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22-letter words containing s, h, r, o, u

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • arseniuretted hydrogen — arsine (def 1).
  • articulatory phonetics — the branch of phonetics concerned with the production of speech sounds
  • borel-lebesgue theorem — Heine-Borel theorem.
  • 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.
  • chip on one's shoulder — an inclination to fight or quarrel
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • delayed-action shutter — a camera shutter that opens after an interval set by the photographer
  • diachronic linguistics — historical linguistics.
  • do sth pursuant to sth — If someone does something pursuant to a law or regulation, they obey that law or regulation.
  • earth inductor compass — a compass actuated by induction from the earth's magnetic field.
  • for a laugh/for laughs — If you do something for a laugh or for laughs, you do it as a joke or for fun.
  • fresh out of something — If you are fresh out of something, you have recently used the last of it and have none left.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • golden needle mushroom — enoki.
  • grand duchy of muscovy — Muscovy (def 1).
  • green around the gills — the respiratory organ of aquatic animals, as fish, that breathe oxygen dissolved in water.
  • 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.
  • heart is in your mouth — If your heart is in your mouth, you feel very excited, worried, or frightened.
  • here's mud in your eye — a humorous drinking toast
  • hermann-mauguin symbol — a notation for indicating a particular point group.
  • historical linguistics — the study of changes in a language or group of languages over a period of time.
  • hold the purse stringshold the purse strings, to have the power to determine how money shall be spent.
  • homologous chromosomes — two chromosomes, one of paternal origin, the other of maternal origin, that are identical in appearance and pair during meiosis
  • house of bernarda alba — a drama (1941) by Federico García Lorca.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • jacquard, joseph-marie — Joseph-Marie Jacquard
  • just around the corner — in the next street
  • kill yourself laughing — If you say that you killed yourself laughing, you are emphasizing that you laughed a lot because you thought something was extremely funny.

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