20-letter words containing d, i, s, h, w
- bring down the house — to receive enthusiastic applause from the audience
- bring the house down — to win great applause
- childhood sweetheart — a boyfriend or girlfriend from an early stage of life
- combination sandwich — a big sandwich with a mixed filling
- discounted cash flow — a technique for appraising an investment that takes into account the different values of future returns according to when they will be received
- drink with the flies — to drink alone
- friend with benefits — (used as a euphemism) a friend with whom one has sex without a romantic relationship or commitment.
- hardware handshaking — (communications) A technique for regulating the flow of data across an interface by means of signals carried on separate wires. A common example is the RTS (Request to Send) and CTS (Clear to Send) signals on an EIA-232 serial line. The alternative, software handshaking, uses two special characters inserted into the data stream to carry the same information.
- hawaii-standard-time — Alaska-Hawaii time.
- hazard warning lamps — Hazard warning lamps are flashing lamps on each corner of a vehicle that are used to show the position of the vehicle if there has been a breakdown or an accident.
- heston and isleworth — a former borough, now part of Hounslow, in SE England, near London.
- indicated horsepower — the horsepower of a reciprocating engine as shown by an indicator record. Abbreviation: ihp, IHP.
- lead with one's chin — to act so imprudently as to invite disaster
- ode to the west wind — a poem (1820) by Shelley.
- owner-occupied house — a house that is owned by the person who lives in it
- phillips screwdriver — a screwdriver that has a cross at the tip that is intended to be used with Phillips screws
- phillips-screwdriver — a screw head having two partial slots crossed at right angles, driven by a special screwdriver (Phillips screwdriver)
- pleased with oneself — If someone seems very satisfied with something they have done, you can say that they are pleased with themselves, especially if you think they are more satisfied than they should be.
- posted write-through — A cache with a posted write-through policy (e.g. Intel 80386) delays the write-back to main memory until the bus is not in use.
- rough-winged swallow — either of two New World swallows of the genus Stelgidopteryx, having outer primary feathers with small barblike hooks on the margins.
- schwarzschild radius — the radius at which a gravitationally collapsing celestial body becomes a black hole.
- schwarzschild sphere — the sphere which surrounds a non-rotating uncharged black hole, from within which no information can escape because of gravitational forces
- sharp-tailed sparrow — a sparrow, Ammospiza caudacuta, inhabiting salt marshes in North America, having narrow, sharply pointed tail feathers.
- sound-and-light show — a nighttime spectacle or performance, at which a building, historic site, etc., is illuminated and the historic significance is imparted to spectators by means of narration, sound effects, and music.
- switchboard operator — a person who operates an installation in a telephone exchange, office, hotel, etc, at which the interconnection of telephone lines is manually controlled
- the last word in sth — If you say that something is the last word in luxury, comfort, or some other quality, you are emphasizing that it has a great deal of this quality.
- the whole nine yards — everything that is required; the whole thing
- third-party software — software created by programmers or publishers independent of the manufacturer of the hardware for which it is intended.
- to let the side down — If you say that someone has let the side down, you mean that they have embarrassed their family or friends by behaving badly or not doing well at something.
- twiddle one's thumbs — to turn about or play with lightly or idly, especially with the fingers; twirl.
- twilight of the gods — Götterdämmerung.
- twisted stomach worm — stomach worm.
- unified screw thread — a screw thread system introduced for defence equipment (1939–44), in which the thread form and pitch were a compromise between British Standard Whitworth and American Standard Sellers: adopted by the International Standards Organization
- weights and measures — units or standards of measurement
- wilson cloud chamber — cloud chamber.
- with all due respect — despite my regard for you
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