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19-letter words containing l, h

  • a slap on the wrist — A slap on the wrist is a warning or a punishment that is not very severe.
  • a sting in the tail — If an announcement or decision has a sting in the tail or a sting in its tail, it contains a critical and unpleasant part, normally at the end.
  • a/one hell of a lot — If you talk about a hell of a lot of something, or one hell of a lot of something, you mean that there is a large amount of it.
  • abdullah ibn-husein — 1882–1951, Arab nationalist, Transjordanian emir 1921–46, king of Jordan 1946–51; assassinated in Jerusalem by a Palestinian nationalist.
  • abnormal psychology — the study of behaviour patterns that diverge widely from generally accepted norms, esp those of a pathological nature
  • acoustic theodolite — an acoustic device that records a continuous vertical profile of ocean currents at a particular site.
  • ad-hoc polymorphism — overloading
  • aglaophon of thasos — flourished 6th to 5th centuries b.c, Greek painter: father and teacher of Polygnotus.
  • air cushion vehicle — ACV (def 2).
  • air-cushion vehicle — a vehicle that travels just above the surface of land or water on a cushion of air provided by a downward jet from its engines, propellers, etc.
  • alcohol consumption — the drinking of alcohol
  • alcoholic psychosis — any of a group of major mental disorders, as delirium tremens, Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome, and hallucinosis, associated with organic brain injury due to alcohol.
  • aldridge-brownhills — a town in central England, in Walsall unitary authority, West Midlands: formed by the amalgamation of neighbouring towns in 1966. Pop: 35 525 (2001)
  • alexander technique — a technique for developing awareness of one's posture and movement in order to improve it
  • alexander the great — 356–323 bc, king of Macedon, who conquered Greece (336), Egypt (331), and the Persian Empire (328), and founded Alexandria
  • alexis mikhailovich — 1629–76, tsar of Russia (1645–76); father of Peter the Great
  • alexis nikolayevich — (Aleksei Nikolayevich) 1904–18, son of Nicholas II of Russia, heir apparent to the Russian throne: executed in the Russian Bolshevik Revolution.
  • alfred thayer mahan — Alfred Thayer [they-er] /ˈθeɪ ər/ (Show IPA), 1840–1914, U.S. naval officer and writer on naval history.
  • algorithmic trading — trading on international stock exchanges using computers that have been programmed to buy and sell shares according to fixed rules
  • all-terrain vehicle — a vehicle with treads or wheels designed to travel on rough ground
  • allegheny mountains — a mountain range in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia: part of the Appalachian system; rising from 600 m (2000 ft) to over 1440 m (4800 ft)
  • alpha canis majoris — Sirius
  • alpha canis minoris — Procyon
  • alpha ursae minoris — Polaris
  • alphabetic language — (human language)   A written human language in which symbols reflect the pronunciation of the words. Examples are English, Greek, Russian, Thai, Arabic and Hebrew. Alphabetic languages contrast with ideographic languages.
  • alphonse and gaston — marked by a ritualistic courtliness in which two often competing participants graciously but stubbornly defer to each other: a kind of Alphonse and Gaston act in which each man insisted the other go through the doorway first.
  • altazimuth mounting — a telescope mounting that allows motion of the telescope about a vertical axis (in azimuth) and a horizontal axis (in altitude)
  • alternative history — a genre of fiction in which the author speculates on how the course of history might have been altered if a particular historical event had had a different outcome
  • alternative pathway — the activation of complement by contact with polysaccharides on bacteria, protozoa, or yeast cells: a nonspecific immune response. Compare classical pathway.
  • aluminium hydroxide — a white crystalline powder derived from bauxite and used in the manufacture of glass and ceramics, aluminium and its salts, and in dyeing. Formula: Al(OH)3 or Al2O3.3H2O
  • alzheimer's disease — Alzheimer's disease is a condition in which a person's brain gradually stops working properly.
  • analytic philosophy — a 20th-cent. philosophic movement characterized by its method of analyzing concepts and statements in the light of common experience and ordinary language so as to eliminate confusions of thought and resolve many traditional philosophical problems
  • analytic psychology — the system of psychology developed by C. G. Jung as a variant of psychoanalysis
  • anarcho-syndicalism — syndicalism.
  • anarcho-syndicalist — syndicalism.
  • angels-on-horseback — a savoury of oysters wrapped in bacon slices and served on toast
  • anthropic principle — the cosmological theory that the presence of life in the universe limits the ways in which the very early universe could have evolved
  • anthropocentrically — regarding the human being as the central fact of the universe.
  • anthropomorphically — ascribing human form or attributes to a being or thing not human, especially to a deity.
  • anticholinesterases — Plural form of anticholinesterase.
  • arsenic trichloride — a colorless or yellow, oily, poisonous liquid, AsCl 3 , used chiefly as an intermediate in the manufacture of organic arsenicals.
  • articulated vehicle — a large vehicle (esp a lorry) made in two separate sections, a tractor and a trailer, connected by a pivoted bar
  • artificial daylight — artificial light having approximately the same spectral characteristics as natural daylight
  • as old as the hills — very old
  • as things/people go — You use expressions like as things go or as children go when you are describing one person or thing and comparing them with others of the same kind.
  • atherton technology — (company)   The comapny that developed the Software BackPlane CASE framework. Their Atherton Tool Integration Services were the basis for the ATIS standard.
  • attempt the life of — to try to kill
  • author's alteration — a correction or change made in typeset copy that is not a correction of an error introduced by the compositor. Abbreviation: AA, A.A., a.a., aa.
  • bachelor of science — A Bachelor of Science is a first degree in a science subject. In British English, it can also mean a person with that degree. The abbreviation BSc or , BSc is also used.
  • bacteriochlorophyll — a pale blue-gray form of chlorophyll that is unique to the photosynthetic but anaerobic purple bacteria.

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