29-letter words containing a, s, h

ningxia hui autonomous region — an administrative division in N China. 25,640 sq. mi. (66,400 sq. km). Capital: Yinchuan.
not to have the foggiest idea — to have no idea whatsoever
operations support technician — (job) A person who analyses and supports computer operations by controlling production applications, monitoring system resources and response time and providing first-line support for operational problems.
past the hour/before the hour — If you want to state the time exactly, you can give a number of minutes followed by before the hour or past the hour.
professional graphics adapter — (graphics, specification) (PGA) A computer video display standard produced by IBM for early CAD applications. It had a resolution of 640x400 pixels.
put sb/go through their paces — If you put someone through their paces or make them go through their paces, you get them to show you how well they can do something.
put someone through his paces — to test the ability of someone
put the cart before the horse — a heavy two-wheeled vehicle, commonly without springs, drawn by mules, oxen, or the like, used for the conveyance of heavy goods.
put the cat among the pigeons — to introduce some violently disturbing new element
put the moves (or a move) on — to attempt to seduce by the use of deceptive tricks or devices
run something up the flagpole — to pursue a tentative course of action in order to gauge the reaction it receives
shake the dust off one's feet — to depart angrily or contemptuously
shell-and-tube heat exchanger — A shell-and-tube heat exchanger is a type of heat exchanger that consists of a cylinder carrying one fluid, with some smaller cylinders inside it carrying another fluid.
shipshape and bristol fashion — in good order; efficiently arranged
sing from the same hymn sheet — If you say that people, especially people in the same organization, are singing from the same hymn sheet or are singing from the same song sheet, you mean that they are saying the same things in public about something and appear to agree about it.
sing from the same song sheet — to say the same things about a subject in order to give the impression of unity or agreement
someone has raised their game — If you say that someone has raised their game, you mean that they have begun to perform better, usually because they were under pressure to do so.
stop sth (dead) in its tracks — If someone or something stops a process or activity in its tracks, or if it stops dead in its tracks, they prevent the process or activity from continuing.
synchronous data link control — (communications) (SDLC) An IBM protocol. A discipline conforming to subsets of the ADCCP of ANSI and the HDLC of the International Organization for Standardization. SDLC manages synchronous, code-transparent, bit-serial communication which can be duplex or half-duplex; switched or non-switched; point-to-point, multipoint, or loop. Compare Binary Synchronous Communication.
synchronous digital hierarchy — (communications, standard) (SDH) An international digital telecommunications network hierarchy which standardises transmission around the bit rate of 51.84 megabits per second, which is also called STS-1. Multiples of this bit rate comprise higher bit rate streams. Thus STS-3 is 3 times STS-1, STS-12 is 12 times STS-1, and so on. STS-3 is the lowest bit rate expected to carry ATM traffic, and is also referred to as STM-1 (Synchronous Transport Module-Level 1). The SDH specifies how payload data is framed and transported synchronously across optical fibre transmission links without requiring all the links and nodes to have the same synchronized clock for data transmission and recovery (i.e. both the clock frequency and phase are allowed to have variations, or be plesiochronous). SDH offers several advantages over the current multiplexing technology, which is known as Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy. Where PDH lacks built-in facilities for automatic management and routing, and locks users into proprietary methods, SDH can improve network reliability and performance, offers much greater flexibility and lower operating and maintenance costs, and provides for a faster provision of new services. Under SDH, incoming traffic is synchronized and enhanced with network management bits before being multiplexed into the STM-1 fixed rate frame. The fundamental clock frequency around which the SDH or SONET framing is done is 8 KHz or 125 microseconds. SONET (Synchronous Optical Network) is the American version of SDH.
take a person to the cleaners — to rob or defraud a person of all of his or her money
take the law into one's hands — the principles and regulations established in a community by some authority and applicable to its people, whether in the form of legislation or of custom and policies recognized and enforced by judicial decision.
the be-all and end-all of sth — If something is the be-all and end-all to you, it is the only important thing in your life, or the only important feature of a particular activity.
the five heads of predicables — five Aristotelian classes of predicates namely genus, species, difference, property, and relation
the northern ireland assembly — the devolved legislature of Northern Ireland, located at Stormont in Belfast
the royal shakespeare company — a British theatre company based mainly in Stratford-upon-Avon
the royal ulster constabulary — (formerly) the police force in Northern Ireland from 1922 to 2001, superseded by the Police Service of Northern Ireland
thinking machines corporation — (company) The company that introduced the Connection Machine parallel computer ca 1984. Four of the world's ten most powerful supercomputers are Connection Machines. Thinking Machines is the leader in scalable computing, with software and applications running on parallel systems ranging from 16 to 1024 processors. In developing the Connection Machine system, Thinking Machines also did pioneering work in parallel software. The 1993 technical applications market for massively parallel systems was approximately $310 million, of which Thinking Machines Corporation held a 29 percent share. Thinking Machines planned to become a software provider by 1996, by which time the parallel computing market was expected to have grown to $2 billion. Thinking Machines Corporation has 200 employees and offices worldwide. Address: 245 First Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1264, USA. Telephone: +1 (617) 234 1000. Fax: +1 (617) 234 4444.
throw cold water on something — to be unenthusiastic about or discourage something
throw one's hat into the ring — to enter a contest, esp. one for political office
thyrotropin-releasing hormone — a small peptide hormone, produced by the hypothalamus, that controls the release of thyrotropin by the pituitary. Abbreviation: TRH.
to be mentioned in dispatches — If a soldier is mentioned in dispatches, he or she is considered to have been extremely brave in a battle, and is recommended for a medal.
to draw a veil over something — If you draw a veil over something, you stop talking about it because it is too unpleasant to talk about.
to err on the side of caution — If you err on the side of caution, for example, you decide to act in a cautious way, rather than take risks.
to get sb in the party spirit — to make someone feel like going to a party
to have a learning disability — to be unable to reach the average standard of people of the same age group as regards intellectual and cognitive skills and performance
to have sb's guts for garters — to be extremely angry with someone
to laugh someone out of court — If you laugh someone out of court, you say that their opinions or ideas are so ridiculous that they are not worth considering.
to make someone's flesh creep — If something makes your flesh creep or makes your flesh crawl, it makes you feel disgusted, shocked or frightened.
to pay cash on the barrelhead — to pay at the time of purchase
to run the gamut of something — To run the gamut of something means to include, express, or experience all the different things of that kind, or a wide variety of them.
to see the error of your ways — If someone sees the error of their ways, they realize or admit that they have made a mistake or behaved badly.
to take the bull by the horns — If you take the bull by the horns, you do something that you feel you ought to do even though it is difficult, dangerous, or unpleasant.
to thumb your nose at someone — If you thumb your nose at someone, you behave in a way that shows that you do not care what they think.
to wash your hands of someone — If you wash your hands of someone or something, you refuse to be involved with them any more or to take responsibility for them.
training opportunities scheme — a former government scheme offering vocational training to unemployed people
two wrongs don't make a right — If someone says 'Two wrongs don't make a right', they mean that you should not do harm to a person who has done harm to you, even if you think that person deserves it.
until one is blue in the face — to the utmost degree; indefinitely
valley of ten thousand smokes — a volcanic area in SW Alaska, in Katmai National Monument.
variational graphics extended — (software) (VGX) Software developed by SDRC for use in 3D CAD solid modelling.

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