19-letter words containing b, e, o, t, h, u
- a creature of habit — If you say that someone is a creature of habit, you mean that they usually do the same thing at the same time each day, rather than doing new and different things.
- battle of the bulge — (in World War II) the final major German counteroffensive in 1944 when the Allied forces were pushed back into NE Belgium; the Germans were repulsed by Jan 1945
- beat about the bush — to avoid the point at issue; prevaricate
- bernoulli's theorem — Statistics. law of averages (def 1).
- beside the question — not related to the subject under discussion
- beta-naphthyl group — See under naphthyl.
- bismuth oxychloride — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble powder, BiOCl, used chiefly in the manufacture of pigments, face powders, and artificial pearls.
- brush-tailed possum — any of several widely-distributed Australian possums of the genus Trichosurus
- bulbourethral gland — Cowper's gland
- chamber of deputies — the lower house of the legislature of certain countries, as Italy.
- cobaltous hydroxide — a rose-red, amorphous, water-insoluble powder, Co 2 O 3 ⋅3H 2 O, used chiefly in the preparation of cobalt salts and in the manufacture of paint and varnish driers.
- cuboidal epithelium — epithelium consisting of one or more layers of cells of cuboid or polyhedral shape.
- east dunbartonshire — a council area of central Scotland to the N of Glasgow: part of Strathclyde region from 1975 until 1996: mainly agricultural and residential. Administrative centre: Kirkintilloch. Pop: 106 970 (2003 est). Area: 172 sq km (66 sq miles)
- go down the tube(s) — If a business, economy, or institution goes down the tubes or goes down the tube, it fails or collapses completely.
- 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.
- heat of sublimation — the heat absorbed by one gram or unit mass of a substance in the process of changing, at a constant temperature and pressure, from a solid to a gaseous state. Compare sublime (def 10).
- 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.
- junior bantamweight — a boxer weighing up to 115 pounds (51.7 kg), between flyweight and bantamweight.
- mary mcleod bethune — Mary McLeod [muh-kloud] /məˈklaʊd/ (Show IPA), 1875–1955, U.S. educator and civil-rights leader.
- membership function — fuzzy subset
- 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
- next door neighbour — a person who lives in the house, flat, etc, next to one's home
- non-distinguishable — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
- olive-backed thrush — Swainson's thrush.
- out at (the) elbows — shabby; poverty-stricken
- phthalocyanine blue — a pigment used in painting, derived from copper phthalocyanine and characterized chiefly by its brilliant, dark-blue color and by permanence.
- portobello mushroom — a dark mushroom, strong in flavor, having a broad, flat cap that is often grilled and eaten
- put on the feed bag — Also called nose bag. a bag for feeding horses, placed before the mouth and fastened around the head with straps.
- sb's spiritual home — your spiritual home is the place where you feel that you belong, usually because your ideas or attitudes are the same as those of the people who live there
- short-tail business — Short-tail business is insurance business where it is known that claims will be made and settled quickly.
- 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.
- store refurbishment — Store refurbishment happens when a store needs to be redecorated, modernized or the layout changed. The store will often be closed to customers during this time.
- substitution cipher — a cipher that replaces letters of the plain text with another set of letters or symbols.
- the buck stops here — the ultimate responsibility lies here
- the compassion club — (in Canada) a nonprofit organization that provides uncontaminated cannabis for medical purposes and natural therapies in a safe environment
- the labour movement — a movement campaigning for the interests of working people, for example for better working conditions, better treatment from employers, etc
- thumb one's nose at — to deride or mock, esp by placing the thumb on the nose with fingers extended
- to be headquartered — to be based; to have headquarters (in a place)
- to be running short — If you are running short of something or running low on something, you do not have much of it left. If a supply of something is running short or running low, there is not much of it left.
- to be up shit creek — to be in an extremely bad situation
- to bury the hatchet — If two people bury the hatchet, they become friendly again after a quarrel or disagreement.
- to hold your breath — If you hold your breath, you make yourself stop breathing for a few moments, for example because you are under water.
- to plumb new depths — If you say that something plumbs new depths, you mean that it is worse than all the things of its kind that have existed before, even though some of them have been very bad.
- to plumb the depths — If someone plumbs the depths of an unpleasant emotion or quality, they experience it or show it to an extreme degree.
- to take the biscuit — If someone has done something very stupid, rude, or selfish, you can say that they take the biscuit or that what they have done takes the biscuit, to emphasize your surprise at their behaviour.
- touch all the bases — to deal with all related details
- under the banner of — If someone does something under the banner of a particular cause, idea, or belief, they do it saying that they support that cause, idea, or belief.
- west dunbartonshire — a council area of W central Scotland, on Loch Lomond and the Clyde estuary: corresponds to part of the historical county of Dunbartonshire; part of Strathclyde Region from 1975 to 1996: engineering industries. Administrative centre: Dumbarton. Pop: 92 320 (2003 est). Area: 162 sq km (63 sq miles)
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