26-letter words containing s, t, r, e, d, o
- event description language — (language) (EDL)
- extended capabilities port — (hardware) (ECP) A parallel printer interface for IBM PC compatibles, supported by several, mainly US, manufacturers. Not to be confused with the more common Enhanced Capabilities Port.
- federation of south arabia — the former name (1963–67) of South Yemen (excluding Aden)
- first marquis of lansdowne — Richard, born 1937, U.S. racing-car driver.
- first-class honours degree — an honours degree of the highest class
- fixed-point representation — the representation of numbers by a single set of digits such that the radix point has a predetermined location, the value of the number depending on the position of each digit relative to the radix point
- franklin d. roosevelt lake — a reservoir in NE Washington, formed by the Grand Coulee Dam. 130 sq. mi. (337 sq. km).
- frederic auguste bartholdi — Frédéric Auguste [frey-dey-reek oh-gyst] /freɪ deɪˈrik oʊˈgüst/ (Show IPA), 1834–1904, French sculptor who designed the Statue of Liberty.
- german shorthaired pointer — one of a German breed of large sporting dogs having a short hard coat, usually liver or liver and white in color, and a docked tail, used as a versatile hunting dog.
- give someone to understand — If someone is given to understand that something is the case, it is communicated to them that it is the case, usually without them being told directly.
- grammar-translation method — a traditional technique of foreign-language teaching based on explicit instruction in the grammatical analysis of the target language and translation of sentences from the native language into the target language and vice versa.
- greater spotted woodpecker — a black-and-white bird, Dendrocopos major, of the woodpecker family
- hardware abstraction layer — (operating system) (HAL) The layer of Microsoft Windows NT where they have isolated their assembly language code.
- head normalisation theorem — Under the typed lambda-calculus, beta/delta reduction of the left-most redex (normal order reduction) is guaranteed to terminate with a head normal form if one exists. See also Church-Rosser theorem.
- hoist with your own petard — If someone who has planned to harm someone else is hoist with their own petard or hoist by their own petard, their plan in fact results in harm to themselves.
- horse of a different color — a large, solid-hoofed, herbivorous quadruped, Equus caballus, domesticated since prehistoric times, bred in a number of varieties, and used for carrying or pulling loads, for riding, and for racing.
- human resources department — the department in an organization dealing with matters involving employees, as hiring, training, labor relations, and benefits.
- hydrogenated glucose syrup — a syrup produced by the incomplete hydrolysis of starch followed by the hydrogenation of the glucose syrup, and used as a sweetener in confectionery, etc
- individualized instruction — a teaching method tailored to the skills, abilities, and interests of the individual student
- inflammatory bowel disease — any intestinal inflammatory disease, especially Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, of unknown cause. Abbreviation: IBD.
- integrated data processing — IDP.
- intermodulation distortion — (electronics, communications) (IMD) Nonlinear distortion in a system or transducer, characterised by the appearance in the output of frequencies equal to the sums and differences of integral multiples of the two or more component frequencies present in the input waveform.
- international grand master — a chess player in the highest class of ability, as determined through specified types of international competitions.
- international screw thread — a metric system for screw threads relating the pitch to the diameter
- jefferson davis's birthday — June 3 or the first Monday in June, observed as a legal holiday in some Southern states.
- jump down someone's throat — the passage from the mouth to the stomach or to the lungs, including the pharynx, esophagus, larynx, and trachea.
- knights of the round table — a legendary order of knights created by King Arthur.
- law of diminishing returns — diminishing returns (def 2).
- make (or be) friends with — to become (or be) a friend of
- many-worlds interpretation — an interpretation of quantum mechanics based on the idea that every possible event exists in its own world
- micronetics standard mumps — (MSM) A version of MUMPS for the IBM PC RT and R6000.
- mongolian hordes technique — (programming, jargon) (Or "Chinese Army technique") Assigning a large number of inexperienced programmers to a job which would better performed by a few skilled ones. The term was first used by Dr. Fred Brooks in his book "The Mythical Man-Month", Chapter 3. According to Dr. Brooks, he had in mind the vision of the Mongol Hordes sweeping across Asia and Europe when he created the term.
- monochrome display adapter — (hardware, graphics) (MDA) One of IBM's earliest hardware video display standards for use in IBM PC. MDA can display only monochrome 80*25 text (IBM PC video mode 7). It is now obsolete.
- most-favored-nation clause — a clause in a commercial treaty or contract by which each signatory agrees to give the other the same treatment that is or will be accorded any other nation.
- mutual assured destruction — a U.S. doctrine of reciprocal deterrence resting on the U.S. and Soviet Union each being able to inflict unacceptable damage on the other in retaliation for a nuclear attack.
- netware directory services — (networking) (NDS) Novell, Inc.'s directory services for Netware, Windows NT, and Unix. The NDS directory represents each network resource (user, hardware, or application) as an object of a certain class, where each class has certain properties. For example, User and Print Server are object classes and a user has over 80 properties such as name, login, password, department, and title. The directory is hierarchical, divided into branches by rules of containment. A given object can only belong to a given container (or branch). The rules governing classes, properties and, rules of containment are known as the schema.
- network address translator — Network Address Translation
- newfoundland standard time — one of the standard times used in Canada, three and a half hours behind Greenwich Mean Time
- nondeterministic automaton — (theory) (Or "probabilistic automaton") An automaton in which there are several possible actions (outputs and next states) at each state of the computation such that the overall course of the computation is not completely determined by the program, the starting state, and the initial inputs. See also nondeterministic Turing Machine.
- not get a word in edgeways — If you say that you cannot get a word in edgeways, you are complaining that you do not have the opportunity to speak because someone else is talking so much.
- not get a word in edgewise — If you say that you cannot get a word in edgewise, you are complaining that you do not have the opportunity to speak because someone else is talking so much.
- not know someone from adam — to have no knowledge of or acquaintance with someone
- official production system — (language) (OPS) The first production system (i.e. rule based) programming language, developed at CMU in 1970 and used for building expert systems. OPS was originally written in Franz Lisp and later ported to other LISP dialects.
- on demand: usu phr after v — If something is available or happens on demand, you can have it or it happens whenever you want it or ask for it.
- on the straight and narrow — If something keeps people on the straight and narrow, it helps to keep them living an honest or healthy life.
- open the door to something — If someone or something opens the door to a good new idea or situation, they introduce it or make it possible.
- or otherwise/and otherwise — You use or otherwise or and otherwise to mention something that is not the thing just referred to or is the opposite of that thing.
- period-luminosity relation — the relationship between the period of light variation and of the absolute magnitude of Cepheid variable stars.
- personal digital assistant — a handheld computer, often pen-based, that provides especially organizational software, as an appointment calendar, and communications hardware, as a fax modem. Abbreviation: PDA.
- pick up the threads of sth — If you pick up the threads of an activity, you start it again after an interruption. If you pick up the threads of your life, you become more active again after a period of failure or bad luck.