19-letter words containing s, h, o
- behind closed doors — If people have talks and discussions behind closed doors, they have them in private because they want them to be kept secret.
- 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.
- blackbelly rosefish — a reddish scorpionfish, Helicolenus dactylopterus, inhabiting the deep waters of the western Atlantic Ocean.
- blast from the past — You can use a blast from the past as a light-hearted way of referring to something such as an old song or fashion that you hear or notice again, and which reminds you of an earlier time.
- blow one's own horn — If you blow your own horn, you boast about yourself.
- blow the whistle on — to make a clear musical sound, a series of such sounds, or a high-pitched, warbling sound by the forcible expulsion of the breath through a small opening formed by contracting the lips, or through the teeth, with the aid of the tongue.
- booker t washington — Booker T(aliaferro) [boo k-er tol-uh-ver] /ˈbʊk ər ˈtɒl ə vər/ (Show IPA), 1856–1915, U.S. reformer, educator, author, and lecturer.
- bottomhole assembly — The bottomhole assembly is the lower part of a drill string, which has the drill bit and mud motor.
- breath of fresh air — sth new
- briggsian logarithm — common logarithm.
- 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
- cannot help oneself — to be the victim of circumstances, a habit, etc.
- caroline of ansbach — 1683–1737, wife of George II of Great Britain
- cash in one's chips — to turn in one's chips for their equivalent in money
- cash-flow statement — a financial statement that shows a company's cash disbursements and receipts over a given period
- cast one's lot with — one of a set of objects, as straws or pebbles, drawn or thrown from a container to decide a question or choice by chance.
- catch someone's eye — If something catches your eye, you suddenly notice it.
- cathodoluminescence — luminescence caused by irradiation with electrons (cathode rays)
- cerebral thrombosis — formation of a clot or other blockage in one of the blood vessels of the brain, often followed by neurologic damage; a type of stroke.
- chamber of deputies — the lower house of the legislature of certain countries, as Italy.
- champagne corks pop — If you say that champagne corks are popping, you mean that people are celebrating something.
- champagne socialist — a professed socialist who enjoys an extravagant lifestyle
- characteristic root — a scalar for which there exists a nonzero vector such that the scalar times the vector equals the value of the vector under a given linear transformation on a vector space.
- chassis dynamometer — A chassis dynamometer is a piece of test equipment fitted with rollers for the wheels of a vehicle, that is capable of providing drive input and measuring output such as power and torque at the wheels.
- chemical castration — the use of drugs to reduce libido
- chemical processing — Chemical processing is a way of making changes to chemical compounds.
- chinese tallow tree — tallow tree.
- 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.
- cholecystolithiasis — The presence of a gallstone specifically in the gall bladder.
- choledocholithiasis — The presence of gallstones in the common bile duct.
- chrestien de troyes — c1140–c90, French poet.
- christian democracy — the beliefs, principles, practices, or programme of a Christian Democratic party
- christian socialist — a member of any of certain European political parties advocating a form of social organization based on Christian and socialistic principles.
- christmas pantomime — pantomime (def 5).
- chromoblastomycosis — Long-term fungal infection of the skin and subcutaneous tissue.
- churchill reservoir — a series of irregularly shaped lakes in W Labrador, Newfoundland, in E Canada: the source of the Churchill River.
- city of seven hills — Rome2
- clinical psychology — the branch of psychology that studies and treats mental illness and mental retardation
- co-respondent shoes — men's two-coloured shoes, usually black and white or brown and white
- 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.
- coded character set — (character, standard) A mapping, generally 1:1, from a set of integers, known as character codes or code positions, to a set of characters that may include letters, digits, punctuation, control codes, mathematical and typographic symbols. There are several standard coded character sets, the most widely used is ASCII, generally in its Latin-1 dialect, with Unicode becoming slowly more common; while EBCDIC and Baudot are extinct except in legacy systems.
- come to the surface — to emerge; become apparent
- commission merchant — a person who buys or sells goods for others on a commission basis
- common area charges — (in the US) charges paid by tenants for the maintenance of the common areas of a block of flats
- comparison shopping — Comparison shopping is comparing similar products from different stores or suppliers. Comparison shopping services are popular on the Internet.
- 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