22-letter words containing o, n, c, h, e, r

get one's act together — anything done, being done, or to be done; deed; performance: a heroic act.
go through one's paces — to show one's abilities, skills, etc.
gold-exchange standard — a monetary system in one country in which currency is maintained at a par with that of another country that is on the gold standard.
greystone technologies — (company) The producers of the GT/M MUMPS compiler and GT/SQL pre-processor for VAX and DEC Alpha.
hague peace conference — a meeting held at The Hague, Netherlands, in 1899, that established The Hague Permanent Court of Arbitration.
halfwave rectification — a rectifier that changes only one half of a cycle of alternating current into a pulsating, direct current.
hans christian oersted — Hans Christian [hahns kris-tyahn] /hɑns ˈkrɪs tyɑn/ (Show IPA), 1777–1851, Danish physicist.
hereford and worcester — a county in W England. 1516 sq. mi. (3926 sq. km).
hexahydroxycyclohexane — inositol.
highway contract route — a route for carrying mail over the highway between designated points, given on contract to a private carrier and often requiring, in rural areas, delivery to home mailboxes. Abbreviation: HCR.
horn-rimmed spectacles — spectacles with rims made of material resembling horn
horse of another color — an entirely different matter
host control interface — (hardware, wireless) (HCI) A network layer in the Bluetooth Core Protocol Stack, lying between the software and the hardware stacks and serving as the interface through which the software controls two of Bluetooth's four core protocols.
hybrid multiprocessing — (parallel) (HMP) The kind of multitasking which OS/2 supports. HMP provides some elements of symmetric multiprocessing, using add-on IBM software called MP/2. OS/2 SMP was planned for release in late 1993.
hydrocinnamic aldehyde — a colorless liquid, C 9 H 10 O, having a floral odor, used in perfumery and flavoring.
industrial archaeology — the study of past industrial machines, works, etc
information technology — the development, implementation, and maintenance of computer hardware and software systems to organize and communicate information electronically. Abbreviation: IT.
instruction scheduling — The compiler phase that orders instructions on a pipelined, superscalar, or VLIW architecture so as to maximise the number of function units operating in parallel and to minimise the time they spend waiting for each other. Examples are filling a delay slot; interspersing floating-point instructions with integer instructions to keep both units operating; making adjacent instructions independent, e.g. one which writes a register and another which reads from it; separating memory writes to avoid filling the write buffer. Norman P. Jouppi and David W. Wall, "Available Instruction-Level Parallelism for Superscalar and Superpipelined Processors", Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, pp. 272--282, 1989.
interactive whiteboard — a smooth, glossy sheet of white plastic that can be written on with a colored pen or marker in the manner of a blackboard.
just around the corner — in the next street
ketamine hydrochloride — a powerful anesthetic, C13H16ClNO·HCl, used in surgery
kinetic theory of heat — a theory that the temperature of a body is determined by the average kinetic energy of its particles and that an inflow of heat increases this energy.
label switching router — (networking) (LSR) A device that typically resides somewhere in the middle of a network and is capable of forwarding datagrams by label switching. In many cases, especially early versions of MPLS networks, a LSR will typically be a modified ATM switch that forwards datagrams based upon a label in the VPI/VCI field.
leather-stocking tales — a series of historical novels by James Fenimore Cooper, comprising The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie, The Pathfinder, and The Deerslayer.
local exchange carrier — (communications) (LEC) A company allowed to handle local calls following the break-up of the Bell system in the US by anti-trust regulators. These vary from Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOC) through to small independents such as Farmers Cooperative. Local exchange carriers are not allowed to handle long-distance traffic. This is handled by inter-exchange carriers (IXC) who are not allowed to handle local calls.
lord high commissioner — the Queen's representative
magnetic pole strength — Electricity. a measure of the force exerted by one face of a magnet on a face of another magnet when both magnets are represented by equal and opposite poles. Symbol: m.
make one's flesh creep — to move slowly with the body close to the ground, as a reptile or an insect, or a person on hands and knees.
manhattan clam chowder — a chowder made from clams, tomatoes, and other vegetables and seasoned with thyme.
mcculloch-pitts neuron — (artificial intelligence) The basic building block of artificial neural networks. It receives one or more inputs and produces one or more identical outputs, each of which is a simple non-linear function of the sum of the inputs to the neuron. The non-linear function is typically a threshhold or step function which is usually smoothed (i.e. a sigmoid) to facilitate learning.
mother carey's chicken — any of various small petrels, especially the stormy petrel, Oceanites oceanicus.
neighborhood bike code — (humour, programming) A piece of code that every programmer at the company has touched.
nonspecific urethritis — nongonococcal urethritis.
north atlantic current — an ocean current flowing NE toward the British Isles, formed by the convergence of the Gulf Stream and the Labrador Current SE of Newfoundland.
northern corn rootworm — corn rootworm.
northern redbelly dace — any of the small, brightly colored North American freshwater cyprinids, especially Phoxinus oreas (northern redbelly dace) and P. erythrogaster (southern redbelly dace)
oak processionary moth — a moth, (Thaumetopoea processionea), of the family Thaumetopoeidae, the larvae of which leave the communal shelter nightly for food in a V-shaped procession
occupational therapist — professional who assists with rehabilitation
oceanic whitetip shark — whitetip shark (def 2).
on (or off) the track — keeping to (or straying from) the subject, objective, or goal
on the crest of a wave — If you say that you are on the crest of a wave, you mean that you are feeling very happy and confident because things are going well for you.
other side of the coin — a piece of metal stamped and issued by the authority of a government for use as money.
paranoid schizophrenia — severe psychiatric disorder
partnerships for peace — a subsidiary organization of NATO, comprising former Warsaw Pact countries that wish to be allied with NATO but have not been granted full NATO membership: established in 1994
physiographic province — a geographic region in which climate and geology have given rise to an array of landforms different from those of surrounding regions.
play one's cards right — a usually rectangular piece of stiff paper, thin pasteboard, or plastic for various uses, as to write information on or printed as a means of identifying the holder: a 3″ × 5″ file card; a membership card.
process cinematography — cinematography in which the main or foreground action or scene is superimposed on or combined with simulated or separately filmed background action or scenery to produce special visual effects.
public housing project — a group of homes for poorer families which is funded and controlled by the local government
reactive schizophrenia — a type of schizophrenia of rapid onset and brief duration that occurs in response to environmental factors.
recreational therapist — someone who specializes in therapy by means of recreational activities engaged in by the patient

Was this page helpful?

Yes No

Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page

Tell us why?