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26-letter words containing m, a, n, s

  • extensible markup language — (language, text)   (XML) An initiative from the W3C defining an "extremely simple" dialect of SGML suitable for use on the web.
  • external-combustion engine — a heat engine in which the working fluid is heated in an external boiler or heat exchanger and is thus isolated from the process of fuel combustion
  • first marquis of lansdowne — Richard, born 1937, U.S. racing-car driver.
  • german shorthaired pointer — one of a German breed of large sporting dogs having a short hard coat, usually liver or liver and white in color, and a docked tail, used as a versatile hunting dog.
  • get the measure of someone — to assess the nature, character, quality, etc, of someone
  • give a piece of one's mind — (in a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc.: the processes of the human mind.
  • give someone to understand — If someone is given to understand that something is the case, it is communicated to them that it is the case, usually without them being told directly.
  • grammar-translation method — a traditional technique of foreign-language teaching based on explicit instruction in the grammatical analysis of the target language and translation of sentences from the native language into the target language and vice versa.
  • have someone over a barrel — If someone has you over a barrel, they have put you in a difficult situation where you have little choice but to do what they want you to do.
  • have something on the ball — to have ability
  • have yet to (do something) — to have not yet (done something)
  • have your eye on something — If you have your eye on something, you want to have it.
  • head normalisation theorem — Under the typed lambda-calculus, beta/delta reduction of the left-most redex (normal order reduction) is guaranteed to terminate with a head normal form if one exists. See also Church-Rosser theorem.
  • heard and mcdonald islands — a group of islands in the S Indian Ocean: an external territory of Australia from 1947. Area: 412 sq km (159 sq miles)
  • histocompatibility antigen — any antigen on the surface of tissue or blood cells that provokes the immune response and subsequent rejection when transplanted to an individual of a different antigenic type, thus determining whether the tissues or organs of a donor and recipient are histocompatible.
  • how many nibbles in a byte — (data)   There are two nibbles in a byte.
  • human resources department — the department in an organization dealing with matters involving employees, as hiring, training, labor relations, and benefits.
  • if i had/given my druthers — You can say that you would do something if I had my druthers or given my druthers when you mean that you would do it if you were able to choose.
  • inflammatory bowel disease — any intestinal inflammatory disease, especially Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, of unknown cause. Abbreviation: IBD.
  • innate releasing mechanism — the process by which a stimulus evokes a response when the connection between the two is inborn
  • integrated pest management — an ecological approach to pest management that combines understanding the causes of pest outbreaks, manipulating the crop ecosystem for pest control, and monitoring pest populations and their life cycles to determine if and when the use of pesticides is indicated. Abbreviation: IPM.
  • intermodulation distortion — (electronics, communications)   (IMD) Nonlinear distortion in a system or transducer, characterised by the appearance in the output of frequencies equal to the sums and differences of integral multiples of the two or more component frequencies present in the input waveform.
  • internal combustion engine — An internal combustion engine is an engine that creates its energy by burning fuel inside itself. Most cars have internal combustion engines.
  • internal-combustion engine — an engine of one or more working cylinders in which the process of combustion takes place within the cylinders.
  • international grand master — a chess player in the highest class of ability, as determined through specified types of international competitions.
  • intimations of immortality — (Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood), a poem (1807) by Wordsworth.
  • jump down someone's throat — the passage from the mouth to the stomach or to the lungs, including the pharynx, esophagus, larynx, and trachea.
  • know a hawk from a handsaw — to be able to judge things; be discerning
  • law of diminishing returns — diminishing returns (def 2).
  • lead someone a merry chase — to cause someone trouble by luring into a vain pursuit
  • learning management system — a software application used to organize and distribute e-learning materials, assignments, and assessments; track and calculate grades; and facilitate communication among students and teachers. Abbreviation: LMS.
  • lossless audio compression — (audio, compression)   Any kind of audio compression in which the original signal and the decoded signal are bitwise identical. Lossless audio compression algorithms are usually based on a data compression algorithm like PKzip or gzip but specialized for PCM audio data. The signal is divided into predictable tonal components and unpredictable noisy components. Tonal components are stored as coefficients of a predictor, the remaining signal is coded by Rice coding, Huffman coding or arithmetic coding.
  • macintosh operating system — (operating system)   (Mac OS) Apple Computer, Inc.'s proprietary operating system for their Macintosh family of personal computers. The part of the operating system that simulates the desktop is called "Finder." The multitasking version of Finder was called "MultiFinder" until multitasking was integrated into the core of the OS with the introduction of System 7.0 in 1990. The Macintosh series provides a built-in graphics language, called "QuickDraw", which provides a standard for software developers. Mac OS 8, scheduled for delivery in July 1997, included new human-interface features, increased system stability and performance, a PowerPC processor-native Finder, tighter integration of Internet access through panel-based "assistants," Personal Web Sharing and the ability to run Java applets and programs through Mac OS Run Time for Java. Version 9.2 was the last version of the bespoke Mac OS. The next version, Mac OS X is quite different, being based on Unix. See also Macintosh file system, Macintosh user interface.
  • made one's bed...lie in it — If you say that someone has made their bed and must lie in it, you mean that since they have chosen to do a particular thing, they must now accept the unpleasant results of their action.
  • magnetic resonance imaging — MRI.
  • magnetic resonance scanner — MR scanner.
  • mainstream corporation tax — (in Britain) the balance of the corporation tax formerly paid by a company for an accounting period after the advance corporation tax had been deducted
  • make (or be) friends with — to become (or be) a friend of
  • make a nuisance of oneself — If someone makes a nuisance of themselves, they behave in a way that annoys other people.
  • make a virtue of necessity — moral excellence; goodness; righteousness.
  • make an example of someone — To make an example of someone who has done something wrong means to punish them severely as a warning to other people not to do the same thing.
  • make someone's flesh crawl — to give someone a feeling of fear or repugnance, as if insects were crawling on his or her skin
  • make someone's mouth water — to create a desire or appetite in someone; be or seem tasty
  • many-worlds interpretation — an interpretation of quantum mechanics based on the idea that every possible event exists in its own world
  • master of the king's music — (in Britain when the sovereign is male) a court post dating from the reign of Charles I. It is an honorary title and normally held by an established English composer
  • mean time between failures — (specification)   (MTBF, or "Mean Time Between Faults") The average time (usually expressed in hours) that a component works without failure. It is calculated by dividing the total number of failures into the total number of operating hours observed. The term can also mean the length of time a user may reasonably expect a device or system to work before an incapacitating fault occurs. See also Mean Time To Recovery.
  • mecklenburg-west pomerania — a state of NE Germany, along the Baltic coast: consists of the former state of Mecklenburg and those parts of W Pomerania not incorporated into Poland after World War II: part of East Germany until 1990. Pop: 1 732 000 (2003 est)
  • mercalli (intensity) scale — a numerical scale for measuring the destructive power and major physical effects of an earthquake, ranging from number I (detectable only by seismographs) to number XII (causing extensive landslides, destruction of nearly all buildings, etc.)
  • 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
  • microcrystalline cellulose — Microcrystalline cellulose is a polymer used as a binder in tablets because it is stable, compressible, and disintegrates quickly.
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