19-letter words that end in h
- on an empty stomach — If you do something on an empty stomach, you do it without having eaten.
- one's money's worth — full value for the money one has paid for something
- operations research — the analysis, usually involving mathematical treatment, of a process, problem, or operation to determine its purpose and effectiveness and to gain maximum efficiency.
- oriental fruit moth — a moth, Grapholitha molesta, introduced into the U.S. from Asia, the larvae of which infest and feed on the twigs and fruits of peach, plum, and related trees.
- pidgin sign english — an auxiliary language formed by using the signs and fingerspelling, but not the grammar, of American Sign Language in the word order of English, often used in communication between deaf signers and speakers of English. Abbreviation: PSE.
- 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.
- programmer's switch — (hardware) A button on the front of some Apple Macintosh computers which, when pressed, causes a command line prompt to appear. This gives access to the built-in mini-debugger, which has commands to dump memory, return to the application that was broken out, and others. A more sophisticated debugger must be installed in order to inspect breakpoints, etc.
- put a figure on sth — When you put a figure on an amount, you say exactly how much it is.
- queensland lungfish — a lungfish, Neoceratodus forsteri, reaching a length of six feet: occurs in Queensland rivers but introduced elsewhere
- shortness of breath — respiratory difficulty
- smite hip and thigh — to attack unsparingly; overwhelm with or as with blows
- south african dutch — the Boers.
- strain at the leash — to be impatient to have freedom from restraint
- take care to do sth — If you take care to do something, you make sure that you do it.
- the finishing touch — If you add the finishing touches to something, you add or do the last things that are necessary to complete it.
- the grapes of wrath — a novel (1939) by John Steinbeck.
- the likes of sb/sth — You can talk about the likes of someone or something to refer to people or things of a particular type.
- three-martini lunch — an expensive lunch enjoyed by businessmen during the workday which is often accompanied by drinking
- through and through — in at one end, side, or surface and out at the other: to pass through a tunnel; We drove through Denver without stopping. Sun came through the window.
- to be going on with — If you say that something is enough to be going on with, you mean that it is enough for your needs at the moment, although you will need something better at some time in the future.
- to be reckoned with — of considerable importance or influence
- to fight for breath — If you fight for breath, you try to breathe but find it very difficult.
- to hold your breath — If you hold your breath, you make yourself stop breathing for a few moments, for example because you are under water.
- to let go of sb/sth — If you let go of someone or something, you stop holding them.
- want no part of sth — If you say that you want no part of something, you mean that you do not want to be involved in it at all.
- work sb/os to death — If you say that someone works another person to death, you are emphasizing that they make them work very hard indeed, especially in a way that seems cruel or unfair.
- write-protect notch — a cut-out on a floppy disk that determines whether a disk is writable
- yellowtail kingfish — a large carangid game fish, Seriola grandis, of S Australian waters