19-letter words containing b, e, s, h

give sb the willies — If someone or something gives you the willies, they make you feel nervous or frightened.
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.
grasshopper warbler — a Eurasian warbler Locustella naevia
handlebar moustache — a man's moustache having long, curved ends that resemble the handlebars of a bicycle.
harbinger-of-spring — a North American umbelliferous herb, Erigenia bulbosa, having white flowers that bloom early in the spring.
have one's blood up — to be or cause to be angry or inflamed
have sth against sb — If you have something against someone or something, you dislike them.
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).
high blood pressure — elevation of the arterial blood pressure or a condition resulting from it; hypertension. Abbreviation: HBP.
high-bush cranberry — cranberry bush
honorable discharge — a discharge from military service of a person who has fulfilled obligations efficiently, honorably, and faithfully.
human rights abuses — acts that contravene human rights
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
hyperbolic cosecant — a hyperbolic function that is the reciprocal of hyperbolic sine
hypersuggestibility — subject to or easily influenced by suggestion.
in the catbird seat — If you say that someone is in the catbird seat, you think that their situation is very good.
in the person of sb — You can use in the person of when mentioning the name of someone you have just referred to in a more general or indirect way.
incomprehensibility — impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
interchangeableness — Quality of being interchangeable.
isle of shoals boat — a sailing boat formerly used in Ipswich Bay, Massachusetts, rigged with two spritsails or gaff sails.
job creation scheme — a governmental scheme to increase the number of jobs in an area, organization, etc
label switched path — (networking) (LSP) The specific path through a network that a datagram follows, based on its MPLS labels.
lighten sb's burden — If someone or something lightens your burden or your load, they make a bad or difficult situation better for you.
line-of-battle ship — ship of the line.
lobster-tail helmet — a burgonet fitted with a long, articulated tail of lames for protecting the nape of the neck, worn by cavalry in the 17th century.
make the best of it — cope
membership function — fuzzy subset
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.
on someone's behalf — in / on behalf of, as a representative of or a proxy for: On behalf of my colleagues, I address you tonight.
on the baker's list — in good health
out at (the) elbows — shabby; poverty-stricken
own flesh and blood — If you say that someone is your own flesh and blood, you are emphasizing that they are a member of your family.
palaeoethnobotanist — someone who studies fossil seeds and grains to further archaeological knowledge, esp of the domestication of cereals
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.
pied-de-biche spoon — a spoon having a handle with a trifid end.
portobello mushroom — a dark mushroom, strong in flavor, having a broad, flat cap that is often grilled and eaten
protease inhibitors — a drug that inhibits the action of protease, especially any of a class of antiviral drugs that prevent the cleavage and replication of HIV proteins.
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
refreshable display — braille display
removable hard disk — (storage) A type of magnetic disk, or possibly magneto-optical disk which is not permanently attached to the disk drive (not a fixed disk) but which can be taken out and replaced, allowing many disks to be used in the same drive. The term "removable disk" would seem to be applicable to floppy disks but is generally reserved for hard disks in suitable cartridges such as those made by Syquest, Iomega and others. Removable disk packs were common on minicomputers such as the PDP-11 in use in the 1970s except that the drives were the size of washing machines and the disk packs as big as car wheels. Removable disks became popular on microcomputers in the 1990s as a cheap way of expanding disk space, transporting large amounts of data between computers and storing backups. Large, cheap fixed hard disks and USB memory sticks have made removable disks less attractive.
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
saber-toothed tiger — any of several extinct members of the cat family Felidae from the Oligocene to Pleistocene Epochs, having greatly elongated, saberlike upper canine teeth.
sabre-toothed tiger — any of various extinct Tertiary felines of the genus Smilodon and related genera, with long curved upper canine teeth
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
semidetached binary — a pair of stars that are so close together that mass transfer occurs from one to the other
short-tail business — Short-tail business is insurance business where it is known that claims will be made and settled quickly.
shortness of breath — respiratory difficulty

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