22-letter words containing u, l
- a blessing in disguise — If you say that something is a blessing in disguise, you mean that it causes problems and difficulties at first but later you realize that it was the best thing that could have happened.
- a bull in a china shop — You say that someone is like a bull in a china shop when they are very clumsy.
- a lump in one's throat — a tight dry feeling in one's throat, usually caused by great emotion
- a programming language — (language) (APL) A programming language designed originally by Ken Iverson at Harvard University in 1957-1960 as a notation for the concise expression of mathematical algorithms. It went unnamed (or just called Iverson's Language) and unimplemented for many years. Finally a subset, APL\360, was implemented in 1964. APL is an interactive array-oriented language and programming environment with many innovative features. It was originally written using a non-standard character set. It is dynamically typed with dynamic scope. APL introduced several functional forms but is not purely functional. Dyalog APL/W and Visual APL are recognized .NET languages. Dyalog APL/W, APLX and APL2000 all offer object-oriented extensions to the language. ISO 8485 is the 1989 standard defining the language. Commercial versions: APL SV, VS APL, Sharp APL, Sharp APL/PC, APL*PLUS, APL*PLUS/PC, APL*PLUS/PC II, MCM APL, Honeyapple, DEC APL, APL+Win, APL+Linux, APL+Unix and VisualAPL, Dyalog APL, IBM APL2, APLX, Sharp APL Open source version: NARS2000. See also Kamin's interpreters.
- absolute configuration — the spatial arrangement of atoms or groups in a chemical compound about an asymmetric atom
- adult education centre — a place where classes are held for adults
- agglutinating language — a language, such as Hungarian, in which words are built up from component morphemes in such a way that these undergo little or no change of form or meaning in the process of combination
- agro-industrialization — to industrialize the agriculture of: to agro-industrialize a developing nation.
- alarums and excursions — a stage direction, esp. in Elizabethan drama, for a scene depicting a battle
- ali muhammad of shiraz — (the Bab; Ali Muhammad of Shiraz) 1819–50, a Persian religious leader: founder of Bābī.
- alpha-naphthylthiourea — ANTU.
- alternative curriculum — any course of study offered as an alternative to the National Curriculum
- american sign language — a language consisting of manual signs and gestures, used as by deaf people in North America
- an ace up one's sleeve — a hidden and powerful advantage
- angle-closure glaucoma — Ophthalmology. abnormally high fluid pressure in the eye, most commonly caused either by blockage of the channel through which aqueous humor drains (open-angle glaucoma or chronic glaucoma) or by pressure of the iris against the lens, which traps the aqueous humor (angle-closure glaucoma or acute glaucoma)
- annual general meeting — the statutory meeting of the directors and shareholders of a company or of the members of a society, held once every financial year, at which the annual report is presented
- annual percentage rate — the annual equivalent of a rate of interest when the rate is quoted more frequently than annually, usually monthly
- antediluvian patriarch — See under patriarch (def 1).
- arab republic of egypt — Arab Republic of. a republic in NE Africa. 386,198 sq. mi. (1,000,252 sq. km). Capital: Cairo. Formerly (1958–71) United Arab Republic.
- articulatory phonetics — the branch of phonetics concerned with the production of speech sounds
- at full tilt/full tilt — To move full tilt or at full tilt means to move with as much speed, energy, or force as possible.
- attributed file system — (storage) (AtFS) The basis of the Shape_VC toolkit. Cooperative work within projects is supported by a status model controlling visibility of version objects, locking, and "long transactions" for synchronising concurrent updates. The concept of object attributes provides a basis for storing management information with versions and passing this information between individual tools. This mechanism is useful for building integrated environments from a set of unrelated tools.
- audio video interleave — (multimedia) (AVI) An audio-video standard designed by Microsoft. Apparently proprietary and Microsoft Windows-specific.
- automatic gain control — control of a radio receiver in which the gain varies inversely with the magnitude of the input, thus maintaining the output at an approximately constant level
- bacillus thuringiensis — a bacterium used in genetically altered form in the biological control of budworms, gypsy moth larvae, Japanese beetles, and other insect pests. Abbreviation: B.t.
- balance sheet equation — A balance sheet equation is a basic accounting equation that states that assets equal liabilities plus equity.
- basal body temperature — the lowest temperature the body reaches in the resting state, typically during sleep. It is usually measured on waking
- beat someone to a pulp — If someone is beaten to a pulp or beaten to pulp, they are hit repeatedly until they are very badly injured.
- bell-bottomed trousers — a pair of trousers with legs widening at the bottom
- bereavement counsellor — a person giving advice to bereaved people to help them cope with their grief
- bernoulli distribution — binomial distribution.
- bernoulli's lemniscate — Analytic Geometry. lemniscate.
- black hole of calcutta — a small dungeon in which in 1756 the Nawab of Bengal reputedly confined 146 English prisoners, of whom only 23 survived
- black mercuric sulfide — a crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous compound, HgS, occurring as a coarse, black powder (black mercuric sulfide) or as a fine, bright-scarlet powder (red mercuric sulfide) used chiefly as a pigment and as a source of the free metal.
- black-scholes equation — a partial differential equation used to estimate the changing value of an option over time
- block redundancy check — Longitudinal Redundancy Check
- blow one's own trumpet — to boast of one's own skills or good qualities
- blue-winged kookaburra — a related smaller bird D. Leachii, of tropical Australia and New Guinea
- borel-lebesgue theorem — Heine-Borel theorem.
- born in/out of wedlock — If a baby is born in wedlock, it is born while its parents are married. If it is born out of wedlock, it is born at a time when its parents are not married.
- boundary value problem — any of a series of problems occurring in the solution of a differential equation with boundary conditions.
- bread-and-butter model — Naval Architecture. a wooden hull model carved from a number of horizontal planks glued together to represent the outlines of the various decks.
- bridge of san luis rey — a novel (1927) by Thornton Wilder.
- bristle-thighed curlew — an Alaskan curlew, Numenius tahitiensis, that winters in Polynesia, having bristlelike feathers on its thighs.
- brush-footed butterfly — any of several butterflies of the family Nymphalidae, including the fritillaries, mourning cloaks, anglewings, and commas, characterized by reduced, nonfunctional forelegs.
- bug-for-bug compatible — Same as bug-compatible, with the additional implication that much tedious effort went into ensuring that each (known) bug was replicated.
- business reply service — a service involving reply-paid envelopes
- calculus of variations — a branch of calculus concerned with maxima and minima of definite integrals
- carboxymethylcellulose — a white, water-soluble polymer derived from cellulose, used as a coating and sizing for paper and textiles, a stabilizer for various foods, and an appetite suppressor.
- cargo cult programming — (programming, humour) A style of (incompetent) programming dominated by ritual inclusion of code or program structures that serve no real purpose. A cargo cult programmer will usually explain the extra code as a way of working around some bug encountered in the past, but usually neither the bug nor the reason the code apparently avoided the bug was ever fully understood (compare shotgun debugging, voodoo programming). The term "cargo cult" is a reference to aboriginal religions that grew up in the South Pacific after World War II. The practices of these cults centre on building elaborate mockups of aeroplanes and military style landing strips in the hope of bringing the return of the god-like aeroplanes that brought such marvelous cargo during the war. Hackish usage probably derives from Richard Feynman's characterisation of certain practices as "cargo cult science" in his book "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman" (W. W. Norton & Co, New York 1985, ISBN 0-393-01921-7).
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