19-letter words containing o, h
- finger on the pulse — If you have your finger on the pulse of something, you know all the latest opinions or developments concerning it.
- first-past-the-post — A first-past-the-post system for choosing members of parliament or other representatives is one in which the candidate who gets most votes wins.
- five o'clock shadow — the rather dark stubble that appears on a man's face some hours after shaving, typically in the late afternoon if he shaved in the morning.
- five-o'clock shadow — the rather dark stubble that appears on a man's face some hours after shaving, typically in the late afternoon if he shaved in the morning.
- flame-of-the-forest — a leguminous tree, Butea frondosa, native to E India and Myanmar, having hanging clusters of scarlet flowers
- flannelmouth sucker — a sucker, Catostomus latipinnis, of the Colorado River and its tributaries.
- flavor of the month — Informal. the subject of intense, usually temporary interest; the current fashion.
- flexible kelly hose — A flexible kelly hose is a hose which carries mud to the kelly.
- fluophosphoric acid — fluorophosphoric acid.
- fluoride toothpaste — toothpaste containing a small amount of fluoride as protection against tooth decay
- fly in the ointment — Also called true fly. any of numerous two-winged insects of the order Diptera, especially of the family Muscidae, as the common housefly.
- focal plane shutter — an opaque shield in a camera, lying in the focal plane of the lens, that, when tripped, admits light to expose the film or plate for a predetermined period, usually a fraction of a second
- focal-plane shutter — a camera shutter situated directly in front of the film.
- for all it is worth — If someone does something for all it is worth, they do it as much as possible and for as long as they can get benefit from it.
- for all sb is worth — If you do something for all you are worth, you do it with a lot of energy and enthusiasm.
- for the life of one — the condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms, being manifested by growth through metabolism, reproduction, and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating internally.
- for the sake of sth — If you do something for the sake of something, you do it for that purpose or in order to achieve that result. You can also say that you do it for something's sake.
- for what it's worth — good or important enough to justify (what is specified): advice worth taking; a place worth visiting.
- forensic psychiatry — the use of psychiatric knowledge and techniques in questions of law, as in determining legal insanity.
- four colour theorem — four colour map theorem
- frameshift mutation — a mutation caused by frameshift.
- free alongside ship — (of a shipment of goods) delivered to the dock without charge to the buyer, but excluding the cost of loading onto the vessel
- freedom of the city — nominal citizenship in a city, conferred as an honor upon important visitors.
- freedom of the seas — the doctrine that ships of neutral countries may sail anywhere on the high seas without interference by warring powers.
- french north africa — the former French possessions of Algeria, French Morocco, and Tunisia
- friend of the court — amicus curiae.
- from rags to riches — a worthless piece of cloth, especially one that is torn or worn.
- frontier technology — innovative or new technology
- gel electrophoresis — a technique for separating protein molecules of varying sizes in a mixture by moving them through a block of gel, as of agarose or polyacrylamide, by means of an electric field, with smaller molecules moving faster and therefore farther than larger ones.
- general of the army — the highest ranking military officer; the next rank above general.
- geothermal gradient — the increase in temperature with increasing depth within the earth.
- get (or be) hip to — to become (or be) informed or knowledgeable about
- get off one's chest — Anatomy. the trunk of the body from the neck to the abdomen; thorax.
- get the hang of sth — If you get the hang of something such as a skill or activity, you begin to understand or realize how to do it.
- giant silkworm moth — any silkworm moth of the family Saturniidae.
- give one's eyeteeth — Dentistry. a canine tooth of the upper jaw: so named from its position under the eye.
- give your eye teeth — If you say that you would give your eye teeth for something, you mean that you want it very much and you would do anything to get it.
- glottochronological — Of or pertaining to glottochronology.
- go down the tube(s) — If a business, economy, or institution goes down the tubes or goes down the tube, it fails or collapses completely.
- go jump in the lake — a body of fresh or salt water of considerable size, surrounded by land.
- go off at half-cock — to fail as a result of inadequate preparation or premature starting
- go off the deep end — final or ultimate: the end result.
- go on a/the rampage — If people go on a rampage, they rush around in a wild or violent way, causing damage or destruction.
- go on the offensive — If you go on the offensive, go over to the offensive, or take the offensive, you begin to take strong action against people who have been attacking you.
- go through the hoop — to be subjected to an ordeal
- go through the roof — the external upper covering of a house or other building.
- go to great lengths — If you say that someone goes to great lengths to achieve something, you mean that they try very hard and perhaps do extreme things in order to achieve it.
- go under the hammer — to be offered for sale by an auctioneer
- goes without saying — If something goes without saying, it is obvious.
- goldbach conjecture — an unproved theorem that every even integer greater than 2 can be written as the sum of two prime numbers.