running sore
noun
1A suppurating, oozing, or non-healing sore (now rare ).
2 (figurative ) a persistent problem; a constant nuisance or irritation.
Origin
Late Middle English.
- hellward
- hellwards
- hellweed
- hell week
- hell, west, and crooked
- helly
- hellzapoppin'
- helm
- Helmand
- helmed
- helmer
- helmet
- helmeted
- helmet hair
- helmet shell
- helmet-shrike
- Helmholtz function
- Helmholtz, Hermann von
- Helmholtz resonator
- Helmholtz' resonator
- Helmholtz's function
- Helmholtz's resonator
- helminth
- helminthiasis
- helminthic