31-letter words containing l, i, t, e, o, r
- to feel something in your bones — If you say that you feel or know something in your bones, you are indicating that you are certain about it, although you cannot explain why.
- to give someone the green light — If someone in authority gives you a green light, they give you permission to do something.
- to pour cold water on something — If you pour cold water on an idea or suggestion, you show that you have a low opinion of it.
- training and enterprise council — one of the local bodies established in England and Wales in the early 1990s to administer publicly-funded training-for-work programmes, esp for school leavers
- transaction processing facility — (operating system) (TPF) A real-time mainframe operating system released by IBM around 1976. TPF is particularly suited to organisations dealing in very high I/O message switching and large global networks. Current users include British Airways (reservations), VISA International (authorisations), Holiday Inn, and Quantas. TPF was traditionally a 370/Assembler environment although the latest, release 4.1, contains C. Formerly known as ACP (Airline Control Program), it was renamed "TPF" to suggests its greater scope. It is common for TPF sites to use IBM's MVS and VM operating systems for off-line processing.
- uzbek soviet socialist republic — a republic of the U.S.S.R.: now Uzbekistan
- valediction forbidding mourning — a poem (1612) by John Donne.
- voters telecommunications watch — (body) (VTW) A non-profit organisation based in New York, founded by Shabbir J. Safdar to protect the rights of Internet users. The VTW has actively opposed regulation of encryption and restrictions on Internet free speech. VTW created the animated "Free Speech" fireworks icon that has been displayed on many web pages since June 12, 1996, the day that a three-judge panel in Philadelphia ruled the CDA unconstitutional.
- web service definition language — (architecture) (WSDL) An XML format for describing network services as a set of endpoints operating on messages containing either "document oriented" or "procedure oriented" information. The operations and messages are described abstractly, and then bound to a concrete network protocol and message format to define an endpoint. Related concrete endpoints are combined into abstract endpoints (services). WSDL is typically used with SOAP over HTTP but it is extensible to allow description of endpoints and their messages independent of what message formats or network protocols.
- western diamondback rattlesnake — an extremely venomous diamondback rattlesnake, Crotalus atrox, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
- windows xp professional edition — (operating system) ("Windows XP Pro", "XP Pro") The version of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system intended for businesses and advanced users. The alternative, Windows XP Home Edition, is a subset of Pro without Remote Desktop, Multi-processor support, Automated System Recovery, Dynamic Disk Support, Fax, Internet Information Services, Encrypting File System, File-level access control, Active Directory, Group Policy, IntelliMirror, Roaming profiles and other features.
- with the best will in the world — even with the best of intentions
- women's royal voluntary service — a British auxiliary service organized in 1938 as the Women's Voluntary Service for work in air raids and civil defence: active throughout World War II and since 1945 in providing support services for those in need: became the Women's Royal Voluntary Service in 1966
- worcester polytechnic institute — (WPI) A well-regarded, small engineering college. Address: Worcester, MA, USA.
- zenithal equidistant projection — azimuthal equidistant projection.