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25-letter words containing n, t, e

  • 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
  • be riddled with something — to be full of or pervaded by something undesirable
  • 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
  • better the devil you know — If you say better the devil you know or better the devil you know than the devil you don't know, you mean that you would prefer to have contact with or do business with a person you already know, even though you don't like them, than with a person you don't know.
  • 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.
  • by the skin of your teeth — If you do something by the skin of your teeth, you just manage to do it.
  • 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 protection register — (in Britain) a confidential list of children who are at continuing risk of physical, emotional, or sexual abuse or neglect
  • 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.
  • client to client protocol — (networking)   (CTCP) A type of protocol created to allow structured data such as font information to be exchanged between users on IRC. It is also used to send a query to a user. The available CTCP commands include VERSION, FINGER, DCC CHAT, DCC SEND, TIME, PING, ECHO, CLIENTINFO. Some commands are not available on some IRC client software.
  • closed-circuit television — a television system in which signals are transmitted from a television camera to the receivers by cables or telephone links forming a closed circuit, as used in security systems, etc
  • 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 lisp object system — (language)   (CLOS) An object-oriented extension to Common LISP, based on generic functions, multiple inheritance, declarative method combination and a meta-object protocol. A descendant of CommonLoops and based on Symbolics FLAVORS and Xerox LOOPS, among others. See also PCL.
  • 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.
  • community support officer — a uniformed officer who is not a member of the police force but who has certain powers to be exercised in supplementing the role of the police, esp crowd control, tackling anti-social behaviour, etc
  • 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 inference system — (logic)   An inference system A is complete with respect to another system B if A can reach every conclusion which is true in B. The dual to completeness is soundness.
  • 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.
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