19-letter words containing p, h, o, t, f
- point the finger at — to accuse or blame
- put a figure on sth — When you put a figure on an amount, you say exactly how much it is.
- put on the feed bag — Also called nose bag. a bag for feeding horses, placed before the mouth and fastened around the head with straps.
- rapture of the deep — nitrogen narcosis.
- reflux oesophagitis — inflammation of the gullet caused by regurgitation of stomach acids, producing heartburn: may be associated with a hiatus hernia
- scare the pants off — to scare extremely
- shopping facilities — shops or other retail services
- south pacific ocean — the part of the Pacific Ocean extending S from the Equator to the Antarctic continent.
- spare a thought for — If you spare a thought for an unfortunate person, you make an effort to think sympathetically about them and their bad luck.
- spirit of hartshorn — a colorless, pungent, suffocating, aqueous solution of about 28.5 percent ammonia gas: used chiefly as a detergent, for removing stains and extracting certain vegetable coloring agents, and in the manufacture of ammonium salts.
- spread oneself thin — to draw, stretch, or open out, especially over a flat surface, as something rolled or folded (often followed by out).
- teaching fellowship — a fellowship providing a student in a graduate school with free tuition and expenses and stipulating that the student assume some teaching duties in return.
- the grapes of wrath — a novel (1939) by John Steinbeck.
- the patriotic front — a political party in Zimbabwe, founded in 2001 as a coalition of two communist parties, the Zimbabwe African Peoples Union (ZAPU) and the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), which had worked together to fight against White minority rule in Rhodesia
- the top of the tree — If you say that someone is at the top of the tree, you mean that they have reached the highest level in their career or profession.
- to the prejudice of — to the detriment of
- wage-push inflation — an inflationary trend caused by wage increases that in turn cause rises in production costs and prices.
- want no part of sth — If you say that you want no part of something, you mean that you do not want to be involved in it at all.
- whorfian hypothesis — Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.
- writ of prohibition — a command by a higher court that a lower court shall not exercise jurisdiction in a particular case.