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27-letter words containing n, o, s, e, d

  • duchenne muscular dystrophy — a common hereditary form of muscular dystrophy, usually affecting young males, characterized by the severe weakening of the skeletal muscles, esp. the respiratory muscles
  • dynamic address translation — (architecture)   (DAT) Conversion of a virtual address into a physical address, as performed by a memory management unit and an operating system which supports virtual memory.
  • entity-relationship diagram — entity-relationship model
  • european broadcasting union — a union of 75 broadcasting organisations from 56 (mainly European) countries and which is responsible for the production of programmes such as the Eurovision Song Contest and the FIFA World Cup
  • familiarity breeds contempt — Familiarity is used especially in the expression familiarity breeds contempt to say that if you know a person or situation very well, you can easily lose respect for that person or become careless in that situation.
  • first law of thermodynamics — any of three principles variously stated in equivalent forms, being the principle that the change of energy of a thermodynamic system is equal to the heat transferred minus the work done (first law of thermodynamics) the principle that no cyclic process is possible in which heat is absorbed from a reservoir at a single temperature and converted completely into mechanical work (second law of thermodynamics) and the principle that it is impossible to reduce the temperature of a system to absolute zero in a finite number of operations (third law of thermodynamics)
  • force down someone's throat — the passage from the mouth to the stomach or to the lungs, including the pharynx, esophagus, larynx, and trachea.
  • german short-haired 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 (or have) the goods on — to discover (or know) something incriminating about
  • grow out of one's knowledge — to behave in a presumptuous or conceited manner
  • guess what/do you know what — You say guess what or do you know what to introduce a piece of information which is surprising, which is not generally known, or which you want to emphasize.
  • hand sth to sb on a platter — If you say that someone has things handed to them on a platter, you disapprove of them because they get good things easily.
  • hand-held personal computer — palmtop
  • hashemite kingdom of jordan — official name of Jordan.
  • healing by second intention — an act or instance of determining mentally upon some action or result.
  • health and safety inspector — a person who inspects workplaces, to check that they do not pose dangers to workers
  • hoist with one's own petard — being the victim of one's own schemes
  • hotline communications ltd. — (company)   The company that developes and distributes Hotline Connect.
  • hypergeometric distribution — a system of probabilities associated with finding a specified number of elements, as 5 white balls, from a given number of elements, as 10 balls, chosen from a set containing 2 kinds of elements of known quantity, as 15 white balls and 20 black balls.
  • insulin resistance syndrome — Pathology. a group of medical conditions present simultaneously in a patient, as high blood pressure, low HDL cholesterol levels, and an excess of abdominal fat, that increases a person's risk of heart disease, stroke, and diabetes. Also called insulin resistance syndrome.
  • interim standard atmosphere — an agreed theoretical description of the atmosphere for altitudes between 50 and 80 km, pending refinement by further measurements
  • international radio silence — a radio silence observed on vessels at sea for two three-minute periods each hour to permit distress signals to be heard.
  • internet foundation classes — (language, library, programming, standard)   (IFC) A library of classes used in the creation of Java applets with GUIs. Created by Netscape, the Internet Foundation Classes provide GUI elements, as well as classes for Applications Services, Security, Messaging, and Distributed Objects. The IFC code, which is exclusively Java, is layered on top of the Java Abstract Windowing Toolkit (AWT), thus preserving platform independence. The AWT and IFC collectively form the Java Foundation Classes, which provide a standardised framework for developing powerful Java applications.
  • into disrepute/in disrepute — If something is brought into disrepute or falls into disrepute, it loses its good reputation, because it is connected with activities that people do not approve of.
  • introgressive-hybridization — the introduction of genes from one species into the gene pool of another species, occurring when matings between the two produce fertile hybrids.
  • iso development environment — (ISODE) /eye-so-dee-eee/ Software that implements a set of OSI upper-layer services. It supports OSI applications on top of OSI and TCP/IP networks.
  • isonicotinic acid hydrazide — isoniazid.
  • joint and several guarantee — a legal guarantee undertaken by multiple people in which any one guarantor can be held fully responsible for repaying the whole of the debt despite each guarantor only being partially responsible for that debt
  • joint and several liability — legal responsibility for the whole of a debt for which you are only partially responsible
  • keep body and soul together — the physical structure and material substance of an animal or plant, living or dead.
  • keep one's head above water — If you keep your head above water, you just avoid getting into difficulties; used especially to talk about business.
  • knowledge management system — (KMS) A distributed hypermedia system for managing knowledge in organisations. KMS is a commercial system from Knowledge Systems, Inc. running on workstations, based on previous research with ZOG at Carnegie Mellon University.
  • laban dance notation system — a system of movement notation, using symbols on a staff, that records the parts of a dancer's body, direction inspace, dynamics, and tempo for all kinds of movement: used to record and reconstruct forms of dance and movement.
  • language acquisition device — a hypothesized innate mental faculty present in infants that enables them to construct and internalize the grammar of their native language on the basis of the limited and fragmentary language input to which they are exposed. Abbreviation: LAD.
  • law of definite composition — Chemistry. the statement that in a pure compound the elements are always combined in fixed proportions by weight.
  • little-lord-fauntleroy-suit — (italics) a children's novel (1886) by Frances H. Burnett.
  • magnetostrictive delay line — (storage, history)   An early storage device that used tensioned wires of nickel alloy carrying longitudinal waves produced and detected electromagnetically. They had better storage behaviour than mercury delay lines.
  • measure of central tendency — a statistic that in some way specifies the central tendency of a sample of measurements, as the mean, median, or mode.
  • memorandum of understanding — a document that describes the general principles of an agreement between parties, but does not amount to a substantive contract
  • military-industrial complex — a network of a nation's military force together with all of the industries that support it.
  • monoamine oxidase inhibitor — any of various substances, as isocarboxazid and phenelzine, that block enzymatic breakdown of certain monoamine neurotransmitters: used to treat severe depression. Abbreviation: MAOI.
  • national science foundation — an independent agency of the executive branch, created in 1950, that promotes and supports research and education in the sciences. Abbreviation: NSF.
  • network address translation — (networking)   (NAT, or Network Address Translator, Virtual LAN) A technique in which a router or firewall rewrites the source and/or destination Internet addresses in a packet as it passes through, typically to allow multiple hosts to connect to the Internet via a single external IP address. NAT keeps track of outbound connections and distributes incoming packets to the correct machine. NAT is an alternative to adopting IPv6 (IPng). It allows the same IP addresses (10.x.x.x is the conventional range) to be used on many private local networks while requiring only one of the increasingly scarce public addresses to be allocated to each private network. NAT does not however allow an external service to initiate a TCP connection to an internal host, nor does it support stateless protocols based on UDP well unless the router software has extensions to support each specific protocol.
  • office workstations limited — (company)   (OWL) A UK software company, now a subsidiary of Matsushita (Panasonic, etc.). They previously supported the Guide hypertext system but that support is now provided by US company InfoAccess. E-mail: <[email protected]>
  • old chestnut/hoary chestnut — If you refer to a statement, a story, or a joke as an old chestnut or a hoary chestnut, you mean that it has been repeated so often that it is no longer interesting.
  • on the understanding (that) — If you agree to do something on the understanding that something else will be done, you do it because you have been told that the other thing will definitely be done.
  • one's (own) flesh and blood — one's close relatives
  • open distributed processing — (standard)   (ODP) An attempt to standardise an OSI application layer communications architecture. ODP is a natural progression from OSI, broadening the target of standardisation from the point of interconnection to the end system behaviour. The objective of ODP is to enable the construction of distributed systems in a multi-vendor environment through the provision of a general architectural framework that such systems must conform to. One of the cornerstones of this framework is a model of multiple viewpoints which enables different participants to observe a system from a suitable perspective and a suitable level of abstraction.
  • open-end investment company — an investment company that issues shares continuously and is obligated to repurchase them from shareholders on demand.
  • pelvic inflammatory disease — an inflammation of the female pelvic organs, most commonly the fallopian tubes, usually as a result of bacterial infection. Abbreviation: PID.
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