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21-letter words containing s, h, o, e

  • a breath of fresh air — a refreshing change from what one is used to
  • a crying need for sth — If you say that there is a crying need for something, you mean that there is a very great need for it.
  • a fine kettle of fish — an awkward situation; mess
  • a rap on the knuckles — If someone in authority gives you a rap on the knuckles, they criticize you or blame you for doing something they think is wrong.
  • a shot across the bow — If you describe someone's actions as a shot across the bows of another person, you mean that it is a warning to that person to stop or change what they are doing.
  • a sight for sore eyes — a person or thing that one is pleased or relieved to see
  • a world heritage site — a site of international importance
  • absorption hygrometer — a hygrometer that uses a hygroscopic chemical to absorb atmospheric moisture.
  • ada core technologies — (company)   (ACT) The company that maintains GNAT. Ada Core Technologies was founded in 1994 by the original authors of the GNAT compiler. ACT provides software for Ada 95 development.
  • add fuel to something — If something adds fuel to a conflict or debate, or adds fuel to the fire, it makes the conflict or debate more intense.
  • adela rogers st johnsAdela Rogers, 1894–1988, U.S. journalist and writer.
  • adenosine diphosphate — ADP1
  • advanced photo system — a system that enables photographs in different formats to be taken on the same (small) roll of film
  • afro-american english — Black English (def 1).
  • after one's own heart — appealing to one's own disposition, taste, or tendencies
  • alcohol dehydrogenase — an enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of ethanol and other alcohols to acetaldehyde using NAD+, the first step in the metabolism of alcohol by the liver.
  • aleksandr-nikolaevichAlexander (Aleksandr Nikolaevich) 1899–1977, Russian pianist and composer, in the U.S.
  • algorithm description — (language)   (ALDES) ["The Algorithm Description Language ALDES", R.G.K. Loos, SIGSAM Bull 14(1):15-39 (Jan 1976)].
  • all hell breaks loose — If you say that all hell breaks loose, you are emphasizing that a lot of arguing or fighting suddenly starts.
  • all things considered — You say all things considered to indicate that you are making a judgment after taking all the facts into account.
  • american saddle horse — one of a breed of horses, raised originally in the U.S., that have high-stepping gaits and are bred to the three-gaited or five-gaited type.
  • anointing of the sick — a sacrament in which a person who is seriously ill or dying is anointed by a priest with consecrated oil
  • apothecaries' measure — a system of liquid volume measure used in pharmacy in which 60 minims equal 1 fluid drachm, 8 fluid drachms equal 1 fluid ounce, and 20 fluid ounces equal 1 pint
  • as luck would have it — fortunately
  • asiliant technologies — (company)   A company founded by a group of former Chips and Technologies employees with experience with the CHIPS products, suppliers, distributors and customers. Asiliant offer C&T's industry standard Flat Panel and CRT controller family.
  • athenaeus of attaleia — Greek physician in Rome, fl. a.d. c40–65.
  • atmospheric inversion — inversion (def 12).
  • atmospheric-inversion — an act or instance of inverting.
  • bad conduct discharge — a discharge of a person from military service for an offense less serious than one for which a dishonorable discharge is given.
  • balance sheet account — A balance sheet account is an account in the chart of accounts that is reported on the balance sheet.
  • be at pains to do sth — If someone is at pains to do something, they are very eager and anxious to do it, especially because they want to avoid a difficult situation.
  • be on the danger list — to be critically ill in hospital
  • be supposed to do sth — If you say that something is supposed to happen, you mean that it is planned or expected. Sometimes this use suggests that the thing does not really happen in this way.
  • behind someone's back — without someone's knowledge or consent
  • biobehavioral science — any of the various branches of the life sciences, as neurobiology, neurochemistry, or neuroendocrinology, that deal with biological aspects of behavior.
  • blot on the landscape — If you describe something such as a building as a blot on the landscape, you mean that you think it is very ugly and spoils an otherwise attractive place.
  • blow the whistle (on) — to report or inform (on)
  • bottlebrush moustache — a short, bristly moustache
  • break someone's heart — an act or instance of breaking; disruption or separation of parts; fracture; rupture: There was a break in the window.
  • british north america — (formerly) Canada or its constituent regions or provinces that formed part of the British Empire
  • businessman's holiday — busman's holiday.
  • category merchandiser — A category merchandiser is a person whose job is to maintain stocks, manage displays and promote sales of a certain product category such as footwear.
  • characteristic vector — a vector for which there exists a scalar such that the value of the vector under a given transformation is equal to the scalar times the vector.
  • charity commissioners — (in Britain) members of a commission constituted to keep a register of charities and control charitable trusts
  • charterhouse of parma — a novel (1839) by Stendhal.
  • chequebook journalism — Chequebook journalism is the practice of paying people large sums of money for information about crimes or famous people in order to get material for newspaper articles.
  • chinese forget-me-not — an eastern Asian plant, Cynoglossum amabile, of the borage family, having lance-shaped leaves and clustered, showy, blue, pink, or white flowers.
  • chinese water torture — a form of torture in which water is made to drip for a long period of time onto a victim's forehead to drive him insane
  • chink in one's armour — a small but fatal weakness
  • choledochojejunostomy — (medicine) The surgical formation of an opening between the common bile duct and the jejunum.

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