22-letter words containing o, n, e, s
- be in a person's shoes — to be in another person's situation
- be in one's right mind — to be mentally well; be sane
- be on one's high horse — to be disdainfully aloof
- beat someone to a pulp — If someone is beaten to a pulp or beaten to pulp, they are hit repeatedly until they are very badly injured.
- being from outer space — a monster; an imaginary creature
- benoit de sainte-maure — 12th-century French trouvère: author of the Roman de Troie, which contains the episode of Troilus and Cressida
- bereavement counsellor — a person giving advice to bereaved people to help them cope with their grief
- bernoulli distribution — binomial distribution.
- bernoulli's lemniscate — Analytic Geometry. lemniscate.
- black-scholes equation — a partial differential equation used to estimate the changing value of an option over time
- blow one's own trumpet — to boast of one's own skills or good qualities
- board of commissioners — the administrative body of a county in many U.S. states, especially in the South and the West, having from two to seven elected members.
- bone marrow transplant — the transplantation of bone marrow from donor to recipient
- bone-marrow transplant — Surgery. a technique in which a small amount of bone marrow is withdrawn by a syringe from a donor's pelvic bone and injected into a patient whose ability to make new blood cells has been impaired by a disease, as anemia or cancer, or by exposure to radiation.
- borderline personality — Psychiatry. a personality disorder characterized by instability in many areas, as mood, identity, self-image, and behavior, and often manifested by impulsive actions, suicide attempts, inappropriate anger, or depression.
- bosnia and herzegovina — country in SE Europe: it came under Turkish rule in the 15th cent. and under Austro-Hungarian control in 1878: it was part of Yugoslavia (1918-91): 19,741 sq mi (51,129 sq km); pop. 4,366,000; cap. Sarajevo
- bridge of san luis rey — a novel (1927) by Thornton Wilder.
- by all manner of means — certainly; of course
- by any manner of means — in any way; at all
- carpal tunnel syndrome — a condition characterized by pain and tingling in the fingers, caused by pressure on a nerve as it passes under the ligament situated across the front of the wrist
- cast in one's lot with — to share in the activities or fortunes of (someone else)
- catch sight of someone — If you catch sight of someone, you suddenly see them, often briefly.
- cease-and-desist order — an order by a government agency to a person or corporation to terminate a business practice found by the agency to be illegal or unfair.
- centimeter-gram-second — designating or of a system of measurement in which the centimeter, gram, and second are the units of length, mass, and time, respectively
- central nervous system — Your central nervous system is the part of your nervous system that consists of the brain and spinal cord.
- challenge to the polls — an objection by counsel to one or more of the individual jurors called to a trial
- charity begins at home — If you say charity begins at home, you mean that people should deal with the needs of people close to them before they think about helping others.
- checkout test language — (language) (CTL)
- chip on one's shoulder — an inclination to fight or quarrel
- chromosomal aberration — any irregularity or abnormality of chromosome distribution, number, structure, or arrangement.
- cockles of one's heart — one's deepest feelings (esp in the phrase warm the cockles of one's heart)
- collective unconscious — In psychology, the collective unconscious consists of the basic ideas and images that all people are believed to share because they have inherited them.
- commissioner for oaths — a solicitor authorized to authenticate oaths on sworn statements
- common situs picketing — the picketing of an entire construction project by a union having a dispute with only one subcontractor working at the site.
- common snapping turtle — a large aggressive North American river turtle, Chelydra serpentina, having powerful hooked jaws and a rough shell
- common-situs picketing — the picketing of an entire construction site by a union striking against a particular contractor or subcontractor working on only one section
- communication channels — the ways in which people communicate
- communication disorder — any of a number of disorders, as autism or deafness, that partially or totally prevent verbal or written expression or comprehension.
- communications network — a network that provides information
- compactness preserving — (theory) In domain theory, a function f is compactness preserving if f c is compact whenever c is.
- company sergeant major — the senior Warrant Officer II in a British or Commonwealth regiment or battalion, responsible under the company second in command for all aspects of duty and discipline of the NCOs and men in that subunit
- compass deviation card — a card, sheet, or the like, with two compass roses printed on it concentrically, for recording, on a given voyage, the amount of deviation for which the navigator must compensate in using the ship's compass to steer a magnetic course.
- compuserve corporation — (company) The parent organisation of CompuServe Information Service, CompuServe Network Services and CompuServe Remote Computing Services. CompuServe was owned by H.R. Block but is now (1999) owned by America On-Line.
- concurrent massey hope — (language, functional programming) An extension of Massey Hope, by Peter Burgess, Robert Pointon, and Nigel Perry <[email protected]> of Massey University, NZ, that provides multithreading and typed inter-thread communication. It uses C for intermediate code rather than assembly language.
- congressional district — (in the US) an electoral division of a state, entitled to send one member to the US House of Representatives
- connecticut compromise — a compromise adopted at the Constitutional Convention, providing the states with equal representation in the Senate and proportional representation in the House of Representatives.
- conscientious objector — A conscientious objector is a person who refuses to join the armed forces because they think that it is morally wrong to do so.
- conservation of charge — the principle that the total charge of any isolated system is constant and independent of changes that take place within the system
- conservation of energy — the principle that the total energy of any isolated system is constant and independent of any changes occurring within the system
- conservation of matter — the principle that matter is neither created nor destroyed during any physical or chemical change