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29-letter words containing m, o, r, n, i

  • throw cold water on something — to be unenthusiastic about or discourage something
  • thyrotropin-releasing hormone — a small peptide hormone, produced by the hypothalamus, that controls the release of thyrotropin by the pituitary. Abbreviation: TRH.
  • to be bursting with something — to be teeming with or crammed full of something
  • to commit something to memory — If you commit something to paper or to writing, you record it by writing it down. If you commit something to memory, you learn it so that you will remember it.
  • to draw a veil over something — If you draw a veil over something, you stop talking about it because it is too unpleasant to talk about.
  • to run the gamut of something — To run the gamut of something means to include, express, or experience all the different things of that kind, or a wide variety of them.
  • to think the world of someone — If you think the world of someone, you like them or care about them very much.
  • training opportunities scheme — a former government scheme offering vocational training to unemployed people
  • transmission control protocol — (networking, protocol)   (TCP) The most common transport layer protocol used on Ethernet and the Internet. It was developed by DARPA. TCP is the connection-oriented protocol built on top of Internet Protocol (IP) and is nearly always seen in the combination TCP/IP (TCP over IP). It adds reliable communication and flow-control and provides full-duplex, process-to-process connections. TCP is defined in STD 7 and RFC 793.
  • trinitrophenylmethylnitramine — tetryl.
  • two wrongs don't make a right — If someone says 'Two wrongs don't make a right', they mean that you should not do harm to a person who has done harm to you, even if you think that person deserves it.
  • united kingdom unionist party — a political party (1995–2008), based in Northern Ireland: it was non-sectarian but opposed to a united Ireland
  • united states customs service — the division of the Department of the Treasury that collects customs and enforces laws dealing with smuggling.
  • wide area information servers — (networking, information science)   (WAIS) A distributed information retrieval system. WAIS is supported by Apple Computer, Thinking Machines and Dow Jones. Clients are able to retrieve documents using keywords. The search returns a list of documents, ranked according to the frequency of occurrence of the keyword(s) used in the search. The client can retrieve text or multimedia documents stored on the server. WAIS offers simple natural language input, indexed searching for fast retrieval, and a "relevance feedback" mechanism which allows the results of initial searches to influence future searches. It uses the ANSI Z39.50 service. Public domain implementations are available. Other information retrieval systems include archie, Gopher, Prospero, and web.
  • women's liberation (movement) — the women's movement begun in the mid-20th cent.
  • workflow management coalition — (body)   (WfMc) A non-profit, international organisation of workflow vendors, users, and analysts committed to establishing standards for workflow terminology, interoperability, and connectivity. WfMC was founded in 1993 and now (1999) has over 130 members.
  • works progress administration — WPA.
  • yet another compiler compiler — (tool, language)   (yacc) The LALR parser generator found on most Unix systems. Also, the language used to describe the syntax of another language to yacc (the program). Implementations: ayacc, YAY, perln-byacc, SASL-Yacc - "Yacc in SASL - An Exercise in Functional Programming", Simon Peyton-Jones, Software Prac & Exp 15:807-820 (1985). Mentions also a BCPL implementation. Yacc++ - 1990. An object-oriented rewrite of yacc, supports regular expressions, produces an LR1 grammar parser. Chris Clark, Compiler Resources Inc, +1 (508) 435-5016. MLYACC - Implementation and output in SML/NJ. ftp:research.att.com/dist/ml/75.tools.tar.Z. A version, by David Poole at Montana University has been retargeted to Turbo Pascal. See also Bison, yet another, Yet Another Yacc.
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