19-letter words containing o, n, s, e

have designs on sth — If someone has designs on something, they want it and are planning to get it, often in a dishonest way.
have one's blood up — to be or cause to be angry or inflamed
have one's way with — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
have the makings of — show potential as
haves and have-nots — If you refer to two groups of people as haves and have-nots, you mean that the first group are very wealthy and the second group are very poor. You can also refer generally to poor people as have-nots.
health professional — a person trained to work in any field of physical or mental health.
heat of sublimation — the heat absorbed by one gram or unit mass of a substance in the process of changing, at a constant temperature and pressure, from a solid to a gaseous state. Compare sublime (def 10).
helsinki conference — Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe.
hester lynch piozzi — Hester Lynch (Hester Lynch Piozzi) 1741–1821, Welsh writer and friend of Samuel Johnson.
hold no terrors for — If something holds no terrors for you, you are not at all frightened or worried by it.
hold up one's hands — to confess a mistake or misdeed
holy innocents' day — December 28, a day of religious observance commemorating the slaughter of the children of Bethlehem by Herod's order.
homme moyen sensuel — an average man, with average tastes and appetites
honorable discharge — a discharge from military service of a person who has fulfilled obligations efficiently, honorably, and faithfully.
hop, step, and jump — triple jump.
horseshoe whipsnake — a long slender fast-moving nonvenomous snake, Coluber hippocrepis, of Eurasia
hotel des invalides — a military hospital built in Paris in the 17th and 18th centuries by Libéral Bruant and J. H. Mansart: famous for its chapel dome, the tomb of Napoleon, and as a military museum.
hound's-tooth check — a pattern of broken or jagged checks, used on a variety of fabrics.
house of correction — a place for the confinement and reform of persons convicted of minor offenses and not regarded as confirmed criminals.
house of councilors — the upper house of the Japanese diet.
household insurance — an arrangement in which you pay money to a company, and they pay money to you if your household goods are stolen or damaged
housing development — a group of houses or apartments, usually of the same size and design, often erected on a tract of land by one builder and controlled by one management.
hudson river school — a group of American painters of the mid-19th century whose works are characterized by a highly romantic treatment of landscape, especially along the Hudson River.
human rights record — the facts that are known about the tendency of a country, regime, etc, to observe and protect human rights
humanist technology — (philosophy) Technology centered around the interests, needs, and well-being of humans.
huntington's chorea — a hereditary disease of the central nervous system characterized by brain deterioration and loss of control over voluntary movements, the symptoms usually appearing in the fourth decade of life.
hydrostatic balance — a balance for finding the weight of an object submerged in water in order to determine the upthrust on it and thus determine its relative density
hyper-nationalistic — a person devoted to nationalism.
hyperbolic cosecant — a hyperbolic function that is the reciprocal of hyperbolic sine
hyperfocal distance — the distance, at a given f number, between a camera lens and the nearest point (hyperfocal point) having satisfactory definition when focused at infinity.
hyperresponsiveness — An abnormally increased responsiveness, especially that due to hypersensitivity or hyperreactivity.
hysterosalpingogram — An X-ray image taken during hysterosalpingography.
idea of pure reason — any of the three undemonstrable entities (a personal soul, a cosmos, and a supreme being) implicit in the fact of a subject and an object of knowledge, and in the need for some principle uniting them.
if i'm not mistaken — You use expressions such as if I'm not mistaken and unless I'm very much mistaken as a polite way of emphasizing the statement you are making, especially when you are confident that it is correct.
immersion objective — a microscope objective of high resolving power in which the space between the front lens and the cover glass is filled with an oil whose index of refraction is close to that of the objective and the cover glass.
immunocytochemistry — the detection of chemical components of cells by means of antibodies coupled to substances that can be made visible.
immunohistochemical — (biology) Of, pertaining to, or by means of immunohistochemistry, the use of immunological techniques to study the chemistry of tissues.
impressionistically — In an impressionistic manner.
in (all) conscience — in fairness; on any reasonable ground
in consequence (of) — as a result (of)
in consideration of — the act of considering; careful thought; meditation; deliberation: I will give your project full consideration.
in descending order — starting with the biggest, most important, highest etc and continuing in decreasing order to end with the smallest, least important, lowest, etc
in one's mind's eye — pictured within the mind; imagined or remembered vividly
in one's right mind — sane
in someone's pocket — If you say that someone is in someone else's pocket, you disapprove of the fact that the first person is willing to do whatever the second person tells them, for example out of weakness or in return for money.
in the light of sth — If something is possible in the light of particular information, it is only possible because you have this information.
in the person of sb — You can use in the person of when mentioning the name of someone you have just referred to in a more general or indirect way.
in the second place — secondly
incommensurableness — (rare) Incommensurability.
incomprehensibility — impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.

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