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20-letter words containing ro

  • strike off the rolls — to expel from membership
  • strong nuclear force — an interaction between elementary particles responsible for the forces between nucleons in the nucleus. It operates at distances less than about 10–15 metres, and is about a hundred times more powerful than the electromagnetic interaction
  • synchronized skating — the art or sport of teams of up to twenty skaters holding onto each other and moving in patterns in time to music
  • synchronous rotation — rotation of a satellite in which the period of rotation is equal to the period of orbit around its primary, leaving the same face always pointing toward the primary: The moon is in synchronous rotation about the earth.
  • synoptic meteorology — a branch of meteorology analyzing data collected simultaneously over a wide region, for the purpose of weather forecasting.
  • television broadcast — sth shown on tv
  • television programme — a programme broadcast on television
  • tetrahydrocannabinol — a compound, C 21 H 30 O 2 , that is the physiologically active component in cannabis preparations (marijuana, hashish, etc.) derived from the Indian hemp plant or produced synthetically. Abbreviation: THC.
  • tetrahydrogestrinone — a synthetic anabolic steroid. Formula: C21H28O2
  • the grove of academe — the academic world
  • the legal profession — the profession of law
  • the other way around — reversed
  • the roaring twenties — a phrase used to describe the decade of the 1920s (esp in America), so called due to the social, artistic, and cultural dynamism of the period
  • the thinking process — thought; the activity of thinking
  • the toronto blessing — a variety of emotional reactions such as laughing, weeping, and fainting, experienced by participants in a form of charismatic Christian worship
  • the way of the cross — a series of images in a church or along a road to a church etc depicting the last hours of Christ
  • the-comedy-of-errors — an early comedy (1594) by Shakespeare.
  • theater-in-the-round — arena theater.
  • theatre-in-the-round — a theatre with seats arranged around a central acting area
  • thread language zero — (language)   (TL0) The instruction set of the TAM (Threaded Abstract Machine), used to implement Id.
  • throw up one's hands — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • to be brought to bed — to give birth (to)
  • to clear your throat — If you clear your throat, you cough once in order to make it easier to speak or to attract people's attention.
  • to cross the rubicon — If you say that someone has crossed the Rubicon, you mean that they have reached a point where they cannot change a decision or course of action.
  • to show sb the ropes — to show someone how to do a particular job or task
  • to stand your ground — If you stand your ground or hold your ground, you continue to support a particular argument or to have a particular opinion when other people are opposing you or trying to make you change your mind.
  • to wear the trousers — If one person in a couple, especially the woman, wears the pants, or in British English wears the trousers, they are the one who makes all the decisions.
  • toxic shock syndrome — a rapidly developing, sometimes fatal infection characterized by sudden onset of fever, gastrointestinal upsets, a sunburnlike rash, and a drop in blood pressure: caused by a Staphylococcus aureus toxin and occurring especially in menstruating women using high-absorbency tampons. Abbreviation: TSS.
  • tribromoacetaldehyde — bromal.
  • trichloroacetic acid — a toxic, deliquescent, and colorless crystalline compound, C 2 HCl 3 O 2 , soluble in water, alcohol, and ether: used in the synthesis of pharmaceuticals, herbicides, and other chemicals, and as a reagent for the detection of albumin. Abbreviation: TCA.
  • trimetric projection — a three-dimensional projection with three different linear scales at arbitrary angles.
  • troilus and cressida — a satiric comedy (1598–1602?) by Shakespeare.
  • trois-rivieres-ouest — French name of West Three Rivers.
  • tropical continental — a type of warm, dry air mass originating at low latitudes over land areas
  • tropical disturbance — a very weak, or incipient, tropical cyclone.
  • tropospheric scatter — transmission of radio frequency signals that have been scattered from irregularities in the troposphere to locations hundreds of kilometers distant.
  • turnip-rooted celery — celeriac.
  • under the microscope — If you say that something is under the microscope, you mean that it is being studied very closely, usually because it is believed that something is wrong with it.
  • underground railroad — Also called underground railway. a railroad running through a continuous tunnel, as under city streets; subway.
  • university professor — a professor entitled to teach courses in more than one field or discipline at a university.
  • upmail tricia prolog — ftp://ftp.csd.uu.se/pub/Tricia/README. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • upper layer protocol — (protocol)   1. (ULP, or upper-layer protocol) Any protocol residing in OSI layers five or above. The Internet protocol suite includes many upper layer protocols representing a wide variety of applications e.g. FTP, NFS, RPC, and SMTP. These and other network applications use the services of TCP/IP and other lower layer protocols to provide users with basic network services. 2. A protocol higher in the OSI reference model than the current reference point. Upper Layer Protocol is often used to refer to the next-highest protocol in a particular protocol stack.
  • voice over broadband — a transmission technique that enables a user to make and receive telephone calls over a broadband connection
  • walking-around money — money that is carried on the person for routine expenses and minor emergencies; pocket money.
  • war production board — the board (1942–45) that supervised and regulated the production and sale of matériel essential to the logistics of World War II. Abbreviation: WPB, W.P.B.
  • wardrobe malfunction — an embarrassing situation caused by the clothes a person is wearing
  • western roman empire — the westernmost of the two empires created by the division of the later Roman Empire, esp after its final severance from the Eastern Roman Empire (395 ad)
  • white people problem — a fairly minor problem, complaint, etc., associated with a relatively high standard of living; a first world problem.
  • winsoft products ltd — (company)   The company which produces EMBLA Pro. E-mail: WinSoft Products Ltd <[email protected]>
  • xerox network system — (networking)   (XNS) A proprietary network architecture developed by the Xerox Office Systems Division of Xerox corporation at Xerox PARC in the late 1970s/early 1980s to run on LAN (Ethernet) and WAN networks. The XNS protocol stack provided routing and packet delivery. Implementations exist for 4.3BSD derived systems and the Xerox Star computers. Novell based much of the lower layers of their protocol suite IPX/SPX on XNS. The main components are: Internet datagram protocol (IDP), Routing information protocol (RIP), Packet Exchange protocol (PEP), and Sequences packet protocol (SPP). XNS has strong parellels to TCP/IP in that the network layer, IDP, is roughly equivalent to IP. RIP has the same functions (and obviously name) as the routing information protocol, RIP. SPP, a connectionless transport layer protocol, is similar to UDP. PEP is also in the transport layer but is connection-oriented and similar to TCP. XNS specifically is no longer in use due to the all pervasiveness of IP. XNS denotes not only the protocol stack, but also an architecture of standard programming interfaces, conventions, and service functions for authentication, directory, filing, e-mail, and remote procedure call. XNS is also the name of Xerox's implementation. Many PC networking companies, such as 3Com, Banyan, Novell, and Ungermann-Bass Networks used or use a variation of XNS as their primary transport protocol. XNS was desigined to be used across a variety of communication media, processors, and office applications. UB, (now a part of Tandem Computers) adopted XNS in developing its Net/One XNS routing protocol.
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