25-letter words containing t, a, i, l, e, d
- exploratory data analysis — (EDA)
- federal capital territory — former name of Australian Capital Territory.
- flexible spending account — an account to which an employee contributes a portion of earnings to pay for certain expenses such as medical and dependent care: contributions are exempt from payroll taxes. Abbreviation: FSA.
- frequently asked question — (convention) (FAQ, or rarely FAQL, FAQ list) A document provided for many Usenet newsgroups (and, more recently, web services) which attempts to answer questions which new readers often ask. These are maintained by volunteers and posted regularly to the newsgroup. You should always consult the FAQ list for a group before posting to it in case your question or point is common knowledge. The collection of all FAQ lists is one of the most precious and remarkable resources on the Internet. It contains a huge wealth of up-to-date expert knowledge on many subjects of common interest. Accuracy of the information is greatly assisted by its frequent exposure to criticism by an interested, and occasionally well-informed, audience (the readers of the relevant newsgroup). The main FTP archive for FAQs is on a computer called RTFM at MIT, where they can be accessed either by group or by hierarchy. There is another archive at Imperial College, London, UK and a web archive in Ohio, USA. The FAQs are also posted to Usenet newsgroups: news:comp.answers, news:news.answers and news:alt.answers.
- further education college — (in Britain) an establishment that offers formal education beyond school and which is not a university or polytechnic
- gabriel daniel fahrenheit — Gabriel Daniel [German gah-bree-el dah-nee-el] /German ˈgɑ briˌɛl ˈdɑ niˌɛl/ (Show IPA), 1686–1736, German physicist: devised a temperature scale and introduced the use of mercury in thermometers.
- gas desulfurization plant — A gas desulfurization plant is a place with equipment that removes sulfur dioxide from flue gas before it is released into the atmosphere.
- genetically modified food — a food that contains ingredients made from genetically modified plants or animals
- grand teton national park — a national park in NW Wyoming, including a portion of the Teton Range. 148 sq. mi. (383 sq. km).
- graphic display interface — (hardware) (GDI) graphics adaptor.
- harris semiconductor ltd. — (company) Address: Riverside Way, Camberley, Surrey, CU15 3YQ, UK. Telephone: +44 (1276) 686 886. Fax: +44 (1276) 682 323.
- high voltage differential — (hardware) (HVD) Differential SCSI scheme that has been in use for years. The terminators run on 5 Volts DC. See also LVD.
- idealized instruction set — (language) (IIS) The assembly language for the Flagship parallel machine.
- immediate-release coating — An immediate-release coating is a tablet coating that breaks down immediately in the body.
- immigration border patrol — (in the US) a law enforcement agency responsible for issues regarding border laws and immigration
- in the palm of one's hand — If you have someone or something in the palm of your hand, you have control over them.
- industrial injury benefit — money paid to an employee who has been injured or who has developed a disease because of their job, and who is consequently unable to work
- industrial life insurance — life insurance having a relatively low face value in which premiums are paid weekly or monthly to an agent.
- industrial rehabilitation — the treatment of people who have acquired a disability or disease during the course of their work, with the aim of allowing them to return to work or to a new job
- industrial robot language — (language, robotics) (IRL) A high-level language for programming industrial robots.
- instrumental conditioning — conditioning (def 1).
- interactive data language — (IDL) A commercial array-oriented language with numerical analysis and display features, first released in 1977. It supports interactive reduction, analysis, and visualisation of scientific data. It is sold by Research Systems, Inc. Version: 3.6.1 runs under Unix, MS-DOS, MS Windows, VAX/VMS and Macintosh. Not to be confused with any of the other IDLs. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- interlocking directorates — a corporate directorate that includes one or more members who serve simultaneously in the directorates of other corporations.
- intermittent claudication — pain and cramp in the calf muscles, aggravated by walking and caused by an insufficient supply of blood
- internal field separators — (operating system) ($IFS) A predefined environment variable in the Unix Bourne shell whose default value is the three-character string containing space, tab and line feed. Any string of one or more of these characters separates the command and each of its arguments in a command line. $IFS also tells the shell's built-in read command where to split an input line when reading into multiple variables. E.g. setting IFS=: would be appropriate for reading a file with ':'-separated fields, such as /etc/passwd.
- jakob-creutzfeldt disease — Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
- jean-maurice-Émile baudot — (person) (1845-1903) The inventor of the Baudot code. Baudot joined the French Post & Telegraph Administration in 1869 as a telegraph operator. In his own time he developed a code for sending several messages at once. In 1874 Baudot patented his first printing telegraph where signals were translated onto paper tape. The Baudot code was adopted first in France and then by other nations for
and transmissions. The unit of transmission speed, baud, is named after him. - kwantung leased territory — a strategic territory of NE China, at the S tip of the Liaodong Peninsula of Manchuria: leased forcibly by Russia in 1898; taken over by Japan in 1905; occupied by the Soviet Union in 1945 and subsequently returned to China on the condition of shared administration; made part of Liaoning province by China in 1954. Area: about 3400 sq km (1300 sq miles)
- land of the little sticks — the part of the north of Canada that lies south of the tree line but contains only stunted evergreens or dwarf deciduous trees.
- language sensitive editor — (LSE) A language-sensitive editor from DEC.
- language-sensitive editor — An editor that is aware of the syntactic, semantic and in some cases the structural rules of a specific programming language and provides a framework for the user to enter source code. Programs or changes to previously stored programs are incrementally parsed into an abstract syntax tree and automatically checked for correctness.
- leaf distribution limited — A UK connectivity software supplier which also provides SERVELAN, a country-wide Internet access service. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Address: 7 Elmwood, Chineham Business Park, Crockford Lane, BASINGSTOKE RG24 0WG. Telephone: +44 (1256) 707 777. Fax: +44 (1256) 707 555.
- letters of administration — a formal document nominating a specified person to take over, administer, and dispose of an estate when there is no executor to carry out the testator's will
- licensed vocational nurse — a person with specified training who has become licensed to provide vocational assistance to patients. Abbreviation: LVN.
- limited liability company — a company which operates with limited liability
- limited-slip differential — an automotive differential that can transfer power from a wheel that has lost traction to one that has not.
- local education authority — a body that is responsible for education in a particular area
- lowest common denominator — least common denominator.
- medical officer of health — a person appointed by a local or national authority to be in charge of its health policy
- metal oxide semiconductor — a three-layer sandwich of a metal, an insulator (usually an oxide of the substrate), and a semiconductor substrate, used in integrated circuits. Abbreviation: MOS.
- methylrosaniline chloride — gentian violet.
- miguel hidalgo y costilla — Miguel [mee-gel] /miˈgɛl/ (Show IPA), 1753–1811, Mexican priest, patriot, and revolutionist.
- multi-scene control board — preset board.
- national advanced systems — (company) (NAS) A company, previously known as ITEL, that made IBM plug-compatible hardware and was bought by Hitachi.
- national enterprise board — a public corporation established in 1975 to help the economy of the UK. In 1981 it merged with the National Research and Development Council to form the British Technology Group
- never do things by halves — If you say that someone never does things by halves, you mean that they always do things very thoroughly.
- non-algorithmic procedure — heuristic
- normal equivalent deviate — a value x such that the integral of a normal curve over all those values of the independent variable less than x is equal to the given probability.
- nuffield teaching project — (in Britain) a complete school programme in mathematics, science, languages, etc, with suggested complementary theory and practical work
- on the big/small etc side — If you say that something is on the small side, you are saying politely that you think it is slightly too small. If you say that someone is on the young side, you are saying politely that you think they are slightly too young.