SCID.
- software engineering environment — (SEE) A set of management and technical tools to support software development, usually integrated in a coherent framework; equivalent to an IPSE.
- software practice and experience — (publication) (SPE) A journal about software.
- take the wind out of one's sails — air in natural motion, as that moving horizontally at any velocity along the earth's surface: A gentle wind blew through the valley. High winds were forecast.
- the courage of one's convictions — the confidence to act in accordance with one's beliefs
- the strategic defense initiative — the proposal to have a ground- and space-based systems to protect against nuclear attack
- the worse/none the worse for sth — If a person or thing is the worse for something, they have been harmed or badly affected by it. If they are none the worse for it, they have not been harmed or badly affected by it.
- there's no question of doing sth — If you say there is no question of something happening, you are emphasizing that it is not going to happen.
- to (the best of) one's knowledge — as far as one knows; within the range of one's information
- to follow in someone's footsteps — If you follow in someone's footsteps, you do the same things as they did earlier.
- to have mixed feelings about sth — If you have mixed feelings about something or someone, you feel uncertain about them because you can see both good and bad points about them.
- 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 vanish from the radar screens — to go missing; to no longer be visible or able to be detected by anyone
- twist around one's little finger — to have easy and complete control or influence over
- uniform code of military justice — the body of laws governing members of the U.S. armed forces: superseded the Articles of War in 1951
- united states information agency — an independent agency, created in 1953 and known from 1978 to 1982 as the International Communication Agency, that administers the government's overseas information and cultural programs. Abbreviation: USIA.
- want in (or out or off, etc. ) — to want to get, go, or come in (or out, off, etc.)