19-letter words containing h, g, e
- get off one's chest — Anatomy. the trunk of the body from the neck to the abdomen; thorax.
- 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.
- give one's eyeteeth — Dentistry. a canine tooth of the upper jaw: so named from its position under the eye.
- give sb the willies — If someone or something gives you the willies, they make you feel nervous or frightened.
- give your eye teeth — If you say that you would give your eye teeth for something, you mean that you want it very much and you would do anything to get it.
- go down the tube(s) — If a business, economy, or institution goes down the tubes or goes down the tube, it fails or collapses completely.
- go jump in the lake — a body of fresh or salt water of considerable size, surrounded by land.
- go off the deep end — final or ultimate: the end result.
- go on a/the rampage — If people go on a rampage, they rush around in a wild or violent way, causing damage or destruction.
- go on the offensive — If you go on the offensive, go over to the offensive, or take the offensive, you begin to take strong action against people who have been attacking you.
- go through the hoop — to be subjected to an ordeal
- go through the roof — the external upper covering of a house or other building.
- 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.
- go under the hammer — to be offered for sale by an auctioneer
- goes without saying — If something goes without saying, it is obvious.
- goldbach conjecture — an unproved theorem that every even integer greater than 2 can be written as the sum of two prime numbers.
- 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.
- great idaean mother — Cybele.
- great wall of china — a system of fortified walls with a roadway along the top, constructed as a defense for China against the nomads of the regions that are now Mongolia and Manchuria: completed in the 3rd century b.c., but later repeatedly modified and rebuilt. 2000 miles (3220 km) long.
- great-grandchildren — a grandchild of one's son or daughter.
- great-granddaughter — a granddaughter of one's son or daughter.
- greenhouse whitefly — See under whitefly.
- greenwich mean time — the time as measured on the prime meridian running through Greenwich, England: used in England and as a standard of calculation elsewhere.
- grocer's apostrophe — an apostrophe placed before a final s intended to indicate the plural but in fact forming the possessive
- gulf of tehuantepec — an inlet of the Pacific on the south coast of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in S Mexico
- hang five (or ten) — to ride a surfboard with the toes of one (or both) feet draped over the front edge of the board
- hang in the balance — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- hang on the lips of — to listen to with close attention
- hanging indentation — a style of text-setting in which the first line of a paragraph is set to the full measure and subsequent lines are indented at the left-hand side
- 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
- haute vulgarisation — vulgarization, or popularization, on a higher level, esp. as done by academics, scholars, etc.
- have a good mind to — (in a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc.: the processes of the human mind.
- have an ax to grind — an instrument with a bladed head on a handle or helve, used for hewing, cleaving, chopping, etc.
- 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 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
- head-and-tail light — a small South American characin fish, Hemmigrammus ocellifer, having shiny red eyes and tail spots, often kept in aquariums.
- heavy goods vehicle — a large road vehicle for carrying goods
- heel-and-toe racing — race walking.
- henry the navigator — Prince, 1394–1460, prince of Portugal.
- hermes trismegistus — a name variously ascribed by Neoplatonists and others to an Egyptian priest or to the Egyptian god Thoth, to some extent identified with the Grecian Hermes: various mystical, religious, philosophical, astrological, and alchemical writings were ascribed to him.
- hermitian conjugate — adjoint (def 2).