19-letter words containing u, n, h, a, t
- to change your mind — If you change your mind, or if someone or something changes your mind, you change a decision you have made or an opinion that you had.
- to change your tune — If you say that someone has changed their tune, you are criticizing them because they have changed their opinion or way of doing things.
- to run the gauntlet — If you run the gauntlet, you go through an unpleasant experience in which a lot of people criticize or attack you.
- turn in their grave — If you say that someone who is dead would turn in their grave at something that is happening now, you mean that they would be very shocked or upset by it, if they were alive.
- turn someone's head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
- ultrahigh frequency — any frequency between 300 and 3000 megahertz. Abbreviation: UHF, uhf.
- under the banner of — If someone does something under the banner of a particular cause, idea, or belief, they do it saying that they support that cause, idea, or belief.
- under the shadow of — in danger of; apparently fated for
- 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.
- vesicular exanthema — an infectious viral disease of swine, characterized by blisters on the snout, mucous membranes, and feet.
- wage-push inflation — an inflationary trend caused by wage increases that in turn cause rises in production costs and prices.
- welsh mountain pony — a small sturdy but graceful breed of pony used mostly for riding, originally from Wales
- west dunbartonshire — a council area of W central Scotland, on Loch Lomond and the Clyde estuary: corresponds to part of the historical county of Dunbartonshire; part of Strathclyde Region from 1975 to 1996: engineering industries. Administrative centre: Dumbarton. Pop: 92 320 (2003 est). Area: 162 sq km (63 sq miles)
- what's your poison? — what would you like to drink?
- wouldn't harm a fly — If you say that someone wouldn't hurt a fly or wouldn't harm a fly, you are emphasizing that they are very kind and gentle.
- yeoman of the guard — a member of the bodyguard of the English sovereign, instituted in 1485, which now consists of 100 men, including officers, having purely ceremonial duties.
- your hands are tied — If you say that your hands are tied, you mean that something is preventing you from acting in the way that you want to.
- zero-hours contract — an employment contract which does not oblige the employer to provide regular work for the employee, but requires the employee to be on call in the event that work becomes available