21-letter words containing n, i, g, h, t, m
- psychomotor-agitation — the act or process of agitating; state of being agitated: She left in great agitation.
- purchasing department — the group of staff within an organization that is responsible for buying goods or products
- put something over on — to deceive; trick
- replacement algorithm — The method used to determine which entry in an associative cache to flush to main memory when it is desired to cache a new block of data. The "least recently used" algorithm flushed the block which has not been accessed for the longest time. A random replacement algorithm picks any block with equal probability.
- salam-weinberg theory — the electroweak theory.
- sb/sth reigns supreme — Someone or something that reigns supreme is the most important or powerful element in a situation or period of time.
- siamese fighting fish — a labyrinth fish, Betta splendens, that has been bred for centuries to develop brilliant coloration, very long fins, and pugnacity.
- something for nothing — If you say that someone is getting something for nothing, you disapprove of the fact that they are getting what they want without doing or giving anything in return.
- swim against the tide — to resist prevailing opinion
- the moral high ground — If you say that someone has taken the moral high ground, you mean that they consider that their policies and actions are morally superior to the policies and actions of their rivals.
- to lay something bare — If you lay something bare, you uncover it completely so that it can then be seen.
- to my way of thinking — You add to my way of thinking to a statement in order to indicate that you are giving your opinion.
- weinberg-salam theory — electroweak theory.
- well-ordering theorem — the theorem of set theory that every set can be made a well-ordered set.
- what price something? — what are the chances of something happening now?
- youth training scheme — (formerly, in Britain) a scheme, run by the Training Agency, to provide vocational training for unemployed 16–17-year-olds