19-letter words containing b, c, h
- goldbach conjecture — an unproved theorem that every even integer greater than 2 can be written as the sum of two prime numbers.
- handlebar moustache — a man's moustache having long, curved ends that resemble the handlebars of a bicycle.
- hang in the balance — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- have a bone to pick — to have grounds for a quarrel
- heptachlorobiphenyl — (organic compound) Either of twenty-four isomers of the polychlorinated biphenyl containing seven chlorine atoms.
- high-bush cranberry — cranberry bush
- honorable discharge — a discharge from military service of a person who has fulfilled obligations efficiently, honorably, and faithfully.
- hydrostatic balance — a balance for finding the weight of an object submerged in water in order to determine the upthrust on it and thus determine its relative density
- hydroxybenzoic acid — Hydroxybenzoic acid is the active ingredient in a number of drugs, for example, aspirin. Hydroxybenzoic acid is also used as a preservative.
- hydroxybutyric acid — ketone body.
- hydroxydaunorubicin — Doxorubicin.
- hyperbolic cosecant — a hyperbolic function that is the reciprocal of hyperbolic sine
- hyperbolic function — a function of an angle expressed as a relationship between the distances from a point on a hyperbola to the origin and to the coordinate axes, as hyperbolic sine or hyperbolic cosine: often expressed as combinations of exponential functions.
- hyperbolic geometry — the branch of non-Euclidean geometry that replaces the parallel postulate of Euclidean geometry with the postulate that two distinct lines may be drawn parallel to a given line through a point not on the given line.
- in the catbird seat — If you say that someone is in the catbird seat, you think that their situation is very good.
- incomprehensibility — impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
- interchangeableness — Quality of being interchangeable.
- job creation scheme — a governmental scheme to increase the number of jobs in an area, organization, etc
- john c breckinridge — John Cabell, 1821–75, vice president of the U.S. 1857–61: Confederate general in the American Civil War.
- knights of columbus — an international fraternal and benevolent organization of Roman Catholic men, founded in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1882.
- label switched path — (networking) (LSP) The specific path through a network that a datagram follows, based on its MPLS labels.
- mary mcleod bethune — Mary McLeod [muh-kloud] /məˈklaʊd/ (Show IPA), 1875–1955, U.S. educator and civil-rights leader.
- membership function — fuzzy subset
- naberezhniye chelny — city in E European Russia, on the Kama River: pop. 514,000
- neighbourhood watch — a scheme under which members of a community agree together to take responsibility for keeping an eye on each other's property, as a way of preventing crime
- neville chamberlain — (Arthur) Neville, 1869–1940, British statesman: prime minister 1937–40.
- nonthrombocytopenic — Not thrombocytopenic.
- not by a long chalk — by no means; not possibly
- okeechobee waterway — a waterway in S Florida from the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico. 155 miles (244 km) long.
- olive-backed thrush — Swainson's thrush.
- paradichlorobenzene — a white, crystalline, volatile, water-insoluble solid, C 6 H 4 Cl 2 , of the benzene series, having a penetrating odor: used chiefly as a moth repellent.
- paschen-back effect — a splitting of spectral lines observed when the source of a radiation is subjected to a strong magnetic field, caused when the vectors associated with the spin and orbital angular momentum exhibit individual rather than common precession.
- phenylthiocarbamide — a crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, C 6 H 5 NHCSNH 2 , that is either tasteless or bitter, depending upon the heredity of the taster, and is used in medical genetics and as a diagnostic.
- phthalocyanine blue — a pigment used in painting, derived from copper phthalocyanine and characterized chiefly by its brilliant, dark-blue color and by permanence.
- pied-de-biche spoon — a spoon having a handle with a trifid end.
- pseudo-biographical — of or relating to a person's life: He's gathering biographical data for his book on Milton.
- redress the balance — to make a fair adjustment; see that justice is done
- republique malgache — French name of Malagasy Republic.
- research laboratory — place for scientific experimentation
- rhodesian ridgeback — a large short-haired breed of dog characterized by a ridge of hair growing along the back in the opposite direction to the rest of the coat. It was originally a hunting dog from South Africa
- semidetached binary — a pair of stars that are so close together that mass transfer occurs from one to the other
- simple carbohydrate — a carbohydrate, as glucose, that consists of a single monosaccharide unit.
- son-of-a-bitch stew — (in the Old West) a stew often prepared by chuck-wagon cooks for working cowboys, containing tripe and often also the heart, liver, brains, kidney, etc., of a slaughtered steer.
- southern crab apple — a tree, Malus angustifolia, of the eastern U.S., having oblong leaves, fragrant, pink or rose-colored flowers, and small, round, yellow-green fruit.
- stochastic variable — a random variable.
- substitution cipher — a cipher that replaces letters of the plain text with another set of letters or symbols.
- switchblade (knife) — a large jackknife that snaps open when a release button on the handle is pressed
- synchromesh gearbox — A synchromesh gearbox is a usually manually operated transmission in which a change of gears takes place between gears that are already revolving at the same speed.
- take care of sth/sb — If you take care of someone or something, you look after them and prevent them from being harmed or damaged.
- the buck stops here — the ultimate responsibility lies here