19-letter words containing es
- gloucester old spot — a hardy rare breed of pig, white with a few black markings, that originally lived off windfalls in orchards in the Severn valley
- go round in circles — to engage in energetic but fruitless activity
- goes without saying — If something goes without saying, it is obvious.
- gold-rimmed glasses — spectacles with gold-coloured frames
- great crested grebe — a large Old World grebe, Podiceps cristatus, having black, earlike tufts of feathers projecting backward from the top of the head.
- great indian desert — a desert in NW India and S Pakistan. About 77,000 sq. mi. (200,000 sq. km).
- gregorian telescope — a telescope similar in design to the Cassegrainian telescope but less widely used.
- have a weakness for — be fond of
- have designs on sth — If someone has designs on something, they want it and are planning to get it, often in a dishonest way.
- haves and have-nots — If you refer to two groups of people as haves and have-nots, you mean that the first group are very wealthy and the second group are very poor. You can also refer generally to poor people as have-nots.
- health professional — a person trained to work in any field of physical or mental health.
- hermes trismegistus — a name variously ascribed by Neoplatonists and others to an Egyptian priest or to the Egyptian god Thoth, to some extent identified with the Grecian Hermes: various mystical, religious, philosophical, astrological, and alchemical writings were ascribed to him.
- herpes zoster virus — a type of herpesvirus that causes chickenpox and shingles.
- hester lynch piozzi — Hester Lynch (Hester Lynch Piozzi) 1741–1821, Welsh writer and friend of Samuel Johnson.
- high blood pressure — elevation of the arterial blood pressure or a condition resulting from it; hypertension. Abbreviation: HBP.
- high-pressure steam — High-pressure steam is steam which is at or above 75 pounds per square inch gauge pressure.
- highland clearances — in Scotland, the removal, often by force, of the people from some parts of the Highlands to make way for sheep, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
- horseshoe whipsnake — a long slender fast-moving nonvenomous snake, Coluber hippocrepis, of Eurasia
- hospital facilities — the equipment and services provided by a hospital
- hotel des invalides — a military hospital built in Paris in the 17th and 18th centuries by Libéral Bruant and J. H. Mansart: famous for its chapel dome, the tomb of Napoleon, and as a military museum.
- human rights abuses — acts that contravene human rights
- hypercholesteraemia — (medicine) An abnormally high level of cholesterol in the blood.
- hyperresponsiveness — An abnormally increased responsiveness, especially that due to hypersensitivity or hyperreactivity.
- hypersuggestibility — subject to or easily influenced by suggestion.
- hypocholesterolemia — an abnormally low amount of cholesterol in the blood.
- hypocholesterolemic — (pathology) Of, pertaining to, or having hypocholesterolemia.
- imperial presidency — a U.S. presidency that is characterized by greater power than the Constitution allows.
- impressionistically — In an impressionistic manner.
- in descending order — starting with the biggest, most important, highest etc and continuing in decreasing order to end with the smallest, least important, lowest, etc
- incidental expenses — costs outside those budgeted
- incommensurableness — (rare) Incommensurability.
- incomprehensiveness — The condition of being incomprehensive.
- inconsequentialness — The quality or state of being inconsequential.
- indirect addressing — indirect address
- insect pest control — the killing, reduction or elimination of insects which are pests, using insecticide, etc
- integration testing — (testing) A type of testing in which software and/or hardware components are combined and tested to confirm that they interact according to their requirements. Integration testing can continue progressively until the entire system has been integrated.
- interchangeableness — Quality of being interchangeable.
- interesterification — transesterification.
- internal resistance — the resistance within a battery, or other voltage source, that causes a drop in the source voltage when there is a current.
- interval estimation — the process of estimating a parameter of a given population by specifying an interval of values and the probability that the true value of the parameter falls within this interval.
- intracutaneous test — a test for immunity or allergy to a particular antigen by observing the local reaction following injection of a small amount of the antigen into the skin.
- investment compound — investment (def 11).
- it serves you right — If you say it serves someone right when something unpleasant happens to them, you mean that it is their own fault and you have no sympathy for them.
- jacques montgolfier — Jacques Étienne [zhahk ey-tyen] /ʒɑk eɪˈtyɛn/ (Show IPA), 1745–99, and his brother Joseph Michel [zhaw-zef mee-shel] /ʒɔˈzɛf miˈʃɛl/ (Show IPA) 1740–1810, French aeronauts: inventors of the first practical balloon 1783.
- james clerk maxwell — Elsa, 1883–1963, U.S. professional hostess and author.
- james gould cozzens — James Gould, 1903–78, U.S. novelist.
- james' dsssl engine — (text, tool) (JADE) A DSSSL tool by James J. Clark. Jade is an implementation of the DSSSL style language for Unix and Microsoft Windows. It can turn the SGML source of the DSSSL standard into an RTF file of about 200 pages using a fairly complex DSSSL specification.
- japanese arborvitae — a Japanese evergreen tree, Thuja standishii, having spreading branches with bright-green leaves.
- japanese black pine — a pine, Pinus thunbergiana, of Japan, grown as a seaside ornamental in the U.S.
- japanese lawn grass — an Asiatic creeping grass, Zoysia japonica, used especially in the southeastern U.S., having purplish spikelets and rootstalks that send up numerous tough, wiry shoots.