32-letter words containing p, l, e, r, o
- there's no time like the present — If you say 'There's no time like the present', you are suggesting to someone that they should do something now, not later.
- time-of-flight mass spectroscopy — a technique for separating ions according to the time required for them to traverse a set distance.
- to leave somebody partially deaf — to make sb partly deaf
- 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.
- 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.
- twente compiler generator system — (language, tool) (TCGS) A compiler generator developed at the University of Twente, The Netherlands.
- united states employment service — the division of the Department of Labor that supervises and coordinates the activities of state employment agencies. Abbreviation: USES.
- wash one's dirty linen in public — fabric woven from flax yarns.
- weighted average cost of capital — The weighted average cost of capital is the cost of capital that is adjusted according to the percentages of debt financing and equity financing.
- wrangell-st. elias national park — a national park in E Alaska. 12,730 sq. mi. (32,970 sq. km).