28-letter words containing l, h
- (whether you) like it or not — If you say that something will happen or is true like it or not, or whether someone likes it or not, you mean that although the situation may be unpleasant, it has to be faced.
- a poster child for something — a person who is a good, or typical example of something; a prominent exemplar of something
- a square peg in a round hole — If you describe someone as a square peg in a round hole, you mean that they are completely unsuitable for the job they are doing or the situation they are in.
- along the line/down the line — If something happens somewhere along the line or down the line, it happens during the course of a situation or activity, often at a point that cannot be exactly identified.
- antidisestablishmentarianism — opposition to the withdrawal of state support or recognition from an established church, especially the Anglican Church in 19th-century England.
- apple-touch-icon-precomposed — (programming) An alternative form of apple-touch-icon that is not subject to automatic modification (rounding, drop-shadow, reflective shine) as applied by iOS versions prior to iOS 7. A web page specifies a pre-composed icon by including an element in the like:
- as alike as chalk and cheese — totally different in essentials
- as happy etc as can/could be — If someone or something is, for example, as happy as can be or as quiet as could be, they are extremely happy or extremely quiet.
- benign prostatic hyperplasia — a benign condition in which the prostate gland becomes enlarged due to an increase in the number of prostatic cells, usually affecting the flow of urine.
- between scylla and charybdis — in a predicament in which avoidance of either of two dangers means exposure to the other
- bite your nails to the quick — If someone bites their nails to the quick, they bite off all the white part at the end of each nail.
- bright eyed and bushy tailed — having bright eyes.
- bright-eyed and bushy-tailed — keen, confident, and alert
- bring a child into the world — If a woman brings a child into the world, she gives birth to it.
- burn the candle at both ends — to exhaust oneself, esp by being up late and getting up early to work
- can't tell chalk from cheese — to be unable to judge or appreciate important differences
- channel associated signaling — in-band signalling
- chief cook and bottle washer — chief cook and bottlewasher, a person who does a wide variety of routine, sometimes menial, tasks: He's not just sales manager, he's the chief cook and bottlewasher in this firm.
- college of further education — an institution that provides further education
- commercial internet exchange — (networking, body) (CIX) The CIX is a non-profit, 501(c)6, trade association coordinating Internet services. Its member organisations provide TCP/IP or OSI data internetwork services to the general public. The CIX gives them unrestricted access to other worldwide networks. It also takes an interest in the development and future direction of the Internet. The CIX provides a neutral forum to exchange ideas, information, and experimental projects among suppliers of internetworking services. The CIX broadens the base of national and international cooperation and coordination among member networks. Together, the membership may develop consensus positions on legislative and policy issues of mutual interest. The CIX encourages technical research and development for the mutual benefit of suppliers and customers of data communications internetworking services. It assists its member networks in the establishment of, and adherence to, operational, technical, and administrative policies and standards necessary to ensure fair, open, and competitive operations and communication among member networks. CIX policies are formulated by a member-elected board of directors.
- committee of the whole house — (in Britain) an informal sitting of the House of Commons to discuss and amend a bill
- congressional medal of honor — the highest U.S. military decoration, awarded by Congress to a member of the armed forces for gallantry and bravery in combat, at the risk of life and above and beyond the call of duty.
- consolidated school district — a large school district formed by the amalgamation of two or more separate districts
- cruel and unusual punishment — treatment: barbaric
- datastorm technologies, inc. — (company) The original suppliers of Procomm. Address: Columbia MO, USA.
- disability rights commission — (in Britain) a body appointed by the Government to enforce anti-discrimination law affecting people with disabilities
- distinguished encoding rules — (communications, data) (DER) An X.690 encoding format (or transfer syntax) for data structures described by ASN.1 that specifies exactly one way to encode a value thus ensuring a unique, canonical, serialised representation. DER is a restricted variant of BER. For example, DER has exactly one way to encode a Boolean value. DER is used in cryptography, e.g. for digital certificates such as X.509.
- einstein's photoelectric law — the principle that the maximum energy of a photoelectron is hν – Φ, where ν is the frequency of the incident radiation, h is the Planck constant, and Φ is the work function
- emergency medical technician — paramedic
- english as a second language — subject: English for non-native speakers
- english for special purposes — the practice and theory of learning and teaching English for specific uses in given fields, such as science, nursing, tourism, etc.
- environmental health officer — (in Britain) an employee of the Environmental Health Service
- environmental health service — (in Britain) a service provided by a local authority, which deals with prevention of the spread of communicable diseases, food safety and hygiene, control of infestation by insects or rodents, etc
- federal information exchange — (networking) (FIX) One of the connection points between the American governmental internets and the Internet.
- fifth dimension technologies — (company, virtual reality) (5DT) Manufacturers of the 5th Glove.
- financial services authority — (in the United Kingdom) a regulatory body that oversees London's financial markets, each of which has its own self-regulatory organization: it succeeded the Securities and Investments Board
- follicle-stimulating hormone — FSH.
- formal description technique — (specification, protocol) (FDT) A formal method for developing telecomunications services and protocols. FDTs range from abstract to implementation-oriented descriptions. All FDTs offer the means for producing unambiguous descriptions of OSI services and protocols in a more precise and comprehensive way than natural language descriptions. They provide a foundation for analysis and verification of a description. The target of analysis and verification may vary from abstract properties to concrete properties. Natural language descriptions remain an essential adjunct to formal description, enabling an unfarmiliar reader to gain rapid insight into the structure and function of services and protocols. Examples of FDTs are LOTOS, Z, SDL, and Estelle.
- frame technology corporation — (company) The company which developed FrameMaker, taken over by Adobe Systems, Inc. in late 1995/early 1996.
- from the cradle to the grave — throughout the whole of one's life
- general theory of relativity — the state or fact of being relative.
- go/come up/down in the world — If you say that someone has gone up in the world, you mean they have become richer or have a higher social status than before. If you say they have come down in the world, you mean they have become poorer or have a lower social status.
- grand unified (field) theory — any of various theories postulating that the four fundamental forces in the universe (electromagnetism, gravity, the strong interaction, and the weak interaction) are actually types of a single high-energy force
- greatest happiness principle — the ethical principle that an action is right in so far as it promotes the greatest happiness of the greatest number of those affected
- have sth/a lot going for you — If someone or something has a lot going for them, they have a lot of advantages.
- high performance file system — (file system) (HPFS) The native file system for IBM's OS/2.
- high-level data link control — (networking) (HDLC) A general-purpose data link control protocol defined by ISO for use on both point-to-point and multipoint (multidrop) data links. It supports full-duplex, transparent-mode operation. It is used extensively in both multipoint and computer networks. Some manufacturers and other standards bodies still use their own acronyms, e.g. IBM's SDLC (Synchronous Data Link Control), the forerunner of HDLC and ANSI's ADCCP (Advanced Data Communications Control Procedure).
- hot standby routing protocol — (protocol) (HSRP) A CISCO standard, defined in RFC 2281, that calls for a mirrored router in passive mode to send hello packets, wait for a lead router to die and, without dropping a packet, take over from that router. Note: "standby", not "swappable" (and certainly not "swapable").
- how stupid/lucky can you get — You can say, for example, 'How lucky can you get?' or 'How stupid can you get?' to show your surprise that anyone could be as lucky or stupid as the person that you are talking about.
- hydrolysed vegetable protein — a powder or liquid that is produced by boiling legumes or cereals in hydrochloric acid and then neutralizing with sodium hydroxide. It is used as a flavouring in some foods, such as soups and bouillon cubes
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