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21-letter words containing r, o, m, c, u, p

  • queer someone's pitch — to upset someone's plans
  • remote procedure call — (networking, programming)   (RPC) A protocol which allows a program running on one host to cause code to be executed on another host without the programmer needing to explicitly code for this. RPC is an easy and popular paradigm for implementing the client-server model of distributed computing. An RPC is initiated by the caller (client) sending request message to a remote system (the server) to execute a certain procedure using arguments supplied. A result message is returned to the caller. There are many variations and subtleties in various implementations, resulting in a variety of different (incompatible) RPC protocols.
  • return the compliment — repay sb's kindness with a kind act
  • saponification number — the number of milligrams of potassium hydroxide required to saponify one gram of a given ester, especially a glyceride.
  • scalar multiplication — an operation used in the definition of a vector space in which the product of a scalar and a vector is a vector, the operation is distributive over the addition of both scalars and vectors, and is associative with multiplication of scalars
  • simple actor language — (language)   (SAL) A minimal actor language, used for teaching in:
  • special court-martial — a court-martial established to try violations of military law less serious than those tried by a general court-martial but more serious than those tried by a summary court-martial.
  • subliminal perception — perception of or reaction to a stimulus that occurs without awareness or consciousness
  • therapeutic community — a group-based form of therapy for mental disorders, sometimes residential
  • thermoelectric couple — thermocouple.
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