22-letter words containing o, d, i

immigration department — the government department responsible for laws regarding immigrants and immigration
in all one's born days — so far in one's life
in on the ground floor — in at the beginning (of a business, etc.) and thus in an especially advantageous position
in one's birthday suit — naked; nude
in one's own back yard — close at hand
in sackcloth and ashes — in a state of great mourning or penitence
in someone's bad books — regarded by someone with disfavour
in the eye of the wind — directly against the wind
in the lap of the gods — If you say that a situation is in the lap of the gods, you mean that its success or failure depends entirely on luck or on things that are outside your control.
in the neighborhood of — the area or region around or near some place or thing; vicinity: the kids of the neighborhood; located in the neighborhood of Jackson and Vine streets.
in your wildest dreams — If you say that you could not imagine a particular thing in your wildest dreams, you are emphasizing that you think it is extremely strange or unlikely.
in/of the order of sth — You use in the order of or of the order of when mentioning an approximate figure.
independent assortment — law of independent assortment.
independent contractor — self-employed or freelance worker
independent suspension — an automotive suspension system in which each wheel is attached to the frame independently, so that a road bump affecting one wheel has no effect on the others.
industrial archaeology — the study of past industrial machines, works, etc
industrialized country — a country characterized by industry on an extensive scale
initial program loader — (operating system) (IPL) A bootstrap loader which loads the part of an operating system needed to load the remainder of the operating system.
instruction scheduling — The compiler phase that orders instructions on a pipelined, superscalar, or VLIW architecture so as to maximise the number of function units operating in parallel and to minimise the time they spend waiting for each other. Examples are filling a delay slot; interspersing floating-point instructions with integer instructions to keep both units operating; making adjacent instructions independent, e.g. one which writes a register and another which reads from it; separating memory writes to avoid filling the write buffer. Norman P. Jouppi and David W. Wall, "Available Instruction-Level Parallelism for Superscalar and Superpipelined Processors", Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, pp. 272--282, 1989.
interactive whiteboard — a smooth, glossy sheet of white plastic that can be written on with a colored pen or marker in the manner of a blackboard.
intermetallic compound — a compound of two or more metals.
international standard — (standard) The series of standards from ISO and its subcommitees.
interoperable database — A database front-end which communicates with multiple heterogenous databases and makes them appear as a single homogenous entity with semantic calls. See ODBC.
islands of the blessed — lands where the souls of heroes and good men were taken after death
it's london to a brick — it is certain
jacquard, joseph-marie — Joseph-Marie Jacquard
joint academic network — (JANET) The wide area network which links UK academic and research institutes. JANET is controlled by the Joint Network Team (JNT) and Network Executive (NE). It is an internet (a large number of interconnected sub-networks) that provides connectivity within the community as well as access to external services and other communities. The hub is the JANET subnetwork, a private X.25 packet-switched network that interconnects over 100 sites. At the majority of sites, local area networks (LANs) are connected to JANET allowing off-site access for the computers and terminals connected to these networks. The Coloured Book protocol architecture is used to support interactive terminal access to computers (for both character terminals and screen terminals), inter-host file transfers, electronic mail and remote batch job submission. See also JIPS, SuperJanet.
joint density function — a function of two or more random variables from which can be obtained a single probability that all the variables in the function will take specified values or fall within specified intervals
kensington and chelsea — a borough of Greater London, England.
ketamine hydrochloride — a powerful anesthetic, C13H16ClNO·HCl, used in surgery
klinefelter's syndrome — an abnormal condition in which at least one extra X chromosome is present in a male: characterized by reduced or absent sperm production, small testicles, and in some cases enlarged breasts.
lady's not for burning — a verse play (1948) by Christopher Fry.
land of milk and honey — a land of unusual fertility and abundance.
land of the rising sun — Japan.
large magellanic cloud — a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way galaxy, appearing as a hazy cloud in the southern constellations Dorado and Mensa.
law of excluded middle — the principle that any proposition must be either true or false.
left-handed compliment — an ambiguous compliment
lesser spotted dogfish — a small spotted European shark, Scyliorhinus caniculus
let sth drop/fall/slip — If you let drop, let fall, or let slip information, you reveal it casually or by accident, during a conversation about something else.
letter of introduction — a letter given by one person to another, as an introduction to a third party
liberal democrat party — The Liberal Democrat Party is the third largest political party in Britain and the main centre party. It believes in improving the constitution and the voting system and in providing good welfare services.
like nobody's business — extremely well or fast
linear induction motor — an electric motor in which a movable part moves in a straight line, with power being supplied by a varying magnetic field set up by a fixed part of the system, as a metal rail on the ground.
little lord fauntleroy — (italics) a children's novel (1886) by Frances H. Burnett.
lord high commissioner — the Queen's representative
lord justice of appeal — an ordinary judge of the Court of Appeal
lower canada rebellion — an uprising of 1837, quickly crushed by the British militia, against the British colonial administration in Quebec.
lunar excursion module — lunar module. Abbreviation: LEM.
magnetic dipole moment — a measure of the magnetic strength of a magnet or current-carrying coil, expressed as the torque per unit magnetic-flux density produced when the magnet or coil is set with its axis perpendicular to the magnetic field
make a big deal out of — to attach extreme importance to; make a big fuss about

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