31-letter words containing o, h, e, n

into the bargain/in the bargain — You use into the bargain or in the bargain when mentioning an additional quantity, feature, fact, or action, to emphasize the fact that it is also involved.
jonathan's own version of emacs — (editor) (jove) A version of the GNU Emacs editor. Similar to MicroGnuEmacs.
last but one/last but three etc — You can use phrases such as the last but one, the last but two, or the last but three, to refer to the thing or person that is, for example, one, two, or three before the final person or thing in a group or series.
lose weight, gain/put on weight — If someone loses weight, they become lighter. If they gain weight or put on weight, they become heavier.
make heavy weather of something — to carry something out with great difficulty or unnecessarily great effort
meet one's death/meet one's end — If someone meets their death or meets their end, they die, especially in a violent or suspicious way.
multi-user shared hallucination — (communications, application) (MUSH) A user-extendable MUD. A MUSH provides commands which the players can use to construct new rooms or make objects and puzzles for other players to explore.
nakhichevan autonomous republic — a region belonging to Azerbaijan, from which it is separated by part of Armenia; annexed by Russia in 1828; unilaterally declared secession from the Soviet Union in 1990. Capital: Nakhichevan. Pop: 363 000 (2000 est). Area: 5500 sq km (2120 sq miles)
national endowment for the arts — an independent agency that stimulates the growth and development of the arts in the U.S. by awarding grants to individuals and organizations.
neither one thing nor the other — indefinite, undecided, or mixed
nondeterministic turing machine — (complexity) A normal (deterministic) Turing Machine that has a "guessing head" - a write-only head that writes a guess at a solution on the tape first, based on some arbitrary internal algorithm. The regular Turing Machine then runs and returns "yes" or "no" to indicate whether the solution is correct. A nondeterministic Turing Machine can solve nondeterministic polynomial time computational decision problems in a number of steps that is a polynomial function of the size of the input
not all sth is cracked up to be — If you say that something is not all it's cracked up to be, you mean that it is not as good as other people have said it is.
office of technology assessment — a bipartisan agency, created in 1972, that informs and advises Congress about scientific and technical developments bearing on national policy. Abbreviation: OTA.
old lady of threadneedle street — the Bank of England (used as a nickname).
on sb's behalf/ on behalf of sb — If you do something on someone's behalf, you do it for that person as their representative. The form in someone's behalf is also used, mainly in American English.
pluggable authentication module — (security) (PAM) The new industry standard integrated login framework. PAM is used by system entry components, such as the Common Desktop Environment's dtlogin, to authenticate users logging into a Unix system. It provides pluggability for a variety of system-entry services. PAM's ability to stack authentication modules can be used to integrate login with different authentication mechanisms such as RSA, DCE and Kerberos, and thus unify login mechanisms. PAM can also integrate smart card authentication.
president of the board of trade — a title held by the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, and Skills
purification of the virgin mary — the presentation of Jesus in the Temple after the completion of Mary's purification (Luke 2:22)
put one's shoulder to the wheel — the part of each side of the body in humans, at the top of the trunk, extending from each side of the base of the neck to the region where the arm articulates with the trunk.
put someone in his or her place — to humble someone who is arrogant, conceited, forward, etc
put someone through the wringer — to subject someone to a painful or trying experience, as a harsh interrogation
queued sequential access method — Physical Sequential
secondary sexual characteristic — any of various features distinguishing individuals of different sex but not directly concerned in reproduction. Examples are the antlers of a stag and the beard of a man
see the handwriting on the wall — to foresee impending disaster or misfortune: Dan. 5:5-28
send someone about his business — to dismiss or get rid of someone
snow white and the seven dwarfs — a fairy tale in which a young princess runs away from her murderous stepmother and is sheltered by seven dwarfs
software publishing certificate — (security) (SPC) A public key certification standard (PKCS) #7 signed data object containing X.509 certificates. SPCs are used for digital signatures as applicable to computer software.
software publishing corporation — (company) (SPC) The company that produces Harvard Graphics.
suit (right) down to the ground — to suit completely
supplementary ideographic plane — (text, standard) (SIP) The third plane (plane 2) defined in Unicode/ISO 10646, designed to hold all the ideographs descended from Chinese writing (mainly found in Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese and Chinese) that aren't found in the Basic Multilingual Plane. The BMP was supposed to hold all ideographs in modern use; unfortunately, many Chinese dialects (like Cantonese and Hong Kong Chinese) were overlooked; to write these, characters from the SIP are necessary. This is one reason even non-academic software must support characters outside the BMP.
taxation without representation — a phrase, generally attributed to James Otis about 1761, that reflected the resentment of American colonists at being taxed by a British Parliament to which they elected no representatives and became an anti-British slogan before the American Revolution; in full, “Taxation without representation is tyranny.”.
telocator alphanumeric protocol — (communications, protocol) (TAP, or "IXO", "PET") A protocol for submitting requests to a pager service. IXO/TAP is an ASCII-based, half-duplex protocol that allows the submission of a numeric or alphanumeric message. See also RFC 1568.
the (four) corners of the earth — the farthest parts of the earth
the courage of your convictions — If you have the courage of your convictions, you have the confidence to do what you believe is right, even though other people may not agree or approve.
the economic and monetary union — a union of nations within the European Union sharing a single market and a single currency (the Euro)
the internal security committee — a committee of the US House of Representatives that was abolished in 1975. Prior to its renaming in 1969, it was known as the House Un-American Activities Committee, and was notorious for its anti-Communist investigations in the late 1940s and 1950s
the national assembly for wales — the elected assembly for Wales, based in Cardiff, that has certain powers devolved from the UK government
the rime of the ancient mariner — a long poem of the supernatural (1798) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in which a sailor brings down a curse on himself and his shipmates by wantonly killing an albatross
to be barking up the wrong tree — If you say that someone is barking up the wrong tree, you mean that they are following the wrong course of action because their beliefs or ideas about something are incorrect.
to be living proof of something — to exemplify something
to be thrown in at the deep end — to be put into a situation without preparation or introduction
to bite the hand that feeds you — If someone bites the hand that feeds them, they behave badly or in an ungrateful way towards someone who they depend on.
to burn something to the ground — If you say that a town or building is burnt to the ground or is razed to the ground, you are emphasizing that it has been completely destroyed by fire.
to burn the candle at both ends — If you burn the candle at both ends, you try to do too many things in too short a period of time so that you have to stay up very late at night and get up very early in the morning to get them done.
to call something into question — If you say that there is some question about something, you mean that there is doubt or uncertainty about it. If something is in question or has been called into question, doubt or uncertainty has been expressed about it.
to close your eyes to something — If you close your eyes to something bad or if you shut your eyes to it, you ignore it.
to err on the side of something — If you err on the side of caution, for example, you decide to act in a cautious way, rather than take risks.
to feel something in your bones — If you say that you feel or know something in your bones, you are indicating that you are certain about it, although you cannot explain why.
to give someone the green light — If someone in authority gives you a green light, they give you permission to do something.
to give something a body swerve — to avoid something

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