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19-letter words containing h, a, f, t

  • islet of langerhans — any of several masses of endocrine cells in the pancreas that secrete insulin, somatostatin, and glucagon.
  • isthmus of san blas — the narrowest part of the Isthmus of Panama. Width: about 50 km (30 miles)
  • joseph of arimathea — a wealthy disciple who provided a tomb for Jesus' body: Matt. 27:57-60
  • ladies-of-the-night — plural of lady-of-the-night.
  • lady of the evening — a prostitute.
  • land of enchantment — New Mexico (used as a nickname).
  • lift the curtain on — to begin
  • line-of-battle ship — ship of the line.
  • logical shift right — logical shift
  • love at first sight — instant romantic attraction to sb
  • lymphoproliferation — (medicine) the excessive production of lymphocytes.
  • lymphoproliferative — Characterized by lymphoproliferation.
  • make the best of it — cope
  • 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
  • maratha confederacy — a loose league of states in central and western India, c1750–1818.
  • master of foxhounds — the person responsible for the conduct of a fox hunt and to whom all members of the hunt and its staff are responsible. Abbreviation: M.F.H.
  • master of the horse — (in England) the third official of the royal household
  • master of the rolls — (in England and Wales) the judge who presides over the Court of Appeal (Civil Division) and who was formerly Keeper of the Records at the Public Record Office
  • mayor of the palace — one of a line of hereditary administrative lieutenants to the Merovingian kings who eventually took over royal function and title in the Frankish kingdoms; a palatine.
  • more often than not — usually
  • mother-of-thousands — strawberry geranium.
  • nerve growth factor — a protein that promotes the growth, organization, and maintenance of sympathetic and some sensory nerve cells. Abbreviation: NGF.
  • neufchâtel (cheese) — a soft white cheese prepared from whole milk or skim milk and eaten fresh or cured
  • nordrhein-westfalen — German name of North Rhine-Westphalia.
  • north pacific ocean — the northern part of the Pacific Ocean, extending from the equator to the Arctic Ocean.
  • one after the other — one at a time
  • open the floodgates — If events open the floodgates to something, they make it possible for that thing to happen much more often or much more seriously than before.
  • open-hearth furnace — a process of steelmaking in which the charge is laid in a furnace (open-hearth furnace) on a shallow hearth and heated directly by burning gas as well as radiatively by the furnace walls.
  • order of the garter — the highest order of British knighthood, instituted by Edward III about 1348.
  • oriental fruit moth — a moth, Grapholitha molesta, introduced into the U.S. from Asia, the larvae of which infest and feed on the twigs and fruits of peach, plum, and related trees.
  • out of the ordinary — of no special quality or interest; commonplace; unexceptional: One novel is brilliant, the other is decidedly ordinary; an ordinary person.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • phacoemulsification — the removal of a cataract by first liquefying the affected lens with ultrasonic vibrations and then extracting it by suction.
  • phakoemulsification — the removal of a cataract by first liquefying the affected lens with ultrasonic vibrations and then extracting it by suction.
  • photovoltaic effect — the phenomenon in which the incidence of light or other electromagnetic radiation upon the junction of two dissimilar materials, as a metal and a semiconductor, induces the generation of an electromotive force.
  • piece of the action — the process or state of acting or of being active: The machine is not in action now.
  • pistol-handle knife — a table knife, especially of the 18th century, having a slightly curved handle resembling the grip of a flintlock pistol.
  • play footsie (with) — to touch feet or rub knees (with) in a caressing way, as under the table
  • pocket-handkerchief — handkerchief (def 1).
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • rapture of the deep — nitrogen narcosis.
  • reef whitetip shark — whitetip shark (def 1).
  • reflux oesophagitis — inflammation of the gullet caused by regurgitation of stomach acids, producing heartburn: may be associated with a hiatus hernia
  • scare the pants off — to scare extremely
  • school of the squad — an institution where instruction is given, especially to persons under college age: The children are at school.
  • scratch the surface — examine superficially
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