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21-letter words containing o, d, p, r, i

  • a recipe for disaster — If you say that something is a recipe for disaster, you mean that it is very likely to have unpleasant consequences.
  • accounting procedures — an established way of keeping company accounts
  • active record pattern — (programming)   Martin Fowler's name for object relational mapping viewed as a software architecture pattern.
  • airborne command post — any of several converted commercial aircraft equipped with special communications and code gear, intended as flying bunkers for the president, secretary of defense, military commanders, or their designated replacements.
  • alexander archipelago — a group of over 1000 islands along the coast of SE Alaska
  • algorithm description — (language)   (ALDES) ["The Algorithm Description Language ALDES", R.G.K. Loos, SIGSAM Bull 14(1):15-39 (Jan 1976)].
  • appendicular skeleton — the girdles and skeleton of the limbs
  • application developer — (job)   Someone who does application development.
  • assisted reproduction — the use of medical techniques to bring about the conception and birth of a child, including artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization, egg and embryo donation, and drug therapy.
  • background processing — the ability of a system to perform a low-priority task while, at the same time, dealing with a main application
  • background projection — the projection from the rear of previously photographed material on a translucent screen, used as background for a television or motion-picture shot.
  • banach-tarski paradox — (mathematics)   It is possible to cut a solid ball into finitely many pieces (actually about half a dozen), and then put the pieces together again to get two solid balls, each the same size as the original. This paradox is a consequence of the Axiom of Choice.
  • be in apple-pie order — If a room or a desk is in apple pie order, it is neat and tidy, and everything is where it should be.
  • bromine pentafluoride — a colorless, corrosive liquid, BrF 5 , used as an oxidizer in liquid rocket propellants.
  • byte-code interpreter — (software)   A program that executes a byte code program. An example is the Java Virtual Machine.
  • charge-coupled device — an electronic device, used in imaging and signal processing, in which information is represented as packets of electric charge that are stored in an array of tiny closely spaced capacitors and can be moved from one capacitor to another in a controlled way
  • committal proceedings — a preliminary hearing in a magistrates' court to decide if there is a case to answer
  • computer aided design — (application)   (CAD) The part of CAE concerning the drawing or physical layout steps of engineering design. Often found in the phrase "CAD/CAM" for ".. manufacturing".
  • computer-aided design — the use of computer techniques in designing products, esp involving the use of computer graphics
  • concert grand (piano) — the largest size of grand piano, for concert performance
  • conditional operation — a step in a computer program that determines which of two or more instructions or instruction sequences to execute next, depending on whether or not one or more specified conditions have been met.
  • conductivity improver — A conductivity improver is a substance used to get rid of static electrical charge in fuel, and improve the flow of the fuel.
  • controlled experiment — an experiment or trial that uses controls, usually separating the subjects into one or more control groups and experimental groups.
  • coordination compound — complex (def 10).
  • corpuscular radiation — radiation consisting of atomic and subatomic particles, as alpha particles, beta particles, and neutrons.
  • crittenden compromise — a series of constitutional amendments proposed in Congress in 1860 to serve as a compromise between proslavery and antislavery factions, one of which would have permitted slavery in the territories south but not north of latitude 36°30′N.
  • dark-field microscope — ultramicroscope
  • datamatic corporation — Honeywell
  • decompression chamber — a chamber in which the pressure of air can be varied slowly for returning people from abnormal pressures to atmospheric pressure without inducing decompression sickness
  • department of justice — the department of the U.S. federal government charged with the responsibility for the enforcement of federal laws. Abbreviation: DOJ.
  • deployment descriptor — (programming)   (DD) A J2EE configuration file.
  • deprovincialization's — to make provincial in character.
  • dew-point temperature — the temperature to which air must be cooled, at a given pressure and water-vapor content, for it to reach saturation; the temperature at which dew begins to form.
  • diapason normal pitch — a standard of pitch in which A above middle C is established at 435 vibrations per second.
  • difference of opinion — disagreement
  • differential operator — a function, usually expressed as a polynomial, that indicates linear combinations of the derivatives of the expression on which it operates.
  • differential topology — the branch of topology that studies the properties of differentiable manifolds that remain invariant under diffeomorphisms.
  • disk operating system — DOS.
  • disruptive technology — A disruptive technology is a new technology, such as computers and the Internet, which has a rapid and major effect on technologies that existed before.
  • distributed processes — (DP) The first concurrent language based on remote procedure calls.
  • distributive property — Mathematics. the property that terms in an expression may be expanded in a particular way to form an equivalent expression.
  • double predestination — the doctrine that God has foreordained both those who will be saved and those who will be damned.
  • double spanish burton — a tackle having one standing block and two running blocks, giving a mechanical advantage of five, neglecting friction.
  • drop in someone's lap — give someone the responsibility of
  • drop the handkerchief — a children's game in which all the players but one stand in a circle facing inward, while that one player stealthily drops a handkerchief behind a player in the circle who must pursue and attempt to catch the one who dropped the handkerchief before the latter reaches the vacated place.
  • dusky seaside sparrow — a species of sparrow, Ammospiza maritima, existing in two subspecies, one (Cape Sable seaside sparrow) having dark olive-drab plumage with a lighter breast and underbelly, and the other (dusky seaside sparrow) having bold black and white markings on the breast and underbelly: the dusky seaside sparrow is almost extinct.
  • emitter coupled logic — (ECL) (Or "Current Mode Logic") A technology for building logic gates where the emitter of a transistor is used as the output rather than its collector. ECL has a propagation time of 0.5 - 2 ns (faster than TTL) and a power dissipation 3 - 10 times higher than TTL.
  • endoplasmic reticulum — an extensive intracellular membrane system whose functions include synthesis and transport of lipids and, in regions where ribosomes are attached, of proteins
  • epidermolysis bullosa — type of genetic skin disorder
  • flip someone the bird — give someone the finger (see phrase under finger)

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