22-letter words containing h, o, l, i, c
- a bull in a china shop — You say that someone is like a bull in a china shop when they are very clumsy.
- a clean bill of health — If a doctor gives you a clean bill of health, they tell you that you are fit and healthy.
- alternative technology — a form of technology that challenges conventional technology, often being promoted as more in harmony with nature
- androcles and the lion — a comedy (1913) by G. B. Shaw.
- armed response vehicle — (in Britain) a police vehicle carrying armed officers who are trained to respond to incidents involving firearms
- articulatory phonetics — the branch of phonetics concerned with the production of speech sounds
- balance sheet equation — A balance sheet equation is a basic accounting equation that states that assets equal liabilities plus equity.
- battle of the atlantic — the struggle for control of the sea routes around the United Kingdom during World War II, esp 1940–43
- black-scholes equation — a partial differential equation used to estimate the changing value of an option over time
- brachiocephalic artery — a major artery, arising from the arch of the aorta, that supplies blood to the right arm and the head.
- cast in one's lot with — to share in the activities or fortunes of (someone else)
- chemical sympathectomy — the chemical destruction of one or more parts of the sympathetic nervous system
- chemical-sympathectomy — sympathectomy (def 2).
- chip off the old block — a person who resembles one of his or her parents in behaviour
- chip on one's shoulder — an inclination to fight or quarrel
- chlorotrifluoromethane — a colorless gas, CClF 3 , used chiefly as a refrigerant, in the hardening of metals, and in pharmaceutical processing.
- chromosomal aberration — any irregularity or abnormality of chromosome distribution, number, structure, or arrangement.
- cirrhosis of the liver — liver disease
- city of brotherly love — Philadelphia, Pa. (used as a nickname).
- collective pitch lever — a lever in a helicopter to change the angle of attack of all the rotor blades simultaneously, causing it to rise or descend
- colliding-beam machine — a particle accelerator in which positively and negatively charged particles circulate in opposite directions and collide head-on.
- color graphics adapter — (hardware, graphics) (CGA) One of IBM's earliest hardware video display standards for use in IBM PCs. CGA can display 80*25 or 40*25 text in 16 colors, 640*200 pixels of graphics in two colors or 320*200 in four colors (IBM PC video modes 0-6). It is now obsolete.
- committee of the whole — (in the US) all the members of the House of Representatives, regarded as a committee
- communication channels — the ways in which people communicate
- comparative psychology — the study of the similarities and differences in the behaviour of different species
- complete metamorphosis — physical changes in the development of certain insects that include egg, larva, pupa, and adult stages, as in beetles, moths, or bees
- constitutional monarch — the sovereign in a constitutional monarchy
- continental philosophy — a general term for related philosophical traditions that originated in 20th-century continental Europe, including critical theory, deconstruction, existentialism, hermeneutics, phenomenology, and structuralism (contrasted with analytic philosophy).
- dalton's atomic theory — the theory that matter consists of indivisible particles called atoms and that atoms of a given element are all identical and can neither be created nor destroyed. Compounds are formed by combination of atoms in simple ratios to give compound atoms (molecules). The theory was the basis of modern chemistry
- delayed-action shutter — a camera shutter that opens after an interval set by the photographer
- diachronic linguistics — historical linguistics.
- directional microphone — a microphone that has a greater sensitivity to sounds coming from a particular area in front of it: used to eliminate unwanted sounds.
- dishonorable discharge — the discharge of a person from military service for an offense more serious than one for which a bad-conduct discharge is given.
- double blackwall hitch — a kind of knot
- drumhead court-martial — a court-martial held, usually on a battlefield, for the summary trial of charges of offenses committed during military operations.
- educational psychology — a branch of psychology concerned with developing effective educational techniques and dealing with psychological problems in schools.
- educational technology — the use of technology, such as computers, within education, to aid the learning process
- electrophysiologically — In an electrophysiological way.
- electrothermal printer — a printer that produces characters by burning the image on specially coated paper
- english cocker spaniel — any of a breed of small spaniel, similar to and the progenitor of the cocker spaniel
- floating exchange rate — a system in which the value of a currency fluctuates against other currencies in accordance with market forces
- forth modification lab — (event) (FORML) A Forth conference held every November on the West coast of the USA ().
- give someone the flick — to dismiss someone from consideration
- greystone technologies — (company) The producers of the GT/M MUMPS compiler and GT/SQL pre-processor for VAX and DEC Alpha.
- halfwave rectification — a rectifier that changes only one half of a cycle of alternating current into a pulsating, direct current.
- harvard classification — a classification of stars based on the characteristic spectral absorption lines and bands of the chemical elements present
- heat of solidification — the heat liberated by a unit mass of liquid at its freezing point as it solidifies: equal to the heat of fusion.
- historical linguistics — the study of changes in a language or group of languages over a period of time.
- historical materialism — (in Marxist theory) the doctrine that all forms of social thought, as art or philosophy, and institutions, as the family or the state, develop as a superstructure founded on an economic base; that they reflect the character of economic relations and are altered or modified as a result of class struggles; that each ruling economic class produces the class that will destroy or replace it; and that dialectical necessity requires the eventual withering away of the state and the establishment of a classless society: the body of theory, in dialectical materialism, dealing with historical process and social causation.
- horizontal application — An application program common to different business processes, e.g. office automation. Compare vertical application.
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