| .com era |
→ |
Dot-com |
| 0800 |
→ |
Toll-free telephone number |
| 10p |
→ |
British Ten Pence coin |
| 130 Liberty Street |
→ |
Deutsche Bank Building |
| 1421: The Year China Discovered The World |
→ |
1421 theory |
| 1972 Munich Olympics |
→ |
1972 Summer Olympics |
| 1987 stock market crash |
→ |
Black Monday (1987) |
| 1987 storm (England) |
→ |
Great Storm of 1987 |
| 1p |
→ |
British One Penny coin |
| 2001 Invasion of Afghanistan |
→ |
U.S. invasion of Afghanistan |
| 20p |
→ |
British Twenty Pence coin |
| 24 hour drinking |
→ |
Licensing Act 2003 |
| 2p |
→ |
British Two Pence coin |
| 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42 |
→ |
Lost (TV series) |
| 4th wall |
→ |
Fourth wall |
| 5p |
→ |
British Five Pence coin |
| 90077 |
→ |
Bel-Air, Los Angeles, California |
| 90210 |
→ |
Beverly Hills 90210 |
| 90291 |
→ |
Venice, Los Angeles, California |
| A Diamond is Forever |
→ |
De Beers |
| AAV7Al |
→ |
AAV |
| AD/M-19 |
→ |
19th of April Movement |
| AV-1 |
→ |
Canon AV-1 |
| Abdullah Chatli |
→ |
Abdullah Çatlı |
| Action comedy |
→ |
Action film |
| Action drama |
→ |
Action film |
| Acton Town |
→ |
Acton Town tube station |
| Adam and Joe go Tokyo |
→ |
Adam and Joe Go Tokyo |
| African horned melon |
→ |
Horned melon |
| African veld |
→ |
Veld |
| African veldt |
→ |
Veld |
| Agia Sofia |
→ |
Hagia Sophia |
| Agile programming |
→ |
Agile methods |
| Aid agency |
→ |
Humanitarian aid |
| Airline accident |
→ |
Accidents and incidents in aviation |
| Airtours |
→ |
My Travel |
| Al i oli |
→ |
Aioli |
| Alianza Democrática M-19 |
→ |
19th of April Movement |
| Allen Institute |
→ |
Allen Institute for Brain Science |
| Ami Pro |
→ |
Lotus Word Pro |
| Amores perros |
→ |
Love's a Bitch |
| Andelys |
→ |
Les Andelys |
| Anti-smoking legislation |
→ |
Smoking ban |
| Arabic world |
→ |
Arabia |
| Archaeological dig |
→ |
Archaeology |
| Arnie |
→ |
Arnold |
| Arrival board |
→ |
Timetable |
| Ask why |
→ |
Ladysmith |
| Asymmetric cut |
→ |
Bob cut |
| Asymmetric haircut |
→ |
Bob cut |
| Asymmetric hairstyle |
→ |
Bob cut |
| Atlant |
→ |
International Space Station |
| Atlanta Memorial Arts Center |
→ |
Woodruff Arts Center |
| Auto crash |
→ |
Motor-vehicle collision |
| Automatic sprinkler |
→ |
Fire sprinkler |
| B-52H Stratofortress |
→ |
B-52 Stratofortress |
| BAC TSR2 |
→ |
BAC TSR-2 |
| BJC-2110 |
→ |
Canon BJC-2110 |
| BLAIR |
→ |
British South American Airways |
| BMDS |
→ |
National Missile Defense |
| BNWT |
→ |
Fashion |
| BOAC Comet |
→ |
De Havilland Comet |
| BSAA |
→ |
British South American Airways |
| Back to the land movement |
→ |
Back to the land |
| Back-to-the-land |
→ |
Back to the land |
| Backup power |
→ |
Auxiliary power |
| Balearics |
→ |
Balearic Islands |
| Bank heist |
→ |
Bank robbery |
| Barbecue flavor |
→ |
Barbecue |
| Barbecue flavour |
→ |
Barbecue |
| Basque beret |
→ |
Beret |
| Battledore |
→ |
Battledore and Shuttlecock |
| Beans on toast |
→ |
Baked beans |
| Bearish |
→ |
Bear market |
| Beckton Park |
→ |
Beckton Park DLR station |
| Belaunde Terry |
→ |
Fernando Belaúnde Terry |
| Beta (finance) |
→ |
Beta coefficient |
| Between the Woods and the Water |
→ |
A Time Of Gifts |
| Bicycle warfare |
→ |
Bicycle infantry |
| Bicycles in war |
→ |
Bicycle infantry |
| Black Monday (USA) |
→ |
Black Monday (1987) |
| BoaF |
→ |
BoF |
| Bob Cringely |
→ |
Robert X. Cringely |
| Boeing C-32A |
→ |
Boeing C-32 |
| Boid |
→ |
Boids |
| Bourgas Airport |
→ |
Burgas Airport |
| Bourgas |
→ |
Burgas |
| Bra wars |
→ |
Multi Fibre Arrangement |
| Bread maker |
→ |
Breadmaker |
| Break glass |
→ |
Manual call point |
| Bristol Community Festival |
→ |
Ashton Court festival |
| Bristol Temple Meads |
→ |
Bristol Temple Meads railway station |
| British Civil Aviation Authority |
→ |
United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority |
| British Latin American Air Lines |
→ |
British South American Airways |
| British Phonographic Industry Limited |
→ |
British Phonographic Industry |
| British Science Fiction Association award |
→ |
BSFA award |
| British cheese |
→ |
List of British cheeses |
| British film industry |
→ |
History of cinema in the United Kingdom |
| British housing market |
→ |
British residential property market |
| British monetary system |
→ |
Pound sterling |
| British rail |
→ |
British Rail |
| Brixton Riot |
→ |
Brixton Riots |
| Brixton riot |
→ |
Brixton Riots |
| Brixton riots |
→ |
Brixton Riots |
| Broadcasting license fee |
→ |
Television licence |
| Bronenosets Potyomkin |
→ |
The Battleship Potemkin |
| Brown out |
→ |
Power outage |
| BtVS |
→ |
Buffy the Vampire Slayer |
| Burton G. Malkiel |
→ |
Burton Malkiel |
| C'era una volta il West |
→ |
Once Upon a Time in the West |
| C. botulinum |
→ |
Clostridium botulinum |
| CAP standard |
→ |
Common Alerting Protocol |
| CCB |
→ |
China Construction Bank |
| CSS 2 |
→ |
Cascading Style Sheets |
| CSS2 |
→ |
Cascading Style Sheets |
| CZ91 |
→ |
CZ-Scorpion |
| Calling card |
→ |
Telephone card |
| Calvert Cliffs |
→ |
Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Generating Station |
| Cam belt |
→ |
Timing belt |
| Cambridge Heath station |
→ |
Cambridge Heath railway station |
| CapEx |
→ |
Capital expenditure |
| Capita |
→ |
Capita Group |
| Carpet bagger |
→ |
Carpetbagger |
| Carpet bagging |
→ |
Carpetbagger |
| Case mod |
→ |
Case modification |
| Cash machine |
→ |
Automatic teller machine |
| Catania Fontanarossa |
→ |
Catania-Fontanarossa Airport |
| Catania-Fontanarossa |
→ |
Catania-Fontanarossa Airport |
| Catbrain hill |
→ |
Catbrain |
| Catli |
→ |
Abdullah Çatlı |
| Cayo Coco, Cuba |
→ |
Cayo Coco |
| Central Chinese Television |
→ |
China Central Television |
| Ceramic blade |
→ |
Ceramic knife |
| Chalfont & Latimer |
→ |
Chalfont & Latimer station |
| Challenge response |
→ |
Challenge-response authentication |
| Chataway |
→ |
Chris Chataway |
| Cheese mash |
→ |
Mashed potato |
| Cheeseburger Act |
→ |
Personal Responsibility in Food Consumption Act |
| Chelsea Tractor |
→ |
Toorak Tractor |
| Chicken Jalfrezi |
→ |
Jalfrezi |
| Child lock |
→ |
Child safety lock |
| Chiswick Park |
→ |
Chiswick Park tube station |
| Chocolate factory |
→ |
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
| Chort el-Djend |
→ |
Chott el Djerid |
| Chronology of Provisional IRA Actions |
→ |
Chronology of Provisional IRA actions |
| Cityscape |
→ |
Skyline |
| Clapham North |
→ |
Clapham North tube station |
| Clapham South |
→ |
Clapham South tube station |
| Class 175 |
→ |
British Rail Class 175 |
| Class 180 |
→ |
British Rail Class 180 |
| Class 220 |
→ |
British Rail Class 220 |
| Class 37 |
→ |
British Rail Class 37 |
| Classical style |
→ |
Classical |
| Close quarters combat |
→ |
CQB |
| Closed Circuit TV |
→ |
Closed-circuit television |
| Clothes Optional |
→ |
Clothes optional |
| Clyde Hood |
→ |
Omega Trust |
| Cockle picker |
→ |
Morecambe Bay cockling disaster 2004 |
| Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire |
→ |
Cocoanut Grove fire |
| Commercial airliner |
→ |
Airliner |
| Commodore Vanderbilt |
→ |
Cornelius Vanderbilt |
| Company report |
→ |
Annual report |
| Compatibilist |
→ |
Compatibilism and incompatibilism |
| Computer Age |
→ |
Information Age |
| Corporate jet |
→ |
Business jet |
| Corrupt disc |
→ |
Copy control |
| Counter-spy |
→ |
Counter-intelligence |
| Crinkley Bottom |
→ |
Noel Edmonds |
| Crisp Sandwich |
→ |
Crisp sandwich |
| Crossharbour & London Arena |
→ |
Crossharbour and London Arena DLR station |
| Crossharbour and London Arena |
→ |
Crossharbour and London Arena DLR station |
| Croxley |
→ |
Croxley tube station |
| Crusty bread |
→ |
Bread |
| Cuban Eight |
→ |
Aerobatic maneuver |
| DVLA |
→ |
Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency |
| Dagenham East |
→ |
Dagenham East tube station |
| Dagenham Heathway |
→ |
Dagenham Heathway tube station |
| Dark room |
→ |
Darkroom |
| Database theory |
→ |
Database |
| Dawes plan |
→ |
Dawes Plan |
| Day trader |
→ |
Day trading |
| Debugging tool |
→ |
Debugger |
| Deep fried pizza |
→ |
Deep-fried pizza |
| Default permit |
→ |
Security engineering |
| Delft pottery |
→ |
Delftware |
| Demand management |
→ |
Yield management |
| Departure board |
→ |
Timetable |
| Det Sjunde inseglet |
→ |
The Seventh Seal |
| Devons Road |
→ |
Devons Road DLR station |
| DfT |
→ |
Department for Transport |
| Diaoyu |
→ |
Senkaku Islands |
| Discount airline |
→ |
Low-cost carrier |
| Disestablish |
→ |
State religion |
| Dish washer |
→ |
Dishwasher |
| Djerba, Tunisia |
→ |
Djerba |
| DoT |
→ |
United States Department of Transportation |
| Dollan |
→ |
Patrick Dollan |
| Don Kohn |
→ |
Donald Kohn |
| Don´t repeat yourself |
→ |
Don't repeat yourself |
| Double glazing |
→ |
Insulated glazing |
| Douglas Malewicki |
→ |
UniModal |
| Dr Gernot Zippe |
→ |
Gernot Zippe |
| Dr. Gernot Zippe |
→ |
Gernot Zippe |
| Dr. NakaMats |
→ |
Yoshiro Nakamatsu |
| Dressing gown |
→ |
Robe |
| Dynamic packaging |
→ |
Package holiday |
| Ealing Common |
→ |
Ealing Common tube station |
| East Putney |
→ |
East Putney tube station |
| Eastern Shuttle |
→ |
Eastern Airways |
| EasyCar |
→ |
EasyGroup |
| Economic migration |
→ |
Immigration |
| Ed Stourton |
→ |
Edward Stourton |
| EditGrid.com |
→ |
EditGrid |
| Editgrid.com |
→ |
EditGrid |
| Egypt's Canal Zone |
→ |
Suez Canal |
| Electric tagging |
→ |
Electronic tagging |
| Electricity Act 1947 |
→ |
Electricity Act 1947 (UK) |
| Electro-mechanical |
→ |
Electromechanics |
| Elverson Road |
→ |
Elverson Road DLR station |
| Emergency oxygen |
→ |
Oxygen mask |
| Emotional intellegence |
→ |
Deferred gratification |
| English subdivisions |
→ |
Subdivisions of England |
| Environmental irresponsibilty |
→ |
Climate change |
| Environmental waste |
→ |
Climate change |
| Essex Road |
→ |
Essex Road station |
| Estonian Defense Force |
→ |
Military of Estonia |
| Estonian Defense Forces |
→ |
Military of Estonia |
| European travel |
→ |
Transport in Europe |
| Executive jet |
→ |
Business jet |
| Exeter St. Davids |
→ |
Exeter St Davids railway station |
| Exobiologist |
→ |
Xenobiology |
| Extrajudicial killing |
→ |
Extrajudicial punishment |
| FTB |
→ |
First time buyer |
| Fairlop |
→ |
Fairlop tube station |
| Falcon 7X |
→ |
Dassault Falcon 7X |
| Family company |
→ |
Family business |
| Fat-tree |
→ |
Fat tree |
| Financial econometrics |
→ |
Econometrics |
| FireFox |
→ |
Firefox |
| Fish supper |
→ |
Fish and chips |
| Fisher Space Pen |
→ |
Space Pen |
| Flat share |
→ |
Flatshare |
| Fly swot |
→ |
Fly swatter |
| Food patriotism |
→ |
Local food |
| Food production |
→ |
Food industry |
| Foreign labor |
→ |
Immigration |
| Foreign labour |
→ |
Immigration |
| Forensic investigation |
→ |
Forensics |
| Foundation trust hospital |
→ |
NHS Foundation Trust |
| Fowzi Nejad |
→ |
Iranian Embassy Siege |
| Free movement of labor |
→ |
Freedom of movement |
| Free movement of labour |
→ |
Freedom of movement |
| Free movement of people |
→ |
Freedom of movement |
| French stick |
→ |
Baguette |
| Fresh & Wild |
→ |
Whole Foods Market |
| Fuel duty |
→ |
Gasoline tax |
| Full English |
→ |
Full English breakfast |
| GBU |
→ |
Laser-guided bomb |
| GVA |
→ |
Gross value added |
| Gafilo |
→ |
Cyclone Gafilo |
| Gallions Reach |
→ |
Gallions Reach DLR station |
| Garden sack |
→ |
Bin bag |
| Garden shed |
→ |
Shed |
| Gardening tool |
→ |
Garden tool |
| Gaza International |
→ |
Gaza International Airport |
| Gen-2 |
→ |
Proton Gen-2 |
| General assembler |
→ |
Assembler (nanotechnology) |
| Ghost town Britain |
→ |
New Economics Foundation |
| Giovanni Antonio Canal |
→ |
Canaletto |
| Glasgow Central |
→ |
Central Station, Glasgow |
| Global conspiracy |
→ |
Conspiracy theory |
| Global justice |
→ |
Global Justice |
| Greasy cafe |
→ |
Greasy spoon |
| Greenwood Village |
→ |
Greenwood Village, Colorado |
| Guinness Four |
→ |
Guinness share-trading fraud |
| Gun crime |
→ |
Guns and crime |
| Guru-Murthy |
→ |
Krishnan Guru-Murthy |
| HERF |
→ |
High-energy radio-frequency weapons |
| HM Prison Ford |
→ |
Ford (HM Prison) |
| HPM |
→ |
Human Potential Movement |
| HSBC Live |
→ |
HSBC Bank (Europe) |
| Haing Ngor |
→ |
Haing S. Ngor |
| Haing |
→ |
Haing S. Ngor |
| Hairless mole-rat |
→ |
Naked Mole Rat |
| Hampstead & Highgate |
→ |
Hampstead and Highgate |
| Handbook |
→ |
Gateway Handbook |
| Hardie |
→ |
Keir Hardie |
| Harken |
→ |
Harken Energy |
| Harrow & Wealdstone |
→ |
Harrow & Wealdstone tube station |
| Headed notepaper |
→ |
Letterhead |
| Heist movie |
→ |
Heist film |
| Helium Tremors |
→ |
HPNS |
| Helmert |
→ |
Friedrich Robert Helmert |
| Her Royal Highness The Princess of Wales |
→ |
Diana, Princess of Wales |
| Heydar Aliev |
→ |
Heydar Aliyev |
| High Pressure Nervous Syndrome |
→ |
HPNS |
| High speed Internet connection |
→ |
Broadband Internet access |
| Highbury and Islington |
→ |
Highbury and Islington railway station |
| Hildale |
→ |
Hildale, Utah |
| History of Violence |
→ |
A History of Violence |
| Holborn Town Hall |
→ |
Metropolitan Borough of Holborn |
| Home worker |
→ |
Telecommuting |
| Hotaru no haka |
→ |
Grave of the Fireflies |
| Hounslow West |
→ |
Hounslow West tube station |
| Housework |
→ |
Household chore |
| Hover mower |
→ |
Lawn mower |
| Human waste |
→ |
Sewage treatment |
| Hunt brothers |
→ |
Nelson Bunker Hunt |
| HyVent |
→ |
The North Face |
| Hyde Park and Regents Park Bombings |
→ |
Hyde Park and Regents Park bombings |
| Hyundai Coupé |
→ |
Hyundai Tiburon |
| I'll Be Ready |
→ |
Sunblock (band) |
| IBM Deep Blue |
→ |
Deep Blue |
| IBM OS/2 |
→ |
OS/2 |
| ICP |
→ |
Insane Clown Posse |
| IFV |
→ |
Infantry fighting vehicle |
| IHP |
→ |
Horsepower |
| IKB |
→ |
Isambard Kingdom Brunel |
| IPE |
→ |
Intellectual property education |
| IPM |
→ |
Integrated Pest Management |
| IRE |
→ |
Institute of Radio Engineers |
| IRMA |
→ |
Irish Recorded Music Association |
| ISLM Model |
→ |
IS/LM model |
| ISR |
→ |
International Star Registry |
| IXTOC |
→ |
Ixtoc I |
| Ice Skating |
→ |
Ice skating |
| Il Buono, il brutto, il cattivo |
→ |
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly |
| Immortel (ad vitam) |
→ |
Immortel (Ad Vitam) |
| Imperial Cable |
→ |
Nortel Networks |
| In service |
→ |
Domestic worker |
| Incorporated community |
→ |
Unincorporated community |
| Indentured slavery |
→ |
Indentured servant |
| Independent Television News |
→ |
ITN |
| Index tracker |
→ |
Index fund |
| Indiana University in Bloomington |
→ |
Indiana University Bloomington |
| Indo-China war |
→ |
Indochina War |
| Industrialised society |
→ |
Industrialisation |
| Industrialized society |
→ |
Industrialisation |
| Insecticide treated net |
→ |
Mosquito net |
| IntelliJ |
→ |
IntelliJ IDEA |
| Interchange station |
→ |
Cross-platform interchange |
| Internally displaced people |
→ |
Displaced person |
| International dialing code |
→ |
Country calling code |
| Internet Video on Demand |
→ |
IPTV |
| Internet gambling |
→ |
Online gambling |
| Internet sales |
→ |
Electronic commerce |
| Internet stock bubble |
→ |
Dot-com |
| Iraq civil war |
→ |
Sectarian violence in Iraq |
| Ixtoc |
→ |
Ixtoc I |
| Jahiliyya |
→ |
Jahiliyyah |
| James McGrory |
→ |
Jimmy McGrory |
| Jeffrey City |
→ |
Jeffrey City, Wyoming |
| Jeffrey, Wyoming |
→ |
Jeffrey City, Wyoming |
| Jewish culture |
→ |
Secular Jewish culture |
| Jewish food |
→ |
Jewish cuisine |
| Jiffy bag |
→ |
Sealed Air |
| John Coffman |
→ |
LILO (boot loader) |
| Jumble sale |
→ |
Garage sale |
| Junkmail |
→ |
Junk mail |
| K700i |
→ |
Sony Ericsson K700i |
| Kahle |
→ |
Brewster Kahle |
| Kebede |
→ |
Liya Kebede |
| Kent Clark |
→ |
Kent Cullers |
| Kenyatta |
→ |
Jomo Kenyatta |
| Keyfob |
→ |
Key fob |
| Kibbutz Hanaton |
→ |
Hanaton |
| Kibede |
→ |
Liya Kebede |
| Killer satellite |
→ |
Anti-satellite weapon |
| King Leopold III |
→ |
Leopold III of Belgium |
| King's Cross tube station |
→ |
King's Cross St. Pancras tube station |
| Kitzbühel, Austria |
→ |
Kitzbühel |
| Kiwano melon |
→ |
Horned melon |
| Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs |
→ |
Klaus Fuchs |
| L'Hospitalet de l'Infant |
→ |
Vandellòs and l'Hospitalet de l'Infant |
| LBD |
→ |
Little Black Dress |
| LL(1) |
→ |
LL parser |
| LNUX |
→ |
VA Software |
| LVTP7A1 |
→ |
AAV |
| Lake Candidius |
→ |
Sun Moon Lake |
| Landwirtschaftliche |
→ |
Landwirtschaftliche Produktionsgenossenschaft |
| Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain |
→ |
Amélie |
| Learning difficulty |
→ |
Learning disability |
| Les Quatre cents coups |
→ |
The 400 Blows |
| Leyton Midland Road |
→ |
Leyton Midland Road railway station |
| Lion trainer |
→ |
Lion taming |
| List of oceans |
→ |
Ocean |
| Live aid |
→ |
Live Aid |
| Live code |
→ |
Live coding |
| Live coder |
→ |
Live coding |
| Livecode |
→ |
Live coding |
| Livecoder |
→ |
Live coding |
| Liya Kibede |
→ |
Liya Kebede |
| Liya |
→ |
Liya Kebede |
| Loadsamoney |
→ |
Harry Enfield |
| Local government tax |
→ |
Council tax |
| London bombs |
→ |
London bombings |
| Loose horse |
→ |
Riderless horse |
| Loosemeat |
→ |
Tavern sandwich |
| Lord Sipan |
→ |
Sipán |
| Lord Sipán |
→ |
Sipán |
| Lotus Ami Pro |
→ |
Lotus Word Pro |
| Loughborough junction |
→ |
Loughborough Junction |
| Love is a Four-Letter Word |
→ |
Four-letter word |
| Low cost |
→ |
No frills |
| Lufthansa flight 707 |
→ |
German Autumn |
| M-19 Democratic Alliance |
→ |
19th of April Movement |
| MD20/20 |
→ |
MD 20/20 |
| MRG |
→ |
Alternate reality game |
| MXY-7 |
→ |
Ohka |
| Ma Tambo |
→ |
Adelaide Tambo |
| Ma'aleh Adumim |
→ |
Ma'ale Adummim |
| Maalot |
→ |
Ma'alot |
| Made in China |
→ |
Country of origin |
| Magnetic train |
→ |
Maglev train |
| Make love, not war |
→ |
Make love not war |
| Make poverty history |
→ |
Make Poverty History |
| Mama Tambo |
→ |
Adelaide Tambo |
| Mansion block |
→ |
Apartment building |
| Market data |
→ |
Ticker tape |
| Market floor |
→ |
Stock market |
| Marksmen |
→ |
Marksman |
| Masjid Al Haram |
→ |
Masjid al Haram |
| Mass picketing |
→ |
Picketing |
| Maxton |
→ |
James Maxton |
| Media slice |
→ |
Docking station |
| Menace 2 Society |
→ |
Menace II Society |
| Mexican Federal Government |
→ |
Government of Mexico |
| Mexican border |
→ |
United States–Mexico border |
| Michelob ULTRA |
→ |
Michelob |
| Michelob Ultra |
→ |
Michelob |
| Microthreading |
→ |
Microthread |
| Military use of bicycles |
→ |
Bicycle infantry |
| Milk solids |
→ |
Milk |
| Minijack |
→ |
Jack plug |
| Mixed reality game |
→ |
Alternate reality game |
| Modern fabric |
→ |
Synthetic polymer |
| Modperl |
→ |
Mod perl |
| Modular Lightweight, Load-carrying Equipment |
→ |
M.O.L.L.E. |
| Mono programming language |
→ |
Mono development platform |
| Monolingual |
→ |
Monoglottism |
| Mononoke-hime |
→ |
Princess Mononoke |
| Monowi |
→ |
Monowi, Nebraska |
| Moor Lane |
→ |
Copmanthorpe rail crash |
| Mount Evelyn railway station |
→ |
Mount Evelyn, Victoria |
| Multipoint microwave distribution system |
→ |
Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Service |
| Municipal ownership |
→ |
Municipalization |
| NDFA |
→ |
Nondeterministic finite state machine |
| NMCC |
→ |
National Military Command Center |
| Nailsea & Backwell |
→ |
Nailsea and Backwell railway station |
| Nailsea and Backwell |
→ |
Nailsea and Backwell railway station |
| Nakamatsu |
→ |
Yoshiro Nakamatsu |
| Neurologic examination |
→ |
Neurological examination |
| New York accent |
→ |
New York–New Jersey English |
| Ngor |
→ |
Haing S. Ngor |
| Nickel Mines |
→ |
Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania |
| Nine Mile Point |
→ |
Nine Mile Point Nuclear Generating Station |
| Noel's House Party |
→ |
Noel Edmonds |
| North Acton |
→ |
North Acton tube station |
| North Ealing |
→ |
North Ealing tube station |
| North West of England |
→ |
North West England |
| Nuclear ambiguity |
→ |
Israel and weapons of mass destruction |
| Nuclear weapons in fiction |
→ |
Nuclear weapons in popular culture |
| Nudist beach |
→ |
Nude beach |
| Number 11 bus |
→ |
No. 11 bus |
| OS map |
→ |
Ordnance Survey |
| Oil politics |
→ |
Petroleum politics |
| One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest |
→ |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| Online service |
→ |
Online service provider |
| Open Source Development Labs |
→ |
OSDL |
| Operating Room |
→ |
Operating theatre |
| Orgreave pickets |
→ |
Battle of Orgreave |
| Orthographic |
→ |
Orthographic projection |
| PC Tibble |
→ |
Stephen Tibble |
| PDP11/73 |
→ |
PDP-11/73 |
| PES3 |
→ |
Pro Evolution Soccer 3 |
| PES4 |
→ |
Pro Evolution Soccer 4 |
| Package tour |
→ |
Package holiday |
| Paddington Green |
→ |
Paddington Green police station |
| Palo Verde |
→ |
Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station |
| Paper currency |
→ |
Banknote |
| Paris Subway |
→ |
Paris Métro |
| Passenger saloon |
→ |
Passenger car |
| Pedro Pais |
→ |
Pedro Páez |
| Permanent eye-liner |
→ |
Permanent makeup |
| Personal spaceflight |
→ |
Space tourism |
| Personification of death |
→ |
Death (personification) |
| Petty theft |
→ |
Theft |
| Petty thief |
→ |
Theft |
| Pilau rice |
→ |
Pilaf |
| Pinedale |
→ |
Pinedale, Wyoming |
| Pinkerton detective |
→ |
Pinkerton National Detective Agency |
| Pizza express |
→ |
Pizza Express |
| Planetary exploration |
→ |
Timeline of solar system exploration |
| Plungington, Preston, UK |
→ |
Plungington |
| Poker bot |
→ |
Online poker |
| Pokerbot |
→ |
Online poker |
| Political lobbying |
→ |
Interest group |
| Poole station |
→ |
Poole railway station |
| Poppy Day |
→ |
Remembrance Day |
| Poppy day |
→ |
Remembrance Day |
| Population boom |
→ |
Population growth |
| Port (wine) |
→ |
Port wine |
| Portable multimedia player |
→ |
Portable media player |
| Post box |
→ |
Mail |
| Potato chip sandwich |
→ |
Crisp sandwich |
| Power of Nightmares |
→ |
The Power of Nightmares |
| Powercut |
→ |
Power outage |
| Pre-pay |
→ |
Prepaid telephone calls |
| President of the USA |
→ |
President of the United States |
| Pressure sickness |
→ |
HPNS |
| Pret A Manger |
→ |
Pret a Manger |
| Pret a manger |
→ |
Pret a Manger |
| Pret |
→ |
Pret a Manger |
| Private beta |
→ |
Web 2.0 |
| Produktionsgenossenschaft |
→ |
Landwirtschaftliche Produktionsgenossenschaft |
| Prohibitionism |
→ |
Prohibition |
| Public Toilet (film) |
→ |
Toilet |
| Public holidays in Scotland |
→ |
Bank Holidays |
| Pudding Mill Lane |
→ |
Pudding Mill Lane DLR station |
| QFD |
→ |
Quality function deployment |
QMUC |
→ |
Queen Margaret University College |
| Queen's Christmas speech |
→ |
Royal Christmas Message |
| Query optimisation |
→ |
Query optimization |
| Quiz night |
→ |
Pub quiz |
| R and D |
→ |
Research and Development |
| RAS |
→ |
Remote Access Service |
| RFC 2426 |
→ |
VCard |
| RMT rail union |
→ |
National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers |
| RUPP |
→ |
Rupp |
| Radar Intercept Officer |
→ |
Naval Flight Officer |
| Radio Moscow World Service |
→ |
Voice of Russia |
| Rag and bone |
→ |
Rag and bone man |
| Railway track |
→ |
Rail tracks |
| Railway tracks |
→ |
Rail tracks |
| Ram raid |
→ |
Ram-raiding |
| Ram-raid |
→ |
Ram-raiding |
| Rangipo |
→ |
Rangipo Desert |
| Ration book |
→ |
Rationing in the United Kingdom during and after World War II |
| Rational Unified Process Product |
→ |
Rational Unified Process |
| Raznatovic |
→ |
Željko Ražnatović |
| Redundant power |
→ |
Auxiliary power |
| Refuse sack |
→ |
Bin bag |
| Reggie Vanderbilt |
→ |
Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt |
| Regional Express Network |
→ |
RER |
| Remote locking |
→ |
Remote keyless system |
| Rent controlled |
→ |
Rent control |
| Reusable spaceship |
→ |
Reusable launch system |
| Ridgby |
→ |
Matthew Ridgway |
| Rijeka International Airport |
→ |
Rijeka Airport |
| Roads used as public paths |
→ |
Rights of way in the United Kingdom |
| Roadside bomb |
→ |
Improvised explosive device |
| Rod Brooks |
→ |
Rodney Brooks |
| Roll-top desk |
→ |
Rolltop desk |
| Rough sleeper |
→ |
Homelessness |
| Royal Albert |
→ |
Royal Victoria DLR station |
| Royal Victoria |
→ |
Royal Victoria DLR station |
| Ruislip Gardens |
→ |
Ruislip Gardens tube station |
| Rule of the mob |
→ |
Ochlocracy |
| SAPS |
→ |
South African Police Service |
| Saint James' Square |
→ |
St. James's Square |
| Salsa (dip) |
→ |
Salsa (sauce) |
| Sarafovo Airport |
→ |
Burgas Airport |
| Satnav |
→ |
Satellite navigation system |
| Sayed Kotb |
→ |
Sayyid Qutb |
| School coach |
→ |
School bus |
| School night |
→ |
Working time |
| Scotland in miniature |
→ |
Isle of Arran |
| Secondary Modern school |
→ |
Tripartite System |
| Secondary Technical school |
→ |
Tripartite System |
| Semi AI |
→ |
Artificial intelligence |
| Semi-AI |
→ |
Artificial intelligence |
| Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi |
→ |
Spirited Away |
| Senator Mitchell |
→ |
George J. Mitchell |
| Shandy Bass |
→ |
Bass (beer) |
| Sharealike |
→ |
Share-alike |
| Shelf-stable |
→ |
Shelf stable |
| Shichinin no samurai |
→ |
The Seven Samurai |
| Shinwell |
→ |
Manny Shinwell |
| Shock tourism |
→ |
Extreme tourism |
| Shopping thoroughfare |
→ |
High street |
| Shrink wrap |
→ |
Shrinkwrap |
| Silverlink Trains |
→ |
Silverlink |
| Sir Chris Gent |
→ |
Chris Gent |
| Sir Paul Smith |
→ |
Paul Smith (fashion designer) |
| Sisyphean task |
→ |
Sisyphus |
| Sisyphean |
→ |
Sisyphus |
| Six hats |
→ |
Six Thinking Hats |
| Size acceptance movement |
→ |
Fat acceptance movement |
| Sky bridge |
→ |
Skybridge |
| Sky+ |
→ |
Sky Digital |
| Sleeper train |
→ |
Sleeping car |
| Slow Food Movement |
→ |
Slow Food |
| Slow food movement |
→ |
Slow Food |
| Slumming it |
→ |
Slumming |
| Smoking legislation |
→ |
Smoking ban |
| Smultronstället |
→ |
Wild Strawberries (movie) |
| Social search |
→ |
Web 2.0 |
| Socialist country |
→ |
Socialist state |
| Solar system exploration |
→ |
Timeline of solar system exploration |
| Solovki monastery |
→ |
Solovetsky Monastery |
| South Ealing |
→ |
South Ealing tube station |
| South Quay |
→ |
South Quay DLR station |
| South sea bubble |
→ |
The South Sea Company |
| Soviet nuclear program |
→ |
Soviet atomic bomb project |
| Space access |
→ |
Private spaceflight |
| Space pen |
→ |
Space Pen |
| SpaceLoft |
→ |
SpaceLoft XL |
| Spatial mode |
→ |
Spatial file manager |
| Spirit Award |
→ |
Independent Spirit Awards |
| Spirit Awards |
→ |
Independent Spirit Awards |
| St Mary-le-Bow church |
→ |
St Mary-le-Bow |
| StalinWorld |
→ |
Grutas Park |
| Steam iron |
→ |
Ironing |
| Steelopolis |
→ |
Motherwell |
| Stephen Dubner |
→ |
Stephen J. Dubner |
| Stepney Green |
→ |
Stepney Green tube station |
| Stock crash |
→ |
Stock market crash |
| Street corner preaching |
→ |
Open-air preaching |
| Street preacher |
→ |
Open-air preaching |
| Street preaching |
→ |
Open-air preaching |
| Stuffed crust |
→ |
Stuffed crust pizza |
| Subsidise |
→ |
Subsidy |
| Substance abuse rehabilitation |
→ |
Substance-abuse rehabilitation |
| Subzero refrigerator |
→ |
Sub-Zero Refrigerator |
| Sunderland South |
→ |
Sunderland South (UK Parliament constituency) |
| Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans |
→ |
Sunrise (movie) |
| Super bug |
→ |
Antibiotic resistance |
| Surf guitar |
→ |
Surf music |
| Symbolic calculation |
→ |
Symbolic mathematics |
| T-34 Soviet Tank |
→ |
T-34 |
| T34 tank |
→ |
T-34 |
| T68 |
→ |
Sony Ericsson T68 |
| TR6 |
→ |
Triumph TR6 |
| TV Remote |
→ |
Remote control |
| TV remote |
→ |
Remote control |
| Tamborrada |
→ |
San Sebastián |
| Tax freedom day |
→ |
Tax Freedom Day |
| Teignmouth, Devon |
→ |
Teignmouth |
| Telegraph Group |
→ |
The Daily Telegraph |
| Telegraphic address |
→ |
Electrical telegraph |
| Telemarking |
→ |
Telemark skiing |
| Telephone billing card |
→ |
Telephone card |
| Telephone billing cards |
→ |
Telephone card |
| Tenement Housing |
→ |
Apartment building |
| Tenement housing |
→ |
Apartment building |
| Tenzing |
→ |
Tenzing Norgay |
| Thank You For Smoking |
→ |
Thank You for Smoking |
| The 1900s House |
→ |
The 1900 House |
| The British property bubble |
→ |
British property bubble |
| The Italian Job (2003) |
→ |
The Italian Job (2003 film) |
| The Libertarian Alliance |
→ |
Libertarian Alliance |
| The New Angel |
→ |
John Burton Race |
| The People's Republic |
→ |
People's Republic |
| The Princess of Wales |
→ |
Diana, Princess of Wales |
| The Pyramids |
→ |
Egyptian pyramids |
| The Silicon Eye |
→ |
Foveon X3 sensor |
| The Somme |
→ |
Somme |
| The Windsor Building |
→ |
Torre Windsor |
| The Wootton Report |
→ |
Wootton Report |
| The pause that refreshes |
→ |
List of food and drink advertising slogans |
| TheStreet |
→ |
TheStreet.com |
| Third world debt |
→ |
Third World debt |
| Thomas Wintringham |
→ |
Tom Wintringham |
| Tin ore |
→ |
Cassiterite |
| Todo sobre mi madre |
→ |
All About My Mother |
| Toilet roll |
→ |
Toilet paper |
| Tony Zinni |
→ |
Anthony Zinni |
| Top-up tuition fees |
→ |
Top-up fees |
| Torajaland |
→ |
Tana Toraja |
| Totteridge & Whetstone |
→ |
Totteridge and Whetstone tube station |
| Totteridge and Whetstone |
→ |
Totteridge and Whetstone tube station |
| Tower Gateway |
→ |
Tower Gateway DLR station |
| Trading pit |
→ |
Stock market |
| Train Operating Company |
→ |
List of companies operating trains in the United Kingdom |
| Trains in the United Kingdom |
→ |
Rail transport in the United Kingdom |
| TransPennine |
→ |
First TransPennine Express |
| Transport in Tokyo |
→ |
Transportation in Greater Tokyo |
| Travel industry |
→ |
Tourism |
| Travilah |
→ |
Travilah, Maryland |
| Trial and improvement |
→ |
Trial and error |
| Triple glazing |
→ |
Insulated glazing |
| Trois couleurs: Rouge |
→ |
Three Colors: Red |
| Truetype |
→ |
TrueType |
| Turret House |
→ |
Sheffield Manor |
| UHNWI |
→ |
High net worth individual |
| UK election |
→ |
Elections in the United Kingdom |
| US Treasury |
→ |
United States Department of the Treasury |
| University of Colorado, Boulder |
→ |
University of Colorado at Boulder |
| Unlicensed vendor |
→ |
Black market |
| Unmanned drone |
→ |
Unmanned aerial vehicle |
| Urban 75 |
→ |
Urban75 |
| V chip |
→ |
V-chip |
| VA Linux Systems |
→ |
VA Software |
| VA Linux |
→ |
VA Software |
| VA Research |
→ |
VA Software |
| Vandellòs and l'Hospitalet de l'Infant |
→ |
Vandellòs i l'Hospitalet de l'Infant |
| Vehicle borne IED |
→ |
Improvised explosive device |
| Venice Grand Canal |
→ |
Grand Canal of Venice |
| Virus checker |
→ |
Anti-virus software |
| Voice over artist |
→ |
Voice acting |
| WOS4 |
→ |
Wizards of OS 4 |
| Wage level |
→ |
Wage |
| Washing up gloves |
→ |
Rubber glove |
| Waterloo & City |
→ |
Waterloo & City Line |
| Waterloo International |
→ |
Waterloo station |
| Web 2.0 Conference 2005 |
→ |
Web 2.0 Conference (2005) |
| Wembley Central |
→ |
Wembley Central station |
| West Acton |
→ |
West Acton tube station |
| West Finchley |
→ |
West Finchley tube station |
| Westgate |
→ |
Westgate-on-Sea |
| Widdecombe |
→ |
Ann Widdecombe |
| Winhelp |
→ |
Microsoft WinHelp |
| Wire photo |
→ |
Fax |
| Wire picture |
→ |
Fax |
| Wolf Creek |
→ |
Wolf Creek Nuclear Generating Station |
| Woodmore |
→ |
Woodmore, Maryland |
| Word Pro |
→ |
Lotus Word Pro |
| Workout equipment |
→ |
Exercise equipment |
| Yasser Arafat International Airport |
→ |
Gaza International Airport |
| Ying xiong |
→ |
Hero (movie) |
| Your money or your life |
→ |
Highwayman |
| ZOPA |
→ |
Zopa |
| Zatopek |
→ |
Emil Zátopek |
| Zelzal |
→ |
Zelzal-2 |
| Zippe-type |
→ |
Zippe-type centrifuge |
| ZoPA |
→ |
Zopa |
