20-letter words containing s, m
- go to someone's head — to confuse, excite, or intoxicate someone
- goldenhar's syndrome — a congenital disorder in which one side of the face is malformed, often with an enlargement of one side of the mouth. There may also be hearing loss, curvature of the spine, and mild retardation
- gravimetric analysis — analysis by weight.
- green monkey disease — Marburg disease.
- green mountain state — Vermont (used as a nickname).
- grievous bodily harm — law: serious injury
- harmonic minor scale — minor scale (def 1).
- harmonic progression — a series of numbers the reciprocals of which are in arithmetic progression.
- hawaii-standard-time — Alaska-Hawaii time.
- hazard warning lamps — Hazard warning lamps are flashing lamps on each corner of a vehicle that are used to show the position of the vehicle if there has been a breakdown or an accident.
- hire-purchase system — a system of payment for a commodity in regular installments while using it.
- homo sapiens sapiens — the subspecies of the genus Homo in which modern humans are classified.
- honeysuckle ornament — anthemion.
- 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.
- how about something? — what is your wish, opinion, or information concerning something (or someone)?
- hudson's bay company — a company chartered in England in 1670 to carry on fur trading with the Indians in North America.
- human interest story — news item about people's lives
- human papillomavirus — any of a group of papillomaviruses causing cutaneous warts and lesions of the oral, anal, and genital mucous membranes in human beings
- human parvovirus b19 — Pathology. a mild infection, most often seen in children or young adults, caused by a small virus ((the human parvovirus B19)) and marked by a blotchy rash on the cheeks, arms, and legs.
- human-interest story — a story or report, as in a newspaper or on a newscast, designed to engage attention and sympathy by enabling one to identify readily with the people, problems, and situations described.
- hungarian bromegrass — a pasture grass, Bromus inermis, native to Europe, having smooth blades.
- hyperadrenocorticism — Cushing's syndrome.
- hypercholesterolemia — the presence of an excessive amount of cholesterol in the blood.
- hypercholesterolemic — (pathology) Of, pertaining to, or having hypercholesterolemia.
- hyperhomocysteinemia — (medicine) The presence of an excessive amount of homocysteine in the blood.
- ibm systems engineer — (job) (SE) A software person from IBM.
- ignotum per ignotius — an explanation that is obscurer than the thing to be explained
- immunohistochemistry — the application of immunologic techniques to the chemical analysis of cells and tissues.
- implicit parallelism — (parallel) A feature of a programming language for a parallel processing system which decides automatically which parts to run in parallel. The best way of providing implicit parallelism is still (1995) an active research topic. The problem is to generate the right number of parallel tasks of the right size (or "granularity"). Too many tasks and the system gets bogged down in house-keeping, or memory for waiting tasks runs out, too few tasks and processors are left idle. The best performance is usually achieved with explicit parallelism where the programmer can annotate his program to indicate which parts should be executed as independent parallel tasks.
- in any shape or form — If you say, for example, that you will not accept something in any shape or form, or in any way, shape or form, you are emphasizing that you will not accept it in any circumstances.
- in bad circumstances — (of a person) in a bad financial situation
- in the circumstances — a condition, detail, part, or attribute, with respect to time, place, manner,agent, etc., that accompanies, determines, or modifies a fact or event; a modifying or influencing factor: Do not judge his behavior without considering every circumstance.
- in/to someone's eyes — You use expressions such as in his eyes or to her eyes to indicate that you are reporting someone's opinion and that other people might think differently.
- income tax inspector — a person whose job is to assess individuals' income tax liability
- incomprehensibleness — The state of being incomprehensible.
- incremental analysis — (testing) Partial analysis of an incomplete product to allow early feedback on its development.
- industrial democracy — control of an organization by the people who work for it, esp by workers holding positions on its board of directors
- information builders — Distributors of LEVEL5 OBJECT. Telephone +1 800 969 INFO.
- information industry — businesses that involve collecting and using information
- inland revenue stamp — a certificate issued by the Inland Revenue to acknowledge payment of tax
- innerspring mattress — a mattress with built-in coil springs
- instruction mnemonic — (programming) A word or acronym used in assembly language to represent a binary machine instruction operation code. Different processors have different instruction sets and therefore use a different set of mnemonics to represent them. E.g. ADD, B (branch), BLT (branch if less than), SVC, MOVE, LDR (load register).
- insulin-coma therapy — a former treatment for mental illness, especially schizophrenia, employing insulin-induced hypoglycemia as a method for producing convulsive seizures.
- intercalary meristem — meristem in the internode of a stem.
- intermediate section — The intermediate section is the section of the borehole after the top hole, which has more consolidated rock.
- internal hemorrhoids — Usually, hemorrhoids. Pathology. an abnormally enlarged vein mainly due to a persistent increase in venous pressure, occurring inside the anal sphincter of the rectum and beneath the mucous membrane (internal hemorrhoid) or outside the anal sphincter and beneath the surface of the anal skin (external hemorrhoid)
- international master — a chess player of high ability but below the level of International Grand Master, as determined through specified types of international competitions.
- international system — an internationally accepted coherent system of physical units, derived from the MKSA (meter-kilogram-second-ampere) system, using the meter, kilogram, second, ampere, kelvin, mole, and candela as the basic units (SI units) respectively of the fundamental quantities of length, mass, time, electric current, temperature, amount of substance, and luminous intensity. Abbreviation: SI.
- intestinal amebiasis — amebic dysentery.
- inventory adjustment — Inventory adjustments are increases or decreases made in inventory to account for theft, loss, breakages, and errors in the amount or number of items received.