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25-letter words containing a, b, i, h

  • abstract machine notation — (language)   (AMN) A language for specifying abstract machines in the B-Method, based on the mathematical theory of Generalised Substitutions.
  • antidisestablishmentarian — a person who advocates antidisestablishmentarianism.
  • antiestablishmentarianism — a policy or attitude that views a nation's power structure as corrupt, repressive, exploitive, etc.
  • archibald philip primroseArchibald Philip, 5th Earl of Rosebery, Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of.
  • aristophanes of byzantium — 257?–180? b.c, Greek scholar; librarian at Alexandria, Egypt.
  • at the back of one's mind — not in one's conscious thoughts
  • australopithecus robustus — an extinct species of large-toothed bipedal hominid that lived in southern Africa c1.5–2 million years ago: formerly classified as the genus Paranthropus.
  • back to the drawing board — If you say that you will have to go back to the drawing board, you mean that something which you have done has not been successful and that you will have to start again or try another idea.
  • back-to-the-office report — a brief report by a worker who has been away on a mission of some kind, providing colleagues with information about the mission
  • be on a hiding to nothing — to be bound to fail; to face impossible odds
  • be perturbed at something — to be alarmed at something
  • beard the lion in his den — to approach a feared or influential person, esp in order to ask a favour
  • biochemical oxygen demand — a measure of the organic pollution of water: the amount of oxygen, in mg per litre of water, absorbed by a sample kept at 20°C for five days
  • black-crowned night heron — any of several thick-billed, crepuscular or nocturnal herons of the genus Nycticorax and related genera, as N. nycticorax (black-crowned night heron) of the Old and New Worlds, and Nyctanassa violacea (yellow-crowned night heron) of America.
  • british union of fascists — the British fascist party founded by Sir Oswald Mosley (1932), which advocated a strong corporate state and promoted anti-Semitism
  • burn (or hang) in effigy — to burn (or hang) an image of (a person) in public, as a way of protesting, as against that person's policies
  • computer-aided publishing — desktop publishing. Abbreviation: CAP.
  • copyright deposit library — one of six libraries legally entitled to receive a gratis copy of every book published in the United Kingdom: the British Library, Bodleian, Cambridge University, Trinity College in Dublin, Scottish National Library, and National Library of Wales
  • dibasic calcium phosphate — Dibasic calcium phosphate is a white powder or crystalline substance used as a dietary supplement and tableting agent.
  • don't give up the day job — If someone tells you not to give up the day job, they are saying that they think you should continue doing what you are good at, rather than trying something new which they think you will fail at.
  • gabriel daniel fahrenheit — Gabriel Daniel [German gah-bree-el dah-nee-el] /German ˈgɑ briˌɛl ˈdɑ niˌɛl/ (Show IPA), 1686–1736, German physicist: devised a temperature scale and introduced the use of mercury in thermometers.
  • give sb pause for thought — If something gives you pause for thought, it makes you think carefully about something, especially in a different way than you have thought about it before.
  • give someone the dingbats — to make someone nervous
  • hailsham of st marylebone — Baron, title of Quintin (McGarel) Hogg (ˈkwɪntɪn). 1907–2001, British Conservative politician; Lord Chancellor (1970–74; 1979–87). He renounced his viscountcy in 1963 when he made an unsuccessful bid for the Conservative Party leadership; he became a life peer in 1970
  • have bats in one's belfry — any of numerous flying mammals of the order Chiroptera, of worldwide distribution in tropical and temperate regions, having modified forelimbs that serve as wings and are covered with a membranous skin extending to the hind limbs.
  • have one's wits about one — the keen perception and cleverly apt expression of those connections between ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure. Synonyms: drollery, facetiousness, waggishness, repartee.
  • hoist by one's own petard — an explosive device formerly used in warfare to blow in a door or gate, form a breach in a wall, etc.
  • human embryonic stem cell — a stem cell obtained from the blastocyst of a human embryo
  • i don't know (about that) — You can use I don't know to indicate that you do not completely agree with something or do not really think that it is true.
  • in (or out of) mothballs — put into (or taken from) a condition of being stored or in reserve
  • in the foreseeable future — If you say that something will happen in the foreseeable future you mean that you think it will happen fairly soon.
  • industrial rehabilitation — the treatment of people who have acquired a disability or disease during the course of their work, with the aim of allowing them to return to work or to a new job
  • initial teaching alphabet — a 44 letter phonetic alphabet used mainly in the 1960s for teaching children to read and write
  • it is a good/bad thing to — You say it is a good thing to do something to introduce a piece of advice or a comment on a situation or activity.
  • maintenance of membership — an arrangement or agreement between an employer and a labor union by which employees who are members of the union at the time the agreement is made, or who subsequently join, must either remain members until the agreement expires, or be discharged.
  • make a thing about/out of — If you make a thing of something or make a thing about it, you talk about it or do it in an exaggerated way, so that it seems much more important than it really is.
  • make bricks without straw — a block of clay hardened by drying in the sun or burning in a kiln, and used for building, paving, etc.: traditionally, in the U.S., a rectangle 2.25 × 3.75 × 8 inches (5.7 × 9.5 × 20.3 cm), red, brown, or yellow in color.
  • never do things by halves — If you say that someone never does things by halves, you mean that they always do things very thoroughly.
  • northern corn-leaf blight — northern leaf blight.
  • on the big/small etc side — If you say that something is on the small side, you are saying politely that you think it is slightly too small. If you say that someone is on the young side, you are saying politely that you think they are slightly too young.
  • portable network graphics — (file format)   /ping/ (PNG) An extensible file format for the lossless, portable, well-compressed storage of raster images. PNG provides a patent-free replacement for GIF and can also replace many common uses of TIFF. Indexed-colour, greyscale and truecolour images are supported, plus an optional alpha channel. Sample depths range from 1 to 16 bits. PNG is designed for on-line viewing applications, such as the World Wide Web, so it is fully streamable with a progressive display option. PNG is robust, providing both full file integrity checking and simple detection of common transmission errors. Also, PNG can store gamma correction and chromaticity data for improved colour matching on heterogeneous platforms.
  • raise (or lower) the bar — raise (or lower) the standard of judgment
  • rehabilitation department — a government department set up after World War II to assist ex-servicemen
  • ruby-throated hummingbird — a small hummingbird, Archilochus colubris, the only hummingbird of eastern North America, having metallic-green upper plumage and a bright red throat in the male.
  • saddle block (anesthesia) — a method of spinal anesthesia, often used during obstetric delivery, that produces anesthesia in that area of the body that would be in contact with a saddle during horseback riding
  • the ball is in sb's court — If you say that the ball is in someone's court, you mean that it is his or her responsibility to take the next action or decision in a situation.
  • the ball is in your court — you are obliged to make the next move
  • the empire state building — a very high skyscraper in New York City
  • the knives are out for sb — If a lot of people want something unpleasant to happen to someone, for example if they want them to lose their job, you can say that the knives are out for that person.
  • thermodynamic equilibrium — the condition of an isolated system in which the quantities that specify its properties, such as pressure, temperature, etc, all remain unchanged

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