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31-letter words containing o, l, e, n, t

  • supplementary ideographic plane — (text, standard)   (SIP) The third plane (plane 2) defined in Unicode/ISO 10646, designed to hold all the ideographs descended from Chinese writing (mainly found in Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese and Chinese) that aren't found in the Basic Multilingual Plane. The BMP was supposed to hold all ideographs in modern use; unfortunately, many Chinese dialects (like Cantonese and Hong Kong Chinese) were overlooked; to write these, characters from the SIP are necessary. This is one reason even non-academic software must support characters outside the BMP.
  • take a leaf from someone's book — to follow someone's example
  • telocator alphanumeric protocol — (communications, protocol)   (TAP, or "IXO", "PET") A protocol for submitting requests to a pager service. IXO/TAP is an ASCII-based, half-duplex protocol that allows the submission of a numeric or alphanumeric message. See also RFC 1568.
  • terminal productivity executive — (operating system)   (TPX) A multiple session manager used to access mainframe applications. It was written by Morgan Stanley, acquired by Duquesne Systems and is now owned by Computer Associates. TPX allows you to work in multiple mainframe applications concurrently; lock and unlock your TPX screen; place your applications on hold; logon to TPX from a different terminal without losing your place; customize your TPX menu and send a screen image to another TPX user. TPX runs on MVS and VM. On VM, like VTAM, it uses the MVS-like facilities of GCS. It has a complete scripting facility and lets you see other user's sessions. The client-server version allows each managed session to open in its own window. Richard Kuebbing has built a complete e-mail system into it.
  • the internal security committee — a committee of the US House of Representatives that was abolished in 1975. Prior to its renaming in 1969, it was known as the House Un-American Activities Committee, and was notorious for its anti-Communist investigations in the late 1940s and 1950s
  • the national assembly for wales — the elected assembly for Wales, based in Cardiff, that has certain powers devolved from the UK government
  • to be living proof of something — to exemplify something
  • to burn the candle at both ends — If you burn the candle at both ends, you try to do too many things in too short a period of time so that you have to stay up very late at night and get up very early in the morning to get them done.
  • to call something into question — If you say that there is some question about something, you mean that there is doubt or uncertainty about it. If something is in question or has been called into question, doubt or uncertainty has been expressed about it.
  • to close your eyes to something — If you close your eyes to something bad or if you shut your eyes to it, you ignore it.
  • to feel something in your bones — If you say that you feel or know something in your bones, you are indicating that you are certain about it, although you cannot explain why.
  • to give someone the green light — If someone in authority gives you a green light, they give you permission to do something.
  • to pour cold water on something — If you pour cold water on an idea or suggestion, you show that you have a low opinion of it.
  • training and enterprise council — one of the local bodies established in England and Wales in the early 1990s to administer publicly-funded training-for-work programmes, esp for school leavers
  • transaction processing facility — (operating system)   (TPF) A real-time mainframe operating system released by IBM around 1976. TPF is particularly suited to organisations dealing in very high I/O message switching and large global networks. Current users include British Airways (reservations), VISA International (authorisations), Holiday Inn, and Quantas. TPF was traditionally a 370/Assembler environment although the latest, release 4.1, contains C. Formerly known as ACP (Airline Control Program), it was renamed "TPF" to suggests its greater scope. It is common for TPF sites to use IBM's MVS and VM operating systems for off-line processing.
  • valediction forbidding mourning — a poem (1612) by John Donne.
  • voters telecommunications watch — (body)   (VTW) A non-profit organisation based in New York, founded by Shabbir J. Safdar to protect the rights of Internet users. The VTW has actively opposed regulation of encryption and restrictions on Internet free speech. VTW created the animated "Free Speech" fireworks icon that has been displayed on many web pages since June 12, 1996, the day that a three-judge panel in Philadelphia ruled the CDA unconstitutional.
  • web service definition language — (architecture)   (WSDL) An XML format for describing network services as a set of endpoints operating on messages containing either "document oriented" or "procedure oriented" information. The operations and messages are described abstractly, and then bound to a concrete network protocol and message format to define an endpoint. Related concrete endpoints are combined into abstract endpoints (services). WSDL is typically used with SOAP over HTTP but it is extensible to allow description of endpoints and their messages independent of what message formats or network protocols.
  • western diamondback rattlesnake — an extremely venomous diamondback rattlesnake, Crotalus atrox, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
  • windows xp professional edition — (operating system)   ("Windows XP Pro", "XP Pro") The version of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system intended for businesses and advanced users. The alternative, Windows XP Home Edition, is a subset of Pro without Remote Desktop, Multi-processor support, Automated System Recovery, Dynamic Disk Support, Fax, Internet Information Services, Encrypting File System, File-level access control, Active Directory, Group Policy, IntelliMirror, Roaming profiles and other features.
  • with the best will in the world — even with the best of intentions
  • women's royal voluntary service — a British auxiliary service organized in 1938 as the Women's Voluntary Service for work in air raids and civil defence: active throughout World War II and since 1945 in providing support services for those in need: became the Women's Royal Voluntary Service in 1966
  • worcester polytechnic institute — (WPI) A well-regarded, small engineering college. Address: Worcester, MA, USA.
  • zenithal equidistant projection — azimuthal equidistant projection.
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