19-letter words containing f, i, g, h
- shopping facilities — shops or other retail services
- straightforwardness — going or directed straight ahead: a straightforward gaze.
- superhigh frequency — any frequency between 3000 and 30,000 megahertz. Abbreviation: SHF.
- 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 finishing touch — If you add the finishing touches to something, you add or do the last things that are necessary to complete it.
- 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
- think nothing of it — If something happens and you think nothing of it, you do not pay much attention to it or think of it as strange or important, although later you realize that it is.
- thread-line fishing — spinning (def 3).
- to fight for breath — If you fight for breath, you try to breathe but find it very difficult.
- to get short shrift — If someone or something gets short shrift, they are paid very little attention.
- to think nothing of — If you think nothing of doing something that other people might consider difficult, strange, or wrong, you consider it to be easy or normal, and you do it often or would be quite willing to do it.
- 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.
- very high frequency — any frequency between 30 and 300 megahertz. Abbreviation: VHF.
- wage-push inflation — an inflationary trend caused by wage increases that in turn cause rises in production costs and prices.
- white-fronted goose — a grayish-brown wild goose, Anser albifrons, of Eurasia and western North America, having a white patch on the front of the face.
- white-water rafting — White-water rafting is the activity of riding on a raft over rough, dangerous parts of a fast-flowing river.
- with flying colours — If you pass a test with flying colours, you have done very well in the test.
- with the gloves off — (of a dispute, argument, etc) conducted mercilessly and in earnest, with no reservations
- yellowtail kingfish — a large carangid game fish, Seriola grandis, of S Australian waters