19-letter words containing s, i, g, h, t, e
- human rights record — the facts that are known about the tendency of a country, regime, etc, to observe and protect human rights
- humanist technology — (philosophy) Technology centered around the interests, needs, and well-being of humans.
- huntington's chorea — a hereditary disease of the central nervous system characterized by brain deterioration and loss of control over voluntary movements, the symptoms usually appearing in the fourth decade of life.
- hypersuggestibility — subject to or easily influenced by suggestion.
- hysterosalpingogram — An X-ray image taken during hysterosalpingography.
- in one's right mind — sane
- in the driving seat — If you say that someone is in the driving seat, you mean that they are in control in a situation.
- in the light of sth — If something is possible in the light of particular information, it is only possible because you have this information.
- in this day and age — these days
- in this/that regard — You can use in this regard or in that regard to refer back to something that you have just said.
- industrial-strength — unusually strong, potent, or the like: heavy-duty: an industrial-strength soap.
- inorganic chemistry — the branch of chemistry dealing with inorganic compounds.
- interchangeableness — Quality of being interchangeable.
- inver grove heights — a town in SE Minnesota.
- iphigenia in tauris — a drama (413? b.c.) by Euripides.
- islet of langerhans — any of several masses of endocrine cells in the pancreas that secrete insulin, somatostatin, and glucagon.
- it serves you right — If you say it serves someone right when something unpleasant happens to them, you mean that it is their own fault and you have no sympathy for them.
- knights hospitalers — a member of the religious and military order (Knights Hospitalers or Knights of St. John of Jerusalem) originating about the time of the first Crusade (1096–99) and taking its name from a hospital at Jerusalem.
- ladies-of-the-night — plural of lady-of-the-night.
- late-night shopping — later opening hours of shops than usual, esp as a regular occurrence on a particular night of the week
- lighten sb's burden — If someone or something lightens your burden or your load, they make a bad or difficult situation better for you.
- love at first sight — instant romantic attraction to sb
- lucent technologies — (company, telecommunications, Unix) The former systems and equipment portion of AT&T (including Bell Laboratories), split off in 1996.
- magnetic hysteresis — hysteresis in a ferromagnetic material; the lag in the response of magnetic induction to changes of magnetic intensity.
- male chauvinist pig — male chauvinist.
- manchester encoding — (communications, protocol) A method of transmitting bits which enables the receiver to easily synchronise with the sender. A simple way of signalling bits might be to transmit a high voltage for some period for a 1-bit and a low voltage for a 0 bit: Bits Sent: 1 1 0 0 Signal: High ___ Low |___ Time: -> . . . . . However, when several identical bits are sent in succession, this provides no information to the receiver about when each bit starts and stops. Manchester encoding splits each bit period into two, and ensures that there is always a transition between the signal levels in the middle of each bit. This allows the receiver to synchronise with the sender. In normal Manchester encoding, a 1-bit is transmitted with a high voltage in the first period, and a low voltage in the second, and vice verse for the 0 bit: Bits Sent: 1 1 0 0 Signal: High Low || |_| || Time: -> . ' . ' . ' . ' . In Differential Manchester encoding, a 1-bit is indicated by making the first half of the signal equal to the last half of the previous bit's signal and a 0-bit is indicated by making the first half of the signal opposite to the last half of the previous bit's signal. That is, a zero bit is indicated by a transition at the beginning of the bit. Like normal Manchester encoding, there is always a transition in the middle of the transmission of the bit. Differential Manchester Encoding Bits Sent: 1 1 0 0 Signal: High __ Low |_| || || Time: -> . ' . ' . ' . ' . With each bit period half as long, twice as much bandwidth is required when using either of the Manchester encoding schemes.
- manned space flight — space travel in vehicles with a human crew
- meningoencephalitis — Inflammation of the membranes of the brain and the adjoining cerebral tissue.
- micromesh stockings — stockings made from a material consisting of a fine mesh
- night-scented stock — a plant, Matthiola bicornis, of the genus Matthiola, of the Mediterranean region, cultivated for its brightly coloured flowers: Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- no shrinking violet — If you say that someone is no shrinking violet, you mean that they are not at all shy.
- no strings attached — without conditions
- non-distinguishable — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
- nothing of the sort — not at all as described
- old english pattern — a spoon pattern having a stem curving backward at the end.
- one of those things — something that cannot be avoided, helped, changed, etc.
- orthopaedic surgeon — a surgeon specializing in the branch of surgery concerned with disorders of the spine and joints and the repair of deformities of these parts
- orthopaedic surgery — surgery concerned with disorders of the spine and joints and the repair of deformities of these parts
- paleoanthropologist — the study of the origins and predecessors of the present human species, using fossils and other remains.
- parting of the ways — When there is a parting of the ways, two or more people or groups of people stop working together or travelling together.
- photodisintegration — the disintegration of a nucleus, induced by its absorption of a photon.
- prescription charge — a charge, set by the government, to be paid by a patient for medicines
- priority scheduling — (operating system) Processes scheduling in which the scheduler selects tasks to run based on their priority as opposed to, say, a simple round-robin. Priorities may be static or dynamic. Static priorities are assigned at the time of creation, while dynamic priorities are based on the processes' behaviour while in the system. For example, the scheduler may favour I/O-intensive tasks so that expensive requests can be issued as early as possible. A danger of priority scheduling is starvation, in which processes with lower priorities are not given the opportunity to run. In order to avoid starvation, in preemptive scheduling, the priority of a process is gradually reduced while it is running. Eventually, the priority of the running process will no longer be the highest, and the next process will start running. This method is called aging.
- programmer's switch — (hardware) A button on the front of some Apple Macintosh computers which, when pressed, causes a command line prompt to appear. This gives access to the built-in mini-debugger, which has commands to dump memory, return to the application that was broken out, and others. A more sophisticated debugger must be installed in order to inspect breakpoints, etc.
- psychotechnological — of or relating to psychotechnology
- put a figure on sth — When you put a figure on an amount, you say exactly how much it is.
- quick-change artist — a person adept at changing from one thing to another, as an entertainer who changes costumes quickly during a performance.
- rayleigh scattering — the scattering of light by particles that are very small in relation to the wavelength of the light, and in which the intensity of the scattered light varies inversely with the fourth power of the wavelength.
- reflux oesophagitis — inflammation of the gullet caused by regurgitation of stomach acids, producing heartburn: may be associated with a hiatus hernia
- saber-toothed tiger — any of several extinct members of the cat family Felidae from the Oligocene to Pleistocene Epochs, having greatly elongated, saberlike upper canine teeth.