20-letter words that end in h
- a fight to the death — If you refer to a fight or contest as a fight to the death, you are emphasizing that it will not stop until the death or total victory of one of the opponents.
- angoumois grain moth — a gelechiid moth, Sitotroga cerealella, the larvae of which feed on stored corn and other grains.
- anticrepuscular arch — antitwilight arch.
- asleep at the switch — a slender, flexible shoot, rod, etc., used especially in whipping or disciplining.
- at the bottom of sth — If something is at the bottom of a problem or unpleasant situation, it is the real cause of it.
- barothermohygrograph — an automatic instrument for recording pressure, temperature, and humidity.
- be shot through with — If something is shot through with an element or feature, it contains a lot of that element or feature.
- beat around the bush — to talk around a subject without getting to the point
- bigmouth buffalofish — a buffalofish, Ictiobus cyprinellus, found in central North America, characterized by a large mouth.
- blue screen of death — (humour) (BSOD) The infamous white-on-blue text screen which appears when Microsoft Windows crashes. BSOD is mostly seen on the 16-bit systems such as Windows 3.1, but also on Windows 95 and apparently even under Windows NT 4. It is most likely to be caused by a GPF, although Windows 95 can do it if you've removed a required CD-ROM from the drive. It is often impossible to recover cleanly from a BSOD. The acronym BSOD is sometimes used as a verb, e.g. "Windoze just keeps BSODing on me today".
- breadth-first search — (algorithm) A graph search algorithm which tries all one-step extensions of current paths before trying larger extensions. This requires all current paths to be kept in memory simultaneously, or at least their end points. Opposite of depth-first search. See also best first search.
- cast a pall over sth — If something unpleasant casts a pall over an event or occasion, it makes it less enjoyable than it should be.
- clean bill of health — a good report of one's physical condition
- clean-bill-of-health — a certificate, carried by a ship, attesting to the presence or absence of infectious diseases among the ship's crew and at the port from which it has come.
- combination sandwich — a big sandwich with a mixed filling
- come out in the wash — If you say that something will come out in the wash, you mean that people will eventually find out the truth about it.
- commonwealth hackish — (jargon) Hacker jargon as spoken outside the US, especially in the British Commonwealth. It is reported that Commonwealth speakers are more likely to pronounce truncations like "char" and "soc", etc., as spelled (/char/, /sok/), as opposed to American /keir/ and /sohsh/. Dots in newsgroup names (especially two-component names) tend to be pronounced more often (so soc.wibble is /sok dot wib'l/ rather than /sohsh wib'l/). The prefix meta may be pronounced /mee't*/; similarly, Greek letter beta is usually /bee't*/, zeta is usually /zee't*/, and so forth. Preferred metasyntactic variables include blurgle, "eek", "ook", "frodo", and "bilbo"; "wibble", "wobble", and in emergencies "wubble"; "banana", "tom", "dick", "harry", "wombat", "frog", fish, and so on and on (see foo). Alternatives to verb doubling include suffixes "-o-rama", "frenzy" (as in feeding frenzy), and "city" (examples: "barf city!" "hack-o-rama!" "core dump frenzy!"). Finally, note that the American terms "parens", "brackets", and "braces" for (), [], and {} are uncommon; Commonwealth hackish prefers "brackets", "square brackets", and "curly brackets". Also, the use of "pling" for bang is common outside the United States. See also attoparsec, calculator, chemist, console jockey, fish, go-faster stripes, grunge, hakspek, heavy metal, leaky heap, lord high fixer, loose bytes, muddie, nadger, noddy, psychedelicware, plingnet, raster blaster, RTBM, seggie, spod, sun lounge, terminal junkie, tick-list features, weeble, weasel, YABA, and notes or definitions under Bad Thing, barf, bum, chase pointers, cosmic rays, crippleware, crunch, dodgy, gonk, hamster, hardwarily, mess-dos, nibble, proglet, root, SEX, tweak and xyzzy.
- composite photograph — a photograph formed by superimposing two or more separate photographs
- council of the reich — the Reichsrat.
- cross someone's path — to meet or thwart someone
- death of ivan ilyich — a short novel (1884) by Leo Tolstoy.
- department of health — government ministry for health matters
- diamond in the rough — a diamond in its natural state
- doctor of the church — a title conferred on an ecclesiastic for great learning and saintliness.
- early modern english — the English language represented in printed documents of the period starting with Caxton (1476) and ending with Dryden (1700).
- ecumenical patriarch — the patriarch of Constantinople, regarded as the highest dignitary of the Greek Orthodox Church.
- environmental health — the issues dealt with by the Environmental Health Department of a local authority, such as prevention of the spread of communicable diseases, food safety and hygiene, control of infestation by insects or rodents, etc
- flavour of the month — If you think that something or someone is very popular at a particular time, you can say that they are flavour of the month.
- for all one is worth — good or important enough to justify (what is specified): advice worth taking; a place worth visiting.
- freight pass-through — a special allowance or discounted price given a bookseller or bookstore by a publishing house for paying the freight charge on a shipment of books ordered: so called because the shipping charge is passed on to the consumer by an increase in the suggested retail price for each book. Abbreviation: FPT.
- friends of the earth — an organization of environmentalists and conservationists whose aim is to promote the sustainable use of the earth's resources
- fundamental research — research carried out to deepen understanding of the fundamental or basic principles of something
- 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.
- geoffrey of monmouth — 1100?–1154, English chronicler.
- give sb/get the push — If you get the push or are given the push, you are told that you are not wanted any more, either in your job or by someone you are having a relationship with.
- heston and isleworth — a former borough, now part of Hounslow, in SE England, near London.
- hold one's head high — to conduct oneself in a proud and confident manner
- in the nature of sth — If you say that one thing is in the nature of another, you mean that it is like the other thing.
- independence of path — the property of a function for which the line integral has the same value along all curves between two specified points.
- instruction prefetch — (architecture) A technique which attempts to minimise the time a processor spends waiting for instructions to be fetched from memory. Instructions following the one currently being executed are loaded into a prefetch queue when the processor's external bus is otherwise idle. If the processor executes a branch instruction or receives an interrupt then the queue must be flushed and reloaded from the new address. Instruction prefetch is often combined with pipelining in an attempt to keep the pipeline busy. By 1995 most processors used prefetching, e.g. Motorola 680x0, Intel 80x86.
- let someone off with — to give (a light punishment) to someone
- live and breathe sth — be passionately interested in sth
- llywelyn ap iorwerth — called Llywelyn the Great. died 1240, prince of Gwynedd, N Wales (1194–1238), who extended his rule over most of Wales
- make the most of sth — take advantage
- measure one's length — to fall, lie, or be thrown down at full length
- membranous labyrinth — an intricate combination of paths or passages in which it is difficult to find one's way or to reach the exit. Synonyms: maze, network, web.
- mother-of-pearl moth — a pyralid moth, Pleuroptya ruralis, having a pale sheen, that is often seen around nettles, on which its green larvae feed
- near-market research — scientific research that, while not linked to the development of a specific product, is likely to be commercially exploitable
- new jerusalem church — a sect founded in 1787, based on Swedenborgianism
- not have the stomach — If you have no stomach for something, you do not have the courage to do it.
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