25-letter words containing h, i
- 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 design department — a group of people in a company who work in graphic design
- graphic display interface — (hardware) (GDI) graphics adaptor.
- graphics interface format — (spelling) You mean "Graphics Interchange Format".
- 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
- hardening of the arteries — medical condition: arteriosclerosis
- harris semiconductor ltd. — (company) Address: Riverside Way, Camberley, Surrey, CU15 3YQ, UK. Telephone: +44 (1276) 686 886. Fax: +44 (1276) 682 323.
- have an eye for something — If you say that someone has an eye for something, you mean that they are good at noticing it or making judgments about it.
- 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 it on good authority — If you say you have it on good authority that something is true, you mean that you believe it is true because you trust the person who told you about it.
- 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.
- have one's wits about one — the keen perception and cleverly apt expression of those connections between ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure. Synonyms: drollery, facetiousness, waggishness, repartee.
- 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.
- hoist by one's own petard — an explosive device formerly used in warfare to blow in a door or gate, form a breach in a wall, etc.
- home entertainment system — equipment for watching films and listening to music at home
- homothetic transformation — similarity transformation (def 1).
- homothetic-transformation — Also called homothetic transformation. a mapping of a set by which each element in the set is mapped into a positive constant multiple of itself, the same constant being used for all elements.
- 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
- human-factors engineering — an applied science that coordinates the design of devices, systems, and physical working conditions with the capacities and requirements of the worker.
- hydrogen sulfide scrubber — A hydrogen sulfide scrubber is a device for the chemical removal of hydrogen sulfide.
- i didn't change anything! — An aggrieved cry often heard as bugs manifest during a regression test. The canonical reply to this assertion is "Then it works just the same as it did before, doesn't it?" See also one-line fix. This is also heard from applications programmers trying to blame an obvious applications problem on an unrelated systems software change, for example a divide-by-0 fault after terminals were added to a network. Usually, their statement is found to be false. Upon close questioning, they will admit some major restructuring of the program that shouldn't have broken anything, in their opinion, but which actually hosed the code completely.
- i don't know (about that) — You can use I don't know to indicate that you do not completely agree with something or do not really think that it is true.
- 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) character — consistent with (or inconsistent with) the role or general character
- 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 heat of the moment — without pausing to think
- in the palm of one's hand — If you have someone or something in the palm of your hand, you have control over them.
- indirect characterization — the process by which the personality of a fictitious character is revealed through the character's speech, actions, appearance, etc.
- 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.
- interstate highway system — a network of U.S. highways connecting the 48 contiguous states and most of the cities with populations above 50,000, begun in the 1950s and estimated to carry about a fifth of the nation's traffic.
- it is a good/bad thing to — You say it is a good thing to do something to introduce a piece of advice or a comment on a situation or activity.
- 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.
- johnniac open shop system — (language) (JOSS) An early, simple, interactive calculator language developed by Charles L. Baker at Rand in 1964. There were two versions: JOSS I and JOSS II.
- joint technical committee — (standard, body) (JTC) A standards body straddling ISO and IEC.
- keeper of the privy purse — an official of the royal household responsible for dealing with the monarch's private expenses
- khakass autonomous region — an autonomous region in the Russian Federation, in S Siberia. 19,161 sq. mi. (49,627 sq. km). Capital: Abakan.
- know something inside out — to know something thoroughly or perfectly
- 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.