29-letter words containing i, h
- the exception proves the rule — the exception tests the rule
- the five heads of predicables — five Aristotelian classes of predicates namely genus, species, difference, property, and relation
- the free territory of trieste — a former territory on the N Adriatic: established by the UN in 1947; most of the N part passed to Italy and the remainder to Yugoslavia in 1954
- the northern ireland assembly — the devolved legislature of Northern Ireland, located at Stormont in Belfast
- the shoe is on the other foot — the situation is reversed for the persons involved
- there's no smoke without fire — If someone says there's no smoke without fire or where there's smoke there's fire, they mean that there are rumours or signs that something is true so it must be at least partly true.
- thinking machines corporation — (company) The company that introduced the Connection Machine parallel computer ca 1984. Four of the world's ten most powerful supercomputers are Connection Machines. Thinking Machines is the leader in scalable computing, with software and applications running on parallel systems ranging from 16 to 1024 processors. In developing the Connection Machine system, Thinking Machines also did pioneering work in parallel software. The 1993 technical applications market for massively parallel systems was approximately $310 million, of which Thinking Machines Corporation held a 29 percent share. Thinking Machines planned to become a software provider by 1996, by which time the parallel computing market was expected to have grown to $2 billion. Thinking Machines Corporation has 200 employees and offices worldwide. Address: 245 First Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1264, USA. Telephone: +1 (617) 234 1000. Fax: +1 (617) 234 4444.
- throw cold water on something — to be unenthusiastic about or discourage something
- throw one's hat into the ring — to enter a contest, esp. one for political office
- thyrotropin-releasing hormone — a small peptide hormone, produced by the hypothalamus, that controls the release of thyrotropin by the pituitary. Abbreviation: TRH.
- to be bursting with something — to be teeming with or crammed full of something
- to be mentioned in dispatches — If a soldier is mentioned in dispatches, he or she is considered to have been extremely brave in a battle, and is recommended for a medal.
- to commit something to memory — If you commit something to paper or to writing, you record it by writing it down. If you commit something to memory, you learn it so that you will remember it.
- to draw a veil over something — If you draw a veil over something, you stop talking about it because it is too unpleasant to talk about.
- to err on the side of caution — If you err on the side of caution, for example, you decide to act in a cautious way, rather than take risks.
- to get sb in the party spirit — to make someone feel like going to a party
- to have a learning disability — to be unable to reach the average standard of people of the same age group as regards intellectual and cognitive skills and performance
- to have the time of your life — If you have the time of your life, you enjoy yourself very much indeed.
- to run the gamut of something — To run the gamut of something means to include, express, or experience all the different things of that kind, or a wide variety of them.
- to shoot yourself in the foot — If you shoot yourself in the foot, something you say or do causes you harm.
- to think the world of someone — If you think the world of someone, you like them or care about them very much.
- training opportunities scheme — a former government scheme offering vocational training to unemployed people
- trichloromethyl chloroformate — diphosgene.
- trinitrophenylmethylnitramine — tetryl.
- twist the knife in sb's wound — If you twist the knife in someone's wound, you do or say something to make an unpleasant situation they are in even more unpleasant.
- two wrongs don't make a right — If someone says 'Two wrongs don't make a right', they mean that you should not do harm to a person who has done harm to you, even if you think that person deserves it.
- until one is blue in the face — to the utmost degree; indefinitely
- variational graphics extended — (software) (VGX) Software developed by SDRC for use in 3D CAD solid modelling.
- virtual storage access method — (database) (VSAM) An IBM disk file storage scheme first used in S/370 and virtual storage. VSAM comprises three access methods: Keyed Sequenced Data Set (KSDS), Relative Record Data Set (RRDS), and Entry Sequenced Data Set (ESDS). Both IMS/DB and DB2 are implemented on top of VSAM and use its underlying data structures.
- war of the spanish succession — a war (1701–14) fought by Austria, England, the Netherlands, and Prussia against France and Spain, arising from disputes about the succession in Spain after the death of Charles II of Spain.
- windows hardware quality labs — (body, standard) (WHQL) A Microsoft body that produces and supports the Microsoft Hardware Compatibility Test kit for current Microsoft operating systems. Products are tested with the kit to ensure that they meet Microsoft standards for compatibility with Windows and to qualify to use the "Designed for Microsoft Windows" logos.
- with respect to/in respect of — You use with respect to to say what something relates to. In British English, you can also say in respect of.
- within earshot/out of earshot — If you are within earshot of someone or something, you are close enough to be able to hear them. If you are out of earshot, you are too far away to hear them.
- yet another compiler compiler — (tool, language) (yacc) The LALR parser generator found on most Unix systems. Also, the language used to describe the syntax of another language to yacc (the program). Implementations: ayacc, YAY, perln-byacc, SASL-Yacc - "Yacc in SASL - An Exercise in Functional Programming", Simon Peyton-Jones, Software Prac & Exp 15:807-820 (1985). Mentions also a BCPL implementation. Yacc++ - 1990. An object-oriented rewrite of yacc, supports regular expressions, produces an LR1 grammar parser. Chris Clark, Compiler Resources Inc, +1 (508) 435-5016. MLYACC - Implementation and output in SML/NJ. ftp:research.att.com/dist/ml/75.tools.tar.Z. A version, by David Poole at Montana University has been retargeted to Turbo Pascal. See also Bison, yet another, Yet Another Yacc.
- you can't hear yourself think — If you say that you can't hear yourself think, you are complaining and emphasizing that there is a lot of noise, and that it is disturbing you or preventing you from doing something.