22-letter words containing i, b, a

full english breakfast — morning meal of eggs, bacon, etc.
general public licence — (spelling) It's spelled "General Public License". (In the UK, "licence" is a noun and "license" is a verb (like "advice"/"advise") but in the US both are spelled "license").
general public license — (legal) (GPL, note US spelling) The licence applied to most software from the Free Software Foundation and the GNU project and other authors who choose to use it. The licences for most software are designed to prevent users from sharing or changing it. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee the freedom to share and change free software - to make sure the software is free for all its users. The GPL is designed to make sure that anyone can distribute copies of free software (and charge for this service if they wish); that they receive source code or can get it if they want; that they can change the software or use pieces of it in new free programs; and that they know they can do these things. The GPL forbids anyone to deny others these rights or to ask them to surrender the rights. These restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for those who distribute copies of the software or modify it. See also General Public Virus.
great australian bight — a wide bay in S Australia.
gum bichromate process — a contact printing method in which the image is formed on a coating of sensitized gum containing a suitable colored pigment and potassium or ammonium dichromate.
hamishah asar bishevat — Tu Bishevat.
have a bun in the oven — to be pregnant
have a way with sth/sb — If you say that a person has a way with something or someone, you mean that that person seems to have a natural skill or instinct for dealing with them.
hepatitis non-a, non-b — a disease of the liver that is clinically indistinguishable from hepatitis B but is caused by a retrovirus or retroviruslike agent.
hermann-mauguin symbol — a notation for indicating a particular point group.
holy day of obligation — a day on which Roman Catholics are duty-bound to attend Mass and abstain from certain kinds of work.
i don't know about you — You can say 'I don't know about you' to indicate that you are going to give your own opinion about something and you want to find out if someone else feels the same.
in all one's born days — so far in one's life
in one's birthday suit — naked; nude
in one's own back yard — close at hand
in someone's bad books — regarded by someone with disfavour
in/within sb's hearing — If someone says something in your hearing or within your hearing, you can hear what they say because they are with you or near you.
inertia-reel seat belt — a type of car seat belt in which the belt is free to unwind from a metal drum except when the drum locks as a result of rapid deceleration
integrative bargaining — a type of bargaining in which all parties involved recognize that there are common problems requiring mutual resolution
interactive whiteboard — a smooth, glossy sheet of white plastic that can be written on with a colored pen or marker in the manner of a blackboard.
interoperable database — A database front-end which communicates with multiple heterogenous databases and makes them appear as a single homogenous entity with semantic calls. See ODBC.
islands of the blessed — lands where the souls of heroes and good men were taken after death
it's london to a brick — it is certain
japanese umbrella pine — a single aberrant species of pine, Sciadopitys verticillata, in which the leaves are fused in pairs and the crown is spire-shaped
justification by works — the belief that a person becomes just before God by the performance of good works: the doctrine against which Luther protested in inaugurating the Protestant Reformation.
keesler air force base — a U.S. Air Force installation in S Mississippi, near Biloxi.
klebs-loffler bacillus — a bacterium, Corynebacterium diphtheriae, which causes diphtheria.
label switching router — (networking) (LSR) A device that typically resides somewhere in the middle of a network and is capable of forwarding datagrams by label switching. In many cases, especially early versions of MPLS networks, a LSR will typically be a modified ATM switch that forwards datagrams based upon a label in the VPI/VCI field.
lady's not for burning — a verse play (1948) by Christopher Fry.
liberal democrat party — The Liberal Democrat Party is the third largest political party in Britain and the main centre party. It believes in improving the constitution and the voting system and in providing good welfare services.
like a bat out of hell — very fast
little st bernard pass — a pass over the Savoy Alps, between Bourg-Saint-Maurice, France, and La Thuile, Italy: 11th-century hospice. Height: 2187 m (7177 ft)
lower canada rebellion — an uprising of 1837, quickly crushed by the British militia, against the British colonial administration in Quebec.
make a beeline for sth — If you make a beeline for a place, you go to it as quickly and directly as possible.
make a big deal out of — to attach extreme importance to; make a big fuss about
make contact (with sb) — If you make contact with someone, you find out where they are and talk or write to them.
make out like a bandit — a robber, especially a member of a gang or marauding band.
maxwell air force base — U.S. Air Force installation in SE central Alabama, NW of Montgomery: site of U.S. Air Force Advanced School.
metasyntactic variable — (grammar) Strictly, a variable used in metasyntax, but often used for any name used in examples and understood to stand for whatever thing is under discussion, or any random member of a class of things under discussion. The word foo is the canonical example. To avoid confusion, hackers never (well, hardly ever) use "foo" or other words like it as permanent names for anything. In filenames, a common convention is that any filename beginning with a metasyntactic-variable name is a scratch file that may be deleted at any time. To some extent, the list of one's preferred metasyntactic variables is a cultural signature. They occur both in series (used for related groups of variables or objects) and as singletons. Here are a few common signatures: bazola, ztesch: Stanford (from mid-'70s on). zxc, spqr, wombat: Cambridge University (England). shme: Berkeley, GeoWorks, Ingres. Pronounced /shme/ with a short /e/. blarg, wibble: New Zealand Of all these, only "foo" and "bar" are universal (and baz nearly so). The compounds foobar and "foobaz" also enjoy very wide currency. Some jargon terms are also used as metasyntactic names; barf and mumble, for example. See also Commonwealth Hackish for discussion of numerous metasyntactic variables found in Great Britain and the Commonwealth.
miniature bull terrier — one of an English breed of small muscular dogs resembling a smaller version of a standard bull terrier, with a short, flat, harsh coat of glossy white or white with brindle patches.
missing persons bureau — the part of the Police Force dealing with tracing missing people
motorcycle combination — a motorcycle with a sidecar attached
mozilla public license — Open source license
much ado about nothing — a comedy (1598?) by Shakespeare.
native elm bark beetle — elm bark beetle (def 2).
nickel-cadmium battery — a storage battery, with an alkaline electrolyte, having nickel oxide as the positive element and cadmium as the negative.
non-maskable interrupt — (NMI) An IRQ 7 on the PDP-11 or 680x0 or the NMI line on an 80x86. In contrast with a priority interrupt (which might be ignored, although that is unlikely), an NMI is *never* ignored.
object-oriented pascal — Object Pascal
obligational authority — the necessary authority that precedes budget spending by a government agency or department, granted by Congress through appropriations.
obtaining by deception — the offence of dishonestly obtaining the property of another by some deception or misrepresentation of facts

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