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28-letter words containing s, h

  • a poster child for something — a person who is a good, or typical example of something; a prominent exemplar of something
  • a shot across someone's bows — a warning
  • 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.
  • a stick to beat someone with — If you say that something is a stick to beat someone with, you mean that it is used, or could be used, as a basis for criticism.
  • 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.
  • as alike as chalk and cheese — totally different in essentials
  • as happy etc as can/could be — If someone or something is, for example, as happy as can be or as quiet as could be, they are extremely happy or extremely quiet.
  • 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.
  • bath and north east somerset — a unitary authority in SW England, in Somerset; formerly (1974–96) part of the county of Avon. Pop: 170 900 (2003 est). Area: 351 sq km (136 sq miles)
  • be gathered to one's fathers — to die
  • be hard put/pushed to do sth — If someone is hard put to do something or, in British English if they are hard pushed to do something, they have great difficulty doing it.
  • 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
  • beyond the shadow of a doubt — to be uncertain about; consider questionable or unlikely; hesitate to believe.
  • 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 the hand that feeds one — to repay kindness with injury or ingratitude
  • 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
  • burn the candle at both ends — to exhaust oneself, esp by being up late and getting up early to work
  • by main force (or strength) — by sheer force (or strength)
  • can't tell chalk from cheese — to be unable to judge or appreciate important differences
  • case data interchange format — (CDIF) An emerging standard for interchange of data between CASE tools.
  • channel associated signaling — in-band signalling
  • 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 washerchief 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.
  • committee of the whole house — (in Britain) an informal sitting of the House of Commons to discuss and amend a bill
  • 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
  • cost the earth/pay the earth — If you say that something cost the earth or that you paid the earth for it, you are emphasizing that it cost a very large amount of money.
  • cruel and unusual punishment — treatment: barbaric
  • cut someone off at the knees — Anatomy. the joint of the leg that allows for movement between the femur and tibia and is protected by the patella; the central area of the leg between the thigh and the lower leg.
  • 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.
  • eat sb out of house and home — If you eat someone out of house and home, you eat a lot of their food, especially when you are living with them.
  • 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 as a second language — subject: English for non-native speakers
  • 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
  • fifth dimension technologies — (company, virtual reality)   (5DT) Manufacturers of the 5th Glove.
  • 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

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