27-letter words containing t, i, g, h
- (can't) put a price on sthg — If you say that you cannot put a price on something, you mean that it is very valuable.
- a chicken and egg situation — If you describe a situation as a chicken and egg situation, you mean that it is impossible to decide which of two things caused the other one.
- a spider's web of something — a tangled arrangement
- anthropological linguistics — the study of language in relation to culture, including the recording and analysis of the languages of nonliterate societies.
- as well it/he/she might/may — If you say, after stating that something has happened or is the case, as well it might or as well it may, you mean that this is not at all surprising or is quite appropriate.
- audio processing technology — (company) (APT) A company that produces codecs based on predictive analysis rather than frequency coding.
- center-weighted light meter — an exposure meter that gives priority to light measured near the center of the picture area, with sensitivity gradually decreasing toward the edges.
- charge of the light brigade — a poem (1854) by Tennyson, celebrating the British cavalry attack on the Russian position at Balaklava during the Crimean War.
- common algorithmic language — (language) (COMAL) A language for beginners developed by Benedict Loefstedt and Borge Christensen in 1973 and popular in Europe and Scandinavia. It has a Pascal-like structure added to BASIC. COMAL-80 has been adopted as an introductory language in Denmark. There is a version for the Amiga and a well-supported version for the PC, running under MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows, called UniCOMAL. Recently, it has been developed as a web-scripting language called WebCOMAL. There is a COMAL User's Group at 5501 Groveland Terr, Madison WI 53716, USA.
- day and night/night and day — If something happens day and night or night and day, it happens all the time without stopping.
- distinguished conduct medal — a decoration awarded for distinguished conduct in operations in the field against an enemy. Abbreviation: D.C.M.
- distinguished service cross — a bronze medal awarded for extraordinary heroism in military action against an armed enemy. Abbreviation: D.S.C.
- distinguished service medal — U.S. Military. a decoration awarded for exceptionally meritorious performance of a duty of great responsibility.
- distinguished service order — a decoration awarded for distinguished service in action. Abbreviation: D.S.O.
- electroencephalographically — In an electroencephalographic way.
- electronic data interchange — (application, communications) (EDI) The exchange of standardised document forms between computer systems for business use. EDI is part of electronic commerce. EDI is most often used between different companies ("trading partners") and uses some variation of the ANSI X12 standard (USA) or EDIFACT (UN sponsored global standard).
- entity-relationship diagram — entity-relationship model
- german short-haired pointer — one of a German breed of large sporting dogs having a short hard coat, usually liver or liver and white in color, and a docked tail, used as a versatile hunting dog.
- give (or get) the business — to subject (or be subjected) to rough treatment, practical joking, etc.
- give sb enough rope to hang — If you give someone enough rope to hang themselves, you give them the freedom to do a job in their own way because you hope that their attempts will fail and that they will look foolish.
- give sb/sthing a wide berth — If you give someone or something a wide berth, you avoid them because you think they are unpleasant, or dangerous, or simply because you do not like them.
- graphics interchange format — (graphics, file format) /gif/, occasionally /jif/ (GIF, GIF 89A) A standard for digitised images compressed with the LZW algorithm, defined in 1987 by CompuServe (CIS). Graphics Interchange Format and GIF are service marks of CompuServe Incorporated. This only affects use of GIF within Compuserve, and pass-through licensing for software to access them, it doesn't affect anyone else's use of GIF. It followed from a 1994 legal action by Unisys against CIS for violating Unisys's LZW software patent. The CompuServe Vice President has stated that "CompuServe is committed to keeping the GIF 89A specification as an open, fully-supported, non-proprietary specification for the entire on-line community including the web". See also progressive coding, animated GIF.
- hashemite kingdom of jordan — official name of Jordan.
- have a frog in one's throat — to experience temporary hoarseness due to throat irritation
- have something on the brain — Anatomy, Zoology. the part of the central nervous system enclosed in the cranium of humans and other vertebrates, consisting of a soft, convoluted mass of gray and white matter and serving to control and coordinate the mental and physical actions.
- healing by second intention — an act or instance of determining mentally upon some action or result.
- henry the navigator, prince — Prince, 1394–1460, prince of Portugal.
- hertzsprung-russell diagram — the graph showing the absolute magnitude plotted against the surface temperature for a group of stars.
- high speed serial interface — (hardware, communications) (HSSI) A serial port which supports serial transmit speeds of up to 52 megabits per second. It is typically used for leased lines such as DS3 (44.736 Mbps) and E3 (34 Mbps) and for Wide Area Network devices such as routers.
- high-deductible health plan — In the U.S., a high-deductible health plan is a health insurance plan with lower premiums and higher deductibles than usual.
- higher national certificate — a work-related higher education qualification, taking two years part-time, or a year full-time.
- hitch one's wagon to a star — any of various kinds of four-wheeled vehicles designed to be pulled or having its own motor and ranging from a child's toy to a commercial vehicle for the transport of heavy loads, delivery, etc.
- hue, saturation, brightness — (graphics) (HSB) A colour model that describes colours in terms of hue, saturation, and brightness. In the tables below, a hue is a "pure" colour, i.e. one with no black or white in it. A shade is a "dark" colour, i.e. one produced by mixing a hue with black. A tint is a "light" colour, i.e. one produced by mixing a hue with white. A tone is a colour produced by mixing a hue with a shade of grey. Colour type S L Black Any 0% White Any 100% Grey 0% 1-99% Hue 100% 50% Shade 100% 1-49% Tint 100% 51-99% Tone 1-99% 1-99% Quattro Pro, CorelDraw, and PhotoShop use a variant (Quattro Pro calls the third parameter "brightness") in which a brightness of 100% can produce white, a pure hue, or anything in between, depending on the saturation. Colour type S B Black Any 0% White 0% 100% Grey 0% 1-99% Hue 100% 100% Shade 100% 1-99% Tint 1-99% 100% Tone 1-99% 1-99% [Same as HSV?]
- hypergeometric distribution — a system of probabilities associated with finding a specified number of elements, as 5 white balls, from a given number of elements, as 10 balls, chosen from a set containing 2 kinds of elements of known quantity, as 15 white balls and 20 black balls.
- in (or out of) the running — in (or out of) the competition; having a (or no) chance to win
- in (or over) the long haul — over a long period of time
- in the market for something — If you are in the market for something, you are interested in buying it.
- introgressive-hybridization — the introduction of genes from one species into the gene pool of another species, occurring when matings between the two produce fertile hybrids.
- knight, death and the devil — an engraving (1513) by Albrecht Dürer.
- knights of the ku klux klan — Ku Klux Klan (def 2).
- kungliga tekniska högskolan — (body, education) (KTH, Royal Institute of Art and Technology) A Swedish university founded in 1827 that is strong in engineering and computing (e.g. AI, Virtual Reality). In 1998 KTH had nearly 11,000 undergraduate students, 1,300 postgraduate students, and 2,900 staff, making it the largest of Sweden's six universitites of technology. Address: Stockholm, Sweden.
- nothing in it/nothing to it — If you say about a story or report that there is nothing in it or nothing to it, you mean that it is untrue.
- nothing to it/nothing in it — If you say about an activity that there is nothing to it or nothing in it, you mean that it is extremely easy.
- nothing to write home about — If you say that something is nothing to write home about, you mean that it is not very interesting or exciting.
- on the understanding (that) — If you agree to do something on the understanding that something else will be done, you do it because you have been told that the other thing will definitely be done.
- open scripting architecture — (OSA) A CIL approach to the coexistence of multiple scripting systems.
- oscillating universe theory — the theory that the universe is oscillating between periods of expansion and collapse
- peripheral technology group — (company) A national and international distributor of IBM PC-to-Unix and Internet connectivity products. They cater for resellers, dealers and VARs and are one of the top Seagate and Micropolis distributors in the US. Address: Eden Prairie, MN, USA (a suburb of Minneapolis). Eden Prairie ("Silicon Prairie") is the home of Digi International, Ontrack, Open Systems, LaserMaster, Best Buy, and others.
- physiological salt solution — isotonic sodium chloride solution.
- potassium hydrogen tartrate — a colourless or white soluble crystalline salt used in baking powders, soldering fluxes, and laxatives. Formula: KHC4H4O6
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