19-letter words containing the

in the tradition of — If you say that something or someone is in the tradition of a person or thing from the past, you mean that they have many features that remind you of that person or thing.
indwelling catheter — a hollow tube left implanted in a body canal or organ, especially the bladder, to promote drainage.
joseph of arimathea — a wealthy disciple who provided a tomb for Jesus' body: Matt. 27:57-60
knock the socks off — to strike a sounding blow with the fist, knuckles, or anything hard, especially on a door, window, or the like, as in seeking admittance, calling attention, or giving a signal: to knock on the door before entering.
knock them/'em dead — To knock them dead means to impress people a great deal, especially with your appearance.
ladies-of-the-night — plural of lady-of-the-night.
lady of the evening — a prostitute.
leave the door open — a movable, usually solid, barrier for opening and closing an entranceway, cupboard, cabinet, or the like, commonly turning on hinges or sliding in grooves.
liberation theology — a 20th-century Christian theology, emphasizing the Biblical and doctrinal theme of liberation from oppression, whether racial, sexual, economic, or political.
lie down on the job — to put forth less than one's best efforts
lift the curtain on — to begin
liouville's theorem — the theorem that every function of a complex variable, bounded and differentiable for all finite values of the variable, is a constant function.
lose in the shuffle — to leave out or disregard in the confusion of things
lupus erythematosus — any of several autoimmune diseases, especially systemic lupus erythematosus, characterized by red, scaly skin patches.
make the best of it — cope
master of the horse — (in England) the third official of the royal household
master of the rolls — (in England and Wales) the judge who presides over the Court of Appeal (Civil Division) and who was formerly Keeper of the Records at the Public Record Office
maximum thermometer — a thermometer designed to show the highest temperature recorded between resettings.
mayor of the palace — one of a line of hereditary administrative lieutenants to the Merovingian kings who eventually took over royal function and title in the Frankish kingdoms; a palatine.
minimum thermometer — a thermometer designed to show the lowest temperature recorded between resettings.
moses-in-the-cradle — a plant, Rhoeo spathacea, native to the West Indies and Central America, having leaves with purple undersides and white flowers enclosed in a boat-shaped envelope formed by two bracts.
mother-in-law plant — a West Indian foliage plant, Dieffenbachia seguine, of the arum family, having yellow-blotched leaves that cause temporary speechlessness when chewed.
mother-of-thousands — strawberry geranium.
multinomial theorem — an expression of a power of a sum in terms of powers of the addends, a generalization of the binomial theorem.
nernst heat theorem — the principle that reactions in crystalline solids involve changes in entropy that tend to zero as the temperature approaches absolute zero
niagara-on-the-lake — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada, on Lake Ontario, at the mouth of the Niagara River, on the border between Canada and New York.
north-northeasterly — a wind or storm coming from the north-northeast
northern hemisphere — the half of the earth between the North Pole and the equator.
northern hog sucker — black sucker.
nothing of the kind — not that
nothing of the sort — not at all as described
officer of the deck — a naval duty officer responsible for the operation of the ship in the absence of the captain or the executive officer. Abbreviation: O.O.D.
old man and the sea — a novel (1952) by Ernest Hemingway.
on the baker's list — in good health
on the razor's edge — a sharp-edged instrument used especially for shaving the face or trimming the hair.
on the threshold of — If you are on the threshold of something exciting or new, you are about to experience it.
on top of the world — the highest or loftiest point or part of anything; apex; summit. Synonyms: zenith, acme, peak, pinnacle, vertex. Antonyms: bottom, base, foot, lowest point.
on-the-job training — apprenticeship, learning by doing
one after the other — one at a time
one way and another — on balance
open the floodgates — If events open the floodgates to something, they make it possible for that thing to happen much more often or much more seriously than before.
order of the garter — the highest order of British knighthood, instituted by Edward III about 1348.
out at (the) elbows — shabby; poverty-stricken
out of the ordinary — of no special quality or interest; commonplace; unexceptional: One novel is brilliant, the other is decidedly ordinary; an ordinary person.
out of the question — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
parthenogenetically — development of an egg without fertilization.
parting of the ways — When there is a parting of the ways, two or more people or groups of people stop working together or travelling together.
piece of the action — the process or state of acting or of being active: The machine is not in action now.
piggy-in-the-middle — Piggy-in-the-middle or pig-in-the-middle is a game in which two children throw a ball to each other and a child standing between them tries to catch it.
play the devil with — Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.

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