22-letter words containing s, d

governor winthrop desk — an 18th-century American desk having a slant front.
grand duchy of muscovy — Muscovy (def 1).
graphical display unit — an output device incorporating a cathode ray tube on which both line drawings and text can be displayed. It is usually used in conjunction with a light pen to input or reposition data
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.
great glen of scotland — Glen More
great salt lake desert — an arid region in NW Utah, extending W from the Great Salt Lake to the Nevada border. 110 miles (177 km) long; about 4000 sq. mi. (10,360 sq. km).
green around the gills — the respiratory organ of aquatic animals, as fish, that breathe oxygen dissolved in water.
gross domestic product — gross national product excluding payments on foreign investments. Abbreviation: GDP.
gross national product — the total monetary value of all final goods and services produced in a country during one year. Abbreviation: GNP.
guided missile cruiser — a naval cruiser equipped with long-range guided missiles and missile launchers.
hammersmith and fulham — a borough of Greater London on the River Thames: established in 1965 by the amalgamation of Fulham and Hammersmith. Pop: 174 200 (2003 est). Area: 16 sq km (6 sq miles)
handle with kid gloves — grant special treatment to
hans christian oersted — Hans Christian [hahns kris-tyahn] /hɑns ˈkrɪs tyɑn/ (Show IPA), 1777–1851, Danish physicist.
harvard classification — a classification of stars based on the characteristic spectral absorption lines and bands of the chemical elements present
have a leg to stand on — If you say that someone does not have a leg to stand on, or hasn't got a leg to stand on, you mean that a statement or claim they have made cannot be justified or proved.
hawaiian standard time — the time used in the Hawaiian time zone
heat of solidification — the heat liberated by a unit mass of liquid at its freezing point as it solidifies: equal to the heat of fusion.
here's mud in your eye — a humorous drinking toast
hereford and worcester — a county in W England. 1516 sq. mi. (3926 sq. km).
high-speed net connect — (hardware, communications) (HNC) A network interface unit for BS2000 mainframes based on Novell NetWare, supporting Ethernet and FDDI.
hold the purse strings — hold the purse strings, to have the power to determine how money shall be spent.
hoof-and-mouth disease — foot-and-mouth disease.
hook, line, and sinker — a curved or angular piece of metal or other hard substance for catching, pulling, holding, or suspending something.
horn-rimmed spectacles — spectacles with rims made of material resembling horn
horseradish peroxidase — Histology. an enzyme, isolated from horseradish, that when microinjected can be detected by the colored products of the reaction it catalyzes, used as a tracer, as in tracing the route of a motor neuron from the cell body in the spinal cord to the muscle it innervates.
hospital administrator — a person who works in the management team of a hospital
house of bernarda alba — a drama (1941) by Federico García Lorca.
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.
if need be/if needs be — If you say that you will do something, especially an extreme action, if need be, you mean that you will do if it is necessary. In British English, you can also say if needs be.
in all one's born days — so far in one's life
in one's birthday suit — naked; nude
in one's own back yard — close at hand
in sackcloth and ashes — in a state of great mourning or penitence
in someone's bad books — regarded by someone with disfavour
in the lap of the gods — If you say that a situation is in the lap of the gods, you mean that its success or failure depends entirely on luck or on things that are outside your control.
in your wildest dreams — If you say that you could not imagine a particular thing in your wildest dreams, you are emphasizing that you think it is extremely strange or unlikely.
in/of the order of sth — You use in the order of or of the order of when mentioning an approximate figure.
independent assortment — law of independent assortment.
independent suspension — an automotive suspension system in which each wheel is attached to the frame independently, so that a road bump affecting one wheel has no effect on the others.
indeterminate sentence — a penalty, imposed by a court, that has relatively wide limits or no limits, as one of imprisonment for one to ten years.
industrial archaeology — the study of past industrial machines, works, etc
industrial engineering — engineering applied to the planning, design, and control of industrial operations.
industrialized country — a country characterized by industry on an extensive scale
inland revenue service — In the United States, the Inland Revenue Service is the government authority which collects taxes. The abbreviation IRS is often used.
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.
international standard — (standard) The series of standards from ISO and its subcommitees.
interoperable database — A database front-end which communicates with multiple heterogenous databases and makes them appear as a single homogenous entity with semantic calls. See ODBC.
investigative new drug — a regulatory classification assigned by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to an unproven drug, allowing its use in approved studies with human patients. Abbreviation: IND.
islamic fundamentalism — the belief or advocating of a conservative adherence to literal or traditional interpretations of the Qu'ran and the Sunnah

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