25-letter words containing i, d, e
- intermittent claudication — pain and cramp in the calf muscles, aggravated by walking and caused by an insufficient supply of blood
- internal field separators — (operating system) ($IFS) A predefined environment variable in the Unix Bourne shell whose default value is the three-character string containing space, tab and line feed. Any string of one or more of these characters separates the command and each of its arguments in a command line. $IFS also tells the shell's built-in read command where to split an input line when reading into multiple variables. E.g. setting IFS=: would be appropriate for reading a file with ':'-separated fields, such as /etc/passwd.
- internet service provider — (company, networking) (ISP) A company which provides other companies or individuals with access to, or presence on, the Internet. Most ISPs are also Internet Access Providers; extra services include help with design, creation and administration of websites, training and administration of intranets and domain name registration.
- jakob-creutzfeldt disease — Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
- jean-maurice-Émile baudot — (person) (1845-1903) The inventor of the Baudot code. Baudot joined the French Post & Telegraph Administration in 1869 as a telegraph operator. In his own time he developed a code for sending several messages at once. In 1874 Baudot patented his first printing telegraph where signals were translated onto paper tape. The Baudot code was adopted first in France and then by other nations for
and transmissions. The unit of transmission speed, baud, is named after him. - kabardino-balkar republic — a constituent republic of S Russia, on the N side of the Caucasus Mountains. Capital: Nalchik. Pop: 900 500 (2002). Area: 12 500 sq km (4825 sq miles)
- know something inside out — to know something thoroughly or perfectly
- konigsberg bridge problem — a mathematical problem in graph theory, solved by Leonhard Euler, to show that it is impossible to cross all seven bridges of the Prussian city of Königsberg in a continuous path without recrossing any bridge.
- kwantung leased territory — a strategic territory of NE China, at the S tip of the Liaodong Peninsula of Manchuria: leased forcibly by Russia in 1898; taken over by Japan in 1905; occupied by the Soviet Union in 1945 and subsequently returned to China on the condition of shared administration; made part of Liaoning province by China in 1954. Area: about 3400 sq km (1300 sq miles)
- la línea de la concepción — a town in SW Spain, on the Bay of Gibraltar. Pop: 61 892 (2003 est)
- land of the little sticks — the part of the north of Canada that lies south of the tree line but contains only stunted evergreens or dwarf deciduous trees.
- language sensitive editor — (LSE) A language-sensitive editor from DEC.
- language-sensitive editor — An editor that is aware of the syntactic, semantic and in some cases the structural rules of a specific programming language and provides a framework for the user to enter source code. Programs or changes to previously stored programs are incrementally parsed into an abstract syntax tree and automatically checked for correctness.
- leaf distribution limited — A UK connectivity software supplier which also provides SERVELAN, a country-wide Internet access service. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Address: 7 Elmwood, Chineham Business Park, Crockford Lane, BASINGSTOKE RG24 0WG. Telephone: +44 (1256) 707 777. Fax: +44 (1256) 707 555.
- les demoiselles d'avignon — a painting (1907) by Pablo Picasso.
- letters of administration — a formal document nominating a specified person to take over, administer, and dispose of an estate when there is no executor to carry out the testator's will
- licensed vocational nurse — a person with specified training who has become licensed to provide vocational assistance to patients. Abbreviation: LVN.
- limited liability company — a company which operates with limited liability
- limited-slip differential — an automotive differential that can transfer power from a wheel that has lost traction to one that has not.
- local education authority — a body that is responsible for education in a particular area
- lowest common denominator — least common denominator.
- magnetic character reader — a device that automatically scans and interprets characters printed with magnetic ink. It operates by the process of magnetic character recognition
- magnetohydromagnetic wave — Physics. Alfvén wave.
- medical officer of health — a person appointed by a local or national authority to be in charge of its health policy
- melanesian pidgin english — Neo-Melanesian.
- memorandum of association — a document giving details such as the company's name, the purpose of the company, and the address of its registered office that is legally required when incorporating a company in certain countries such as the UK
- metal oxide semiconductor — a three-layer sandwich of a metal, an insulator (usually an oxide of the substrate), and a semiconductor substrate, used in integrated circuits. Abbreviation: MOS.
- methylrosaniline chloride — gentian violet.
- miguel hidalgo y costilla — Miguel [mee-gel] /miˈgɛl/ (Show IPA), 1753–1811, Mexican priest, patriot, and revolutionist.
- much/little to commend it — If you say that something has much to commend it, you approve of it. If you say that something has little to commend it, you disapprove of it.
- multi-scene control board — preset board.
- murders in the rue morgue — a short story (1841) by Edgar Allan Poe.
- national advanced systems — (company) (NAS) A company, previously known as ITEL, that made IBM plug-compatible hardware and was bought by Hitachi.
- national enterprise board — a public corporation established in 1975 to help the economy of the UK. In 1981 it merged with the National Research and Development Council to form the British Technology Group
- net positive suction head — The net positive suction head is a measure of a pump's performance.
- network computing devices — (company) (NCD) Producer of X terminals, PC-Xware and Z-Mail.
- never do things by halves — If you say that someone never does things by halves, you mean that they always do things very thoroughly.
- new england boiled dinner — boiled dinner.
- nine/seven/ten-day wonder — If you say that someone or something is a nine -day wonder or a one -day wonder, you disapprove of the fact that they are attracting so much interest and attention, because you think that their popularity will only last for a very short time.
- no disrespect (to sb/sth) — You can say 'no disrespect to someone or something' when you are just about to criticize them, in order to indicate that you are not hostile towards them or admire them for other things.
- non-algorithmic procedure — heuristic
- normal equivalent deviate — a value x such that the integral of a normal curve over all those values of the independent variable less than x is equal to the given probability.
- not for the faint-hearted — If you say that something is not for the faint-hearted, you mean that it is an extreme or very unusual example of its kind, and is not suitable for people who like only safe and familiar things.
- nuffield teaching project — (in Britain) a complete school programme in mathematics, science, languages, etc, with suggested complementary theory and practical work
- oblique circular cylinder — a cylinder generated by the revolution of a parallelogram other than a rectangle about one of its sides.
- on the big/small etc side — If you say that something is on the small side, you are saying politely that you think it is slightly too small. If you say that someone is on the young side, you are saying politely that you think they are slightly too young.
- on the horns of a dilemma — one of the bony, permanent, hollow paired growths, often curved and pointed, that project from the upper part of the head of certain ungulate mammals, as cattle, sheep, goats, or antelopes.
- on the side of the angels — If you say that someone is on the side of the angels, you believe very strongly that what they are doing is right.
- on the understanding that — with the condition that; providing
- open educational resource — Usually, open educational resources. a piece of content or a tool for teaching or learning, often developed online, that is made available free of charge for anyone to use, revise, adapt, or redistribute. Abbreviation: OER.