22-letter words containing s, h, o, r
- a frog in one's throat — phlegm on the vocal cords that affects one's speech
- a lump in one's throat — a tight dry feeling in one's throat, usually caused by great emotion
- acoustic spectrography — a technique for analyzing sound by separating it into its component frequencies.
- adenosine triphosphate — ATP
- advertisement hoarding — a large flat structure on which advertisements can be posted, especially at the roadside
- african horse sickness — a fatal infectious disease of horses, mules, and donkeys, which is transmitted by insect vectors. It is caused by an arbovirus and is characterized by pulmonary or cardiac signs
- against the run of sth — If something happens against the run of play or against the run of events, it is different from what is generally happening in a game or situation.
- ali muhammad of shiraz — (the Bab; Ali Muhammad of Shiraz) 1819–50, a Persian religious leader: founder of Bābī.
- alternative hypothesis — the hypothesis that given data do not conform with a given null hypothesis: the null hypothesis is accepted only if its probability exceeds a predetermined significance level
- american shorthair cat — one of a breed of medium-sized, muscular shorthaired domestic cats with a broad head and a short, thick coat.
- anatolian shepherd dog — a large powerfully-built dog of a breed with a large head and a short dense cream or fawn coat, originally used for guarding sheep
- androcles and the lion — a comedy (1913) by G. B. Shaw.
- animal rights movement — a group of people who campaign for the rights of animals to be protected from exploitation and abuse by humans
- arithmetic progression — a sequence of numbers or quantities, each term of which differs from the succeeding term by a constant amount, such as 3,6,9,12
- armed response vehicle — (in Britain) a police vehicle carrying armed officers who are trained to respond to incidents involving firearms
- arseniuretted hydrogen — arsine (def 1).
- articulatory phonetics — the branch of phonetics concerned with the production of speech sounds
- attachment of earnings — (in Britain) a court order requiring an employer to deduct amounts from an employee's wages to pay debts or honour financial obligations
- axiom of comprehension — (logic) An axiom schema of set theory which states: if P(x) is a property then {x : P} is a set. I.e. all the things with some property form a set. Acceptance of this axiom leads to Russell's Paradox which is why Zermelo set theory replaces it with a restricted form.
- 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
- be streets ahead of sb — If someone is streets ahead of you, they are much better at something than you are.
- borel-lebesgue theorem — Heine-Borel theorem.
- 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
- british library method — (algorithm) Brute force searching. According to legends circulating in the 1970s, in the British Library books are searched for by examining each book sequentially in the first shelf, then the next shelf, continuing until the book is found or the entire library has been searched. The term was referred to in a Dutch coursebook, "Inleiding In De Informatica" (Introduction to Informatics) from a course given by C.H.A. Koster and Th.A. Zoethout. This was based on a course given at the TU Berlin.
- british national party — a far-right political party
- brush-footed butterfly — any of several butterflies of the family Nymphalidae, including the fritillaries, mourning cloaks, anglewings, and commas, characterized by reduced, nonfunctional forelegs.
- carboxymethylcellulose — a white, water-soluble polymer derived from cellulose, used as a coating and sizing for paper and textiles, a stabilizer for various foods, and an appetite suppressor.
- 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.
- chip on one's shoulder — an inclination to fight or quarrel
- chromosomal aberration — any irregularity or abnormality of chromosome distribution, number, structure, or arrangement.
- cirrhosis of the liver — liver disease
- cockles of one's heart — one's deepest feelings (esp in the phrase warm the cockles of one's heart)
- color graphics adapter — (hardware, graphics) (CGA) One of IBM's earliest hardware video display standards for use in IBM PCs. CGA can display 80*25 or 40*25 text in 16 colors, 640*200 pixels of graphics in two colors or 320*200 in four colors (IBM PC video modes 0-6). It is now obsolete.
- commissioner for oaths — a solicitor authorized to authenticate oaths on sworn statements
- comparative psychology — the study of the similarities and differences in the behaviour of different species
- complete metamorphosis — physical changes in the development of certain insects that include egg, larva, pupa, and adult stages, as in beetles, moths, or bees
- 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.
- 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
- constitutional monarch — the sovereign in a constitutional monarchy
- consummatory behaviour — any behaviour that leads directly to the satisfaction of an innate drive, e.g. eating or drinking
- coronary heart disease — any heart disorder caused by disease of the coronary arteries
- corporate headquarters — the main offices of a corporation, from where it runs its business
- corporate manslaughter — the death of someone caused by an act of corporate negligence
- course author language — (language) (CAL) The CAI language for the IBM 360.
- covered with confusion — greatly embarrassed
- cross the great divide — to die
- curvature of the spine — a condition in which the spine is abnormally curved
- cut a long story short — to leave out details in a narration
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