19-letter words containing s, e, r, g
- green mountain boys — the members of the armed bands of Vermont organized in 1770 to oppose New York's territorial claims. Under Ethan Allen they won fame in the War of American Independence
- greenhouse whitefly — See under whitefly.
- greenstick fracture — an incomplete fracture of a long bone, in which one side is broken and the other side is still intact.
- gregorian telescope — a telescope similar in design to the Cassegrainian telescope but less widely used.
- grocer's apostrophe — an apostrophe placed before a final s intended to indicate the plural but in fact forming the possessive
- grosse pointe farms — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- grosse pointe woods — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- guillaume de lorris — 13th-century French poet who wrote the first 4058 lines of the allegorical romance, the Roman de la rose, continued by Jean de Meung
- harbinger-of-spring — a North American umbelliferous herb, Erigenia bulbosa, having white flowers that bloom early in the spring.
- haute vulgarisation — vulgarization, or popularization, on a higher level, esp. as done by academics, scholars, etc.
- hermes trismegistus — a name variously ascribed by Neoplatonists and others to an Egyptian priest or to the Egyptian god Thoth, to some extent identified with the Grecian Hermes: various mystical, religious, philosophical, astrological, and alchemical writings were ascribed to him.
- high blood pressure — elevation of the arterial blood pressure or a condition resulting from it; hypertension. Abbreviation: HBP.
- high-bush cranberry — cranberry bush
- high-energy physics — the branch of particle physics that deals with the collisions of particles accelerated to such high energies that new elementary particles are created by the collisions.
- high-pressure steam — High-pressure steam is steam which is at or above 75 pounds per square inch gauge pressure.
- highland clearances — in Scotland, the removal, often by force, of the people from some parts of the Highlands to make way for sheep, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
- highways department — the department of a state, council, etc, responsible for the upkeep of roads and highways
- honorable discharge — a discharge from military service of a person who has fulfilled obligations efficiently, honorably, and faithfully.
- human rights abuses — acts that contravene human rights
- human rights record — the facts that are known about the tendency of a country, regime, etc, to observe and protect human rights
- 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.
- hypersuggestibility — subject to or easily influenced by suggestion.
- hysterosalpingogram — An X-ray image taken during hysterosalpingography.
- 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 right mind — sane
- in the driving seat — If you say that someone is in the driving seat, you mean that they are in control in a situation.
- in this/that regard — You can use in this regard or in that regard to refer back to something that you have just said.
- in-service training — training that is given to employees during the course of employment
- index expurgatorius — a list of books now included in the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, forbidden to be read except from expurgated editions.
- indirect addressing — indirect address
- industrial-strength — unusually strong, potent, or the like: heavy-duty: an industrial-strength soap.
- inorganic chemistry — the branch of chemistry dealing with inorganic compounds.
- insulating material — anything that is used as insulation
- integration testing — (testing) A type of testing in which software and/or hardware components are combined and tested to confirm that they interact according to their requirements. Integration testing can continue progressively until the entire system has been integrated.
- interchangeableness — Quality of being interchangeable.
- intergalactic space — the region of physical space that exists between galaxies. The density is negligible, and close to an almost total vacuum
- interlaced scanning — a system of scanning a television picture, first along the even-numbered lines, then along the odd-numbered lines, in one complete scan
- intersecting arcade — interlacing arcade.
- inver grove heights — a town in SE Minnesota.
- iphigenia in tauris — a drama (413? b.c.) by Euripides.
- islet of langerhans — any of several masses of endocrine cells in the pancreas that secrete insulin, somatostatin, and glucagon.
- it serves you right — If you say it serves someone right when something unpleasant happens to them, you mean that it is their own fault and you have no sympathy for them.
- jacques montgolfier — Jacques Étienne [zhahk ey-tyen] /ʒɑk eɪˈtyɛn/ (Show IPA), 1745–99, and his brother Joseph Michel [zhaw-zef mee-shel] /ʒɔˈzɛf miˈʃɛl/ (Show IPA) 1740–1810, French aeronauts: inventors of the first practical balloon 1783.
- japanese lawn grass — an Asiatic creeping grass, Zoysia japonica, used especially in the southeastern U.S., having purplish spikelets and rootstalks that send up numerous tough, wiry shoots.
- jumping bristletail — any of several thysanuran insects that live in dark, warm, moist places, as under leaves, bark, and dead tree trunks and along rocky seacoasts, and are active jumpers, making erratic leaps when disturbed.
- king charles's head — a fixed idea; personal obsession
- king's remembrancer — (in Great Britain) a judiciary official who collects debts owed to the king.
- knights hospitalers — a member of the religious and military order (Knights Hospitalers or Knights of St. John of Jerusalem) originating about the time of the first Crusade (1096–99) and taking its name from a hospital at Jerusalem.
- landscape gardening — the art or trade of designing or rearranging large gardens, estates, etc.
- large munsterlander — a strongly built gun dog with a long dense black-and-white coat