31-letter words containing o, p, e, n
- to sweep someone off their feet — If someone sweeps you off your feet, you fall in love with them very quickly because you find them very attractive or exciting.
- to take the piss out of someone — If you take the piss out of someone, you tease them and make fun of them.
- to throw a spanner in the works — If someone throws a spanner in the works, they prevent something happening smoothly in the way that it was planned, by causing a problem or difficulty.
- 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.
- united kingdom unix users group — UKUUG Ltd.
- 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.
- worcester polytechnic institute — (WPI) A well-regarded, small engineering college. Address: Worcester, MA, USA.
- workers' compensation insurance — insurance required by law from employers for the protection of employees while engaged in the employer's business.
- you could have heard a pin drop — You can say you could have heard a pin drop when a place is extremely quiet, especially because everyone is waiting for someone to speak or when someone has made a shocking remark.
- zenithal equidistant projection — azimuthal equidistant projection.