20-letter words that end in h
- officer of the watch — the officer primarily responsible for the navigation of a ship, in the absence of the captain, during a certain watch.
- on top/on top of sth — You can use on top or on top of to indicate that a particular problem exists in addition to a number of other problems.
- one's misspent youth — the period when one is young and spend's one's time doing foolish, bad, or frivolous things
- part way through sth — in the course of something; in the middle of something
- patagonian toothfish — a large food fish, Dissostichus eleginoides, found in the cold deep waters of the southern Atlantic and Indian oceans
- pave the way for sth — If one thing paves the way for another, it creates a situation in which it is possible or more likely that the other thing will happen.
- play merry hell with — to disturb greatly; disrupt
- posted write-through — A cache with a posted write-through policy (e.g. Intel 80386) delays the write-back to main memory until the bus is not in use.
- rub sb's nose in sth — To rub someone's nose in something that they do not want to think about, such as a failing or a mistake they have made, means to remind them repeatedly about it.
- run off at the mouth — Anatomy, Zoology. the opening through which an animal or human takes in food. the cavity containing the structures used in mastication. the structures enclosing or being within this cavity, considered as a whole.
- satellite photograph — a photograph taken by an artificial satellite from space
- saxe-weimar-eisenach — a former grand duchy in Thuringia in central Germany.
- sb's future lies swh — If you say that someone's future lies in a particular place or activity, you think they will be most successful or happy in that place or doing that activity.
- settle accounts with — to pay or receive a balance due
- soke of peterborough — a former administrative unit of E central England, generally considered part of Northamptonshire or Huntingdonshire: absorbed into Cambridgeshire in 1974
- states of the church — Papal States
- step into the breach — If you step into the breach, you do a job or task which someone else was supposed to do or has done in the past, because they are suddenly unable to do it.
- the better to do sth — If you do something the better to do something else, you do the first thing in order to be able to do the second thing more effectively.
- the gnomes of zurich — Swiss bankers and financiers
- the last word in sth — If you say that something is the last word in luxury, comfort, or some other quality, you are emphasizing that it has a great deal of this quality.
- the like(s) of which — If you refer to something the like of which or the likes of which has never been seen before, you are emphasizing how important, great, or noticeable the thing is.
- the methodist church — a group of people within the Christian religion who follow a system of faith and practice initiated by the English preacher John Wesley (1703–91) and his followers
- the sum total of sth — all of something
- thorn in one's flesh — a sharp excrescence on a plant, especially a sharp-pointed aborted branch; spine; prickle.
- to catch your breath — If something makes you catch your breath, it makes you take a short breath of air, usually because it shocks you.
- to gnash one's teeth — If you say that someone is gnashing their teeth, you mean they are angry or frustrated about something.
- to put an end to sth — To put an end to something means to cause it to stop.
- to waste your breath — If someone says you are wasting your breath, they mean that the person you are talking to will not take any notice and so there is no point saying anything to them.
- to work your way swh — If you work your way somewhere, you move or progress there slowly, and with a lot of effort or work.
- trumpet call for sth — a signal for something
- try conclusions with — to engage in an argument or contest with
- under/below strength — If an army or team is under strength or below strength, it does not have all the members that it needs or usually has.
- webbing clothes moth — a small brown moth, Tineola biselliella, the larva of which feeds on woolens and spins a web when feeding.
- western mountain ash — a mountain ash, Sorbus sitchensis, of western North America.
- what did you do with — You can ask someone what they did with something as another way of asking them where they put it.
- yu-shiang whole fish — /yoo-shyang hohl fish/ An obsolete name for the Greek character gamma (extended SAIL ASCII code 9, Unicode glyph 0x0263) which with a loop in its tail looks like a little fish swimming down the page. The term is actually the name of a Chinese dish in which a fish is cooked whole (not parsed) and covered with Yu-Shiang (or Yu-Hsiang) sauce. Used primarily by people on the MIT LISP Machine, which could display this character on the screen. Tends to elicit incredulity from people who hear about it second-hand.