19-letter words containing s, h, o, u
- (down) in the dumps — in low spirits; depressed
- a shadow of a doubt — If you say that something is true without a shadow of a doubt or without a shadow of doubt, you are emphasizing that there is no doubt at all that it is true.
- acoustic gramophone — a device for reproducing the sounds stored on a record: now usually applied to the nearly obsolete type that uses a clockwork motor and acoustic horn
- acoustic theodolite — an acoustic device that records a continuous vertical profile of ocean currents at a particular site.
- air cushion vehicle — ACV (def 2).
- air-cushion vehicle — a vehicle that travels just above the surface of land or water on a cushion of air provided by a downward jet from its engines, propellers, etc.
- alcohol consumption — the drinking of alcohol
- allegheny mountains — a mountain range in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia: part of the Appalachian system; rising from 600 m (2000 ft) to over 1440 m (4800 ft)
- alpha ursae minoris — Polaris
- author's alteration — a correction or change made in typeset copy that is not a correction of an error introduced by the compositor. Abbreviation: AA, A.A., a.a., aa.
- autoerotic asphyxia — asphyxia caused by intentionally strangling oneself while masturbating in order to intensify the orgasm through reduced oxygen flow to the brain.
- beat about the bush — to avoid the point at issue; prevaricate
- behavioural science — the application of scientific methods to the study of the behaviour of organisms
- bernoulli's theorem — Statistics. law of averages (def 1).
- beside the question — not related to the subject under discussion
- bismuth oxychloride — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble powder, BiOCl, used chiefly in the manufacture of pigments, face powders, and artificial pearls.
- bright young things — young, fun-loving, fashionable upper-class people, esp of the 1920s
- brush-tailed possum — any of several widely-distributed Australian possums of the genus Trichosurus
- cathodoluminescence — luminescence caused by irradiation with electrons (cathode rays)
- chamber of deputies — the lower house of the legislature of certain countries, as Italy.
- chlorofluorocarbons — Plural form of chlorofluorocarbon.
- chlorosulfonic acid — a colorless or yellowish, highly corrosive, pungent liquid, HClO 3 S, usually produced by treating sulfur trioxide with hydrogen chloride: used in organic synthesis to introduce the sulfonyl chloride group, =SO 2 Cl.
- churchill reservoir — a series of irregularly shaped lakes in W Labrador, Newfoundland, in E Canada: the source of the Churchill River.
- cobaltous hydroxide — a rose-red, amorphous, water-insoluble powder, Co 2 O 3 ⋅3H 2 O, used chiefly in the preparation of cobalt salts and in the manufacture of paint and varnish driers.
- come to the surface — to emerge; become apparent
- compulsory purchase — purchase of a house or other property by a local authority or government department for public use or to make way for development, regardless of whether or not the owner wishes to sell
- continuation school — a school providing extension courses for people who have left school in the elementary grades to go to work.
- contradistinguished — Simple past tense and past participle of contradistinguish.
- contradistinguishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contradistinguish.
- corporal punishment — Corporal punishment is the punishment of people by hitting them.
- cost-push inflation — inflation in which prices increase as a result of increased production costs, as labor and parts, even when demand remains the same.
- covered-dish supper — a meal to which guests contribute food, as casseroles.
- cultivated mushroom — an edible mushroom (Agaricus bisporus) with a pale cap and stalk: the most common food mushroom
- deaf without speech — (usually of a prelingually deaf person) able to utter sounds but not speak
- desargues's theorem — the theorem that if two triangles are so related that the lines joining corresponding vertices meet in a point, then the extended corresponding lines of the two triangles meet in three points, all on the same line.
- dry-bulk cargo ship — a ship that carries an unpackaged dry cargo such as coal or grain; bulk carrier
- east dunbartonshire — a council area of central Scotland to the N of Glasgow: part of Strathclyde region from 1975 until 1996: mainly agricultural and residential. Administrative centre: Kirkintilloch. Pop: 106 970 (2003 est). Area: 172 sq km (66 sq miles)
- eat one's heart out — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
- eat someone's lunch — to take into the mouth and swallow for nourishment; chew and swallow (food).
- electrotherapeutics — (medicine) the use of electricity in therapeutics.
- father of the house — (in Britain) the longest-serving member of the House of Commons
- feather-duster worm — any tube-dwelling polychaete worm of the families Sabellidae and Serpulidae, the numerous species having a crown of feathery tentacles used in feeding and respiration.
- finger on the pulse — If you have your finger on the pulse of something, you know all the latest opinions or developments concerning it.
- flannelmouth sucker — a sucker, Catostomus latipinnis, of the Colorado River and its tributaries.
- fluophosphoric acid — fluorophosphoric acid.
- fluoride toothpaste — toothpaste containing a small amount of fluoride as protection against tooth decay
- focal plane shutter — an opaque shield in a camera, lying in the focal plane of the lens, that, when tripped, admits light to expose the film or plate for a predetermined period, usually a fraction of a second
- focal-plane shutter — a camera shutter situated directly in front of the film.
- frameshift mutation — a mutation caused by frameshift.
- go down the tube(s) — If a business, economy, or institution goes down the tubes or goes down the tube, it fails or collapses completely.
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