20-letter words containing s, i, l, o

for all one is worth — good or important enough to justify (what is specified): advice worth taking; a place worth visiting.
for sb's delectation — If you do something for someone's delectation, you do it to give them enjoyment or pleasure.
force-field analysis — a decision-making technique, often presented graphically, that identifies all the positive and negative forces impinging on a problem
fore-and-aft topsail — gaff topsail (def 1).
four-colour glossies — 1. Literature created by marketroids that allegedly contains technical specs but which is in fact as superficial as possible without being totally content-free. "Forget the four-colour glossies, give me the tech ref manuals." Often applied as an indication of superficiality even when the material is printed on ordinary paper in black and white. Four-colour-glossy manuals are *never* useful for finding a problem. 2. [rare] Applied by extension to manual pages that don't contain enough information to diagnose why the program doesn't produce the expected or desired output.
fridtjof nansen land — Franz Josef Land.
gaff-topsail catfish — a sea catfish, Bagre marinus, occurring in the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico from Cape Cod to Panama, and having the spine of the dorsal fin greatly prolonged and flattened.
garcilaso de la vega — 1503?–36, Spanish poet.
general postal union — former name of Universal Postal Union. Abbreviation: GPU.
geological timescale — any division of geological time into chronological units, whether relative (with units in the correct temporal sequence) or absolute (with numerical ages attached)
glucosamine sulphate — a compound used in some herbal remedies and dietary supplements, esp to strengthen joint cartilage
go like the clappers — to move extremely fast
graphics accelerator — (graphics, hardware) Hardware (often an extra circuit board) to perform tasks such as plotting lines and surfaces in two or three dimensions, filling, shading and hidden line removal.
gravitational radius — Schwarzschild radius.
greek-letter society — any student fraternity or sorority in a US university or college, usually using Greek letters in their title
grievous bodily harm — law: serious injury
grolier de servieres — Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1479–1565, French bibliophile.
group life insurance — a form of life insurance available to members of a group, typically employees of a company, under a master policy.
guided visualization — a relaxation technique in which words, sounds, etc., are used to evoke positive mental images, feelings, and thoughts.
harmonic minor scale — minor scale (def 1).
he's no oil painting — he is not good-looking
health questionnaire — A health questionnaire is a list of questions about someone's health issued by underwriters before accepting a person as a risk.
heston and isleworth — a former borough, now part of Hounslow, in SE England, near London.
heteropolysaccharide — (carbohydrate) any polysaccharide formed from two or more different kinds of monosaccharide.
high-explosive shell — a shell containing high explosive
historical sociology — the sociological study of the origins and development of societies and of other social phenomena that seeks underlying laws and principles.
hold one's head high — to conduct oneself in a proud and confident manner
holder in due course — a person who has received a negotiable instrument in good faith and without notice that it is overdue, that there is any prior claim, or that there is a defect in the title of the person who negotiated it.
holy water sprinkler — morning star (def 2).
horizontal scan rate — (hardware) (HSR) The measure of how many scan lines of pixels a monitor can display in one second, expressed in kHz (generally somewhere between 20 and 100 kHz). The HSR is controlled by the horizontal sync signal generated by the video controller, but is limited by the speed with which the monitor can scan the electron beam horizontally across the screen and then return it to the beginning of the next line.
horizontally opposed — A horizontally opposed engine has the cylinders set horizontally at either side of the crankshaft.
hospitality industry — the hotel and accommodation industry
household appliances — devices or machines, usually electrical, that are in your home and which you use to do jobs such as cleaning or cooking
houses of parliament — In Britain, the Houses of Parliament are the British parliament, which consists of two parts, the House of Commons and the House of Lords. The buildings where the British parliament does its work are also called the Houses of Parliament.
human papillomavirus — any of a group of papillomaviruses causing cutaneous warts and lesions of the oral, anal, and genital mucous membranes in human beings
hydraulic suspension — a system of motor-vehicle suspension using hydraulic members, often with hydraulic compensation between front and rear systems (hydroelastic suspension)
hydrodesulfurization — desulfurization by catalytic agents of the sulfur-rich hydrocarbons obtained from petroleum or the like during cracking or hydrocracking.
hypercholesterolemia — the presence of an excessive amount of cholesterol in the blood.
hypercholesterolemic — (pathology) Of, pertaining to, or having hypercholesterolemia.
ideal of pure reason — God, seen as an idea of pure reason unifying the personal soul with the cosmos.
ignatius (of) loyola — Saint(born Iñigo López de Recalde) (1491-1556); Sp. priest: founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuit order): his day is July 31
incomprehensibleness — The state of being incomprehensible.
incontrovertibleness — The quality of being incontrovertible.
industrial democracy — control of an organization by the people who work for it, esp by workers holding positions on its board of directors
industrial espionage — the stealing of technological or commercial research data, blueprints, plans, etc., as by a person in the hire of a competing company.
industrial relations — (used with a plural verb) the dealings or relations of an industrial concern with its employees, with labor in general, with the public, etc.
industrial sociology — the sociological study of social relationships and social structures in business settings.
information builders — Distributors of LEVEL5 OBJECT. Telephone +1 800 969 INFO.
insolvency provision — the right of employees of a firm that goes bankrupt or into receivership to receive money owed to them as wages, etc
institutionalisation — The process of embedding something within an organization or society as an established custom or norm.

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