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28-letter words containing s, i, l

  • a poster child for something — a person who is a good, or typical example of something; a prominent exemplar of something
  • a square peg in a round hole — If you describe someone as a square peg in a round hole, you mean that they are completely unsuitable for the job they are doing or the situation they are in.
  • a tools integration standard — (software, library)   (ATIS) An object-oriented interface to a set of services that allows the saving, accessing and managing of information in a common repository. Developed by Atherton Technology and DEC, based on an extended version of the Software BackPlane, proposed as an industry standard.
  • absolute index of refraction — a number indicating the speed of light in a given medium as either the ratio of the speed of light in a vacuum to that in the given medium (absolute index of refraction) or the ratio of the speed of light in a specified medium to that in the given medium (relative index of refraction) Symbol: n.
  • adaptive simulated annealing — (language)   (ASA) An algorithm for global optimisation of generic functions by Lester Ingber <[email protected]> <[email protected]>. Mailing list: <[email protected]>.
  • american antislavery society — a society, founded in 1833 and led by William Lloyd Garrison, to abolish slavery.
  • angiotensin receptor blocker — any of a class of drugs that block the uptake of angiotensin: used in the treatment of high blood pressure
  • antiballistic missile treaty — an agreement between the U.S. and U.S.S.R., signed May 26, 1972, limiting the number of ABM deployment areas, launchers, and interceptors.
  • antidisestablishmentarianism — opposition to the withdrawal of state support or recognition from an established church, especially the Anglican Church in 19th-century England.
  • apple-touch-icon-precomposed — (programming)   An alternative form of apple-touch-icon that is not subject to automatic modification (rounding, drop-shadow, reflective shine) as applied by iOS versions prior to iOS 7. A web page specifies a pre-composed icon by including an element in the like:
  • application service provider — (business, networking)   (ASP) A service (usually a business) that provides remote access to an application program across a network protocol, typically HTTP. A common example is a website that other websites use for accepting payment by credit card as part of their online ordering systems. As this term is complex-sounding but vague, it is widely used by marketroids who want to avoid being specific and clear at all costs.
  • as alike as chalk and cheese — totally different in essentials
  • asdo implementation language — (language)   (ASDIMPL) A C-like language, run on Burroughs' mainframes in the early 1980s, and cross-compiled to x86-based embedded processors.
  • association for simula users — (body)   See SIMULA. Address: Royal Institute of Technology, S-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden.
  • at your earliest convenience — as soon as possible
  • attribute translation system — (grammar, tool)   (ATS) A BNF-based parser generator from the University of Saskatchewan(?). ATS generates table-driven LL1 parsers with full insert-only error recovery. It also has full left-attribute semantic handling, which is a dream compared to using YACC's parser actions.
  • australian capital territory — a territory of SE Australia, within New South Wales: consists of two exclaves, one containing Canberra, the capital of Australia, and one at Jervis Bay (the latter sometimes regarded as a separate entity). Pop: 373 100 (2012 est)
  • benign prostatic hyperplasia — a benign condition in which the prostate gland becomes enlarged due to an increase in the number of prostatic cells, usually affecting the flow of urine.
  • between scylla and charybdis — in a predicament in which avoidance of either of two dangers means exposure to the other
  • biological response modifier — a therapeutic substance that is produced naturally or synthesized as a drug to stimulate the body's immune defense against disease or infection. Abbreviation: BRM.
  • bipolar (affective) disorder — a psychotic disorder characterized by alternating periods of mania and mental depression; manic-depressive illness: now the preferred term in psychiatry
  • bite your nails to the quick — If someone bites their nails to the quick, they bite off all the white part at the end of each nail.
  • borland software corporation — (company)   A company that sells a variety of PC software development and database systems. Borland was founded in 1983 and initially became famous for their low-cost software, particularly Turbo Pascal, Turbo C, and Turbo Prolog. Current and past products include the Borland C++ C++ and C developement environment, the Paradox and dBASE databases, Delphi, JBuilder, and InterBase. Borland has approximately 1000 employees worldwide and has operations in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. Borland sold Quattro Pro to Novell in 1994 for $100M. Novell later sold the product to Corel Corporation, who also bought Paradox. dBASE was sold in March(?) 1999 to dBase Inc. In Febuary 1998 Borland bought Visigenic Software, Inc.. The company changed its name to Inprise Corporation on 1998-04-29 and then on 2000-11-14 they announced they were changing it back to Borland from the first quarter of 2001. Quarterly sales $69M, profits $61M (Aug 1994). $56M, $6.4M (July 2001) Headquarters: 100 Borland Way, Scotts Valley, CA, 95066, USA. Telephone: +1 (408) 431 1000.
  • bright eyed and bushy tailed — having bright eyes.
  • bright-eyed and bushy-tailed — keen, confident, and alert
  • cerebrospinal nervous system — central nervous system.
  • channel associated signaling — in-band signalling
  • chief cook and bottle washerchief cook and bottlewasher, a person who does a wide variety of routine, sometimes menial, tasks: He's not just sales manager, he's the chief cook and bottlewasher in this firm.
  • committee of the whole house — (in Britain) an informal sitting of the House of Commons to discuss and amend a bill
  • community antenna television — CATV.
  • computational fluid dynamics — the prediction of the behaviour of fluids and of the effects of fluid motion past objects by numerical methods rather than model experiments
  • congressional medal of honor — the highest U.S. military decoration, awarded by Congress to a member of the armed forces for gallantry and bravery in combat, at the risk of life and above and beyond the call of duty.
  • consolidated school district — a large school district formed by the amalgamation of two or more separate districts
  • constraint logic programming — (programming)   (CLP) A programming framework based (like Prolog) on LUSH (or SLD) resolution, but in which unification has been replaced by a constraint solver. A CLP interpreter contains a Prolog-like inference engine and an incremental constraint solver. The engine sends constraints to the solver one at a time. If the new constraint is consistent with the collected constraints it will be added to the set. If it is inconsistent, it will cause the engine to backtrack.
  • correlatives and conversions — The data description language used in the Pick operating system.
  • council of economic advisers — a board, consisting of three members, established in 1946 to advise the president on economic matters. Abbreviation: CEA.
  • council of economic advisors — (in the US) a body of economists who advise the President on economic issues and whose chairperson can speak on behalf of the administration on economic issues
  • cross word puzzle dictionary — a dictionary that lists common clues found in crossword puzzles with potential answer words. In books, the lists are usually sorted by the number of letters in the answer, while an online crossword dictionary, such as the Dictionary.com Crossword Solver, is able to analyze queries electronically, examining either the clue or the number and pattern of letters already filled in to arrive at suggested answers.
  • cruel and unusual punishment — treatment: barbaric
  • dataless management services — (operating system)   (DMS)
  • datastorm technologies, inc. — (company)   The original suppliers of Procomm. Address: Columbia MO, USA.
  • delivered source instruction — (programming, unit)   (DSI) One line of source code (LOC) developed by a project. DSI is the primary input to many tools for estimating software cost. The term "delivered" is generally meant to exclude non-delivered support software such as test drivers. However, if these are developed with the same care as delivered software, with their own reviews, test plans, documentation, etc., then they should be counted. The "source instructions" include all program instructions created by project personnel and processed into machine code by some combination of preprocessors, compilers, and assemblers. It excludes comments and unmodified utility software. It includes job control language, format statements, and data declarations.
  • dewey decimal classification — taxonomy: library books
  • disability rights commission — (in Britain) a body appointed by the Government to enforce anti-discrimination law affecting people with disabilities
  • distinguished encoding rules — (communications, data)   (DER) An X.690 encoding format (or transfer syntax) for data structures described by ASN.1 that specifies exactly one way to encode a value thus ensuring a unique, canonical, serialised representation. DER is a restricted variant of BER. For example, DER has exactly one way to encode a Boolean value. DER is used in cryptography, e.g. for digital certificates such as X.509.
  • dow jones industrial average — a stock market index based upon the current prices of thirty selected industrial stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange
  • drink yourself into a stupor — If you drink yourself into a stupor or drink yourself into oblivion, you drink so much alcohol that you lose consciousness or fall deeply asleep.
  • dulles international airport — airport in N Virginia, just west of Washington, D.C., used mainly for international flights.
  • ecclesiastical commissioners — the administrators of the properties of the Church of England from 1836 to 1948, when they were combined with Queen Anne's Bounty to form the Church Commissioners
  • einstein's photoelectric law — the principle that the maximum energy of a photoelectron is hν – Φ, where ν is the frequency of the incident radiation, h is the Planck constant, and Φ is the work function

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