29-letter words containing h, a, b
- a good laugh/a bit of a laugh — If you describe a situation as a laugh, a good laugh, or a bit of a laugh, you think that it is fun and do not take it too seriously.
- algorithmic assembly language — (language) (ALIAS) A machine oriented variant of BLISS. ALIAS was implemented in BCPL for the PDP-9.
- arabian-nights-entertainments — a collection of Eastern folk tales derived in part from Indian and Persian sources and dating from the 10th century a.d.
- births, marriages, and deaths — a section of a newspaper carrying announcements of recent births, marriages, and deaths
- british standard brass thread — a Whitworth screw thread having 26 threads per inch, used for thin-walled tubing and designated by the diameter of the tubing
- british standards institution — an association, founded in London in 1901, that establishes and maintains standards for units of measurements, clothes sizes, technical terminology, etc, as used in Britain
- cognitive behavioural therapy — a form of therapy in which, having learnt to understand their anxiety, patients attempt to overcome their usual behavioural responses to it
- compatible timesharing system — (operating system) (CTSS) One of the earliest (1963) experiments in the design of interactive time-sharing operating systems. CTSS was ancestral to Multics, Unix, and ITS. It was developed at the MIT Computation Center by a team led by Fernando J. Corbato. CTSS ran on a modified IBM 7094 with a second 32K-word bank of memory, using two 2301 drums for swapping. Remote access was provided to up to 30 users via an IBM 7750 communications controller connected to dial-up modems. The name ITS (Incompatible time-sharing System) was a hack on CTSS, meant both as a joke and to express some basic differences in philosophy about the way I/O services should be presented to user programs.
- drink someone under the table — If someone drinks you under the table, they drink more alcohol than you are able to on a particular occasion.
- edinburgh multi access system — (operating system) (EMAS) One of the first operating systems written in a high-level language (IMProved Mercury autocode), apparently predating Unix.
- fibre channel-arbitrated loop — (hardware, standard) (FC-AL) A fast serial bus interface standard intended to replace SCSI on high-end servers. FC-AL has a number of advantages over SCSI. It offers higher speed: the base speed is 100 megabytes per second, with 200, 400, and 800 planned. Many devices are dual ported, i.e., can be accessed through two independent ports, which doubles speed and increases fault tolerance. Cables can be as long as 30 m (coaxial) or 10 km (optical). FC-AL enables self-configuring and hot swapping and the maximum number of devices on a single port is 126. Finally, it provides software compatibility with SCSI. Despite all these features FC-AL is unlikely to appear on desktops anytime soon, partly because its price, partly because typical desktop computers would not take advantage of many of the advanced features. On these systems FireWire has more potential.
- have mixed feelings about sth — If you have mixed feelings about something or someone, you feel uncertain about them because you can see both good and bad points about them.
- hewlett-packard interface bus — IEEE 488
- hot swapable routing protocol — (spelling) Incorrect spelling of incorrect expansion of HSRP - Hot Standby Routing Protocol.
- keep several balls in the air — If you keep several balls in the air, you try to do several different things at once.
- keep something/someone at bay — If you keep something or someone at bay, or hold them at bay, you prevent them from reaching, attacking, or affecting you.
- laugh all the way to the bank — to be unashamedly pleased at making a lot of money
- length between perpendiculars — the length of a hull between the forward and after perpendicular. Compare perpendicular (def 11).
- like bees to/round a honeypot — If something attracts people like bees to a honeypot or like bees round a honeypot, it attracts people in large numbers.
- make an exhibition of oneself — to behave so foolishly in public that one excites notice or ridicule
- man that corrupted hadleyburg — a short story (1900) by Mark Twain.
- monobasic potassium phosphate — potassium diphosphate. See under potassium phosphate.
- more trouble than it is worth — If you say that someone or something is more trouble than they are worth, you mean that they cause you a lot of problems or take a lot of time and effort and you do not achieve or gain very much in return.
- multiprotocol label switching — (networking) (MPLS) A packet switching protocol developed by the IETF. Initially developed to improve switching speed, other benefits are now seen as being more important. MPLS adds a 32-bit label to each packet to improve network efficiency and to enable routers to direct packets along predefined routes in accordance with the required quality of service. The label is added when the packet enters the MPLS network, and is based on an analysis of the packet header. The label contains information on the route along which the packet may travel, and the forwarding equivalence class (FEC) of the packet. Packets with the same FEC are routed through the network in the same way. Routers make forwarding decisions based purely on the contents of the label. This simplifies the work done by the router, leading to an increase in speed. At each router, the label is replaced with a new label, which tells the next router how to forward the packet. The label is removed when the packet leaves the MPLS network. Modern ASIC-based routers can look up routes fast enough to make the speed increase less important. However, MPLS still has some benefits. The use of FECs allows QoS levels to be guaranteed, and MPLS allows IP tunnels to be created through a network, so that VPNs can be implemented without encryption.
- not with a bang but a whimper — If you say that something happens not with a bang but a whimper, you mean that it is less effective or exciting than was expected or intended.
- optimal flexible architecture — (database) (OFA) Recommendations for logical and physical allocation of database files to disks. The OFA principles can be summarised as: isolate redo, rollback, temp, data and index files as much as possible. OFA can be combined with SAME (Stripe And Mirror Everything).
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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
- 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 ulster constabulary — (formerly) the police force in Northern Ireland from 1922 to 2001, superseded by the Police Service of Northern Ireland
- 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 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 have your back to the wall — If you have your back to the wall, you are in a very difficult situation and can see no way out of it.
- to keep your head above water — If you keep your head above water, you just avoid getting into difficulties; used especially to talk about business.
- to let the cat out of the bag — If you let the cat out of the bag, you tell people about something that was being kept secret. You often do this by mistake.
- to pay cash on the barrelhead — to pay at the time of purchase
- 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 throw good money after bad — If you say that someone is throwing good money after bad, you are critical of them for trying to improve a bad situation by spending more money on it, instead of doing more thoughtful or practical things to improve it.
- 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.
- until one is blue in the face — to the utmost degree; indefinitely
- windows hardware quality labs — (body, standard) (WHQL) A Microsoft body that produces and supports the Microsoft Hardware Compatibility Test kit for current Microsoft operating systems. Products are tested with the kit to ensure that they meet Microsoft standards for compatibility with Windows and to qualify to use the "Designed for Microsoft Windows" logos.
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