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19-letter words containing h, e, a, t, s, o

  • 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).
  • 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.
  • historic episcopate — the derivation of the episcopate of a Church in historic succession from the apostles
  • holy innocents' day — December 28, a day of religious observance commemorating the slaughter of the children of Bethlehem by Herod's order.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • human rights record — the facts that are known about the tendency of a country, regime, etc, to observe and protect human rights
  • humanist technology — (philosophy)   Technology centered around the interests, needs, and well-being of humans.
  • huntington's chorea — a hereditary disease of the central nervous system characterized by brain deterioration and loss of control over voluntary movements, the symptoms usually appearing in the fourth decade of life.
  • 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
  • hyper-nationalistic — a person devoted to nationalism.
  • hyperbolic cosecant — a hyperbolic function that is the reciprocal of hyperbolic sine
  • hypercholesteraemia — (medicine) An abnormally high level of cholesterol in the blood.
  • hyperfocal distance — the distance, at a given f number, between a camera lens and the nearest point (hyperfocal point) having satisfactory definition when focused at infinity.
  • hyperparathyroidism — overactivity of the parathyroid gland, characterized by softening of the bones, with consequent pain, tenderness, and a tendency to spontaneous fractures, and by muscular weakness and abdominal cramps.
  • hyperphosphorylated — Simple past tense and past participle of hyperphosphorylate.
  • hypocholesterolemia — an abnormally low amount of cholesterol in the blood.
  • hysterosalpingogram — An X-ray image taken during hysterosalpingography.
  • immunohistochemical — (biology) Of, pertaining to, or by means of immunohistochemistry, the use of immunological techniques to study the chemistry of tissues.
  • in the second place — secondly
  • inorganic chemistry — the branch of chemistry dealing with inorganic compounds.
  • intermediate school — a school for pupils in grades 4 through 6.
  • isle of shoals boat — a sailing boat formerly used in Ipswich Bay, Massachusetts, rigged with two spritsails or gaff sails.
  • islet of langerhans — any of several masses of endocrine cells in the pancreas that secrete insulin, somatostatin, and glucagon.
  • jehovah's witnesses — a Christian sect, founded in the U.S. in the late 19th century, that believes in the imminent destruction of the world's wickedness and the establishment of a theocracy under God's rule.
  • jerusalem artichoke — Also called girasol. a sunflower, Helianthus tuberosus, having edible, tuberous, underground stems or rootstocks.
  • job creation scheme — a governmental scheme to increase the number of jobs in an area, organization, etc
  • joseph of arimathea — a wealthy disciple who provided a tomb for Jesus' body: Matt. 27:57-60
  • kill sth stone-dead — If you kill something such as an idea or emotion stone-dead, you completely destroy it.
  • knights hospitalers — a member of the religious and military order (Knights Hospitalers or Knights of St. John of Jerusalem) originating about the time of the first Crusade (1096–99) and taking its name from a hospital at Jerusalem.
  • ladies-of-the-night — plural of lady-of-the-night.
  • late-night shopping — later opening hours of shops than usual, esp as a regular occurrence on a particular night of the week
  • let one's hair down — any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals; a pilus.
  • let someone have it — to allow or permit: to let him escape.
  • lie in one's throat — to tell a foul or outrageous lie
  • 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.
  • lose one's heart to — to fall in love with
  • love at first sight — instant romantic attraction to sb
  • lupus erythematosus — any of several autoimmune diseases, especially systemic lupus erythematosus, characterized by red, scaly skin patches.
  • machine instruction — (programming)   The smallest element of a machine code program.
  • machine translation — changing language of a text by computer
  • major seventh chord — a chord much used in modern music, esp jazz and pop, consisting of a major triad with an added major seventh above the root
  • make the best of it — cope
  • manchester autocode — (language, history)   The predecessor of Mercury Autocode.
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