19-letter words containing h, e, a, d, u
- malicious falsehood — a lie told by someone who knows the lie is false or knows it will do harm to the person it is concerning
- manchester autocode — (language, history) The predecessor of Mercury Autocode.
- mary mcleod bethune — Mary McLeod [muh-kloud] /məˈklaʊd/ (Show IPA), 1875–1955, U.S. educator and civil-rights leader.
- 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.
- midnight regulation — a rule or directive approved by the federal government near the end of a president’s term of office
- mother-of-thousands — strawberry geranium.
- mouse-ear chickweed — any of various similar and related plants of the genus Cerastium
- mucopolysaccharides — Plural form of mucopolysaccharide.
- muhammadan calendar — Muslim calendar.
- mulheim an der ruhr — a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, W Germany, near Essen.
- munchausen syndrome — a factitious disorder in which otherwise healthy individuals seek to hospitalize themselves with feigned or self-induced pathology in order to receive surgical or other medical treatment.
- 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
- neuropsychodynamics — The theoretical synthesis of neuroscience and psychodynamics.
- non-distinguishable — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
- noughts and crosses — tick-tack-toe (def 1).
- noughts-and-crosses — tick-tack-toe (def 1).
- olive-backed thrush — Swainson's thrush.
- orthopaedic surgeon — a surgeon specializing in the branch of surgery concerned with disorders of the spine and joints and the repair of deformities of these parts
- orthopaedic surgery — surgery concerned with disorders of the spine and joints and the repair of deformities of these parts
- out of the ordinary — of no special quality or interest; commonplace; unexceptional: One novel is brilliant, the other is decidedly ordinary; an ordinary person.
- police headquarters — building where police are stationed
- potassium hydroxide — a white, deliquescent, water-soluble solid, KOH, usually in the form of lumps, sticks, or pellets, that upon solution in water generates heat: used chiefly in the manufacture of soap, as a laboratory reagent, and as a caustic.
- pseudo-biographical — of or relating to a person's life: He's gathering biographical data for his book on Milton.
- pseudohermaphrodite — an individual having internal reproductive organs of one sex and external sexual characteristics resembling those of the other sex or being ambiguous in nature. Compare hermaphrodite (def 1).
- pseudopsychological — of or relating to psychology.
- 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.
- queensland lungfish — a lungfish, Neoceratodus forsteri, reaching a length of six feet: occurs in Queensland rivers but introduced elsewhere
- radiopharmaceutical — any of a number of radioactive drugs used diagnostically or therapeutically.
- rapture of the deep — nitrogen narcosis.
- red-shouldered hawk — a North American hawk, Buteo lineatus, having rufous shoulders.
- regular icosahedron — an icosahedron in which each of the faces is an equilateral triangle
- reticuloendothelial — pertaining to, resembling, or involving cells of the reticuloendothelial system.
- samuel de champlain — Samuel de [sam-yoo-uh l duh;; French sa-my-el duh] /ˈsæm yu əl də;; French sa müˈɛl də/ (Show IPA), 1567–1635, French explorer in the Americas: founder of Quebec; first colonial governor 1633–35.
- school of the squad — an institution where instruction is given, especially to persons under college age: The children are at school.
- sharp-tailed grouse — a grouse, Pedioecetes phasianellus, of prairies and open forests of western North America, similar in size to the prairie chicken but with a more pointed tail.
- sidereal hour angle — the angle, measured westward through 360°, between the hour circle passing through the vernal equinox and the hour circle of a celestial body.
- sodium thiosulphate — a white soluble substance used, in the pentahydrate form, in photography as a fixer to dissolve unchanged silver halides and also to remove excess chlorine from chlorinated water. Formula: Na2S2O3
- spider-hunting wasp — any solitary wasp of the superfamily Pompiloidea, having a slender elongated body: the fast-running female hunts spiders as a food store for her larvae
- strangulated hernia — a hernia, especially of the intestine, that swells and constricts the blood supply of the herniated part, resulting in obstruction and gangrene.
- take up the cudgels — If you take up the cudgels for someone or something, you speak or fight in support of them.
- tarnished plant bug — a bug, Lygus lineolaris, of the family Miridae, that is a common and widely distributed pest of alfalfa and other legumes and of peach and other fruit trees.
- the varangian guard — the bodyguard of the Byzantine emperor in the late 10th and 11th centuries, consisting of Varangians
- theatrical producer — a person who is responsible for all aspects of a theatrical production
- to be headquartered — to be based; to have headquarters (in a place)
- to change your mind — If you change your mind, or if someone or something changes your mind, you change a decision you have made or an opinion that you had.
- 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.
- trisodium phosphate — sodium phosphate (def 3).
- turn someone's head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
- 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.
- under the shadow of — in danger of; apparently fated for