22-letter words containing e, n, o
- hans christian oersted — Hans Christian [hahns kris-tyahn] /hɑns ˈkrɪs tyɑn/ (Show IPA), 1777–1851, Danish physicist.
- have a bun in the oven — to be pregnant
- have a leg to stand on — If you say that someone does not have a leg to stand on, or hasn't got a leg to stand on, you mean that a statement or claim they have made cannot be justified or proved.
- 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.
- have one's heart in it — to have enthusiasm for something
- heart is in your mouth — If your heart is in your mouth, you feel very excited, worried, or frightened.
- heat of solidification — the heat liberated by a unit mass of liquid at its freezing point as it solidifies: equal to the heat of fusion.
- help a person off with — to assist a person in the removal of (clothes)
- hepatitis non-a, non-b — a disease of the liver that is clinically indistinguishable from hepatitis B but is caused by a retrovirus or retroviruslike agent.
- here's mud in your eye — a humorous drinking toast
- hereford and worcester — a county in W England. 1516 sq. mi. (3926 sq. km).
- hermann-mauguin symbol — a notation for indicating a particular point group.
- hexahydroxycyclohexane — inositol.
- high-speed net connect — (hardware, communications) (HNC) A network interface unit for BS2000 mainframes based on Novell NetWare, supporting Ethernet and FDDI.
- highway contract route — a route for carrying mail over the highway between designated points, given on contract to a private carrier and often requiring, in rural areas, delivery to home mailboxes. Abbreviation: HCR.
- hit the ground running — begin enthusiastically
- hold the purse strings — hold the purse strings, to have the power to determine how money shall be spent.
- home improvement grant — a government grant for house improvements such as insulation, adding a bathroom, or urgent repairs
- hoof-and-mouth disease — foot-and-mouth disease.
- hook, line, and sinker — a curved or angular piece of metal or other hard substance for catching, pulling, holding, or suspending something.
- horn-rimmed spectacles — spectacles with rims made of material resembling horn
- horse of another color — an entirely different matter
- host control interface — (hardware, wireless) (HCI) A network layer in the Bluetooth Core Protocol Stack, lying between the software and the hardware stacks and serving as the interface through which the software controls two of Bluetooth's four core protocols.
- house of bernarda alba — a drama (1941) by Federico García Lorca.
- hue, saturation, value — (graphics) (HSV) A colour model that describes colours in terms of hue (or "tint"), saturation (or "shade") and value (or "tone" or "luminance").
- hundreds and thousands — tiny beads of brightly coloured sugar, used in decorating cakes, sweets, etc
- hybrid multiprocessing — (parallel) (HMP) The kind of multitasking which OS/2 supports. HMP provides some elements of symmetric multiprocessing, using add-on IBM software called MP/2. OS/2 SMP was planned for release in late 1993.
- hydrocinnamic aldehyde — a colorless liquid, C 9 H 10 O, having a floral odor, used in perfumery and flavoring.
- hydrogen embrittlement — the weakening of metal by the sorption of hydrogen during a pickling process, such as that used in plating
- ice-making compartment — a part of a refrigerator in which ice is made
- immigration department — the government department responsible for laws regarding immigrants and immigration
- imperative programming — imperative language
- in (all) fairness (to) — You use fairness in expressions such as in fairness to and in all fairness when you want to add a favourable comment about someone or something that you have just mentioned and to correct a false impression that you might have given.
- in (or out of) office — currently holding (or not holding) power or a particular position of authority
- in all one's born days — so far in one's life
- in on the ground floor — in at the beginning (of a business, etc.) and thus in an especially advantageous position
- in one's birthday suit — naked; nude
- in one's own back yard — close at hand
- in one's shirt sleeves — not wearing a coat or jacket over one's shirt
- in one's shirt-sleeves — a long- or short-sleeved garment for the upper part of the body, usually lightweight and having a collar and a front opening.
- in one's stocking feet — wearing stockings or socks but no shoes
- in sackcloth and ashes — in a state of great mourning or penitence
- in someone's bad books — regarded by someone with disfavour
- in the eye of the wind — directly against the wind
- in the lap of the gods — If you say that a situation is in the lap of the gods, you mean that its success or failure depends entirely on luck or on things that are outside your control.
- in the neighborhood of — the area or region around or near some place or thing; vicinity: the kids of the neighborhood; located in the neighborhood of Jackson and Vine streets.
- in vitro fertilization — a specialized technique by which an ovum, especially a human one, is fertilized by sperm outside the body, with the resulting embryo later implanted in the uterus for gestation.
- in your wildest dreams — If you say that you could not imagine a particular thing in your wildest dreams, you are emphasizing that you think it is extremely strange or unlikely.
- in/of the order of sth — You use in the order of or of the order of when mentioning an approximate figure.
- inconsistent equations — two or more equations impossible to satisfy by any one set of values for the variables (Ex.: x + y = 1 and x + y = 2)