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19-letter words containing a, f, i, g, h

  • (right) off the bat — immediately
  • a thing of the past — If something is a thing of the past, it no longer exists or happens, or is being replaced by something new.
  • arkwright furniture — late medieval English furniture of simple construction.
  • artificial daylight — artificial light having approximately the same spectral characteristics as natural daylight
  • baader-meinhof gang — a group of left-wing West German terrorists, active in the 1970s, who were dedicated to the violent overthrow of capitalist society
  • catherine of aragon — 1485–1536, first wife of Henry VIII of England and mother of Mary I. The annulment of Henry's marriage to her (1533) against papal authority marked an initial stage in the English Reformation
  • champagne lifestyle — a lifestyle involving the enjoyment of luxuries and expensive pleasures
  • champion of england — a hereditary official at British coronations, representing the king (King's Champion) or the queen (Queen's Champion) who is being crowned, and having originally the function of challenging to mortal combat any person disputing the right of the new sovereign to rule.
  • chinese finger trap — a child's toy, consisting of a small cylinder of woven straw or paper into which the forefingers are placed, one in each end: the harder one pulls, the more securely the fingers are held.
  • feather-tail glider — pygmy glider.
  • fixed exchange rate — finance: set rate of exchange
  • frederick the great — Frederick I (def 2).
  • free alongside ship — (of a shipment of goods) delivered to the dock without charge to the buyer, but excluding the cost of loading onto the vessel
  • from rags to riches — a worthless piece of cloth, especially one that is torn or worn.
  • grandfather's chair — wing chair.
  • great wall of china — a system of fortified walls with a roadway along the top, constructed as a defense for China against the nomads of the regions that are now Mongolia and Manchuria: completed in the 3rd century b.c., but later repeatedly modified and rebuilt. 2000 miles (3220 km) long.
  • hang five (or ten) — to ride a surfboard with the toes of one (or both) feet draped over the front edge of the board
  • hang on the lips of — to listen to with close attention
  • harbinger-of-spring — a North American umbelliferous herb, Erigenia bulbosa, having white flowers that bloom early in the spring.
  • have the makings of — show potential as
  • hildegard of bingenHildegard von (Hildegard of Bingen"Sibyl of the Rhine") 1098–1178, German nun, healer, writer, and composer.
  • huffing and puffing — empty threats or objections; bluster
  • information highway — information superhighway
  • islet of langerhans — any of several masses of endocrine cells in the pancreas that secrete insulin, somatostatin, and glucagon.
  • ladies-of-the-night — plural of lady-of-the-night.
  • lady of the evening — a prostitute.
  • languages of choice — C and Lisp. Nearly every hacker knows one of these, and most good ones are fluent in both. Smalltalk and Prolog are also popular in small but influential communities. There is also a rapidly dwindling category of older hackers with Fortran, or even assembler, as their language of choice. They often prefer to be known as Real Programmers, and other hackers consider them a bit odd (see "The Story of Mel"). Assembler is generally no longer considered interesting or appropriate for anything but HLL implementation, glue, and a few time-critical and hardware-specific uses in systems programs. Fortran occupies a shrinking niche in scientific programming. Most hackers tend to frown on languages like Pascal and Ada, which don't give them the near-total freedom considered necessary for hacking (see bondage-and-discipline language), and to regard everything even remotely connected with COBOL or other traditional card walloper languages as a total and unmitigated loss.
  • logical shift right — logical shift
  • love at first sight — instant romantic attraction to sb
  • malice aforethought — a predetermination to commit an unlawful act without just cause or provocation (applied chiefly to cases of first-degree murder).
  • manned space flight — space travel in vehicles with a human crew
  • off-highway vehicle — An off-highway vehicle is a vehicle, such as one used for construction or agriculture, that is intended for use on steep or uneven ground.
  • parting of the ways — When there is a parting of the ways, two or more people or groups of people stop working together or travelling together.
  • point the finger at — to accuse or blame
  • put a figure on sth — When you put a figure on an amount, you say exactly how much it is.
  • queensland lungfish — a lungfish, Neoceratodus forsteri, reaching a length of six feet: occurs in Queensland rivers but introduced elsewhere
  • reflux oesophagitis — inflammation of the gullet caused by regurgitation of stomach acids, producing heartburn: may be associated with a hiatus hernia
  • shopping facilities — shops or other retail services
  • straightforwardness — going or directed straight ahead: a straightforward gaze.
  • taming of the shrew — a comedy (1594?) by Shakespeare.
  • teaching fellowship — a fellowship providing a student in a graduate school with free tuition and expenses and stipulating that the student assume some teaching duties in return.
  • the gift of the gab — If someone has the gift of the gab, they are able to speak easily and confidently, and to persuade people. Also the gift of gab, mainly in American English.
  • the oceanic feeling — a term coined by Sigmund Freud to describe the feeling experienced by people who have religious faith
  • the pilgrim fathers — the English Puritans who sailed on the Mayflower to New England, where they founded Plymouth Colony in SE Massachusetts (1620)
  • the roaring forties — the areas of ocean between 40° and 50° latitude in the S Hemisphere, noted for gale-force winds
  • thread-line fishing — spinning (def 3).
  • to fight for breath — If you fight for breath, you try to breathe but find it very difficult.
  • ultrahigh frequency — any frequency between 300 and 3000 megahertz. Abbreviation: UHF, uhf.
  • valley of the kings — a valley on the west bank of the Nile near the site of Thebes: the necropolis of many of the kings and queens of the 18th and 19th dynasties of ancient Egypt, c1350–c1200 b.c.
  • wage-push inflation — an inflationary trend caused by wage increases that in turn cause rises in production costs and prices.

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