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21-letter words containing h, s, t, r, e

  • conditional discharge — If someone who is convicted of an offence is given a conditional discharge by a court, they are not punished unless they later commit a further offence.
  • constant mesh gearbox — A constant mesh gearbox is a type of transmission in which all forward gear pairs remain engaged.
  • constantine the great — (Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus"the Great") a.d. 288?–337, Roman emperor 324–337: named Constantinople as the new capital; legally sanctioned Christian worship.
  • consummatory behavior — a behavior pattern that occurs in response to a stimulus and that achieves the satisfaction of a specific drive, as the eating of captured prey by a hungry predator (distinguished from appetitive behavior).
  • corporate hospitality — Corporate hospitality is the entertainment that a company offers to its most valued clients, for example by inviting them to sporting events and providing them with food and drink.
  • correspondence theory — the theory of truth that a statement is rendered true by the existence of a fact with corresponding elements and a similar structure.
  • cosmological redshift — the part of the redshift of celestial objects resulting from the expansion of the universe.
  • crool someone's pitch — to spoil an opportunity for someone
  • data parallel haskell — (language, parallel)   Adds Parallel Objects with arbitrary Dimension (PODs) and POD comprehensions to Haskell.
  • death by misadventure — a possible verdict in a coroner's court, indicating that death was due to an accident not to a crimes or somebody's negligence
  • desire under the elms — a play (1924) by Eugene O'Neill.
  • disestablishmentarian — a person who favors the separation of church and state, especially the withdrawal of special rights, status, and support granted an established church by a state; an advocate of disestablishing a state church.
  • disruptive technology — A disruptive technology is a new technology, such as computers and the Internet, which has a rapid and major effect on technologies that existed before.
  • divine right of kings — the doctrine that the right of rule derives directly from God, not from the consent of the people.
  • double spanish burton — a tackle having one standing block and two running blocks, giving a mechanical advantage of five, neglecting friction.
  • easier said than done — difficult to do
  • eastern daylight time — a time zone applicable to many eastern areas of the United States during the summer months, being a daylight-saving variant of Eastern Standard Time
  • electroencephalograms — Plural form of electroencephalogram.
  • electronic publishing — Electronic publishing is the publishing of documents in a form that can be read on a computer, for example as a CD-ROM.
  • electronystagmography — A diagnostic test to record involuntary movements of the eye caused by a condition known as nystagmus. It can also be used to diagnose the cause of vertigo, dizziness or balance dysfunction by testing the vestibular system.
  • enter into the spirit — If you enter into the spirit of something, you take part in it in an enthusiastic way.
  • ethics of the fathers — a treatise of the Mishnah that comprises six chapters and consists chiefly of proverbs, aphorisms, and principles of ethics, law, and religion.
  • eyes right (or left) — a command to snap the head to the right (or left) while marching, as a salute when passing in review
  • fermat's last theorem — the unproved theorem that the equation xn + yn = zn has no solution for x, y, z nonzero integers when n is greater than 2.
  • flip someone the bird — give someone the finger (see phrase under finger)
  • for the benefit of sb — If you say that someone is doing something for the benefit of a particular person, you mean that they are doing it for that person.
  • forensic anthropology — the branch of physical anthropology in which anthropological data, criteria, and techniques are used to determine the sex, age, genetic population, or parentage of skeletal or biological materials in questions of civil or criminal law.
  • french fried potatoes — a more formal name for chips
  • frequent wash shampoo — a shampoo whose mildness allows it to be used frequently
  • friends with benefits — friends who have a casual sexual relationship with no expectation of commitment
  • from dan to beersheba — from one end of Israel to the other: Judg. 20:1
  • gastrohepatic omentum — lesser omentum.
  • general of the armies — a special rank held by John J. Pershing, equivalent to general of the army.
  • gestalt psychotherapy — a therapy devised in the US in the 1960s in which patients are encouraged to concentrate on the immediate present and to express their true feelings
  • get in someone's hair — any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals; a pilus.
  • get on the scoresheet — In football, rugby, and some other sports, if a player gets on the scoresheet, he or she scores one or more goals, tries, or points.
  • get one's breath back — When you get your breath back after doing something energetic, you start breathing normally again.
  • get-rich-quick scheme — a scheme that promises to make a person extremely wealthy over a short period of time, often at with little effort and at no risk
  • get/have the hots for — If you say that one person has the hots for another, you mean that they feel a strong sexual attraction to that person.
  • give a horse its head — to allow a horse to gallop by lengthening the reins
  • give sb a green light — If someone in authority gives you a green light, they give you permission to do something.
  • give sb the runaround — If someone gives you the runaround, they deliberately do not give you all the information or help that you want, and send you to another person or place to get it.
  • give someone the bird — to tell someone rudely to depart; scoff at; hiss
  • goldbach's conjecture — the conjecture that every even number greater than two is the sum of two prime numbers
  • got what one deserved — If you say that someone got what they deserved, you mean that they deserved the bad thing that happened to them, and you have no sympathy for them.
  • greenwich observatory — the national astronomical observatory of Great Britain, housed in a castle in E Sussex; formerly located at Greenwich.
  • guaranteed scheduling — (algorithm)   A scheduling algorithm used in multitasking operating systems that guarantees fairness by monitoring the amount of CPU time spent by each user and allocating resources accordingly.
  • harriet beecher stowe — Harriet (Elizabeth) Beecher, 1811–96, U.S. abolitionist and novelist.
  • have a strong stomach — not to be prone to nausea
  • have heard sth before — If you say that you have heard something before, you mean that you are not interested in it, or do not believe it, or are not surprised about it, because you already know about it or have experienced it.
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