22-letter words containing r, h, e, o, s, t

first cab off the rank — the first person, etc, to do or take advantage of something
fort benjamin harrison — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in central Indiana, NE of Indianapolis.
fresh out of something — If you are fresh out of something, you have recently used the last of it and have none left.
fringed with something — having a specified thing around the edge
from the horse's mouth — a large, solid-hoofed, herbivorous quadruped, Equus caballus, domesticated since prehistoric times, bred in a number of varieties, and used for carrying or pulling loads, for riding, and for racing.
front of house manager — A front of house manager is responsible for the reception and reservations at a hotel.
geographic determinism — a doctrine that regards geographical conditions as the determining or molding agency of group life.
get one's act together — anything done, being done, or to be done; deed; performance: a heroic act.
get/come to grips with — If you get to grips with a problem or if you come to grips with it, you consider it seriously, and start taking action to deal with it.
give a person what for — to punish or reprimand a person severely
give someone the works — to murder someone
give something a whirl — to attempt or give a trial to something
go for all the marbles — to take a great risk in the hope of a great gain
go their separate ways — When two or more people who have been together for some time go their separate ways, they go to different places or end their relationship.
go through one's paces — to show one's abilities, skills, etc.
go through the motions — the action or process of moving or of changing place or position; movement.
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.
governor winthrop desk — an 18th-century American desk having a slant front.
gravitational redshift — (in general relativity) the shift toward longer wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation emitted by a source in a gravitational field, especially at the surface of a massive star.
green around the gills — the respiratory organ of aquatic animals, as fish, that breathe oxygen dissolved in water.
greystone technologies — (company) The producers of the GT/M MUMPS compiler and GT/SQL pre-processor for VAX and DEC Alpha.
guanosine triphosphate — GTP.
gum bichromate process — a contact printing method in which the image is formed on a coating of sensitized gum containing a suitable colored pigment and potassium or ammonium dichromate.
hans christian oersted — Hans Christian [hahns kris-tyahn] /hɑns ˈkrɪs tyɑn/ (Show IPA), 1777–1851, Danish physicist.
have one's heart in it — to have enthusiasm for something
have other fish to fry — have sth else to do
heart is in your mouth — If your heart is in your mouth, you feel very excited, worried, or frightened.
help a person off with — to assist a person in the removal of (clothes)
hemorrhagic septicemia — an acute infectious disease of animals, caused by the bacterium Pasteurella multocida, and characterized by fever, catarrhal symptoms, pneumonia, and general blood infection.
hereford and worcester — a county in W England. 1516 sq. mi. (3926 sq. km).
historical materialism — (in Marxist theory) the doctrine that all forms of social thought, as art or philosophy, and institutions, as the family or the state, develop as a superstructure founded on an economic base; that they reflect the character of economic relations and are altered or modified as a result of class struggles; that each ruling economic class produces the class that will destroy or replace it; and that dialectical necessity requires the eventual withering away of the state and the establishment of a classless society: the body of theory, in dialectical materialism, dealing with historical process and social causation.
hold the purse strings — hold the purse strings, to have the power to determine how money shall be spent.
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.
hue, saturation, value — (graphics) (HSV) A colour model that describes colours in terms of hue (or "tint"), saturation (or "shade") and value (or "tone" or "luminance").
hundreds and thousands — tiny beads of brightly coloured sugar, used in decorating cakes, sweets, etc
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.
in one's birthday suit — naked; nude
in one's shirt sleeves — not wearing a coat or jacket over one's shirt
in one's shirt-sleeves — a long- or short-sleeved garment for the upper part of the body, usually lightweight and having a collar and a front opening.
in/of the order of sth — You use in the order of or of the order of when mentioning an approximate figure.
industrial archaeology — the study of past industrial machines, works, etc
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.
just around the corner — in the next street
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.
land of the rising sun — Japan.
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.
lesser spotted dogfish — a small spotted European shark, Scyliorhinus caniculus
let sth drop/fall/slip — If you let drop, let fall, or let slip information, you reveal it casually or by accident, during a conversation about something else.

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