28-letter words containing t, e, r

financial services authority — (in the United Kingdom) a regulatory body that oversees London's financial markets, each of which has its own self-regulatory organization: it succeeded the Securities and Investments Board
finite intersection property — the property of a collection of nonempty sets in which the intersections of all possible finite numbers of the sets each contain at least one element.
floating-point specbaseratio — SPECbase_fp92
follicle-stimulating hormone — FSH.
for all intents and purposes — something that is intended; purpose; design; intention: The original intent of the committee was to raise funds.
formal description technique — (specification, protocol) (FDT) A formal method for developing telecomunications services and protocols. FDTs range from abstract to implementation-oriented descriptions. All FDTs offer the means for producing unambiguous descriptions of OSI services and protocols in a more precise and comprehensive way than natural language descriptions. They provide a foundation for analysis and verification of a description. The target of analysis and verification may vary from abstract properties to concrete properties. Natural language descriptions remain an essential adjunct to formal description, enabling an unfarmiliar reader to gain rapid insight into the structure and function of services and protocols. Examples of FDTs are LOTOS, Z, SDL, and Estelle.
frame technology corporation — (company) The company which developed FrameMaker, taken over by Adobe Systems, Inc. in late 1995/early 1996.
from the cradle to the grave — throughout the whole of one's life
front-end engineering design — Front-end engineering design is early and basic design, to accurately discover what resources will be needed.
general packet radio service — (communications) (GPRS) A GSM data transmission technique that transmits and receives data in packets. This contrasts with systems that set up a persistent channel. GPRS makes very efficient use of available radio spectrum, and users pay only for the volume of data sent and received. See also: packet radio.
general power of appointment — authority to appoint persons selected by the donee of the power to take an estate or interest in property
general theory of relativity — the state or fact of being relative.
get something off your chest — If you get something off your chest, you talk about something that has been worrying you.
get/set one's house in order — If someone gets their house in order, puts their house in order, or sets their house in order, they arrange their affairs and solve their problems.
give someone the worst of it — to defeat or get the better of someone
go from strength to strength — If a person or organization goes from strength to strength, they become more and more successful or confident.
go/come up/down in the world — If you say that someone has gone up in the world, you mean they have become richer or have a higher social status than before. If you say they have come down in the world, you mean they have become poorer or have a lower social status.
grand unified (field) theory — any of various theories postulating that the four fundamental forces in the universe (electromagnetism, gravity, the strong interaction, and the weak interaction) are actually types of a single high-energy force
greatest happiness principle — the ethical principle that an action is right in so far as it promotes the greatest happiness of the greatest number of those affected
have something going for one — to have something working to one's advantage
have sth/a lot going for you — If someone or something has a lot going for them, they have a lot of advantages.
have two strikes against one — to be at a decided disadvantage
high performance file system — (file system) (HPFS) The native file system for IBM's OS/2.
high-level data link control — (networking) (HDLC) A general-purpose data link control protocol defined by ISO for use on both point-to-point and multipoint (multidrop) data links. It supports full-duplex, transparent-mode operation. It is used extensively in both multipoint and computer networks. Some manufacturers and other standards bodies still use their own acronyms, e.g. IBM's SDLC (Synchronous Data Link Control), the forerunner of HDLC and ANSI's ADCCP (Advanced Data Communications Control Procedure).
hydrolysed vegetable protein — a powder or liquid that is produced by boiling legumes or cereals in hydrochloric acid and then neutralizing with sodium hydroxide. It is used as a flavouring in some foods, such as soups and bouillon cubes
hydrolyzed vegetable protein — a vegetable protein broken down into amino acids and used as a food additive to enhance flavor, especially in soups, sauces, and processed meats. Abbreviation: HVP, H.V.P.
ieee floating point standard — (standard, mathematics) (IEEE 754) "IEEE Standard for Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic (ANSI/IEEE Std 754-1985)" or IEC 559: "Binary floating-point arithmetic for microprocessor systems". A standard, used by many CPUs and FPUs, which defines formats for representing floating-point numbers; representations of special values (e.g. infinity, very small values, NaN); five exceptions, when they occur, and what happens when they do occur; four rounding modes; and a set of floating-point operations that will work identically on any conforming system. IEEE 754 specifies formats for representing floating-point values: single-precision (32-bit) is required, double-precision (64-bit) is optional. The standard also mentions that some implementations may include single-extended precision (80-bit) and double-extended precision (128-bit) formats.
imperial software technology — (company) A software engineering company which emerged from Imperial College in about 1982. It enjoys a world-wide reputation for technical excellence as a software product and technology provider in the Open Systems market. Its flagship product is X-Designer, the award-winning graphical user interface builder. It also has considerable expertise in the Z language and Formal Methods.
in (good, poor, etc. ) taste — in a form, style, or manner showing a (good, poor, etc.) sense of beauty, excellence, fitness, propriety, etc.
in one ear and out the other — If you say that something goes in one ear and out the other, you mean that someone pays no attention to it, or forgets about it immediately.
in perpetuity/for perpetuity — If something is done in perpetuity, it is intended to last for ever.
infectious laryngotracheitis — a viral disease of adult chickens, characterized by inflammation and hemorrhage of the larynx and trachea and, in many cases, resulting in asphyxiation.
information retrieval system — a system for recovering specific information from stored data
instantaneous sound pressure — sound pressure (def 1).
instruction address register — (architecture) (IAR) The IBM name for program counter. The IAR can be accessed by way of a supervisor call in supervisor state, but cannot be directly addressed in problem state.
instruction set architecture — (architecture) (ISA) The parts of a processor's design that need to be understood in order to write assembly language, such as the machine language instructions and registers. Parts of the architecture that are left to the implementation, such as number of superscalar functional units, cache size and cycle speed, are not part of the ISA. The definition of SPARC, for example, carefully distinguishes between an implementation and a specification.
integrated drive electronics — Advanced Technology Attachment
internet research task force — (IRTF) The IRTF is chartered by the Internet Architecture Board to consider long-term Internet issues from a theoretical point of view. It has Research Groups, similar to Internet Engineering Task Force Working Groups, which are each tasked to discuss different research topics. Multi-cast audio/video conferencing and privacy enhanced mail are samples of IRTF output.
internetwork packet exchange — (networking) (IPX) A network layer protocol initially developed at XEROX Corporation and made popular by Novell, Inc. as the basic protocol in its Novell NetWare file server operating system. A router with IPX routing can interconnect Local Area Networks so that Netware clients and servers can communicate. The SPX transport layer protocol runs on top of IPX.
it won't hurt/it never hurts — If you say 'It won't hurt to do something' or 'It never hurts to do something', you are recommending an action which you think is helpful or useful.
java servlet development kit — (web) (JSDK) A suite of software for easing the development of Java servlets.
jpeg file interchange format — (graphics, file format) (JFIF) The technical name for the file format better known as JPEG. This term is used only when the difference between the JPEG file format and the JPEG image compression algorithm is crucial.
just what the doctor ordered — sth needed and welcomed
karelian autonomous republic — an autonomous republic in the NW Russian Federation in Europe. 66,500 sq. mi. (172,240 sq. km). Capital: Petrozavodsk.
keep a weather eye on sb/sth — If you keep a weather eye on someone or something, you stay alert so that you will notice if anything unpleasant happens.
keep one's ear to the ground — the organ of hearing and equilibrium in vertebrates, in humans consisting of an external ear that gathers sound vibrations, a middle ear in which the vibrations resonate against the tympanic membrane, and a fluid-filled internal ear that maintains balance and that conducts the tympanic vibrations to the auditory nerve, which transmits them as impulses to the brain.
knowledge systems laboratory — (KSL) An artificial intelligence research laboratory within the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University. Current work focuses on knowledge representation for sharable engineering knowledge bases and systems, computational environments for modelling physical devices, architectures for adaptive intelligent systems, and expert systems for science and engineering.
lambert conformal projection — a conformal projection in which meridians are represented as straight lines converging toward the nearest pole and parallels as arc segments of concentric circles.
layer two tunneling protocol — (protocol) (L2TP) An IETF standard protocol for creating Virtual Private Networks. L2TP is an open standard with mutlivendor interoperability and acceptance. Compare: PPTP.
leader of the house of lords — a member of the Government having primary authority in initiating legislative business

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