22-letter words containing p, r, i, m, g, a
- scalable sampling rate — (compression, standard, algorithm) (SSR) See, e.g., MPEG-4 AAC SSR.
- sing someone's praises — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- special marine warning — a National Weather Service warning of high-wind conditions at sea that are expected to last for up to two hours, and generally result from convective storm systems, as thunderstorms or squall lines. Compare warning (def 3).
- spherical trigonometry — the branch of trigonometry that deals with spherical triangles.
- structured programming — the design and coding of programs by a methodology (top-down) that successively breaks problems into smaller, nested subunits.
- time-lapse photography — the photographing on motion-picture film of a slow and continuous process, as the growth of a plant, at regular intervals, especially by exposing a single frame at a time, for projection at a higher speed.
- to make a pig's ear of — If you make a pig's ear of something you are doing, you do it very badly.
- transient program area — (operating system) (TPA) The region of memory CP/M set aside for user programs.
- transposing instrument — a musical instrument played at a pitch different from that indicated in the score.
- upright vacuum cleaner — a vacuum cleaner that is tall rather than wide
- within someone's grasp — If you say that something is within someone's grasp, you mean that it is very likely that they will achieve it.