20-letter words containing h, a, s, t, e

change a reservation — If you change a reservation, you move a booking to a different date because someone who has booked a room has informed you that they wish to stay there on a different date.
channel service unit — (communications) (CSU) A type of interface used to connect a terminal or computer to a digital medium in the same way that a modem is used for connection to an analogue medium. A CSU is provided by the communication carrier to customers who wish to use their own equipment to retime and regenerate the incoming signals. The customer must supply all of the transmit logic, receive logic and timing recovery in order to use the CSU, whereas a digital service unit DSU performs these functions.
chapter of accidents — a series of misfortunes
characteristic curve — a graph of the density of a particular photographic material plotted against the logarithm of the exposure producing this density
characteristic x-ray — an x-ray that is emitted from an atom when an electron is displaced from an inner shell.
charismatic movement — any of various groups, within existing denominations, that emphasize communal prayer and the charismatic gifts of speaking in tongues, healing, etc
chemical sensitivity — an allergic sensitivity to particular chemicals in air, food, clothing, water, etc.
chemolithoautotrophs — Plural form of chemolithoautotroph.
chikamatsu monzaemon — (born Sugimori Nobumori) 1653-1724; Jpn. dramatist: called the Shakespeare of Japan
child support agency — the British government agency concerned with the welfare of children
child-abuse register — (in Britain) a list of children deemed to be at risk of abuse or injury from their parents or guardians, compiled and held by a local authority, area health authority, or NSPCC Special Unit
childhood sweetheart — a boyfriend or girlfriend from an early stage of life
chinese scholar tree — a spreading, round-headed tree, Sophora japonica, of the legume family, native to China and Korea, having yellowish-white flowers in loose, showy clusters, grown widely as a street tree.
cholestyramine resin — a powdery synthetic resin that binds with and prevents the reabsorption of bile acids, used to reduce cholesterol levels, relieve itching associated with jaundice, etc.
christopher strachey — (person) Professor of Computation at Oxford, England, born 1916, died May 1975. He invented the term "currying". See also: General Purpose Macro-generator.
clay-pigeon shooting — the activity of shooting clay pigeons
clothes manufacturer — a business concern that manufactures clothes
cocktail shaker sort — (algorithm) A bi-directional bubble sort. Passes alternate between ascending through array indexes, pushing the largest item to the bottom; and descending through array indexes, pushing the smallest item to the top.
come out in the wash — If you say that something will come out in the wash, you mean that people will eventually find out the truth about it.
commonwealth hackish — (jargon) Hacker jargon as spoken outside the US, especially in the British Commonwealth. It is reported that Commonwealth speakers are more likely to pronounce truncations like "char" and "soc", etc., as spelled (/char/, /sok/), as opposed to American /keir/ and /sohsh/. Dots in newsgroup names (especially two-component names) tend to be pronounced more often (so soc.wibble is /sok dot wib'l/ rather than /sohsh wib'l/). The prefix meta may be pronounced /mee't*/; similarly, Greek letter beta is usually /bee't*/, zeta is usually /zee't*/, and so forth. Preferred metasyntactic variables include blurgle, "eek", "ook", "frodo", and "bilbo"; "wibble", "wobble", and in emergencies "wubble"; "banana", "tom", "dick", "harry", "wombat", "frog", fish, and so on and on (see foo). Alternatives to verb doubling include suffixes "-o-rama", "frenzy" (as in feeding frenzy), and "city" (examples: "barf city!" "hack-o-rama!" "core dump frenzy!"). Finally, note that the American terms "parens", "brackets", and "braces" for (), [], and {} are uncommon; Commonwealth hackish prefers "brackets", "square brackets", and "curly brackets". Also, the use of "pling" for bang is common outside the United States. See also attoparsec, calculator, chemist, console jockey, fish, go-faster stripes, grunge, hakspek, heavy metal, leaky heap, lord high fixer, loose bytes, muddie, nadger, noddy, psychedelicware, plingnet, raster blaster, RTBM, seggie, spod, sun lounge, terminal junkie, tick-list features, weeble, weasel, YABA, and notes or definitions under Bad Thing, barf, bum, chase pointers, cosmic rays, crippleware, crunch, dodgy, gonk, hamster, hardwarily, mess-dos, nibble, proglet, root, SEX, tweak and xyzzy.
composite photograph — a photograph formed by superimposing two or more separate photographs
contact metamorphism — localized metamorphism resulting from the heat of an igneous intrusion.
convective discharge — the repulsion of ions of a gas by a highly charged body, creating a discernible wind.
craft apprenticeship — a period of training for a skilled trade in industry, such as for a plumber or electrician
craniosacral therapy — a form of therapy for various disorders in which the therapist manipulates the bones of the skull
crime and punishment — a novel (1866) by Feodor Dostoevsky.
cross someone's path — to meet or thwart someone
cut one's own throat — to be the means of one's own ruin
cylinder head gasket — (in an automobile engine) a gasket placed between the cylinder and the cylinder heads to avoid leaks of coolant and compression
daylight saving time — Daylight Saving Time is a period of time in the summer when the clocks are set one hour forward, so that people can have extra light in the evening.
daylight-saving time — the civil time observed when daylight saving is adopted in a country or community.
deontological ethics — the branch of ethics dealing with right action and the nature of duty, without regard to the goodness or value of motives or the desirability of the ends of any act.
diammonium phosphate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble compound, (NH 4) 2 HPO 4 , used as fertilizer, in fire extinguishers, etc.
differential housing — the casing that houses the differential of a motor vehicle
diisobutyl phthalate — a clear, colorless liquid, C 14 H 26 O 4 , used chiefly as a plasticizer for nitrocellulose.
diophantine analysis — any of several methods for finding integral solutions for equations with more than one variable whose coefficients are integers.
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
disruptive discharge — the sudden, large increase in current through an insulating medium resulting from complete failure of the medium under electrostatic stress.
distress merchandise — goods sold below the prevailing price in order to raise cash quickly or to meet some other financial emergency.
distribution channel — trade: retailer
domestic heating oil — a liquid petroleum product used to fuel residential building furnaces or boilers
double-aspect theory — a monistic theory that holds that mind and body are not distinct substances but merely different aspects of a single substance
draw the short straw — to be the person (as in drawing lots) to whom an unwelcome task or fate falls
eat out of sb's hand — If you have someone eating out of your hand, they are completely under your control.
edward the confessor — Saint, 1002?–66, English king 1042–66: founder of Westminster Abbey.
electrohydrodynamics — (physics) the study of the dynamics of electrically conducting fluid.
electrophysiological — Of or pertaining to electrophysiology.
electroshock therapy — a form of shock therapy in which electric current is applied to the brain
epidural anaesthesia — numbing injection in the spine
erythema infectiosum — a mild infectious disease of childhood, caused by a virus, characterized by fever and a red rash spreading from the cheeks to the limbs and trunk

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