27-letter words containing a, b, e, r, d
- public service broadcasting — publicly-funded broadcasting
- put one's best foot forward — (in vertebrates) the terminal part of the leg, below the ankle joint, on which the body stands and moves.
- refreshable braille display — braille display
- rise/raise sb from the dead — When Christians say that Jesus Christ rose from the dead or raised someone from the dead, they mean that Jesus came back to life after he had died, or brought a dead person back to life.
- serbs, croats, and slovenes — former name (1918–29) of Yugoslavia.
- someone's days are numbered — If you say that someone's or something's days are numbered, you mean that they will not survive or be successful for much longer.
- the hunchback of notre dame — French Notre Dame de Paris. a novel (1831) by Victor Hugo.
- the odds are in sb's favour — If you say that the odds are in someone's favour, you mean that they are likely to succeed in what they are doing.
- to know something backwards — In British English, if you say that someone knows something backwards, you are emphasizing that they know it very well. In American English, you say that someone knows something backward and forward.
- to make your blood run cold — If you say that something makes your blood run cold or makes your blood freeze, you mean that it makes you feel very frightened.
- to rule sb with a high hand — to behave imperiously towards someone