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18-letter words containing a, p, e, h, o, d

  • price on sb's head — If there is a price on someone 's head, an amount of money has been offered for the capture or killing of that person.
  • propaganda machine — the group of people, publications, etc, such as of a government, country etc, responsible for the organized dissemination of information, allegations, etc, to assist or damage the cause of a government, movement, etc
  • pseudo-anarchistic — a person who advocates or believes in anarchy or anarchism.
  • pull one's head in — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
  • put heads together — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
  • pyromucic aldehyde — furfural.
  • rhodes scholarship — one of a number of scholarships at Oxford University, established by the will of Cecil Rhodes, for selected students (Rhodes scholars) from the British Commonwealth and the United States.
  • scholarship holder — a person who, because of academic merit, receives financial aid for their studies
  • secondary syphilis — the second stage of syphilis, characterized by eruptions of the skin and mucous membrane.
  • september holidays — a period of time in September when people do not have to go to school, college or work
  • sound spectrograph — an electronic device for recording a sound spectogram.
  • spotted flycatcher — a European woodland songbird, Muscicapa striata, with a greyish-brown streaked plumage: family Muscicapidae (Old World flycatchers)
  • temporary hardness — hardness of water due to the presence of magnesium and calcium hydrogencarbonates, which can be precipitated as carbonates by boiling
  • the heavens opened — it started pouring with rain
  • the lords temporal — (in Britain) peers other than bishops in their capacity as members of the House of Lords
  • the operative word — If you describe a word as the operative word, you want to draw attention to it because you think it is important or exactly true in a particular situation.
  • to hold your peace — If you hold or keep your peace, you do not speak, even though there is something you want or ought to say.
  • to pick and choose — If you pick and choose, you carefully choose only things that you really want and reject the others.
  • to sweep the board — If someone sweeps the board in a competition or election, they win nearly everything that it is possible to win.
  • vectorcardiography — a method of determining the direction and magnitude of the electrical forces of the heart.
  • white-spotted hyla — a type of tree frog (H. leucophyllata) of tropical America
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