17-letter words containing h, s, e

of the old school — If you approve of someone because they have good qualities that used to be more common in the past, you can describe them as one of the old school.
old people's home — An old people's home is a place where old people live and are cared for when they are too old to look after themselves.
omphalomesenteric — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the umbilicus and mesentery.
on one's deathbed — about to die
on one's own hook — a curved or angular piece of metal or other hard substance for catching, pulling, holding, or suspending something.
on second thought — Often, second thoughts. reservation about a previous action, position, decision, judgment, or the like: He had second thoughts about his decision.
on the debit side — the debit side of a situation is the aspect of it which is less positive, pleasant, or useful than its other aspects
on the half shell — served raw, with seasonings, on a half shell
on the heavy side — tending to be too heavy
on the pig's back — successful; established
one for the books — a handwritten or printed work of fiction or nonfiction, usually on sheets of paper fastened or bound together within covers.
one of these days — at some future time
one-stop shopping — the provision of everything that a customer or client might require in one place
opisthobranchiate — (zoology) Of or pertaining to the Opisthobranchiata.
organic chemistry — the branch of chemistry, originally limited to substances found only in living organisms, dealing with the compounds of carbon.
orifice discharge — Orifice discharge is a model for calculating how quickly a fluid will come out of a punctured vessel or pipe.
other fish to fry — any of various cold-blooded, aquatic vertebrates, having gills, commonly fins, and typically an elongated body covered with scales.
out at the elbows — the bend or joint of the human arm between upper arm and forearm.
out of one'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.
overhead camshaft — a camshaft in an automotive engine that is located in the cylinder head over the engine block rather than in the block. Abbreviation: OHC.
overnight success — sth or sb suddenly popular
overreach oneself — to fail because of trying to do more than one can
overstep the mark — If someone oversteps the mark, they behave in a way that is considered unacceptable.
oystershell scale — a scale insect, Lepidosaphes ulmi, having a scale shaped like the shell of an oyster, which infests various deciduous trees and shrubs.
pacific northwest — the region of North America lying north of the Columbia River and west of the Rockies
paleobiochemistry — the study of biochemical processes that occurred in fossil life forms.
parker house roll — a soft dinner roll made by folding a flat disk of dough in half.
parmesan (cheese) — a very hard, dry cheese orig. of Italy, made from skimmed cow's milk and usually grated for sprinkling on pasta, soups, etc.
partially sighted — unable to see properly so that even with corrective aids normal activities are prevented or seriously hindered
past life therapy — a form of hypnosis or meditation based on the belief that an individual's present problems are rooted in events that occurred before birth in this life
pastoral theology — the branch of theology dealing with the responsibilities of members of the clergy to the people under their care.
peaches and cream — If you say that a woman or a girl has a peaches and cream complexion, you mean that she has very clear, smooth, pale skin.
pecorino (cheese) — an Italian cheese made of sheep's milk; specif., such a cheese that is dry, sharp, and very hard
penalty shoot-out — In football, a penalty shoot-out is a way of deciding the result of a game that has ended in a draw. Players from each team try to score a goal in turn until one player fails to score and their team loses the game.
peripheral vision — all that is visible to the eye outside the central area of focus; side vision.
perpetual spinach — a variety of spinach that keeps producing edible leaves
personality clash — friction between two people who have different personalities or points of view
perth and kinross — a council area of N central Scotland, corresponding mainly to the historical counties of Perthshire and Kinross-shire: part of Tayside Region from 1975 until 1996: chiefly mountainous, with agriculture, tourism, and forestry. Administrative centre: Perth. Pop: 135 990 (2003 est). Area: 5321 sq km (2019 sq miles)
petrarchan sonnet — a sonnet form popularized by Petrarch, consisting of an octave with the rhyme scheme abbaabba and of a sestet with one of several rhyme schemes, as cdecde or cdcdcd.
phase of the moon — Used humorously as a random parameter on which something is said to depend. Sometimes implies unreliability of whatever is dependent, or that reliability seems to be dependent on conditions nobody has been able to determine. "This feature depends on having the channel open in mumble mode, having the foo switch set, and on the phase of the moon." See also heisenbug. True story: Once upon a time there was a bug that really did depend on the phase of the moon. There was a little subroutine that had traditionally been used in various programs at MIT to calculate an approximation to the moon's true phase. GLS incorporated this routine into a Lisp program that, when it wrote out a file, would print a timestamp line almost 80 characters long. Very occasionally the first line of the message would be too long and would overflow onto the next line, and when the file was later read back in the program would barf. The length of the first line depended on both the precise date and time and the length of the phase specification when the timestamp was printed, and so the bug literally depended on the phase of the moon! The first paper edition of the Jargon File (Steele-1983) included an example of one of the timestamp lines that exhibited this bug, but the typesetter "corrected" it. This has since been described as the phase-of-the-moon-bug bug.
phenyl isocyanate — a liquid reagent, C 7 H 5 NO, having an unpleasant, irritating odor: used chiefly for identifying alcohols and amines.
philosopher kings — the Platonic ideal of a ruler, philosophically trained and enlightened.
phlebotomus fever — sandfly fever.
photo-respiration — the oxidation of carbohydrates in many higher plants in which they get oxygen from light and then release carbon dioxide, somewhat different from photosynthesis.
photoluminescence — luminescence induced by the absorption of infrared radiation, visible light, or ultraviolet radiation.
phototherapeutics — the branch of therapeutics that deals with the curative use of light rays.
physical exercise — movements and activities done to keep your body healthy or make it stronger
physical medicine — the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of disease and injury by means of physical agents, as manipulation, massage, exercise, heat, or water.
physical pendulum — any apparatus consisting of a body of possibly irregular shape allowed to rotate freely about a horizontal axis on which it is pivoted (distinguished from simple pendulum).
pick the eyes out — to select the best parts or pieces (of)

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