23-letter words containing o, n, e, d, g
- greatest common divisor — the largest number that is a common divisor of a given set of numbers. Abbreviation: G.C.D.
- guillain-barre syndrome — an uncommon, usually self-limited form of polyneuritis, occurring after a viral illness or immunization and manifested by loss of muscle strength, loss of or altered sensation and sometimes paralysis.
- handwriting on the wall — writing done with a pen or pencil in the hand; script.
- hang on someone's words — to listen to someone eagerly
- have a way of doing sth — If you say that someone or something has a way of doing a particular thing, you mean that they often do it.
- have nothing to do with — not associate with
- higher national diploma — a work-related higher education qualification, taking two years full-time.
- hold on like grim death — to hold very firmly or resolutely
- in someone's bad graces — elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action: We watched her skate with effortless grace across the ice. Synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity. Antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness.
- in someone's good books — regarded by someone with favour
- in the neighbourhood of — In the neighbourhood of a number means approximately that number.
- in your stockinged feet — wearing stockings or socks but no shoes
- integrated fire control — an electronic system that locates and tracks a target, computes the data, and employs a weapon to destroy it.
- intermediate technology — technology which combines sophisticated ideas with cheap and readily available materials, esp for use in developing countries
- juan rodriguez cabrillo — Juan Rodríguez [rod-ree-ges] /rɒdˈri gɛs/ (Show IPA), (Joao Rodrigues Cabrilho) 1499?–1543, Spanish explorer, born in Portugal: discovered California.
- lieutenant junior grade — a commissioned officer ranking above an ensign and below a lieutenant.
- living on borrowed time — living an unexpected extension of life
- long-horned grasshopper — any of numerous insects of the family Tettigoniidae, having long, threadlike antennae and well-developed stridulating organs on the forewings of the male.
- look on the bright side — consider positive aspects
- magnetohydrodynamically — In a magnetohydrodynamic way.
- mediated generalization — generalization (def 4c).
- mediated-generalization — the act or process of generalizing.
- message digest function — one-way hash function
- modern sequence dancing — a form of dancing in which ballroom dance steps are used as the basis of a wide variety of different dances typically performed in a sequence
- moving target indicator — a Doppler-radar presentation that indicates moving targets only, stationary objects reflecting signals that the system rejects. Abbreviation: MTI.
- negative bending moment — a bending moment that produces convex bending at the supports of a continuously supported beam
- non-destructive testing — Non-destructive testing is the examination of the quality of a component without changing it in any way.
- nondisclosure agreement — a legal contract in which one or more parties agree to keep information, as a trade secret, confidential and protected for a specific amount of time. Abbreviation: NDA.
- of many years' standing — You can use the expression of many years' standing to say that something has had a particular function or someone has had a particular role for many years. For example, if a place is your home of ten years' standing, it has been your home for ten years.
- on-line data processing — the storing or processing of data on a computer using the internet
- overnight accommodation — accommodation provided by an establishment (such as a hotel) where guests can sleep or spend the night
- painting and decorating — interior decoration
- pentagonal dodecahedron — pyritohedron.
- percentage distribution — a frequency distribution is which individual frequencies are shown as a percentage of the total frequencies
- photoelectric magnitude — the magnitude of a star determined using a photometer plus a filter to select light or other radiation of the desired wavelength
- polish lowland sheepdog — a strongly-built medium-sized sheepdog of a Polish breed with a long thick shaggy coat that covers the eyes
- positive bending moment — a bending moment that produces concave bending at the middle of a simple supported beam
- precipitation hardening — a process in which alloys are strengthened by the formation, in their lattice, of a fine dispersion of one component when the metal is quenched from a high temperature and aged at an intermediate temperature
- presidential government — a system of government in which the powers of the president are constitutionally separate from those of the legislature.
- program design language — Any of a large class of formal and profoundly useless pseudo-languages in which management forces one to design programs. Too often, management expects PDL descriptions to be maintained in parallel with the code, imposing massive overhead of little or no benefit. See also flow chart.
- programmer brain damage — (humour) (PBD) A classification of a bug which was obviously introduced by an incompetent or short-sighted programmer. Compare UBD. See also brain-damaged.
- radio direction finding — the act or process of finding the direction to a radio source by comparing the signal strength of antennae pointing in different directions
- random number generator — a piece of computer software used to create a sequence of random numbers
- rectangular coordinates — Usually, rectangular coordinates. either of two Cartesian coordinates in which the axes meet at right angles.
- relativity of knowledge — the theory that all knowledge is relative to the mind, or that things can be known only through their effects on the mind, and that consequently there can be no knowledge of reality as it is in itself
- respondent conditioning — conditioning (def 2).
- set one's teeth on edge — (in most vertebrates) one of the hard bodies or processes usually attached in a row to each jaw, serving for the prehension and mastication of food, as weapons of attack or defense, etc., and in mammals typically composed chiefly of dentin surrounding a sensitive pulp and covered on the crown with enamel.
- sign on the dotted line — a line on a contract or similar document for a party's signature.
- spigot and socket joint — a joint between two pipes using male and female parts
- standard widget toolkit — (graphics, programming, standard) (SWT) The Eclipse Foundation's framework for developing graphical user interfaces in Java. SWT is written in explicitly standard Java but uses the Java Native Interface to talk to a platform-native GUI library. SWT is the third major attempt to give Java a decent GUI framework, following AWT and Swing. Of the three, SWT is the most consistent with the native GUIs but its programming model is hard to port to non-Windows platforms.