22-letter words containing a, b, u, h
- a bull in a china shop — You say that someone is like a bull in a china shop when they are very clumsy.
- 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.
- bark up the wrong tree — to misdirect one's attention, efforts, etc; be mistaken
- beats the shit outa me — (exclamation) (BSOM) "I don't understand it". The last thing you say as you walk out on someone whose system you can't fix.
- behaviour modification — the use of techniques to change someone's behaviour by reinforcing desired behaviour
- 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-scholes equation — a partial differential equation used to estimate the changing value of an option over time
- block redundancy check — Longitudinal Redundancy Check
- bring down the curtain — If something brings down the curtain on an event or situation, it causes or marks the end of it.
- 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.
- catch/take sb unawares — If something catches you unawares or takes you unawares, it happens when you are not expecting it.
- chebyshev's inequality — the fundamental theorem that the probability that a random variable differs from its mean by more than k standard deviations is less than or equal to 1/k2
- consummatory behaviour — any behaviour that leads directly to the satisfaction of an innate drive, e.g. eating or drinking
- diethylbarbituric acid — barbital
- don't hold your breath — sth is unlikely to happen soon
- double blackwall hitch — a kind of knot
- full english breakfast — morning meal of eggs, bacon, etc.
- great australian bight — a wide bay in S Australia.
- gum bichromate process — a contact printing method in which the image is formed on a coating of sensitized gum containing a suitable colored pigment and potassium or ammonium dichromate.
- have a bun in the oven — to be pregnant
- have all one's buttons — a small disk, knob, or the like for sewing or otherwise attaching to an article, as of clothing, serving as a fastening when passed through a buttonhole or loop.
- hermann-mauguin symbol — a notation for indicating a particular point group.
- house of bernarda alba — a drama (1941) by Federico García Lorca.
- hubble space telescope — U.S. Aerospace. a 7.9-foot (2.4-meter) optical telescope designed for use in orbit around the earth.
- in one's birthday suit — naked; nude
- label switching router — (networking) (LSR) A device that typically resides somewhere in the middle of a network and is capable of forwarding datagrams by label switching. In many cases, especially early versions of MPLS networks, a LSR will typically be a modified ATM switch that forwards datagrams based upon a label in the VPI/VCI field.
- like a bat out of hell — very fast
- lund software house ab — (company) The company who produced Lund Simula. Address: Box 7056, S-22007 Lund, Sweden.
- much ado about nothing — a comedy (1598?) by Shakespeare.
- obligational authority — the necessary authority that precedes budget spending by a government agency or department, granted by Congress through appropriations.
- on a shoestring budget — with very little money to spend
- peanut-butter sandwich — a sandwich with a filling of peanut-butter
- rocky mountain bighorn — bighorn.
- search the fucking web — (web, jargon) (Always abbreviated STFW) A response implying that an inquirer could have easily found an answer to his question using Google or some other web search engine. It is now often quicker and more productive to search the World-Wide Web than to RTFM.
- shaken but not stirred — If you say that someone has been shaken but not stirred by an experience, you mean that they have been slightly disturbed or emotionally affected by it, but not deeply enough to change their behaviour or way of thinking.
- south african republic — former name of Transvaal.
- southern redbelly dace — any of the small, brightly colored North American freshwater cyprinids, especially Phoxinus oreas (northern redbelly dace) and P. erythrogaster (southern redbelly dace)
- the edinburgh festival — an arts festival held in Edinburgh in August
- to beat about the bush — If you tell someone not to beat about the bush, you mean that you want them to tell you something immediately and quickly, rather than in a complicated, indirect way.
- unreasonable behaviour — conduct by a spouse sufficient to cause the irretrievable breakdown of a marriage
- water under the bridge — If you say that an event or incident is water under the bridge, you mean that it has happened and cannot now be changed, so there is no point in worrying about it any more.
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