19-letter words containing s, r
- 3dnow! professional — (architecture) A floating point SIMD extention from AMD, compatible with Intel's SSE, introduced with the Athlon-4.
- a change of scenery — If you have a change of scenery, you go somewhere different after being in a particular place for a long time.
- a flea in one's ear — a sharp rebuke
- a law unto yourself — If you say that someone is a law unto himself or herself, you mean that they behave in an independent way, ignoring laws, rules, or conventional ways of doing things.
- a race against time — You describe a situation as a race against time when you have to work very fast in order to do something before a particular time, or before another thing happens.
- a slap on the wrist — A slap on the wrist is a warning or a punishment that is not very severe.
- a storm in a teacup — If you describe a situation as a storm in a teacup, you think that a lot of fuss is being made about something that is not important.
- a straw in the wind — an indication of what may happen
- abnormal psychology — the study of behaviour patterns that diverge widely from generally accepted norms, esp those of a pathological nature
- absolutory sentence — a sentence that acquits the accused
- absorption spectrum — the characteristic pattern of dark lines or bands that occurs when electromagnetic radiation is passed through an absorbing medium into a spectroscope. An equivalent pattern occurs as coloured lines or bands in the emission spectrum of that medium
- abstinence syndrome — the withdrawal symptoms that occur after abstinence from a drug, especially a narcotic, to which one is addicted.
- abstracting journal — a periodical consisting mainly or entirely of abstracts of current works.
- abstracting service — a service that provides abstracts of publications on a subject or group of related subjects, usually on a subscription basis.
- acceleration clause — a clause in a contract specifying that certain obligations will become due immediately in the event of a breach of contract, etc
- access control list — (networking) (ACL) A list of the services available on a server, each with a list of the hosts permitted to use the service.
- accessory apartment — a self-contained living area within a single-family home, as for an aging parent.
- accounts department — the section of a company that deals with the accounts
- accounts receivable — A company's accounts receivable are all the money that it is owed by other companies for goods or services that it has supplied, or a list of these companies and the amounts that they owe.
- accredited investor — An accredited investor is an organization or a wealthy individual that is considered to be financially knowledgeable, and can buy securities that are not registered with the SEC.
- acoustic gramophone — a device for reproducing the sounds stored on a record: now usually applied to the nearly obsolete type that uses a clockwork motor and acoustic horn
- acoustic resistance — acoustic impedance caused by the internal friction of the transmitting medium.
- active server pages — (web, programming) (ASP) A scripting environment for Microsoft Internet Information Server in which you can combine HTML, scripts and reusable ActiveX server components to create dynamic web pages. IIS 4.0 includes scripting engines for Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript) and Microsoft JScript. ActiveX scripting engines for Perl and REXX are available through third-party developers.
- ad astra per aspera — to the stars through difficulties
- ad kalendas graecas — at no time; never: from the fact that the Greeks did not reckon dates by calends.
- ad-hoc polymorphism — overloading
- addressed call mode — (communications) (ACM) A mode that permits control signals and commands to establish and terminate calls in V.25bis.
- adjustment disorder — a mental disorder that occurs as a maladaptive reaction to an episode of psychological, social, or physical stress, as divorce or a natural disaster.
- advertising account — account (def 11c).
- advocacy journalism — journalism that promotes a cause or expresses a subjective viewpoint.
- aerial top dressing — the process of spreading lime, fertilizer, etc over farmland from an aeroplane
- african swine fever — a highly contagious fatal disease of pigs caused by a myxovirus. The disease is characterized by fever, blotches on the skin, depression, and lack of coordination
- after-sales service — A company's after-sales service is all the help and information that it provides to customers after they have bought a particular product.
- agency spokesperson — a spokesperson for a government agency
- aggravated trespass — an offence in which a trespasser in the open air attempts to interfere with a lawful activity, such as hunting
- agitated depression — severe depression accompanied by extreme anxiety and agitation
- air cushion vehicle — ACV (def 2).
- air-cushion vehicle — a vehicle that travels just above the surface of land or water on a cushion of air provided by a downward jet from its engines, propellers, etc.
- aladdin enterprises — (company) A small, privately owned, US software consulting and development company, founded in 1986, best known as the original developer of Ghostscript. Address: San Francisco Peninsula, California, USA. Not to be confused with Aladdin Systems, Inc..
- alcazar de san juan — a town in S central Spain: associated with Cervantes and Don Quixote. Pop: 27 229 (2003 est)
- aldridge-brownhills — a town in central England, in Walsall unitary authority, West Midlands: formed by the amalgamation of neighbouring towns in 1966. Pop: 35 525 (2001)
- algebraic extension — a field containing a given field such that every element in the first field is algebraic over the given field.
- algebraic structure — (mathematics) Any formal mathematical system consisting of a set of objects and operations on those objects. Examples are Boolean algebra, numerical algebra, set algebra and matrix algebra.
- all in a day's work — If you say that a task is all in a day's work for someone, you mean that they do not mind doing it although it may be difficult, because it is part of their job or because they often do it.
- all-risks insurance — insurance that covers all risks to property except any types that are specifically excluded or limited in the policy
- alpha canis majoris — Sirius
- alpha canis minoris — Procyon
- alpha ursae minoris — Polaris
- alternative history — a genre of fiction in which the author speculates on how the course of history might have been altered if a particular historical event had had a different outcome
- alternative society — a society or social group that espouses values different from those of the established social order.
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