23-letter words containing o, n, e, d, i
- firing on all cylinders — working or performing at full capability
- fish in troubled waters — any of various cold-blooded, aquatic vertebrates, having gills, commonly fins, and typically an elongated body covered with scales.
- five-and-ten-cent store — a store that sells a wide variety of inexpensive merchandise, orig. with many articles priced at five or ten cents
- forewarned is forearmed — If you say 'Forewarned is forearmed', you are saying that if you know about a problem or situation in advance, you will be able to deal with it when you need to.
- free on-line dictionary — Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
- friction reducing agent — A friction reducing agent is an additive used to reduce friction exerted downhole on tools and pipes.
- friedel-crafts reaction — a reaction for the synthesis of hydrocarbons and ketones by the alkylation or acylation of an aromatic compound in the presence of a catalyst, typically anhydrous aluminum chloride.
- front-end hydrogenation — Front-end hydrogenation is a catalytic process in the early stages of refining which involves the reaction of the carbon-carbon double bond in alkenes with hydrogen.
- fundamental interaction — any of the four basic interactions that occur in nature: the gravitational, electromagnetic, strong, and weak interactions
- general-obligation bond — a bond issued by a state or city and backed by general tax revenue and the issuer's credit.
- get one's wires crossed — to misunderstand
- get sth into one's head — If you get a fact or idea into your head, you suddenly realize or think that it is true and you usually do not change your opinion about it.
- girl of the golden west — Italian La fanciulla del West. an opera (1910) by Giacomo Puccini.
- give someone the needle — to goad or heckle
- grant-maintained school — a school funded directly by central government
- 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.
- hate-driven development — (programming, humour) A play on test-driven development for use when a piece of code is not necessarily broken but you hate the way it is written so much that you feel compelled to rewrite it.
- 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
- heaviside unit function — the function that is zero for any number less than zero and that is 1 for any number greater than or equal to zero.
- 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
- hold sb/sth in contempt — If you hold someone or something in contempt, you feel contempt for them.
- hortense de beauharnais — Beauharnais, Eugénie Hortense de.
- icosidodecadodecahedron — A polyhedron having 44 faces, 60 vertices, 120 edges, 12 self intersected faces and 12 nonconvex faces.
- identification bracelet — a bracelet, usually of metal links, having an identification plate for the name of the wearer.
- in a world of one's own — If you say that someone is in a world of their own, you mean that they seem not to notice other people or the things going on around them.
- in dependent 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.
- in sack cloth and ashes — sacking.
- 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
- indirect discrimination — discrimination by means of rules, regulations or procedures that may appear to be neutral, but which actually discriminate against certain groups of people.
- 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
- international date line — the line approximately following the 180° meridian from Greenwich on the east side of which the date is one day earlier than on the west
- intrinsic semiconductor — an almost pure semiconductor to which no impurities have been added and in which the electron and hole densities are equal at thermal equilibrium
- juan rodriguez cabrillo — Juan Rodríguez [rod-ree-ges] /rɒdˈri gɛs/ (Show IPA), (Joao Rodrigues Cabrilho) 1499?–1543, Spanish explorer, born in Portugal: discovered California.
- juvenile-onset diabetes — diabetes (def 3).
- keep one's eyes skinned — to watch carefully
- knock into a cocked hat — a man's hat, worn especially in the 18th century, having a wide, stiff brim turned up on two or three sides toward a peaked crown. Compare bicorne, tricorn (def 2).
- lackland air force base — U.S. Air Force installation in SW central Texas, SW of San Antonio.
- lieutenant junior grade — a commissioned officer ranking above an ensign and below a lieutenant.
- living on borrowed time — living an unexpected extension of life
- locally euclidean space — a topological space in which each point has a neighborhood that is homeomorphic to an open set in a Euclidean space of specified dimension.
- look on the bright side — consider positive aspects
- lossy audio compression — (audio, compression) Any audio compression algorithm which does not retain every bit of data but only reproduces a signal that sounds more or less like the original. Examples are MP1, MP2, MP3, AAC.