19-letter words containing m, s, h, e, l
- jamaica honeysuckle — a climbing vine, Passiflora laurifolia, of tropical America, having red-spotted white flowers nearly 4 inches (10 cm) wide, with a white and violet-colored crown, and edible yellow fruit.
- jerusalem artichoke — Also called girasol. a sunflower, Helianthus tuberosus, having edible, tuberous, underground stems or rootstocks.
- league championship — the competition to become league champions
- let someone have it — to allow or permit: to let him escape.
- limited partnership — a partnership formed by at least one general partner and at least one special partner.
- liouville's theorem — the theorem that every function of a complex variable, bounded and differentiable for all finite values of the variable, is a constant function.
- lobster-tail helmet — a burgonet fitted with a long, articulated tail of lames for protecting the nape of the neck, worn by cavalry in the 17th century.
- locomotive workshop — a place where locomotives are built or repaired
- lupus erythematosus — any of several autoimmune diseases, especially systemic lupus erythematosus, characterized by red, scaly skin patches.
- lytham saint anne's — a resort in NW England, in Lancashire on the Irish Sea. Pop: 41 327 (2001)
- machine translation — changing language of a text by computer
- male chauvinist pig — male chauvinist.
- malicious falsehood — a lie told by someone who knows the lie is false or knows it will do harm to the person it is concerning
- manned space flight — space travel in vehicles with a human crew
- master of the rolls — (in England and Wales) the judge who presides over the Court of Appeal (Civil Division) and who was formerly Keeper of the Records at the Public Record Office
- mechanical scanning — Electronics. a technique for varying the sector covered by a transmitting or receiving antenna by rotating it.
- meningoencephalitis — Inflammation of the membranes of the brain and the adjoining cerebral tissue.
- metatarsophalangeal — (anatomy) Relating to the metatarsus and phalange.
- moses-in-the-cradle — a plant, Rhoeo spathacea, native to the West Indies and Central America, having leaves with purple undersides and white flowers enclosed in a boat-shaped envelope formed by two bracts.
- mucopolysaccharides — Plural form of mucopolysaccharide.
- mushroom ventilator — a ventilator having at the top of a vertical shaft a broad rounded cap that can be screwed down to close it.
- nail polish remover — solvent for removing nail polish
- north valley stream — a town on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- old man and the sea — a novel (1952) by Ernest Hemingway.
- on someone's behalf — in / on behalf of, as a representative of or a proxy for: On behalf of my colleagues, I address you tonight.
- palisade parenchyma — the upper layer of ground tissue in a leaf, consisting of elongated cells beneath and perpendicular to the upper epidermis and constituting the primary area of photosynthesis.
- paraphase amplifier — an amplifier that produces a push-pull output from a single input.
- phacoemulsification — the removal of a cataract by first liquefying the affected lens with ultrasonic vibrations and then extracting it by suction.
- phakoemulsification — the removal of a cataract by first liquefying the affected lens with ultrasonic vibrations and then extracting it by suction.
- physical impairment — A physical impairment is a condition in which a part of a person's body is damaged or is not working properly.
- physically impaired — with reduced or weakened physical capacity
- pinwheel escapement — a clock escapement in which two pallets, usually of unequal length, alternately engage and release pins set on the escape wheel perpendicular to its plane of rotation.
- polytene chromosome — a giant, cross-banded chromosome that results from multiple replication of its genetic material with the duplicated chromatin strands remaining closely associated.
- portobello mushroom — a dark mushroom, strong in flavor, having a broad, flat cap that is often grilled and eaten
- ralph waldo emerson — Ralph Waldo [wawl-doh,, wol-] /ˈwɔl doʊ,, ˈwɒl-/ (Show IPA), 1803–82, U.S. essayist and poet.
- releasing mechanism — a hypothetical control complex in the central nervous system of animals that triggers the appropriate behavioral response to a releaser.
- removable hard disk — (storage) A type of magnetic disk, or possibly magneto-optical disk which is not permanently attached to the disk drive (not a fixed disk) but which can be taken out and replaced, allowing many disks to be used in the same drive. The term "removable disk" would seem to be applicable to floppy disks but is generally reserved for hard disks in suitable cartridges such as those made by Syquest, Iomega and others. Removable disk packs were common on minicomputers such as the PDP-11 in use in the 1970s except that the drives were the size of washing machines and the disk packs as big as car wheels. Removable disks became popular on microcomputers in the 1990s as a cheap way of expanding disk space, transporting large amounts of data between computers and storing backups. Large, cheap fixed hard disks and USB memory sticks have made removable disks less attractive.
- samuel de champlain — Samuel de [sam-yoo-uh l duh;; French sa-my-el duh] /ˈsæm yu əl də;; French sa müˈɛl də/ (Show IPA), 1567–1635, French explorer in the Americas: founder of Quebec; first colonial governor 1633–35.
- sb's spiritual home — your spiritual home is the place where you feel that you belong, usually because your ideas or attitudes are the same as those of the people who live there
- seven hills of rome — the hills on which the ancient city of Rome was built: the Palatine, Capitoline, Quirinal, Caelian, Aventine, Esquiline, and Viminal
- sharp-focus realism — photorealism.
- simple carbohydrate — a carbohydrate, as glucose, that consists of a single monosaccharide unit.
- sodium hydrosulfite — a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder, Na 2 S 2 O 4 , used as a reducing agent, especially in dyeing, and as a bleach.
- sodium hypochlorite — a pale-green, crystalline compound, NaOCl, unstable in air, soluble in cold water, decomposes in hot water: used as a bleaching agent for paper and textiles, in water purification, in household use, and as a fungicide.
- sodium thiosulphate — a white soluble substance used, in the pentahydrate form, in photography as a fixer to dissolve unchanged silver halides and also to remove excess chlorine from chlorinated water. Formula: Na2S2O3
- spherical astronomy — the branch of astronomy dealing with the determination of the positions of celestial bodies on the celestial sphere.
- squamous epithelium — epithelium consisting of one or more layers of scalelike cells.
- stanislavski method — method (def 5).
- tetramethyldiarsine — an oily slightly water-soluble poisonous liquid with garlic-like odour. Its derivatives are used as accelerators for rubber
- that's more like it — If you say that's more like it, you mean that the thing that you are referring to is more satisfactory than it was on earlier occasions.