32-letter words containing o, r, a, l, c, n
- point-to-point protocol over atm — (networking) (PPPoA) A network protocol for encapsulating PPP frames in ATM AAL5. It is used mainly with cable modem, DSL and ADSL services. PPPoA offers standard PPP features such as authentication, encryption, and compression. It is very slightly more efficient than PPPoE and, like PPPoE, supports VC-MUX and LLC encapsulation. PPPoA is specified in RFC 2364.
- portable common tool environment — (tool) (PCTE) An ECMA standard framework for software tools developed in the Esprit programme. It is based on an entity-relationship Object Management System and defines the way in which tools access this.
- professional liability insurance — Professional liability insurance is insurance for a company or a professional person against claims or financial losses that may occur as a result of their negligence.
- queen mary and westfield college — (QMW) One of the largest of the multi-faculty schools of the University of London. QMW has some 6000 students and over 600 teaching and research staff organised into seven faculties. QMW was one of the first colleges in the University of London to develop fully the course-unit, or modular, approach to degree programmes. Cross faculty courses are encouraged and the physical proximity of all the College buildings is a major factor in enabling students to adopt an interdisciplinary approach to their studies.
- real-time common design language — (language) (RT-CDL) A real-time language for the design of reliable reactive systems.
- rene theophile hyacinthe laennec — René Théophile Hyacinthe [ruh-ney tey-aw-feel ya-sant] /rəˈneɪ teɪ ɔˈfil yaˈsɛ̃t/ (Show IPA), 1781–1826, French physician who invented the stethoscope.
- resource access control facility — (RACF) IBM's large system security product. It originally ran only under MVS but has since been ported to run under VM.
- round the clock/around the clock — If something is done round the clock or around the clock, it is done all day and all night without stopping.
- saint bartholomew's day massacre — a massacre of over 3000 Huguenots, instigated by Catherine de Médicis and begun in Paris on St. Bartholomew's Day, August 24, 1572.
- single instruction multiple data — Single Instruction/Multiple Data
- standing settlement instructions — Standing settlement instructions are instructions that have been agreed in advance, and that are to be used every time a trade is made.
- systems application architecture — (programming) (SAA) IBM's family of standard interfaces which enable software to be written independently of hardware and operating system.
- terminal oriented social science — (project) (TOSS) The Cambridge Project Project MAC was an ARPA-funded political science computing project. They worked on topics like survey analysis and simulation, led by Ithiel de Sola Pool, J.C.R. Licklider and Douwe B. Yntema. Yntema had done a system on the MIT Lincoln Labs TX-2 called the Lincoln Reckoner, and in the summer of 1969 led a Cambridge Project team in the construction of an experiment called TOSS. TOSS was like Logo, with matrix operators. A major feature was multiple levels of undo, back to the level of the login session. This feature was cheap on the Lincoln Reckoner, but absurdly expensive on Multics.
- the game is not worth the candle — If you say that the game is not worth the candle, you mean that something is not worth the trouble or effort needed to achieve or obtain it.
- to have by the short and curlies — to have completely in one's power
- to nail your colours to the mast — If someone nails their colours to the mast, they say what they really think about something.
- transaction application language — (language) (TAL) Not "Tandem Application Language". A block-structured, procedural language optimised for use on Tandem hardware. TAL is a cross between C and Pascal and is the primary system programming language on Tandem computers. Tandem has no assembler and originally had no C or Pascal.
- twente compiler generator system — (language, tool) (TCGS) A compiler generator developed at the University of Twente, The Netherlands.
- uniform code of military justice — the body of laws governing members of the U.S. armed forces: superseded the Articles of War in 1951
- united states employment service — the division of the Department of Labor that supervises and coordinates the activities of state employment agencies. Abbreviation: USES.
- virtual sequential access method — Virtual Storage Access Method
- volunteers in service to america — VISTA.
- wash one's dirty linen in public — fabric woven from flax yarns.
- workers' educational association — a charitable organization providing adult community education