19-letter words containing s, t, a, l, h
- squamous epithelium — epithelium consisting of one or more layers of scalelike cells.
- stakeholder pension — In Britain, a stakeholder pension is a flexible pension scheme with low charges. Both employees and the state contribute to the scheme, which is optional, and is in addition to the basic state pension.
- stanislavski method — method (def 5).
- stochastic variable — a random variable.
- strain at the leash — to be impatient to have freedom from restraint
- strangulated hernia — a hernia, especially of the intestine, that swells and constricts the blood supply of the herniated part, resulting in obstruction and gangrene.
- swedish nightingale — Jenny (Johanna Maria Lind Goldschmidt"The Swedish Nightingale") 1820–87, Swedish soprano.
- sweetheart neckline — a neckline on a woman's garment, as a dress, with a high back and a low-cut front with two curved edges resembling the conventionalized shape of a heart.
- sweetness and light — extreme or excessive pleasantness or amiability.
- switchblade (knife) — a large jackknife that snaps open when a release button on the handle is pressed
- take sth personally — If you take someone's remarks personally, you are upset because you think that they are criticizing you in particular.
- take to one's heels — the back part of the human foot, below and behind the ankle.
- take up the cudgels — If you take up the cudgels for someone or something, you speak or fight in support of them.
- tarnished plant bug — a bug, Lygus lineolaris, of the family Miridae, that is a common and widely distributed pest of alfalfa and other legumes and of peach and other fruit trees.
- teaching fellowship — a fellowship providing a student in a graduate school with free tuition and expenses and stipulating that the student assume some teaching duties in return.
- technical institute — a higher-education institution
- tetramethyldiarsine — an oily slightly water-soluble poisonous liquid with garlic-like odour. Its derivatives are used as accelerators for rubber
- that's more like it — If you say that's more like it, you mean that the thing that you are referring to is more satisfactory than it was on earlier occasions.
- the bluegrass state — Kentucky
- the compassion club — (in Canada) a nonprofit organization that provides uncontaminated cannabis for medical purposes and natural therapies in a safe environment
- the lesser antilles — a group of islands in the Caribbean, including the Leeward Islands, the Windward Islands, Barbados, and the Netherlands Antilles
- the london assembly — the devolved legislature of London, based in City Hall, Southwark
- the lone star state — Texas
- the middle distance — an unspecified point in the distance
- the panhandle state — a nickname for West Virginia
- the pilgrim fathers — the English Puritans who sailed on the Mayflower to New England, where they founded Plymouth Colony in SE Massachusetts (1620)
- the provisional ira — the unofficial faction of the IRA that became increasingly dominant following a split in 1969. The Provisional movement remained committed to a policy of terrorism until its ceasefires of the mid-1990s
- the retail business — the business sector in which goods are sold individually or in small quantities to consumers
- the social register — a directory, now published annually, of the families who are considered to form the country's social élite
- the volunteer state — a nickname for Tennessee
- the wolverine state — a Midwestern state in the Great Lakes area of the north central US
- theological virtues — one of the three graces: faith, hope, or charity, infused into the human intellect and will by a special grace of God.
- theoretical physics — abstract use of physics
- thread-line fishing — spinning (def 3).
- threadneedle street — a street in the City of London famous for its banks, including the Bank of England, known as The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street
- threshold agreement — an agreement between an employer and employees or their union to increase wages by a specified sum if inflation exceeds a specified level in a specified time
- throw oneself at sb — If someone throws themselves at you, they make it very obvious that they want to begin a relationship with you, by behaving as though they are sexually attracted to you.
- tiglath-pileser iii — died 727 b.c, king of Assyria 745–727.
- to be headline news — to attract a lot of attention from newspapers
- to clutch at straws — If you are clutching at straws or grasping at straws, you are trying unusual or extreme ideas or methods because other ideas or methods have failed.
- to make like sth/sb — If you make like you are doing something, you act as if you are doing it, and if you make like someone, you act as if you are that person.
- touch all the bases — to deal with all related details
- trahison des clercs — a compromising of intellectual integrity, esp. for political reasons
- travelers' diarrhea — persistent and often severe diarrhea experienced by a traveler whose digestive system is unaccustomed to the bacteria in local food and water.
- tubular steel chair — a chair with a frame made of tubular steel
- ultramicrochemistry — the branch of microchemistry dealing with minute quantities of material weighing one microgram or less.
- university hospital — a hospital that is affiliated with a university. University hospitals provide clinical education and training to future and current doctors, nurses, and other health professionals, in addition to delivering medical care to patients
- up against the wall — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
- upset the applecart — a pushcart used by a vendor of apples.
- valley of the kings — a valley on the west bank of the Nile near the site of Thebes: the necropolis of many of the kings and queens of the 18th and 19th dynasties of ancient Egypt, c1350–c1200 b.c.