22-letter words containing s, i, d, e, h

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.
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
in sackcloth and ashes — in a state of great mourning or penitence
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/of the order of sth — You use in the order of or of the order of when mentioning an approximate figure.
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.
islands of the blessed — lands where the souls of heroes and good men were taken after death
jacquard, joseph-marie — Joseph-Marie Jacquard
kensington and chelsea — a borough of Greater London, England.
land of the rising sun — Japan.
landscape architecture — the art of arranging or modifying the features of a landscape, an urban area, etc., for aesthetic or practical reasons.
lesser spotted dogfish — a small spotted European shark, Scyliorhinus caniculus
let sth drop/fall/slip — If you let drop, let fall, or let slip information, you reveal it casually or by accident, during a conversation about something else.
limited access highway — expressway
lord high commissioner — the Queen's representative
meeting of (the) minds — an agreement
netherlands new guinea — a former name of Irian Jaya.
nodal switching system — (NSS) Main routing nodes in the NSFnet backbone.
of the first magnitude — of the greatest importance
on a shoestring budget — with very little money to spend
one's foot in the door — (in vertebrates) the terminal part of the leg, below the ankle joint, on which the body stands and moves.
other side of the coin — a piece of metal stamped and issued by the authority of a government for use as money.
ousterhout's dichotomy — (language) John Ousterhout's division of high-level languages into "system programming languages" and "scripting languages". This distinction underlies the design of his language Tcl. System programming languages (or "applications languages") are strongly typed, allow arbitrarily complex data structures, and programs in them are compiled, and are meant to operate largely independently of other programs. Prototypical system programming languages are C and Modula-2. By contrast, scripting languages (or "glue languages") are weakly typed or untyped, have little or no provision for complex data structures, and programs in them ("scripts") are interpreted. Scripts need to interact either with other programs (often as glue) or with a set of functions provided by the interpreter, as with the file system functions provided in a UNIX shell and with Tcl's GUI functions. Prototypical scripting languages are AppleScript, C Shell, MS-DOS batch files and Tcl. Many believe that this is a highly arbitrary dichotomy, and refer to it as "Ousterhout's fallacy" or "Ousterhout's false dichotomy". While strong-versus-weak typing, data structure complexity, and independent versus stand-alone might be said to be unrelated features, the usual critique of Ousterhout's dichotomy is of its distinction of compilation versus interpretation, since neither semantics nor syntax depend significantly on whether code is compiled into machine-language, interpreted, tokenized, or byte-compiled at the start of each run, or any mixture of these. Many languages fall between being interpreted or compiled (e.g. Lisp, Forth, UCSD Pascal, Perl, and Java). This makes compilation versus interpretation a dubious parameter in a taxonomy of programming languages.
padparadschah sapphire — a rare, yellowish-orange sapphire found in Sri Lanka.
pale horse, pale rider — a trilogy of short novels (1939) by Katherine Anne Porter.
paranoid schizophrenia — severe psychiatric disorder
peanut-butter sandwich — a sandwich with a filling of peanut-butter
phosphorus trichloride — a clear, colorless, fuming liquid, PCl 3 , used chiefly in organic synthesis as a chlorinating agent.
play into the hands of — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
play one's cards right — a usually rectangular piece of stiff paper, thin pasteboard, or plastic for various uses, as to write information on or printed as a means of identifying the holder: a 3″ × 5″ file card; a membership card.
prawn-sandwich brigade — sports fans who are perceived to lack passion and commitment, and who it is supposed attend matches in order to eat food and buy merchandise rather than cheer on their team
preestablished harmony — (in the philosophy of Leibnitz) synchronous operation of all monads, since their simultaneous creation, in accordance with the preexisting plan of God.
pushing up the daisies — dead and buried
put sth to/on one side — If you put something to one side or put it on one side, you temporarily ignore it in order to concentrate on something else.
queen's bench division — (in England when the sovereign is female) one of the divisions of the High Court of Justice
read between the lines — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
registered shareholder — someone who holds or owns a stock registered to their name
rheumatoid spondylitis — ankylosing spondylitis.
sail close to the wind — air in natural motion, as that moving horizontally at any velocity along the earth's surface: A gentle wind blew through the valley. High winds were forecast.
saturday night special — a cheap, small-caliber handgun that is easily obtainable and concealable.
saturday-night special — a cheap, small-caliber handgun that is easily obtainable and concealable.
save the children fund — a development agency which raises money for deprived children around the world
school medical officer — a doctor who is based in a school and is responsible for the health of schoolchildren
second consonant shift — the consonant shift by which High German became differentiated from other Germanic languages.

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