28-letter words containing s, h, i, r
- a poster child for something — a person who is a good, or typical example of something; a prominent exemplar of something
- a square peg in a round hole — If you describe someone as a square peg in a round hole, you mean that they are completely unsuitable for the job they are doing or the situation they are in.
- antidisestablishmentarianism — opposition to the withdrawal of state support or recognition from an established church, especially the Anglican Church in 19th-century England.
- apple-touch-icon-precomposed — (programming) An alternative form of apple-touch-icon that is not subject to automatic modification (rounding, drop-shadow, reflective shine) as applied by iOS versions prior to iOS 7. A web page specifies a pre-composed icon by including an element in the like:
- arms akimbo/with arms akimbo — If you stand arms akimbo or with arms akimbo, you stand with your hands on your hips and your elbows pointing outwards.
- at the discretion of someone — If something happens at someone's discretion, it can happen only if they decide to do it or give their permission.
- benign prostatic hyperplasia — a benign condition in which the prostate gland becomes enlarged due to an increase in the number of prostatic cells, usually affecting the flow of urine.
- between scylla and charybdis — in a predicament in which avoidance of either of two dangers means exposure to the other
- birendra bir bikram shah dev — 1945–2001, king of Nepal (1972–2001): he, his queen, and six other members of the royal family were shot dead by his son, Crown Prince Dipendra, who then committed suicide
- bite your nails to the quick — If someone bites their nails to the quick, they bite off all the white part at the end of each nail.
- bright eyed and bushy tailed — having bright eyes.
- bright-eyed and bushy-tailed — keen, confident, and alert
- bring something to its knees — to cause something to be in a weakened or impoverished state
- british standard fine thread — a screw thread having a Whitworth profile but a finer pitch for a given diameter
- british standard pipe thread — a screw thread of Whitworth profile used for piping and designated by the bore of the pipe
- by main force (or strength) — by sheer force (or strength)
- case data interchange format — (CDIF) An emerging standard for interchange of data between CASE tools.
- charge d'affaires ad interim — Also called chargé d'affaires ad interim. an official placed in charge of diplomatic business during the temporary absence of the ambassador or minister.
- chief cook and bottle washer — chief cook and bottlewasher, a person who does a wide variety of routine, sometimes menial, tasks: He's not just sales manager, he's the chief cook and bottlewasher in this firm.
- computer-assisted tomography — the process of producing a CAT scan.
- congressional medal of honor — the highest U.S. military decoration, awarded by Congress to a member of the armed forces for gallantry and bravery in combat, at the risk of life and above and beyond the call of duty.
- consolidated school district — a large school district formed by the amalgamation of two or more separate districts
- cruel and unusual punishment — treatment: barbaric
- datastorm technologies, inc. — (company) The original suppliers of Procomm. Address: Columbia MO, USA.
- disability rights commission — (in Britain) a body appointed by the Government to enforce anti-discrimination law affecting people with disabilities
- discretionary service charge — A discretionary service charge is an amount that is added to your bill in a restaurant to pay for the work of the person who comes and serves you. You can decide if you want to pay it.
- distinguished encoding rules — (communications, data) (DER) An X.690 encoding format (or transfer syntax) for data structures described by ASN.1 that specifies exactly one way to encode a value thus ensuring a unique, canonical, serialised representation. DER is a restricted variant of BER. For example, DER has exactly one way to encode a Boolean value. DER is used in cryptography, e.g. for digital certificates such as X.509.
- einstein's photoelectric law — the principle that the maximum energy of a photoelectron is hν – Φ, where ν is the frequency of the incident radiation, h is the Planck constant, and Φ is the work function
- english for special purposes — the practice and theory of learning and teaching English for specific uses in given fields, such as science, nursing, tourism, etc.
- enterprise investment scheme — (in Britain) a scheme to provide tax relief on investments in certain small companies: came into operation in 1994, when it replaced the Business Expansion Scheme
- environmental health service — (in Britain) a service provided by a local authority, which deals with prevention of the spread of communicable diseases, food safety and hygiene, control of infestation by insects or rodents, etc
- financial services authority — (in the United Kingdom) a regulatory body that oversees London's financial markets, each of which has its own self-regulatory organization: it succeeded the Securities and Investments Board
- follicle-stimulating hormone — FSH.
- formal description technique — (specification, protocol) (FDT) A formal method for developing telecomunications services and protocols. FDTs range from abstract to implementation-oriented descriptions. All FDTs offer the means for producing unambiguous descriptions of OSI services and protocols in a more precise and comprehensive way than natural language descriptions. They provide a foundation for analysis and verification of a description. The target of analysis and verification may vary from abstract properties to concrete properties. Natural language descriptions remain an essential adjunct to formal description, enabling an unfarmiliar reader to gain rapid insight into the structure and function of services and protocols. Examples of FDTs are LOTOS, Z, SDL, and Estelle.
- get something off your chest — If you get something off your chest, you talk about something that has been worrying you.
- get/set one's house in order — If someone gets their house in order, puts their house in order, or sets their house in order, they arrange their affairs and solve their problems.
- give a person his or her due — to give or allow a person what is deserved or right
- give someone the worst of it — to defeat or get the better of someone
- greatest happiness principle — the ethical principle that an action is right in so far as it promotes the greatest happiness of the greatest number of those affected
- have something going for one — to have something working to one's advantage
- have sth/a lot going for you — If someone or something has a lot going for them, they have a lot of advantages.
- have two strikes against one — to be at a decided disadvantage
- high performance file system — (file system) (HPFS) The native file system for IBM's OS/2.
- hot standby routing protocol — (protocol) (HSRP) A CISCO standard, defined in RFC 2281, that calls for a mirrored router in passive mode to send hello packets, wait for a lead router to die and, without dropping a packet, take over from that router. Note: "standby", not "swappable" (and certainly not "swapable").
- human immunodeficiency virus — See under AIDS virus. Abbreviation: HIV.
- hydrolysed vegetable protein — a powder or liquid that is produced by boiling legumes or cereals in hydrochloric acid and then neutralizing with sodium hydroxide. It is used as a flavouring in some foods, such as soups and bouillon cubes
- imperial software technology — (company) A software engineering company which emerged from Imperial College in about 1982. It enjoys a world-wide reputation for technical excellence as a software product and technology provider in the Open Systems market. Its flagship product is X-Designer, the award-winning graphical user interface builder. It also has considerable expertise in the Z language and Formal Methods.
- infectious laryngotracheitis — a viral disease of adult chickens, characterized by inflammation and hemorrhage of the larynx and trachea and, in many cases, resulting in asphyxiation.
- instruction set architecture — (architecture) (ISA) The parts of a processor's design that need to be understood in order to write assembly language, such as the machine language instructions and registers. Parts of the architecture that are left to the implementation, such as number of superscalar functional units, cache size and cycle speed, are not part of the ISA. The definition of SPARC, for example, carefully distinguishes between an implementation and a specification.
- internet research task force — (IRTF) The IRTF is chartered by the Internet Architecture Board to consider long-term Internet issues from a theoretical point of view. It has Research Groups, similar to Internet Engineering Task Force Working Groups, which are each tasked to discuss different research topics. Multi-cast audio/video conferencing and privacy enhanced mail are samples of IRTF output.
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