19-letter words containing h, e, a, s
- general partnership — a partnership in which each of the partners is fully liable for the firm's debts.
- get the hang of sth — If you get the hang of something such as a skill or activity, you begin to understand or realize how to do it.
- go to great lengths — If you say that someone goes to great lengths to achieve something, you mean that they try very hard and perhaps do extreme things in order to achieve it.
- goes without saying — If something goes without saying, it is obvious.
- grand duke nicholas — of Cusa [kyoo-zuh] /ˈkyu zə/ (Show IPA), 1401–1464, German cardinal, mathematician, and philosopher. German Nikolaus von Cusa.
- grandfather's chair — wing chair.
- grandfather's clock — a pendulum floor clock having a case as tall as or taller than a person; tall-case clock; long-case clock.
- grandmother's clock — a pendulum clock similar to a grandfather's clock but shorter.
- grasshopper sparrow — a brown and white North American sparrow, Ammodramus savannarum, having a buffy breast and a buzzing insectlike song.
- grasshopper warbler — a Eurasian warbler Locustella naevia
- gray-cheeked thrush — a North American thrush, Catharus minimus, having olive upper parts and grayish cheeks.
- grocer's apostrophe — an apostrophe placed before a final s intended to indicate the plural but in fact forming the possessive
- handlebar moustache — a man's moustache having long, curved ends that resemble the handlebars of a bicycle.
- hang on the lips of — to listen to with close attention
- harbinger-of-spring — a North American umbelliferous herb, Erigenia bulbosa, having white flowers that bloom early in the spring.
- hate someone's guts — to hate someone intensely
- haul over the coals — a black or dark-brown combustible mineral substance consisting of carbonized vegetable matter, used as a fuel. Compare anthracite, bituminous coal, lignite.
- haute vulgarisation — vulgarization, or popularization, on a higher level, esp. as done by academics, scholars, etc.
- have a nose for sth — If you say that someone has a nose for something, you mean that they have a natural ability to find it or recognize it.
- have a weakness for — be fond of
- have designs on sth — If someone has designs on something, they want it and are planning to get it, often in a dishonest way.
- have one's blood up — to be or cause to be angry or inflamed
- have one's way with — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
- have sth against sb — If you have something against someone or something, you dislike them.
- have the last laugh — to express mirth, pleasure, derision, or nervousness with an audible, vocal expulsion of air from the lungs that can range from a loud burst of sound to a series of quiet chuckles and is usually accompanied by characteristic facial and bodily movements.
- have the makings of — show potential as
- haves and have-nots — If you refer to two groups of people as haves and have-nots, you mean that the first group are very wealthy and the second group are very poor. You can also refer generally to poor people as have-nots.
- health professional — a person trained to work in any field of physical or mental health.
- 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).
- heavy goods vehicle — a large road vehicle for carrying goods
- heinrich schliemann — Heinrich [hahyn-rikh] /ˈhaɪn rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1822–90, German archaeologist: excavated ancient cities of Troy and Mycenae.
- hemidemisemiquavers — Plural form of hemidemisemiquaver.
- hepatoportal system — a vascular arrangement in vertebrates through which blood is transported into the liver from capillaries of the stomach, spleen, duodenum, pancreas, and intestines.
- hermetically sealed — airtight
- high-bush cranberry — cranberry bush
- high-pressure steam — High-pressure steam is steam which is at or above 75 pounds per square inch gauge pressure.
- highland clearances — in Scotland, the removal, often by force, of the people from some parts of the Highlands to make way for sheep, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
- highways department — the department of a state, council, etc, responsible for the upkeep of roads and highways
- historic episcopate — the derivation of the episcopate of a Church in historic succession from the apostles
- hold up one's hands — to confess a mistake or misdeed
- holy innocents' day — December 28, a day of religious observance commemorating the slaughter of the children of Bethlehem by Herod's order.
- honorable discharge — a discharge from military service of a person who has fulfilled obligations efficiently, honorably, and faithfully.
- hop, step, and jump — triple jump.
- horsehair toadstool — a small basidiomycetous fungus, Marasmius androsaceus, having a rusty coloured cap and very slender black stems. It is related to the fairy ring mushroom, but is commonly found among conifers and heather
- horseshoe whipsnake — a long slender fast-moving nonvenomous snake, Coluber hippocrepis, of Eurasia
- hospital facilities — the equipment and services provided by a hospital
- hotel des invalides — a military hospital built in Paris in the 17th and 18th centuries by Libéral Bruant and J. H. Mansart: famous for its chapel dome, the tomb of Napoleon, and as a military museum.
- household insurance — an arrangement in which you pay money to a company, and they pay money to you if your household goods are stolen or damaged
- human rights abuses — acts that contravene human rights
- human rights record — the facts that are known about the tendency of a country, regime, etc, to observe and protect human rights