26-letter words containing i, m, p, o, t, e

metropolitan museum of art — the principal museum in New York City: founded in 1870 and housed in its present premises in Central Park since 1880
micronetics standard mumps — (MSM) A version of MUMPS for the IBM PC RT and R6000.
minister without portfolio — a minister of state who is not appointed to any specific department in a government.
monobasic sodium phosphate — Chemistry. sodium phosphate (def 1).
monochrome display adapter — (hardware, graphics) (MDA) One of IBM's earliest hardware video display standards for use in IBM PC. MDA can display only monochrome 80*25 text (IBM PC video mode 7). It is now obsolete.
national merit scholarship — one of some 6000 college scholarships awarded annually since 1956, by the nonprofit, grant-supported National Merit Scholarship Corporation, to high-school students (National Merit Scholars) on the basis of scholastic record, personal character, and score on a test administered nationally.
new business profit margin — A new business profit margin is a system used by insurers to measure the cost of and profit from writing new policies.
official production system — (language) (OPS) The first production system (i.e. rule based) programming language, developed at CMU in 1970 and used for building expert systems. OPS was originally written in Franz Lisp and later ported to other LISP dialects.
open document architecture — (standard) (ODA) ISO standard (8613) for describing documents. It allows text, graphics, and facsimile documents to be transferred between different systems.
open the door to something — If someone or something opens the door to a good new idea or situation, they introduce it or make it possible.
period-luminosity relation — the relationship between the period of light variation and of the absolute magnitude of Cepheid variable stars.
plain old telephone system — Public Switched Telephone Network
pokémon exception handling — (programming, humour) A humourous term for a try-catch exception handling construct with no constraint on which exceptions will be caught, for when you just "Gotta Catch 'Em All." (a slogan used in the Pokémon media empire). Pokémon is a trademark of the Pokémon Company of Japan.
political action committee — A political action committee is an organization which campaigns for particular political policies, and that gives money to political parties or candidates who support those policies. The abbreviation PAC is also used.
portable forth environment — (language) (PFE) A highly portable Forth development system based on the ANSI standard for Forth, by Dirk-Uwe Zoller of FHT, Mannheim, Germany. PFE aims to be correct, complete, usable, and simple but it isn't optimised for speed. It supports all dpANS word sets. It runs on Linux, RS/6000, and HP-UX. E-mail: Guido Draheim <[email protected]>.
post-and-beam construction — wall construction in which beams rather than studs are used to support heavy posts.
postprandial thermogenesis — the rate at which food is broken down after a meal and used by your body
professional office system — (messaging) (PROFS) An office messaging system from IBM, used worldwide, mainly on IBM mainframes.
pulse-amplitude modulation — modulation of the amplitude of a train of electric pulses used to carry signals (pulse carrier) Abbreviation: PAM.
put a bug in someone's ear — Also called true bug, hemipteran, hemipteron. a hemipterous insect.
put sb out of their misery — If you put someone out of their misery, you tell them something that they are very anxious to know.
quite apart from something — used to indicate that you are aware of one aspect of a situation, but that you are going to focus on another aspect
real-time operating system — (operating system) (RTOS) Any operating system where interrupts are guaranteed to be handled within a certain specified maximum time, thereby making it suitable for control of hardware in embedded systems and other time-critical applications. RTOS is not a specific product but a class of operating systems.
refinery’s own consumption — Refinery's own consumption is the gas and fuel which is burnt to operate the units in a refinery and generate electricity and steam.
remembrance of things past — a novel (1913–27) by Marcel Proust.
replacement cost insurance — Replacement cost insurance is insurance in which the cost of replacing property is calculated without a reduction for depreciation.
retained object complement — an object complement that is kept in its predicative position following the verb when the verb is transformed into the passive voice, as genius in He was considered a genius from (They) considered him a genius.
ritz combination principle — the principle that the frequencies of lines in atomic spectra can be represented as differences of a smaller number of terms, all characteristic of the emitting system, interpreted in quantum theory as the emission of exactly one photon in a transition between energy levels.
scintillation spectrometer — a scintillation counter adapted for measuring the energy distribution of particles emitted in radioactive processes.
search engine optimization — the process of adjusting the content, structure, etc, of a website so that it will be displayed prominently by a search engine
simple algebraic extension — a simple extension in which the specified element is a root of an algebraic equation in the given field.
sweep someone off his feet — to inspire strong and immediate enthusiasm, love, etc. in someone
system product interpreter — Restructured EXtended eXecutor
tabulating machine company — (company) The company founded in 1896 by Herman Hollerith to exploit his invention of the punched card. It became part of IBM in 1924.
take steps to do something — to undertake measures with a view to the attainment of some end
technological unemployment — unemployment caused by technological changes or new methods of production in an industry or business.
the liberal democrat party — a political party in Britain which was formed from a merger of the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party
the single european market — the free trade policy that operates between members of the European Union
thematic apperception test — a projective technique in which stories told by a subject about each of a series of pictures are assumed to reveal dominant needs or motivations. Abbreviation: TAT.
three-dimensional printing — the creation of solid objects by building up multiple layers, each layer corresponding to a plan held in a digital file
to be made public property — to become known to everyone
to pick holes in something — If you pick holes in an argument or theory, you find weak points in it so that it is no longer valid.
to pip someone at the post — If someone is pipped at the post or pipped to the post they are just beaten in a competition or in a race to achieve something.
to pour scorn on something — If you pour scorn on someone or something or heap scorn on them, you say that you think they are stupid and worthless.
transformational component — a set of transformational rules that convert the deep structure of sentences into their surface structures
traveling salesman problem — any mathematical problem that involves determination of the shortest path through several points.
triple combination therapy — treatment with three different drugs
udmurt autonomous republic — an autonomous republic in the Russian Federation in Europe. 16,250 sq. mi. (42,088 sq. km). Capital: Izhevsk.
united states marine corps — Marine Corps. Abbreviation: USMC.
upper side-band modulation — (communications) (USB) A kind of modulation applied to a sinusoidal carrier.

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