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25-letter words containing n, e, a, t

  • back to the drawing board — If you say that you will have to go back to the drawing board, you mean that something which you have done has not been successful and that you will have to start again or try another idea.
  • banded florida tree snail — a tree-dwelling snail, Liguus fasciatus, of Florida and nearby keys, having a long, conical shell in many color variations: now greatly reduced in numbers.
  • barbed wire entanglements — obstructions consisting of entangled barbed wires that hinder attacking troops
  • be on a hiding to nothing — to be bound to fail; to face impossible odds
  • be perturbed at something — to be alarmed at something
  • beard the lion in his den — to approach a feared or influential person, esp in order to ask a favour
  • beat someone's brains out — to kill by knocking severely about the head
  • bernardin de saint-pierre — Jacques Henˈri (ʒɑkɑ̃ˈʀi) ; zhäkänrēˈ) 1737-1814; Fr. writer
  • black-crowned night heron — any of several thick-billed, crepuscular or nocturnal herons of the genus Nycticorax and related genera, as N. nycticorax (black-crowned night heron) of the Old and New Worlds, and Nyctanassa violacea (yellow-crowned night heron) of America.
  • blow someone's brains out — To blow someone's brains out means to shoot them in the head, killing them.
  • bring pressure to bear on — If you bring pressure or influence to bear on someone, you use it to try and persuade them to do something.
  • brute force and ignorance — (jargon)   (BFI) A popular design technique at many software houses - brute force coding unrelieved by any knowledge of how problems have been previously solved in elegant ways. Dogmatic adherence to design methods tends to encourage this sort of thing. Characteristic of early larval stage programming; unfortunately, many never outgrow it. Also encountered in the variants BFMI - brute force and massive ignorance, and BFBI - brute force and bloody ignorance. "Gak, they used a bubble sort! That's strictly BFI." Compare bogosity.
  • bureau of land management — a division of the Department of the Interior that manages public lands and resources. Abbreviation: BLM, B.L.M.
  • by general/common consent — You can use by general consent or by common consent to indicate that most people agree that something is true.
  • by the seat of your pants — If you fly by the seat of your pants or do something by the seat of your pants, you use your instincts to tell you what to do in a new or difficult situation rather than following a plan or relying on equipment.
  • caltech intermediate form — (language)   (CIF) A geometry language for VLSI design, in which the primitives are coloured rectangles.
  • case integration services — (standard, programming)   (CIS) A committee formed to discuss CASE tool integration standards related to ATIS.
  • catch someone flat-footed — to catch someone who is unprepared; take by surprise
  • catholic emancipation act — an act of Parliament (1829) permitting Roman Catholics to hold parliamentary office and repealing other laws that imposed civil disabilities on Catholics.
  • cauchy-schwarz inequality — Schwarz inequality (def 2).
  • ccitt high-level language — (language)   (CHILL) A real-time language widely used in telecommunications. CHILL was developed in the 1970s and improved in 1984, 1988, 1992, and 1996. It is used in several countries including Germany, Norway, Brasil, and South Korea.
  • certificate of enrollment — a document issued to a U.S. vessel of 20 tons gross or more, engaged in fishing or in trade along the U.S. coast, on the Great Lakes, or on U.S. inland waters.
  • certificate of unruliness — (in Britain) the decision of a juvenile court that a young person on remand is too unmanageable for local-authority care and should be taken into custody
  • character encoding scheme — character encoding
  • characteristic polynomial — an expression obtained from a given matrix by taking the determinant of the difference between the matrix and an arbitrary variable times the identity matrix.
  • cheshire west and chester — a unitary authority in NW England. Administrative centre: Chester. Pop: 328 100 (2008 est). Area: 917 sq km (354 sq miles)
  • cheyne-stokes respiration — respiration characterized by cycles of deep, rapid breathing and weak, slow breathing, as in cases of heart failure or coma
  • chief information officer — (job)   (CIO) The person who determines the overall strategic direction and business contribution of the information systems function in a business.
  • chief of naval operations — the highest officer in the U.S. Navy and a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
  • child-resistant container — A child-resistant container is a container designed to be difficult for a child to open.
  • circle of least confusion — the smallest cross section in a beam of paraxial rays, lying in the plane of least spherical aberration.
  • coefficient of elasticity — modulus of elasticity.
  • command control processor — (operating system)   (CCP) CP/M's command-line interpreter.
  • commissioner of education — (in the US) the head of a state's education department
  • common object file format — (file format)   (COFF) The executable file and object file format used by Unix System V Release 3 and later.
  • commonwealth of australia — Australia's official title
  • communication engineering — the branch of engineering that deals with telecommunications and computer programming and networking.
  • communications of the acm — (publication)   (CACM) A monthly publication by the Association for Computing Machinery sent to all members. CACM is an influential publication that keeps computer science professionals up to date on developments. Each issue includes articles, case studies, practitioner oriented pieces, regular columns, commentary, departments, the ACM Forum, technical correspondence and advertisements.
  • compensated semiconductor — a semiconductor in which donors and acceptors are related in such a way that their opposing electrical effects are partially cancelled
  • complementarity principle — the principle that experiments on physical systems of atomic size or smaller, as electrons or photons, can exhibit either particle or wave behavior but not both simultaneously.
  • complete partial ordering — (theory)   (cpo) A partial ordering of a set under a relation, where all directed subsets have a least upper bound. A cpo is usually defined to include a least element, bottom (David Schmidt calls this a pointed cpo). A cpo which is algebraic and boundedly complete is a (Scott) domain.
  • computer-aided publishing — desktop publishing. Abbreviation: CAP.
  • conductiometric titration — a titration technique in which the end-point is determined by measuring the conductance of the solution
  • constant angular velocity — (storage)   (CAV) One of the two schemes for controlling the rate of rotation of the disk in a disk drive. Constant angular velocity keeps the rate of rotation constant. This means that the linear velocity of the disk under the head is larger when reading or writing the outer tracks. This in turn implies either a variation in the data rate to and from the heads or the bits per unit length along the track. The alternative, constant linear velocity, requires the rate of rotation of the disk to accelerate and decelerate according to the radial postion of the heads, increasing the energy use and vibration.
  • constant applicative form — (functional programming)   (CAF) A supercombinator which is not a lambda abstraction. This includes truly constant expressions such as 12, (+ 1 2), [1, 2, 3] as well as partially applied functions such as (+ 4). Note that this last example is equivalent under eta abstraction to \ x . + 4 x which is not a CAF. Since a CAF is a supercombinator, it contains no free variables. Moreover, since it is not a lambda abstraction it contains no variables at all. It may however contain identifiers which refer to other CAFs, e.g. c 3 where c = (* 2). A CAF can always be lifted to the top level of the program. It can either be compiled to a piece of graph which will be shared by all uses or to some shared code which will overwrite itself with some graph the first time it is evaluated. A CAF such as ints = from 1 where from n = n : from (n+1) can grow without bound but may only be accessible from within the code of one or more functions. In order for the garbage collector to be able to reclaim such structures, we associate with each function a list of the CAFs to which it refers. When garbage collecting a reference to the function we collect the CAFs on its list.
  • constitutional convention — the convention in Philadelphia (1787) of representatives from each of the former Colonies, except Rhode Island, at which the Constitution of the United States was framed.
  • copenhagen interpretation — an interpretation of quantum mechanics developed by Niels Bohr and his colleagues at the University of Copenhagen, based on the concept of wave–particle duality and the idea that the observation influences the result of an experiment
  • cost-of-living adjustment — an adjustment to pay which takes account of a change in the cost of living
  • court of general sessions — a local court with general jurisdiction, both civil and criminal.
  • crater lake national park — a national park in SW Oregon, in the Cascade Range: Crater Lake. 250 sq. mi. (648 sq. km).
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