26-letter words containing s, i, m, p, o
- plain old telephone system — Public Switched Telephone Network
- post-and-beam construction — wall construction in which beams rather than studs are used to support heavy posts.
- postprandial thermogenesis — the rate at which food is broken down after a meal and used by your body
- professional office system — (messaging) (PROFS) An office messaging system from IBM, used worldwide, mainly on IBM mainframes.
- psychophysical parallelism — the view that mental and bodily events occur in parallel series without causal interaction.
- pulse-amplitude modulation — modulation of the amplitude of a train of electric pulses used to carry signals (pulse carrier) Abbreviation: PAM.
- put a bug in someone's ear — Also called true bug, hemipteran, hemipteron. a hemipterous insect.
- put sb out of their misery — If you put someone out of their misery, you tell them something that they are very anxious to know.
- quite apart from something — used to indicate that you are aware of one aspect of a situation, but that you are going to focus on another aspect
- real-time operating system — (operating system) (RTOS) Any operating system where interrupts are guaranteed to be handled within a certain specified maximum time, thereby making it suitable for control of hardware in embedded systems and other time-critical applications. RTOS is not a specific product but a class of operating systems.
- refinery’s own consumption — Refinery's own consumption is the gas and fuel which is burnt to operate the units in a refinery and generate electricity and steam.
- remembrance of things past — a novel (1913–27) by Marcel Proust.
- replacement cost insurance — Replacement cost insurance is insurance in which the cost of replacing property is calculated without a reduction for depreciation.
- scintillation spectrometer — a scintillation counter adapted for measuring the energy distribution of particles emitted in radioactive processes.
- search engine optimization — the process of adjusting the content, structure, etc, of a website so that it will be displayed prominently by a search engine
- simple algebraic extension — a simple extension in which the specified element is a root of an algebraic equation in the given field.
- sweep someone off his feet — to inspire strong and immediate enthusiasm, love, etc. in someone
- symbolic assembler program — (language) (SAP) The assembly language for the IBM 704, defined in the late 1950s.
- system product interpreter — Restructured EXtended eXecutor
- take steps to do something — to undertake measures with a view to the attainment of some end
- the single european market — the free trade policy that operates between members of the European Union
- thematic apperception test — a projective technique in which stories told by a subject about each of a series of pictures are assumed to reveal dominant needs or motivations. Abbreviation: TAT.
- three-dimensional printing — the creation of solid objects by building up multiple layers, each layer corresponding to a plan held in a digital file
- to pick holes in something — If you pick holes in an argument or theory, you find weak points in it so that it is no longer valid.
- to pip someone at the post — If someone is pipped at the post or pipped to the post they are just beaten in a competition or in a race to achieve something.
- to pour scorn on something — If you pour scorn on someone or something or heap scorn on them, you say that you think they are stupid and worthless.
- topological transformation — homeomorphism (def 2).
- transformational component — a set of transformational rules that convert the deep structure of sentences into their surface structures
- traveling salesman problem — any mathematical problem that involves determination of the shortest path through several points.
- udmurt autonomous republic — an autonomous republic in the Russian Federation in Europe. 16,250 sq. mi. (42,088 sq. km). Capital: Izhevsk.
- united states marine corps — Marine Corps. Abbreviation: USMC.
- upper side-band modulation — (communications) (USB) A kind of modulation applied to a sinusoidal carrier.