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17-letter words containing h, s, e

  • lanthanide series — the series of rare-earth elements of atomic numbers 57 through 71 (lanthanum through lutetium).
  • laurent's theorem — the theorem that a function that is analytic on an annulus can be represented by a Laurent series on the annulus.
  • lee harvey oswald — Lee Harvey, 1939–63, designated by a presidential commission to be the lone assassin of John F. Kennedy.
  • leizhou peninsula — a peninsula of SE China, in SW Guangdong province, separated from Hainan Island by Hainan Strait
  • let something rip — If you let something rip, you do it as quickly or as forcefully as possible. You can say 'let it rip' or 'let her rip' to someone when you want them to make a vehicle go as fast as it possibly can.
  • lewis with harris — the northernmost island of the Hebrides, in NW Scotland. 825 sq. mi. (2135 sq. km).
  • liberty of speech — freedom of speech.
  • lick the boots of — to be servile, obsequious, or flattering towards
  • lighthouse keeper — a person who mans a lighthouse and makes sure that the light is working properly
  • lisp machine lisp — (language)   An extension of Maclisp, now called Zetalisp.
  • lobster thermidor — a dish of cooked lobster meat placed back in the shell with a cream sauce, sprinkled with grated cheese and melted butter, and browned in the oven.
  • local anaesthesia — the use of anaesthetics that affect a particular area of the body
  • local anaesthetic — sth injected to numb a body part for pain relief
  • loch ness monster — a large aquatic animal resembling a serpent or a plesiosaurlike reptile, reported to have been seen in the waters of Loch Ness, Scotland, but not proved to exist.
  • loggerhead shrike — a common, North American shrike, Lanius ludovicianus, gray above and white below with black wings, tail, and facial mask.
  • loose-joint hinge — a hinge having a knuckle formed from half of each flap, and with the upper half removable from the pin.
  • lord of the flies — a novel (1954) by William Golding.
  • lose the exchange — to lose a rook in return for a bishop or knight
  • lost in the noise — Synonym lost in the underflow. This term is from signal processing, where signals of very small amplitude cannot be separated from low-intensity noise in the system. Though popular among hackers, it is not confined to hackerdom; physicists, engineers, astronomers, and statisticians all use it.
  • lowbush blueberry — a shrub, Vaccinium angustifolium, of eastern North America, having small, white flowers and blue-black fruit.
  • lymphadenopathies — Plural form of lymphadenopathy.
  • lymphocytopoiesis — Lymphopoiesis.
  • machado y morales — Gerardo [he-rahr-th aw] /hɛˈrɑr ðɔ/ (Show IPA), 1871–1939, president of Cuba 1925–33.
  • mail users' shell — (messaging)   (mush) A MUA for Unix and MS-DOS. It has both line-mode and full-screen interfaces as well as a SunView interface. mush provides a very powerful shell interface with a csh-like scripting language, plenty of environment variables, command-line aliases, filename completion, conditionals, and command piping.
  • maintained school — a school financially supported by the state
  • make light of sth — If you make light of something, you treat it as though it is not serious or important, when in fact it is.
  • make sense of sth — When you make sense of something, you succeed in understanding it.
  • make something of — to find a use for
  • make the dust fly — earth or other matter in fine, dry particles.
  • make the worst of — to be pessimistic about
  • man in the street — the ordinary person; the average citizen: the political opinions of the man in the street.
  • man on the street — man in the street.
  • manchester school — a school of economists in England in the first half of the 19th century, devoted to free trade and the repeal of the Corn Law, led by Richard Cobden and John Bright.
  • mann-whitney test — a statistical test of the difference between the distributions of data collected in two experimental conditions applied to unmatched groups of subjects but comparing the distributions of the ranks of the scores
  • maraschino cherry — a cherry cooked in colored syrup and flavored with maraschino, used to garnish desserts, cocktails, etc.
  • mark of the beast — the mark put on the forehead of those who worship the beast, the symbol of opposition to God.
  • market researcher — a person who carries out market research
  • martha's vineyard — an island off SE Massachusetts: summer resort. About 100 sq. mi. (259 sq. km).
  • mascarpone cheese — a very rich, white cream cheese of Italy
  • mass merchandiser — a retailer or retail store that seeks to sell large quantities of goods quickly through such means as discounting, customer self-service, or unadorned display and packaging, as in a warehouse.
  • mass spectrograph — a mass spectroscope for recording a mass spectrum on a photographic plate.
  • massachusetts bay — an inlet of the Atlantic, off the E coast of Massachusetts.
  • massage therapist — sb who gives body rubs
  • may/might as well — If you say that you might as well do something, or that you may as well do it, you mean that you will do it although you do not have a strong desire to do it and may even feel slightly unwilling to do it.
  • mechanical tissue — a plant tissue made up of hard, thick-walled cells that add strength to an organ
  • medium close shot — a shot taken fairly close to the subject, but not as close as a close-up
  • merchant shipping — shipping which is involved in commerce (rather than defence, etc)
  • mercuric sulphide — a compound of mercury, usually existing as a black solid (metacinnabarite) or a red solid (cinnabar or vermilion), which is used as a pigment. Formula: HgS
  • mesembryanthemums — Plural form of mesembryanthemum.
  • message switching — store and forward
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