25-letter words containing h, i, l
- fifth generation language — (language, artificial intelligence) A myth the Japanese spent a lot of money on. In about 1982, MITI decided it would spend ten years and a lot of money applying artificial intelligence to programming, thus solving the software crisis. The project spent its money and its ten years and in 1992 closed down with a wimper.
- flash lights impressively — (programming, humour) (FLI) /FLY/ A joke assembly language instruction first documented in the late 1970s in "The Hackers Dictionary". The FLI instruction was frequently referred to by engineers when minicomputers such as the DEC PDP-8, PDP-11 and some early microcomputers such as the IMSAI and Altair had dozens of front panel lights. "When the computer is about to do some long I/O operation, stick in a FLI so the accountants won't think the machine has hung again."
- fleet chief petty officer — a noncommissioned officer in the Royal Navy comparable in rank to a warrant officer in the British Army or Royal Air Force
- flight management systems — a suite of computer programs in a computer on board an aircraft used to calculate the most economical flying speeds and altitudes during a flight and to identify possible choices in emergencies
- further education college — (in Britain) an establishment that offers formal education beyond school and which is not a university or polytechnic
- gabriel daniel fahrenheit — Gabriel Daniel [German gah-bree-el dah-nee-el] /German ˈgɑ briˌɛl ˈdɑ niˌɛl/ (Show IPA), 1686–1736, German physicist: devised a temperature scale and introduced the use of mercury in thermometers.
- genealogical relationship — the relationship that exists between languages that have developed from a single earlier language.
- general recursion theorem — (mathematics) Cantor's theorem, originally stated for ordinals, which extends inductive proof to recursive construction. The proof is by pasting together "attempts" (partial solutions).
- get up on one's hind legs — to become assertive, belligerent, etc.
- graham's law of diffusion — the principle that at a given temperature and pressure the rate of diffusion of a gas is inversely proportional to the square root of its density.
- graphic display interface — (hardware) (GDI) graphics adaptor.
- group-sweeping scheduling — (storage, algorithm) (GSS) A disk scheduling strategy in which requests are served in cycles, in a round-robin manner. To reduce disk arm movements ("seeking"), the set of streams is divided into groups that are served in fixed order. Streams within a group are served according to "SCAN". If all clients are assigned to one group, GSS reduces to SCAN, and if all clients are assigned to separate groups, GSS effectively becomes round-robin scheduling. The service order within one group is not fixed, and a stream may in fact be first in one cycle while last in the next. This variation has to be masked by extra buffering but whereas SCAN requires buffer space for all streams, GSS can reuse the buffer for each group and effect a trade-off between seek optimisation and buffer requirements.
- hailsham of st marylebone — Baron, title of Quintin (McGarel) Hogg (ˈkwɪntɪn). 1907–2001, British Conservative politician; Lord Chancellor (1970–74; 1979–87). He renounced his viscountcy in 1963 when he made an unsuccessful bid for the Conservative Party leadership; he became a life peer in 1970
- harris semiconductor ltd. — (company) Address: Riverside Way, Camberley, Surrey, CU15 3YQ, UK. Telephone: +44 (1276) 686 886. Fax: +44 (1276) 682 323.
- have bats in one's belfry — any of numerous flying mammals of the order Chiroptera, of worldwide distribution in tropical and temperate regions, having modified forelimbs that serve as wings and are covered with a membranous skin extending to the hind limbs.
- have no/little truck with — If you say that you will have no truck with someone or something, you are refusing to be involved with them in any way.
- health insurance exchange — A health insurance exchange is a set of health care plans in the U.S. from which people may purchase insurance that is eligible for federal subsidies.
- high voltage differential — (hardware) (HVD) Differential SCSI scheme that has been in use for years. The terminators run on 5 Volts DC. See also LVD.
- high-density polyethylene — polyethylene consisting mainly of linear, or unbranched, chains with high crystallinity and melting point, and density of 0.96 or more, produced at low pressure and used chiefly for containers and articles made by injection molding. Abbreviation: HDPE.
- honi soit qui mal y pense — shamed be he who thinks evil of it: the motto of the Order of the Garter
- hope to hell/wish to hell — If you say you hope to hell or wish to hell that something is true, you are emphasizing that you strongly hope or wish it is true.
- hospitalization insurance — insurance to cover, in whole or in part, the hospital bills of a subscriber or of his or her dependents.
- human embryonic stem cell — a stem cell obtained from the blastocyst of a human embryo
- hydrogen sulfide scrubber — A hydrogen sulfide scrubber is a device for the chemical removal of hydrogen sulfide.
- implicit function theorem — a theorem that gives conditions under which a function written in implicit form can be written in explicit form.
- in (or out of) mothballs — put into (or taken from) a condition of being stored or in reserve
- in decline/on the decline — If something is in decline or on the decline, it is gradually decreasing in importance, quality, or power.
- in the foreseeable future — If you say that something will happen in the foreseeable future you mean that you think it will happen fairly soon.
- in the palm of one's hand — If you have someone or something in the palm of your hand, you have control over them.
- industrial rehabilitation — the treatment of people who have acquired a disability or disease during the course of their work, with the aim of allowing them to return to work or to a new job
- infantry fighting vehicle — a heavily armored combat vehicle, as a tank, used to carry infantry into battle and provide support. Abbreviation: IFV.
- initial teaching alphabet — a 44 letter phonetic alphabet used mainly in the 1960s for teaching children to read and write
- international match point — a unit of scoring in contract bridge tournaments held in Europe. Abbreviation: IMP.
- it's not simply/just that — You use it in expressions such as it's not that or it's not simply that when you are giving a reason for something and are suggesting that there are several other reasons.
- japanese flowering cherry — any of various ornamental hybrid cherry trees developed in Japan, having white or pink blossoms and inedible fruit.
- joint technical committee — (standard, body) (JTC) A standards body straddling ISO and IEC.
- land of the little sticks — the part of the north of Canada that lies south of the tree line but contains only stunted evergreens or dwarf deciduous trees.
- lie at (or on) the lurch — to lie in wait
- local education authority — a body that is responsible for education in a particular area
- medical officer of health — a person appointed by a local or national authority to be in charge of its health policy
- melanesian pidgin english — Neo-Melanesian.
- metal-free phthalocyanine — phthalocyanine (def 1).
- methylrosaniline chloride — gentian violet.
- miguel hidalgo y costilla — Miguel [mee-gel] /miˈgɛl/ (Show IPA), 1753–1811, Mexican priest, patriot, and revolutionist.
- much/little to commend it — If you say that something has much to commend it, you approve of it. If you say that something has little to commend it, you disapprove of it.
- nail in the coffin of sth — If you say that one thing is a nail in the coffin of another thing, you mean that it will help bring about its end or failure.
- neurocirculatory asthenia — cardiac neurosis.
- never do things by halves — If you say that someone never does things by halves, you mean that they always do things very thoroughly.
- non-algorithmic procedure — heuristic
- northern corn-leaf blight — northern leaf blight.