19-letter words containing y, f, r, o, n
- mary wollstonecraft — Mary (Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin) 1759–97, English author and feminist (mother of Mary Shelley).
- midafternoon prayer — the fifth of the seven canonical hours; none
- ministry of defence — the government department responsible for the country's military measures or resources
- nasty piece of work — malicious person
- negation by failure — An extralogical feature of Prolog and other logic programming languages in which failure of unification is treated as establishing the negation of a relation. For example, if Ronald Reagan is not in our database and we asked if he was an American, Prolog would answer "no".
- network file system — (networking, operating system) (NFS) A protocol developed by Sun Microsystems, and defined in RFC 1094, which allows a computer to access files over a network as if they were on its local disks. This protocol has been incorporated in products by more than two hundred companies, and is now a de facto standard. NFS is implemented using a connectionless protocol (UDP) in order to make it stateless. See Nightmare File System, WebNFS.
- non-transferability — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
- out of the ordinary — of no special quality or interest; commonplace; unexceptional: One novel is brilliant, the other is decidedly ordinary; an ordinary person.
- parting of the ways — When there is a parting of the ways, two or more people or groups of people stop working together or travelling together.
- performance anxiety — the stage fright that a person feels when they are about to perform (a play, piece of music etc) in front of an audience
- put your foot in it — If someone puts their foot in it or puts their foot in their mouth, they accidentally do or say something which embarrasses or offends people.
- right-eyed flounder — any of several flatfishes of the family Pleuronectidae, having both eyes on the right side of the head.
- san fernando valley — valley in SW Calif., partly in NW Los Angeles: c. 260 sq mi (673 sq km)
- sea of tranquillity — Astronomy. Mare Tranquillitatis.
- secondary infection — an infection resulting from another infection
- self-congratulatory — the expression or feeling of uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one's own accomplishment, good fortune, etc.; complacency.
- self-responsibility — the state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one's power, control, or management.
- stanford university — (education) A University in the city of Palo Alto, California, noted for work in computing, especially artificial intelligence. See SAIL.
- sulfureted hydrogen — hydrogen sulfide.
- tetrafluoroethylene — a colorless, water-insoluble, flammable gas, C 2 F 4 , used in the synthesis of certain polymeric resins, as Teflon.
- the world of cryton — (TWOC) A BBS for the Acorn Archimedes. Telephone: +44 (1749) 670 030 (24hrs, most speeds).
- theory of equations — the branch of mathematics dealing with methods of finding the solutions to algebraic equations.
- to follow your nose — If you follow your nose to get to a place, you go straight ahead or follow the most obvious route.
- turn of the century — point when one century becomes another
- whorfian hypothesis — Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.
- with flying colours — If you pass a test with flying colours, you have done very well in the test.
- wouldn't harm a fly — If you say that someone wouldn't hurt a fly or wouldn't harm a fly, you are emphasizing that they are very kind and gentle.
- yellowtail flounder — a righteyed flounder, Limanda ferruginea, inhabiting waters along the Atlantic coast of North America, having a yellowish tail fin and rusty-red spots on the body: once commercially important, now greatly reduced in number.
- yeoman of the guard — a member of the bodyguard of the English sovereign, instituted in 1485, which now consists of 100 men, including officers, having purely ceremonial duties.
- yesterday afternoon — during the afternoon of the day preceding today