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17-letter words containing a, b, k, h

  • abhidhamma pitaka — a collection of scriptures, originally recorded from oral traditions in the 1st century b.c., divided into one of three parts (Pitaka) sermons () the rules of the Buddhist order () and several treatises on philosophy and psychology ()
  • back on the rails — If something is back on the rails, it is beginning to be successful again after a period when it almost failed.
  • backward chaining — (algorithm)   An algorithm for proving a goal by recursively breaking it down into sub-goals and trying to prove these until facts are reached. Facts are goals with no sub-goals which are therefore always true. Backward training is the program execution mechanism used by most logic programming language like Prolog. Opposite: forward chaining.
  • baggage checkroom — a left luggage office; a place at, for example, a railway station where baggage can be left
  • balance the books — do accounting
  • barkhausen effect — the phenomenon of short, sudden changes in the magnetism of a ferromagnetic substance occurring when the intensity of the magnetizing field is continuously altered.
  • behind one's back — without one's knowledge; secretly or deceitfully
  • black huckleberry — a low eastern North American shrub, Gaylussacia baccata, of the heath family, having yellowish-green leaves with resinous dots on the underside, clustered orange-red flowers, and shiny, black, edible fruit.
  • black-headed gull — a small gull, Chroicocephalus ridibundus, that breeds in much of Europe and Asia, and often scavenges in towns
  • blackcurrant bush — a bush of the blackcurrant plant
  • break one's heart — to grieve or cause to grieve very deeply, esp through love
  • break the back of — to complete the greatest or hardest part of (a task)
  • broad-winged hawk — an American hawk, Buteo platypterus, dark brown above and white barred with rufous below.
  • buckingham palace — the London residence of the British sovereign: built in 1703, rebuilt by John Nash in 1821–36 and partially redesigned in the early 20th century
  • bury the tomahawk — to stop fighting; make peace
  • by the same token — You use by the same token to introduce a statement that you think is true for the same reasons that were given for a previous statement.
  • checkable deposit — a checking account
  • chicklet keyboard — (spelling)   It's spelled "chiclet keyboard".
  • dwarf huckleberry — tangleberry.
  • english breakfast — An English breakfast is a breakfast consisting of cooked food such as bacon, eggs, sausages, and tomatoes. It also includes toast and tea or coffee.
  • go back to the pa — to abandon city life in favour of rural life
  • hasbrouck heights — a borough in NE New Jersey.
  • heartbreakingness — The state or quality of being heartbreaking.
  • histamine blocker — any of various substances that act at a specific receptor site to block certain actions of histamine.
  • humpbacked bridge — A humpbacked bridge or humpback bridge is a short and very curved bridge with a shape similar to a semi-circle.
  • in the background — behind the focus of attention
  • ladder-back chair — a chair with a back of two upright posts connected by horizontal slats
  • mark of the beast — the mark put on the forehead of those who worship the beast, the symbol of opposition to God.
  • michigan bankroll — a large roll of paper money in small denominations.
  • mikhail gorbachev — Mikhail S(ergeyevich) [mi-kahyl sur-gey-uh-vich,, mi-keyl;; Russian myi-khuh-yeel syir-gye-yi-vyich] /mɪˈkaɪl sɜrˈgeɪ ə vɪtʃ,, mɪˈkeɪl;; Russian myɪ xʌˈyil syɪrˈgyɛ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), born 1931, Soviet political leader: general secretary of the Communist Party 1985–91; president of the Soviet Union 1988–91; Nobel Peace Prize 1990.
  • nicholas bourbaki — the pseudonym of a group of mainly French mathematicians that, since 1939, has been producing a monumental work on advanced mathematics, Eléments de Mathématique
  • on the pig's back — successful; established
  • peach bark beetle — a bark beetle, Phloeotribus liminaris, that feeds on and nests in peach and other drupaceous trees.
  • pocket battleship — a small heavily armed and armored warship serving as a battleship because of limitations imposed by treaty.
  • red and the black — a novel (1832) by Stendhal.
  • red-backed shrike — a common Eurasian shrike, Lanius collurio, the male of which has a grey crown and rump, brown wings and back, and a black-and-white face
  • shake one's booty — to dance
  • shubra al khaymah — a city in NE Egypt, a Cairo suburb.
  • squaw huckleberry — deerberry.
  • take sth by storm — If someone or something takes a place by storm, they are extremely successful.
  • telephone banking — a facility enabling customers to make use of banking services, such as oral payment instructions, account movements, raising loans, etc, over the telephone rather than by personal visit
  • the bag of tricks — every device; everything
  • the black country — the formerly heavily industrialized region of central England, northwest of Birmingham
  • the buckeye state — a nickname for Ohio
  • throw the book at — a handwritten or printed work of fiction or nonfiction, usually on sheets of paper fastened or bound together within covers.
  • to beat the clock — If you beat the clock, you finish doing something or succeed in doing something before the time allowed for doing it has ended.
  • to break the bank — If you say that the cost of something will not break the bank, you mean that it will not cost a large sum of money.
  • triskaidekaphobia — fear or a phobia concerning the number 13.
  • what does sb know — You can use expressions such as What does she know? and What do they know? when you think that someone has no right to comment on a situation because they do not understand it.

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