22-letter words containing s, p, h, e, r
- a lump in one's throat — a tight dry feeling in one's throat, usually caused by great emotion
- acoustic spectrography — a technique for analyzing sound by separating it into its component frequencies.
- adenosine triphosphate — ATP
- alternative hypothesis — the hypothesis that given data do not conform with a given null hypothesis: the null hypothesis is accepted only if its probability exceeds a predetermined significance level
- anatolian shepherd dog — a large powerfully-built dog of a breed with a large head and a short dense cream or fawn coat, originally used for guarding sheep
- arithmetic progression — a sequence of numbers or quantities, each term of which differs from the succeeding term by a constant amount, such as 3,6,9,12
- armed response vehicle — (in Britain) a police vehicle carrying armed officers who are trained to respond to incidents involving firearms
- articulatory phonetics — the branch of phonetics concerned with the production of speech sounds
- axiom of comprehension — (logic) An axiom schema of set theory which states: if P(x) is a property then {x : P} is a set. I.e. all the things with some property form a set. Acceptance of this axiom leads to Russell's Paradox which is why Zermelo set theory replaces it with a restricted form.
- be in a person's shoes — to be in another person's situation
- birthright citizenship — the practice of automatically granting citizenship to a child born in a particular country, regardless of the citizenship status of the parent or parents: an end to birthright citizenship.
- chip on one's shoulder — an inclination to fight or quarrel
- color graphics adapter — (hardware, graphics) (CGA) One of IBM's earliest hardware video display standards for use in IBM PCs. CGA can display 80*25 or 40*25 text in 16 colors, 640*200 pixels of graphics in two colors or 320*200 in four colors (IBM PC video modes 0-6). It is now obsolete.
- comparative psychology — the study of the similarities and differences in the behaviour of different species
- complete metamorphosis — physical changes in the development of certain insects that include egg, larva, pupa, and adult stages, as in beetles, moths, or bees
- concurrent massey hope — (language, functional programming) An extension of Massey Hope, by Peter Burgess, Robert Pointon, and Nigel Perry <[email protected]> of Massey University, NZ, that provides multithreading and typed inter-thread communication. It uses C for intermediate code rather than assembly language.
- corporate headquarters — the main offices of a corporation, from where it runs its business
- corporate manslaughter — the death of someone caused by an act of corporate negligence
- curvature of the spine — a condition in which the spine is abnormally curved
- damn with faint praise — If someone damns something with faint praise, they say something about it which sounds quite nice but is not enthusiastic, and shows that they do not have a high opinion of it.
- dehydroepiandrosterone — the most abundant steroid in the human body, that is involved in the manufacture of testosterone, oestrogen, progesterone, and corticosterone
- disposable soma theory — the theory that ageing is caused by the body having increasingly fewer resources to allocate towards repairing wear and damage to tissues
- earth inductor compass — a compass actuated by induction from the earth's magnetic field.
- electroencephalographs — Plural form of electroencephalograph.
- electrophysiologically — In an electrophysiological way.
- english cocker spaniel — any of a breed of small spaniel, similar to and the progenitor of the cocker spaniel
- fall prey to something — To fall prey to something bad means to be taken over or affected by it.
- garmisch-partenkirchen — a city in S Germany, in the Bavarian Alps.
- geographic determinism — a doctrine that regards geographical conditions as the determining or molding agency of group life.
- get/come to grips with — If you get to grips with a problem or if you come to grips with it, you consider it seriously, and start taking action to deal with it.
- give a person what for — to punish or reprimand a person severely
- glossopharyngeal nerve — either of the ninth pair of cranial nerves, consisting of motor fibers that innervate the muscles of the pharynx, the soft palate, and the parotid glands, and of sensory fibers that conduct impulses to the brain from the pharynx, the middle ear, and the posterior third of the tongue.
- go their separate ways — When two or more people who have been together for some time go their separate ways, they go to different places or end their relationship.
- go through one's paces — to show one's abilities, skills, etc.
- governor winthrop desk — an 18th-century American desk having a slant front.
- graph rewriting system — An extension of a term rewriting system which uses graph reduction on terms represented by directed graphs to avoid duplication of work by sharing expressions.
- guanosine triphosphate — GTP.
- gum bichromate process — a contact printing method in which the image is formed on a coating of sensitized gum containing a suitable colored pigment and potassium or ammonium dichromate.
- help a person off with — to assist a person in the removal of (clothes)
- hemorrhagic septicemia — an acute infectious disease of animals, caused by the bacterium Pasteurella multocida, and characterized by fever, catarrhal symptoms, pneumonia, and general blood infection.
- hold the purse strings — hold the purse strings, to have the power to determine how money shall be spent.
- 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.
- jacquard, joseph-marie — Joseph-Marie Jacquard
- landscape architecture — the art of arranging or modifying the features of a landscape, an urban area, etc., for aesthetic or practical reasons.
- lesser prairie chicken — either of two North American gallinaceous birds of western prairies, Tympanuchus cupido (greater prairie chicken) or T. pallidicinctus (lesser prairie chicken) having rufous, brown, black, and white plumage.
- 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.
- lethargic encephalitis — sleeping sickness (def 2).
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