32-letter words containing o, r, d, i, n, e
- severe combined immunodeficiency — a group of rare congenital disorders in which both cell-mediated and humoral immunity are lacking, causing susceptibility to a wide variety of illnesses and an inability to live in a normal environment. Abbreviation: SCID.
- single instruction multiple data — Single Instruction/Multiple Data
- software practice and experience — (publication) (SPE) A journal about software.
- 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.
- sweep something under the carpet — to conceal (something, esp a problem) in the hope that it will be overlooked by others
- take one's courage in both hands — to nerve oneself to perform an action
- take the law into your own hands — act as a vigilante
- temporomandibular joint disorder — a syndrome caused by a dislocation, injury, etc. of the temporomandibular joint, characterized variously by headache, facial pain, dizziness, partial loss of hearing, etc.
- temporomandibular joint syndrome — a condition attributed to tension in or faulty articulation of the temporomandibular joint, having a wide range of symptoms that include dizziness, ringing in the ears, and pain in the head, neck, and shoulders.
- 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.
- there's no question of doing sth — If you say there is no question of something happening, you are emphasizing that it is not going to happen.
- throw someone in at the deep end — to put someone into a new situation, job, etc, without preparation or introduction
- to have by the short and curlies — to have completely in one's power
- to kill two birds with one stone — If you say that doing something will kill two birds with one stone, you mean that it will enable you to achieve two things that you want to achieve, rather than just one.
- to vanish from the radar screens — to go missing; to no longer be visible or able to be detected by anyone
- turn/beat swords into plowshares — If you say that swords have been turned into plowshares or beaten into plowshares, you mean that a state of conflict between two or more groups of people has ended and a period of peace has begun.
- twist around one's little finger — to have easy and complete control or influence over
- 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.
- united states information agency — an independent agency, created in 1953 and known from 1978 to 1982 as the International Communication Agency, that administers the government's overseas information and cultural programs. Abbreviation: USIA.
- virtual sequential access method — Virtual Storage Access Method
- wash one's dirty linen in public — fabric woven from flax yarns.
- workers' educational association — a charitable organization providing adult community education