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25-letter words containing a, n, h, e, l

  • have bats in one's belfry — any of numerous flying mammals of the order Chiroptera, of worldwide distribution in tropical and temperate regions, having modified forelimbs that serve as wings and are covered with a membranous skin extending to the hind limbs.
  • have no/little truck with — If you say that you will have no truck with someone or something, you are refusing to be involved with them in any way.
  • have only to/only have to — If you say you only have to or have only to do one thing in order to achieve or prove a second thing, you are emphasizing how easily the second thing can be achieved or proved.
  • health insurance exchange — A health insurance exchange is a set of health care plans in the U.S. from which people may purchase insurance that is eligible for federal subsidies.
  • high voltage differential — (hardware)   (HVD) Differential SCSI scheme that has been in use for years. The terminators run on 5 Volts DC. See also LVD.
  • honi soit qui mal y pense — shamed be he who thinks evil of it: the motto of the Order of the Garter
  • hospitalization insurance — insurance to cover, in whole or in part, the hospital bills of a subscriber or of his or her dependents.
  • house of the seven gables — a novel (1851) by Hawthorne.
  • human embryonic stem cell — a stem cell obtained from the blastocyst of a human embryo
  • hypertext markup language — (hypertext, web, standard)   (HTML) A hypertext document format used on the web. HTML is built on top of SGML. "Tags" are embedded in the text. A tag consists of a "<", a "directive" (in lower case), zero or more parameters and a ">". Matched pairs of directives, like "" and "" are used to delimit text which is to appear in a special place or style. Links to other documents are in the form foo where "" and "" delimit an "anchor", "href" introduces a hypertext reference, which is most often a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) (the string in double quotes in the example above). The link will be represented in the browser by the text "foo" (typically shown underlined and in a different colour). A certain place within an HTML document can be marked with a named anchor, e.g.: The "fragment identifier", "baz", can be used in an href by appending "#baz" to the document name. Other common tags include

    for a new paragraph, .. for bold text,

      for an unnumbered list, 
       for preformated text, 
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       .. 
       for headings. Most systems will ignore the case of tags and attributes but lower case should be used for compatibility with XHTML. The web Consortium (W3C) is the international standards body for HTML. See also weblint.  
    •  in the foreseeable future — If you say that something will happen in the foreseeable future you mean that you think it will happen fairly soon. 
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    •  in the palm of one's hand — If you have someone or something in the palm of your hand, you have control over them. 
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    •  industrial rehabilitation — the treatment of people who have acquired a disability or disease during the course of their work, with the aim of allowing them to return to work or to a new job 
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    •  infantry fighting vehicle — a heavily armored combat vehicle, as a tank, used to carry infantry into battle and provide support. Abbreviation: IFV. 
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    •  initial teaching alphabet — a 44 letter phonetic alphabet used mainly in the 1960s for teaching children to read and write 
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    •  international match point — a unit of scoring in contract bridge tournaments held in Europe. Abbreviation: IMP. 
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    •  japanese flowering cherry — any of various ornamental hybrid cherry trees developed in Japan, having white or pink blossoms and inedible fruit. 
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    •  joint technical committee — (standard, body)   (JTC) A standards body straddling ISO and IEC. 
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    •  land of the little sticks — the part of the north of Canada that lies south of the tree line but contains only stunted evergreens or dwarf deciduous trees. 
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    •  lead down the garden path — a plot of ground, usually near a house, where flowers, shrubs, vegetables, fruits, or herbs are cultivated. 
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    •  lie at (or on) the lurch — to lie in wait 
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    •  local education authority — a body that is responsible for education in a particular area 
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    •  melanesian pidgin english — Neo-Melanesian. 
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    •  metal-free phthalocyanine — phthalocyanine (def 1). 
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    •  methylrosaniline chloride — gentian violet. 
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    •  nail in the coffin of sth — If you say that one thing is a nail in the coffin of another thing, you mean that it will help bring about its end or failure. 
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    •  neurocirculatory asthenia — cardiac neurosis. 
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    •  never do things by halves — If you say that someone never does things by halves, you mean that they always do things very thoroughly. 
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    •  non-algorithmic procedure — heuristic 
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    •  northern corn-leaf blight — northern leaf blight. 
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    •  nuffield teaching project — (in Britain) a complete school programme in mathematics, science, languages, etc, with suggested complementary theory and practical work 
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    •  off-balance sheet reserve — a sum of money or an asset that should appear on a company's balance but does not; hidden reserve 
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    •  on the big/small etc side — If you say that something is on the small side, you are saying politely that you think it is slightly too small. If you say that someone is on the young side, you are saying politely that you think they are slightly too young. 
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    •  on the horns of a dilemma — one of the bony, permanent, hollow paired growths, often curved and pointed, that project from the upper part of the head of certain ungulate mammals, as cattle, sheep, goats, or antelopes. 
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    •  on the side of the angels — If you say that someone is on the side of the angels, you believe very strongly that what they are doing is right. 
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    •  oxidative phosphorylation — the aerobic synthesis, coupled to electron transport, of ATP from phosphate and ADP. 
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    •  palo alto research center — XEROX PARC 
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    •  palo alto research centre — XEROX PARC 
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    •  peripheral nervous system — the portion of the nervous system lying outside the brain and spinal cord. 
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    •  pick/take up the gauntlet — If you pick up the gauntlet or take up the gauntlet, you accept the challenge that someone has made. 
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    •  play into someone's hands — a dramatic composition or piece; drama. 
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    •  polymerase chain reaction — a technique in which a known DNA sequence is synthesized at high temperatures by means of a polymerase, producing millions of copies for statistical analysis: used in DNA fingerprinting, in detecting minute quantities of cancer cells, etc. 
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    •  polynomial-time algorithm — (complexity)   A known algorithm (or Turing Machine) that is guaranteed to terminate within a number of steps which is a polynomial function of the size of the problem. See also computational complexity, exponential time, nondeterministic polynomial-time (NP), NP-complete. 
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    •  portable network graphics — (file format)   /ping/ (PNG) An extensible file format for the lossless, portable, well-compressed storage of raster images. PNG provides a patent-free replacement for GIF and can also replace many common uses of TIFF. Indexed-colour, greyscale and truecolour images are supported, plus an optional alpha channel. Sample depths range from 1 to 16 bits. PNG is designed for on-line viewing applications, such as the World Wide Web, so it is fully streamable with a progressive display option. PNG is robust, providing both full file integrity checking and simple detection of common transmission errors. Also, PNG can store gamma correction and chromaticity data for improved colour matching on heterogeneous platforms. 
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    •  rate monotonic scheduling — (algorithm)   A means of scheduling the time allocated to periodic hard-deadline real-time users of a resource. The users are assigned priorities such that a shorter fixed period between deadlines is associated with a higher priority. Rate monotonic scheduling provides a low-overhead, reasonably resource-efficient means of guaranteeing that all users will meet their deadlines provided that certain analytical equations are satisfied during the system design. It avoids the design complexity of time-line scheduling and the overhead of dynamic approaches such as earliest-deadline scheduling. 
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    •  rehabilitation department — a government department set up after World War II to assist ex-servicemen 
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    •  ruffle someone's feathers — one of the horny structures forming the principal covering of birds, consisting typically of a hard, tubular portion attached to the body and tapering into a thinner, stemlike portion bearing a series of slender, barbed processes that interlock to form a flat structure on each side. 
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    •  saddle block (anesthesia) — a method of spinal anesthesia, often used during obstetric delivery, that produces anesthesia in that area of the body that would be in contact with a saddle during horseback riding 
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    •  selective synchronization — a sound-recording process that facilitates overdubs by feeding the recorded track to the performer straight from the recording head 
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    •  sequential parlog machine — (SPM) The virtual machine (and its machine code) for the Parlog logic programming language. 
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