26-letter words containing i, r, e, v
- overdraft checking account — a bank account with a credit line permitting checks to be written for an amount above the account balance, subject to a finance charge on the overdraft.
- pellagra-preventive factor — nicotinic acid or its amide, nicotinamide, being the vitamin-B-complex members that serve to prevent pellagra.
- phenylpyruvic oligophrenia — phenylketonuria.
- 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]>.
- primo de rivera y orbaneja — Miguel [mee-gel] /miˈgɛl/ (Show IPA), 1870–1930, Spanish general and dictator 1923–30.
- prince henry the navigator — Prince, 1394–1460, prince of Portugal.
- private finance initiative — (in Britain) a government scheme to encourage private investment in public projects
- privately held corporation — A privately held corporation is a company whose shares cannot be bought by the general public.
- public-service corporation — a private or quasi-private corporation chartered to provide an essential commodity or service to the public.
- record management services — (operating system) (RMS) Procedures in the VMS operating system that programs call to process files and records within files. RMS allows programs to issue GET and PUT requests at the record level (record I/O) as well as read and write blocks (block I/O). VMS RMS is an integral part of the system software; its procedures run in executive mode.
- repetitive strain disorder — overuse strain injury
- ride roughshod over sb/sth — If you say that someone is riding roughshod over a person or their views, you disapprove of them because they are using their power or authority to do what they want, completely ignoring that person's wishes.
- service discovery protocol — (protocol) (SDP) A Bluetooth protocol in the Core Protocol Stack that allows devices to connect to other services.
- super video graphics array — (hardware) (SVGA) A video display standard created by VESA for IBM PC compatible personal computers. The resolution is 800 x 600 4-bit pixels. Each pixel can therefore be one of 16 colours. See Video Graphics Array.
- take (or leave) the field — to begin (or withdraw from) activity in a game, military operation, etc.
- take five (or ten, etc. ) — take a break for five (or ten, etc.) minutes, as from working
- tennessee valley authority — TVA.
- textured vegetable protein — soya meat; a meat substitute that is made from soy flour
- the inland revenue service — (in the US) a government board that administers and collects major direct taxes
- to be in raptures over sth — be highly delighted with
- to be in the driver's seat — to be in a position of control
- to be on a starvation diet — to be on a strict diet
- to be on the receiving end — If you are on the receiving end or at the receiving end of something unpleasant, you are the person that it happens to.
- to be pressed into service — To press someone or something into service means to use them temporarily for a particular purpose.
- transport driver interface — (networking) (TDI) Developed by SUN, IBM, and Microsoft (and others?), the TDI is a software interface between the protocols and application programing interface layers of the Windows NT network model.
- traveling salesman problem — any mathematical problem that involves determination of the shortest path through several points.
- universal communications x — (communications) (UCX) A software implementation of the ubiquitous TCP/IP suite of communications protocols for Digital Equipment Corporation's OpenVMS operating system. Users of the UCX product can connect to heterogeneous networks to access and download files, send electronic mail, run and develop applications, and monitor activity.
- universal resource locator — Uniform Resource Locator
- universal time coordinated — incorrect term for coordinated universal time.
- university of pennsylvania — (body, education) The home of ENIAC and Machiavelli. Address: Philadelphia, PA, USA.
- vertical take-off aircraft — an aircraft which does not require a runway to take off as it can rise vertically
- very long instruction word — (language, architecture) (VLIW) Used to describe a machine code instruction set implemented using horizontal microcode. A horizontally encoded instruction word which encodes four or more operations might be considered "very long". VLIW architectures are sometimes classified as a type of static superscalar architecture. They are static in the sense that which units operate in parallel is determined by the instruction rather than by dynamic scheduling at run time. Producing code for VLIW machines is difficult; trace scheduling is a helpful compiler technique. The most famous VLIW machine was built by (the late) Multiflow Computer, Inc.
- vibrational quantum number — Physics. any one of the quantum numbers describing the energy levels associated with the vibrational motion of molecules.
- victoria and albert museum — a museum of the fine and applied arts in London, originating from 1856 and given its present name and site in 1899
- virtual circuit identifier — (networking) (VCID) An identifier used for the routing of a virtual circuit. An ATM switch may route according to a Virtual Circuit Identifier, a Virtual Path Identifier, or a combination.
- virtual local area network — (networking) (VLAN) A logical grouping of two or more nodes which are not necessarily on the same physical network segment but which share the same IP network number. This is often associated with switched Ethernet. IEEE 802.1Q is a VLAN standard.
- visual-aural (radio) range — a radio range that sends out signals as an aid to air navigation; esp., a very-high-frequency range that beams four signals, two for reception by the ear and two for viewing on an indicator
- voluntary service overseas — an organization that sends young volunteers to use and teach their skills in developing countries
- walther von der vogelweide — c1170–c1230, German minnesinger and poet.
- what someone is driving at — If you ask someone what they are driving at, you are asking what they are trying to say or what they are saying indirectly.