21-letter words containing ot
- a shot across the bow — If you describe someone's actions as a shot across the bows of another person, you mean that it is a warning to that person to stop or change what they are doing.
- a tempest in a teapot — If you describe a situation as a tempest in a teapot, you think that a lot of fuss is being made about something that is not important.
- advanced photo system — a system that enables photographs in different formats to be taken on the same (small) roll of film
- apothecaries' measure — a system of liquid volume measure used in pharmacy in which 60 minims equal 1 fluid drachm, 8 fluid drachms equal 1 fluid ounce, and 20 fluid ounces equal 1 pint
- be in the melting pot — If something is in the melting pot, you do not know what is going to happen to it.
- blot on the landscape — If you describe something such as a building as a blot on the landscape, you mean that you think it is very ugly and spoils an otherwise attractive place.
- bottlebrush moustache — a short, bristly moustache
- bottom-up programming — a programming technique in which lower-level modules are developed before higher-level modules.
- cat on a hot tin roof — a play (1955) by Tennessee Williams.
- catch one flat footed — having flatfeet.
- chinese forget-me-not — an eastern Asian plant, Cynoglossum amabile, of the borage family, having lance-shaped leaves and clustered, showy, blue, pink, or white flowers.
- common carotid artery — the part of a carotid artery between its origin and its point of division into branches.
- cottony-cushion scale — a small scale insect, Icerya purchasi, that is a pest of citrus trees in California: it is controlled by introducing an Australian ladybird, Rodolia cardinalis, into affected areas
- dance to another tune — to alter one's actions or opinions as a result of changed conditions
- differential quotient — derivative (def 6).
- differential-quotient — something that has been derived.
- emotional correctness — pressure on an individual to be seen to feel the same emotion as others
- file service protocol — (protocol) (FSP) A protocol, similar to FTP, for copying files between computers. It's designed for anonymous archives, and has protection against server and network overloading. It doesn't use connections so it can survive interruptions in service. Until 1993-08-12, FSP didn't stand for anything. Wen-King was responsible for the initials and Michael Grubb <[email protected]> for their eventual expansion. Other suggestions were "File Slurping Protocol", "Flaky Stream Protocol" and "FTP's Sexier Partner".
- flotation compartment — in a boat, an enclosed section filled with air or gas to give buoyancy
- foot-in-mouth disease — the habit of making inappropriate, insensitive, or imprudent statements.
- four-footed butterfly — any of several butterflies of the family Nymphalidae, including the fritillaries, mourning cloaks, anglewings, and commas, characterized by reduced, nonfunctional forelegs.
- french fried potatoes — a more formal name for chips
- gestalt psychotherapy — a therapy devised in the US in the 1960s in which patients are encouraged to concentrate on the immediate present and to express their true feelings
- get/be given the boot — If you get the boot or are given the boot, you are told that you are not wanted any more, either in your job or by someone you are having a relationship with.
- get/have the hots for — If you say that one person has the hots for another, you mean that they feel a strong sexual attraction to that person.
- got what one deserved — If you say that someone got what they deserved, you mean that they deserved the bad thing that happened to them, and you have no sympathy for them.
- hay-pauncefote treaty — an agreement (1901) between the U.S. and Great Britain giving the U.S. the sole right to build a canal across Central America connecting the Atlantic and Pacific.
- hyperlipoproteinaemia — the condition of having an abnormally high level of lipoproteins in the blood
- hypothetico-deductive — pertaining to or governed by the supposed method of scientific progress whereby a general hypothesis is tested by deducing predictions that may be experimentally tested. When such a prediction is falsified the theory is rejected and a new hypothesis is required
- innateness hypothesis — the theory that humans are biologically equipped with a knowledge of certain universal elements of language structure that is brought into play in the course of native-language acquisition.
- intelligence quotient — an intelligence test score that is obtained by dividing mental age, which reflects the age-graded level of performance as derived from population norms, by chronological age and multiplying by 100: a score of 100 thus indicates a performance at exactly the normal level for that age group. Abbreviation: IQ.
- linear graph notation — (LGN) A linearised representation of TCOL trees.
- link control protocol — (protocol) A protocol used to automatically agree upon encapsulation format options, handle varying packet size limits, authenticate the identity of its peer on the link, determine when a link is functioning properly and when it is defunct, detect a looped-back link and other common misconfiguration errors, and terminate the link.
- lotus of the good law — Saddharma-Pundarika.
- lotus-of-the-true-law — a Mahayana sutra, forming with its references to Amida and the Bodhisattvas the basis for the doctrine that there is something of Buddha in everyone, so that salvation is universally available: a central text of Mahayana Buddhism.
- maître d'hôtel butter — melted butter mixed with parsley and lemon juice
- make (both) ends meet — to manage to keep one's expenses within one's income
- megaspore mother cell — a diploid cell in plants that undergoes meiosis to create four haploid megaspores.
- metabotropic receptor — an indirect receptor which initiates an intracellular biochemical cascade after it is triggered by an agonistic ligand
- methylisothiazolinone — (chemistry) A powerful biocide and preservative within the group of isothiazolinones, used in shampoos etc.
- miniature photography — photography with a camera using film that is 35 millimeters wide or less.
- mother-of-pearl cloud — nacreous cloud.
- mother-of-pearl glass — an American art glassware having colored glass set into indentations in a thickness of opaque glass, the whole covered with clear glass and etched slightly with acid.
- motherwell and wishaw — a burgh in the Motherwell district, in S Scotland.
- motion-picture camera — a sequence of consecutive pictures of objects photographed in motion by a specially designed camera (motion-picture camera) and thrown on a screen by a projector (motion-picture projector) in such rapid succession as to give the illusion of natural movement.
- motivational research — the application of the knowledge and techniques of the social sciences, especially psychology and sociology, to understanding consumer attitudes and behavior: used as a guide in advertising and marketing.
- motor neurone disease — Motor neurone disease is a disease which destroys the part of a person's nervous system that controls movement.
- motoring organization — an organization concerning cars and other vehicles, providing insurance, assistance in case of a breakdown, etc
- necrotising fasciitis — a disease caused by the bacterium streptococcus pyogenes, in which the fasciae of the muscles or other organs become inflamed, resulting in rapid destruction of overlying tissues
- negotiable instrument — order or promise to pay money
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