25-letter words containing h, y, a, e, n
- ruby-throated hummingbird — a small hummingbird, Archilochus colubris, the only hummingbird of eastern North America, having metallic-green upper plumage and a bright red throat in the male.
- selective synchronization — a sound-recording process that facilitates overdubs by feeding the recorded track to the performer straight from the recording head
- sympathetic introspection — a study of human conduct in which the investigator imagines himself or herself engaged in that conduct.
- thank one's (lucky) stars — to be thankful for what appears to be good luck
- the ball is in your court — you are obliged to make the next move
- the politically incorrect — politically incorrect people considered collectively
- thermodynamic equilibrium — the condition of an isolated system in which the quantities that specify its properties, such as pressure, temperature, etc, all remain unchanged
- thermodynamic temperature — temperature defined in terms of the laws of thermodynamics and not in terms of the properties of any real material. It is usually expressed on the Kelvin scale
- thin-layer chromatography — chromatography in which glass plates coated with thin layers of alumina, silica gel, or cellulose are used as an adsorbent.
- to be on the naughty step — to experience public disfavour, usually because of perceived wayward behaviour
- to keep a watchful eye on — If you keep a watchful eye on someone or something, you watch carefully to make sure there are no problems.
- to lay claim to something — If you lay claim to something you do not have, you say that it belongs to you.
- to lay siege to something — If police, soldiers, or journalists lay siege to a place, they surround it in order to force the people there to come out or give up control of the place.
- transcendental-philosophy — transcendental character, thought, or language.
- under the watchful eye of — If you do something under the watchful eye of someone who has authority over you, they watch you carefully to make sure there are no problems.
- vertical redundancy check — (storage, communications) (VRC) An error checking method performed on one 8-bit ASCII character, where the 8th bit is used as the parity bit. The resulting parity bit is constructed by XORing the word. The result is a "1" if there is an odd number of 1s, and a "0" if there is an even number of 1s in the word. This method is unreliable because if an odd number of bits are distorted, the check will not detect the error. The Longitudinal Redundancy Check is an improvement.