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19-letter words containing s, h, e, a, r, l

  • gas central heating — a system of central heating fuelled by combustible gas
  • general anaesthesia — the use of a general anaesthetic
  • general anaesthetic — sth administered to induce unconsciousness
  • general partnership — a partnership in which each of the partners is fully liable for the firm's debts.
  • 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.
  • grand duke nicholas — of Cusa [kyoo-zuh] /ˈkyu zə/ (Show IPA), 1401–1464, German cardinal, mathematician, and philosopher. German Nikolaus von Cusa.
  • grandfather's clock — a pendulum floor clock having a case as tall as or taller than a person; tall-case clock; long-case clock.
  • grandmother's clock — a pendulum clock similar to a grandfather's clock but shorter.
  • grasshopper warbler — a Eurasian warbler Locustella naevia
  • handlebar moustache — a man's moustache having long, curved ends that resemble the handlebars of a bicycle.
  • haul over the coals — a black or dark-brown combustible mineral substance consisting of carbonized vegetable matter, used as a fuel. Compare anthracite, bituminous coal, lignite.
  • haute vulgarisation — vulgarization, or popularization, on a higher level, esp. as done by academics, scholars, etc.
  • health professional — a person trained to work in any field of physical or mental health.
  • heinrich schliemann — Heinrich [hahyn-rikh] /ˈhaɪn rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1822–90, German archaeologist: excavated ancient cities of Troy and Mycenae.
  • hepatoportal system — a vascular arrangement in vertebrates through which blood is transported into the liver from capillaries of the stomach, spleen, duodenum, pancreas, and intestines.
  • hermetically sealed — airtight
  • 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
  • honorable discharge — a discharge from military service of a person who has fulfilled obligations efficiently, honorably, and faithfully.
  • horsehair toadstool — a small basidiomycetous fungus, Marasmius androsaceus, having a rusty coloured cap and very slender black stems. It is related to the fairy ring mushroom, but is commonly found among conifers and heather
  • 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
  • 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
  • hypercholesteraemia — (medicine) An abnormally high level of cholesterol in the blood.
  • 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.
  • hyperphosphorylated — Simple past tense and past participle of hyperphosphorylate.
  • hypocholesterolemia — an abnormally low amount of cholesterol in the blood.
  • hysterosalpingogram — An X-ray image taken during hysterosalpingography.
  • industrial-strength — unusually strong, potent, or the like: heavy-duty: an industrial-strength soap.
  • interchangeableness — Quality of being interchangeable.
  • intermediate school — a school for pupils in grades 4 through 6.
  • irish water spaniel — one of an Irish breed of large water spaniels having a thick, curly, liver-colored coat, a topknot of long, loose curls, and a thin, tapering tail covered with short hair.
  • isenheim altarpiece — an altarpiece (1510?–15?) painted by Matthias Grünewald.
  • islet of langerhans — any of several masses of endocrine cells in the pancreas that secrete insulin, somatostatin, and glucagon.
  • jerusalem artichoke — Also called girasol. a sunflower, Helianthus tuberosus, having edible, tuberous, underground stems or rootstocks.
  • king charles's head — a fixed idea; personal obsession
  • 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 architect — A landscape architect is the same as a landscape gardener.
  • let one's hair down — any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals; a pilus.
  • lie in one's throat — to tell a foul or outrageous lie
  • like a cheshire cat — If someone is grinning like a Cheshire cat or like the Cheshire cat, they are smiling very widely.
  • limited partnership — a partnership formed by at least one general partner and at least one special partner.
  • lipopolysaccharides — Plural form of lipopolysaccharide.
  • 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.
  • lose one's heart to — to fall in love with
  • love at first sight — instant romantic attraction to sb
  • lupus erythematosus — any of several autoimmune diseases, especially systemic lupus erythematosus, characterized by red, scaly skin patches.
  • machine translation — changing language of a text by computer
  • 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
  • metatarsophalangeal — (anatomy) Relating to the metatarsus and phalange.
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