32-letter words containing n, e, t, l, d
- temporomandibular joint disorder — a syndrome caused by a dislocation, injury, etc. of the temporomandibular joint, characterized variously by headache, facial pain, dizziness, partial loss of hearing, etc.
- temporomandibular joint syndrome — a condition attributed to tension in or faulty articulation of the temporomandibular joint, having a wide range of symptoms that include dizziness, ringing in the ears, and pain in the head, neck, and shoulders.
- terminal oriented social science — (project) (TOSS) The Cambridge Project Project MAC was an ARPA-funded political science computing project. They worked on topics like survey analysis and simulation, led by Ithiel de Sola Pool, J.C.R. Licklider and Douwe B. Yntema. Yntema had done a system on the MIT Lincoln Labs TX-2 called the Lincoln Reckoner, and in the summer of 1969 led a Cambridge Project team in the construction of an experiment called TOSS. TOSS was like Logo, with matrix operators. A major feature was multiple levels of undo, back to the level of the login session. This feature was cheap on the Lincoln Reckoner, but absurdly expensive on Multics.
- the game is not worth the candle — If you say that the game is not worth the candle, you mean that something is not worth the trouble or effort needed to achieve or obtain it.
- to (the best of) one's knowledge — as far as one knows; within the range of one's information
- to go to great lengths to do sth — if you say that someone goes to great lengths to achieve something, you mean that they go to a lot of trouble in order to achieve it
- to have by the short and curlies — to have completely in one's power
- to have mixed feelings about sth — If you have mixed feelings about something or someone, you feel uncertain about them because you can see both good and bad points about them.
- to kill two birds with one stone — If you say that doing something will kill two birds with one stone, you mean that it will enable you to achieve two things that you want to achieve, rather than just one.
- turn/beat swords into plowshares — If you say that swords have been turned into plowshares or beaten into plowshares, you mean that a state of conflict between two or more groups of people has ended and a period of peace has begun.
- twist around one's little finger — to have easy and complete control or influence over
- uniform code of military justice — the body of laws governing members of the U.S. armed forces: superseded the Articles of War in 1951
- united states employment service — the division of the Department of Labor that supervises and coordinates the activities of state employment agencies. Abbreviation: USES.
- virtual sequential access method — Virtual Storage Access Method
- wash one's dirty linen in public — fabric woven from flax yarns.
- workers' educational association — a charitable organization providing adult community education