26-letter words containing f, h, l
- a big fish in a small pond — If you say that someone is a big fish in a small pond, you mean that they are powerful or important but only within a small group of people.
- a different kettle of fish — If you say that something is a different kettle of fish, you mean that it is very different from another related thing that you are talking about.
- a fat lot of good/use/help — If you say that something is a fat lot of good or a fat lot of help, you are saying rudely that it is no good or no help at all.
- a matter of life and death — If you say that something is a matter of life and death, you are emphasizing that it is extremely important, often because someone may die or suffer great harm if people do not act immediately.
- all the world and his wife — a large group of people of various kinds
- allied health professional — a person who works in the allied health professions
- australian snubfin dolphin — a species of dolphin, Orcaella heinsohni, with a small stubby dorsal fin, a dark dorsal area, lighter brown body and white underbelly, found mainly in Australian waters
- australopithecus afarensis — an extinct species of early hominid whose fossil remains were discovered in Ethiopia and have been dated at between 3.5 and 4 million years of age.
- australopithecus africanus — an extinct species of gracile hominid, formerly known as Plesianthropus transvaalensis, that lived in southern Africa about three million years ago.
- bachelor of science degree — a degree conferred on a person who has successfully completed his or her undergraduate studies in a branch of the sciences
- bastard operator from hell — (humour) (BOFH) A rogue network operator character invented by Simon Travaglia <[email protected]>, regularly featured in "Computing" and "DATAMATION" magazine. See also: Dilbert.
- be a lightning rod for sth — If you say that someone is a lightning rod for something, you mean that they attract that thing to themselves.
- catastrophe excess of loss — Catastrophe excess of loss is a form of excess of loss reinsurance where the reinsurer agrees to reimburse the amount of a very large loss in excess of a particular sum.
- chief inspector of schools — a high-ranking official of the British government who is responsible for overseeing the quality of education
- chief state school officer — ( in a US state and some other US jurisdictions) an official who heads a department of elementary or secondary education
- computer graphics metafile — (graphics, file format) (CGM) A standard file format for storage and communication of graphical information, widely used on personal computers and accepted by desktop publishing and technical illustration systems. See also: WebCGM.
- dionysius of halicarnassus — died 7? b.c, Greek rhetorician and historian in Rome.
- distinguished flying cross — Military. a decoration awarded for heroic or extraordinary achievement while on aerial duty.
- electronic piece of cheese — EPOC
- external machine interface — (protocol) (EMI) A protocol primarily used to connect to short message service centres for mobile telephones. EMI is an extension to Universal Computer Protocol (UCP). EMI was was developed by CMG, now a part of LogicaCMG, the current SMSC market leader. Each byte of the message is encoded as two hexadecimal characters using an encoding not quite like ASCII.
- first-class honours degree — an honours degree of the highest class
- for the foreseeable future — If you say that something will happen for the foreseeable future, you think that it will continue to happen for a long time.
- foreign bill (of exchange) — a bill of exchange drawn in one state or country and payable in another, as one arising from foreign trade operations
- fourth generation language — (language) (4GL, or "report generator language") An "application specific" language, one with built-in knowledge of an application domain, in the way that SQL has built-in knowledge of the relational database domain. The term was invented by Jim Martin to refer to non-procedural high level languages built around database systems. Fourth generation languages are close to natural language and were built with the concept that certain applications could be generalised by adding limited programming ability to them. When given a description of the data format and the report to generate, a 4GL system produces COBOL (or other 3GL) code, that actually reads and processes the data and formats the results. Some examples of 4GL are: database query language e.g.SQL; Focus, Metafont, PostScript, S, IDL-PV, WAVE, Gauss, Mathematica, and data-stream languages such as AVS, APE, Iris Explorer.
- fowler-nordheim tunnelling — (electronics) (US: "tunneling") The quantum mechanical effect exploited in EAPROM and Flash Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory. It differs from Frenkel-Pool Tunnelling in that it does not rely on defects in the semiconductor.
- frederic auguste bartholdi — Frédéric Auguste [frey-dey-reek oh-gyst] /freɪ deɪˈrik oʊˈgüst/ (Show IPA), 1834–1904, French sculptor who designed the Statue of Liberty.
- get in on the ground floor — If you get in on the ground floor, you become involved in a business or plan in the early stages, in order to gain an advantage.
- grand army of the republic — an organization, founded in 1866, composed of men who served in the U.S. Army and Navy during the Civil War: its last member died in 1956. Abbreviation: G.A.R.
- hanging gardens of babylon — ornamental gardens planted on the terraces of the ziggurats of ancient Babylon.
- have had one's fill of sth — If you have had your fill of something, you have had enough of it, and do not want to experience it any more or do it any more.
- headline rate of inflation — a basic rate of inflation before distorting factors have been removed
- healing by first intention — an act or instance of determining mentally upon some action or result.
- high definition television — a television system having twice the standard number of scanning lines per frame and producing a sharper image, and greater picture detail. Abbreviation: HDTV.
- high-definition television — a television system having twice the standard number of scanning lines per frame and producing a sharper image, and greater picture detail. Abbreviation: HDTV.
- horse of a different color — a large, solid-hoofed, herbivorous quadruped, Equus caballus, domesticated since prehistoric times, bred in a number of varieties, and used for carrying or pulling loads, for riding, and for racing.
- i know (how you feel, etc) — You use 'I know' to express sympathy and understanding towards someone.
- in the eye of the beholder — If you say that something such as beauty or art is in the eye of the beholder, you mean that it is a matter of personal opinion.
- in the twinkling of an eye — instant, brief moment
- knights of the round table — a legendary order of knights created by King Arthur.
- law of diminishing returns — diminishing returns (def 2).
- let the cat out of the bag — a small domesticated carnivore, Felis domestica or F. catus, bred in a number of varieties.
- logical interchange format — (file format, file system) (LIF) A Hewlett-Packard simple file system format used to boot HP-PA machines and to interchange files between older HP machines. A LIF file system is a header, containing a single directory, with 10-character case sensitive filenames and 2-byte file types, followed by the files.
- make someone's flesh crawl — to give someone a feeling of fear or repugnance, as if insects were crawling on his or her skin
- minister without portfolio — a minister of state who is not appointed to any specific department in a government.
- multifactorial inheritance — polygenic inheritance.
- off the latch/on the latch — If a door is on the latch or off the latch, the latch has been set so that it will not lock when you shut the door.
- people's republic of china — People's Republic of, a country in E Asia. 3,691,502 sq. mi. (9,560,990 sq. km). Capital: Beijing.
- portable forth environment — (language) (PFE) A highly portable Forth development system based on the ANSI standard for Forth, by Dirk-Uwe Zoller of FHT, Mannheim, Germany. PFE aims to be correct, complete, usable, and simple but it isn't optimised for speed. It supports all dpANS word sets. It runs on Linux, RS/6000, and HP-UX. E-mail: Guido Draheim <[email protected]>.
- put the fluence on someone — to apply hypnotic or mystical influence to a person
- richthofen's flying circus — the German 11th Chasing Squadron of World War I, commanded by Baron Richthofen
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