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27-letter words containing r, e, p, u, s, a

  • supreme court of judicature — an English court formed in 1873 from several superior courts and consisting of a court of original jurisdiction (High Court of Justice) and an appellate court (Court of Appeal)
  • synchronous optical network — (networking)   (SONET) A broadband networking standard based on point-to-point optical fibre networks. SONET will provide a high-bandwidth "pipe" to support ATM-based services. The SONET standard will establish a digital hierarchical network with a consistent worldwide transport scheme. SONET has been designed to take advantage of fibre, in contrast to the plain old telephone system which was designed for copper wires. SONET carries circuit-switched data in frames at speeds in multiples of 51.84 megabits per second (Mbps) up to 48 * 51.84 Mbps = 2.488 gigabits per second. Since SONET uses multiple channels to transmit data, each SONET frame can be considered to be a two-dimensional table of bytes that is 9 rows high and 90 columns deep. For every OC-n level, SONET can transmit n number of frames at a given time. Groups of frames are called superframes. SONET is the American version of SDH.
  • to all intents and purposes — something that is intended; purpose; design; intention: The original intent of the committee was to raise funds.
  • to practise what you preach — If you say that someone practises what they preach, you mean that they behave in the way that they encourage other people to behave in.
  • to stop dead in your tracks — If someone or something stops you in your tracks, or if you stop dead in your tracks, you suddenly stop moving because you are very surprised, impressed, or frightened.
  • to take someone by surprise — If something takes you by surprise, it happens when you are not expecting it or when you are not prepared for it.
  • universal computer protocol — (communications, protocol)   An earlier form of External Machine Interface (EMI).
  • weapons of mass destruction — nuclear, biological and chemical arms
  • while-you-wait heel repairs — repairs to damaged heels of footwear, carried out while the customer waits
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