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17-letter words containing a, u, t, h, e

  • clare boothe luce — Clare Boothe, 1903–87, U.S. writer, politician, and diplomat.
  • collegiate church — a church that has an endowed chapter of canons and prebendaries attached to it but that is not a cathedral
  • computer graphics — the use of a computer to produce and manipulate pictorial images on a video screen, as in animation techniques or the production of audiovisual aids
  • consumer watchdog — an organization or government agency that campaigns for consumers
  • counterchallenges — Plural form of counterchallenge.
  • court of chancery — (in the US) a court of equity
  • court-of-chancery — chancery (def 4a).
  • crampon technique — a climbing style that uses crampons
  • creature of habit — If you say that someone is a creature of habit, you mean that they usually do the same thing at the same time each day, rather than doing new and different things.
  • cultural exchange — an exchange of students, artists, athletes, etc., between two countries to promote mutual understanding.
  • daughter language — a language that has evolved from another specified language.
  • denatured alcohol — ethanol rendered unfit for human consumption by the addition of a noxious substance, as in methylated spirits
  • diaphragm shutter — a camera shutter having a group of overlapping blades that open and close at the center when exposing film.
  • dibutyl phthalate — a colorless oily liquid, C 16 H 22 O 4 , insoluble in water, used as a solvent, insect repellent, and plasticizer.
  • displacement hull — a hull that displaces a significant volume of water when under way.
  • dressed up as sth — portrayed as
  • drive up the wall — to cause to become crazy or furious
  • dull as dishwater — water in which dishes are, or have been, washed.
  • dutch east indies — a former name of the Republic of Indonesia.
  • dutch elm disease — a disease of elms characterized by wilting, yellowing, and falling of the leaves and caused by a fungus, Ceratostomella ulmi, transmitted by bark beetles.
  • equivalent weight — the weight of an element or compound that will combine with or displace 8 grams of oxygen or 1.007 97 grams of hydrogen
  • exhaust emissions — Exhaust emissions are substances that come out of an exhaust system into the atmosphere.
  • father substitute — a male who replaces an absent father and becomes an object of attachment.
  • female chauvinist — a female who patronizes, disparages, or otherwise denigrates males in the belief that they are inferior to females and thus deserving of less than equal treatment or benefit.
  • female-chauvinist — a person who is aggressively and blindly patriotic, especially one devoted to military glory.
  • fish out of water — any of various cold-blooded, aquatic vertebrates, having gills, commonly fins, and typically an elongated body covered with scales.
  • flight lieutenant — A flight lieutenant is an officer of middle rank in the British air force.
  • foam at the mouth — a collection of minute bubbles formed on the surface of a liquid by agitation, fermentation, etc.: foam on a glass of beer.
  • freight insurance — insurance paid on goods in transport
  • functional change — a change in the grammatical function of a word, as in the use of the noun input as a verb or the noun fun as an adjective.
  • further education — adult education.
  • fuss and feathers — an excessively elaborate or pretentious display; ostentation.
  • go out of the way — to inconvenience oneself; do something that one would not ordinarily do, or that requires extra or deliberate effort or trouble
  • grande chartreuse — the Carthusian monastery at Grenoble, France: the chief monastery of the Carthusians until 1903.
  • greenland halibut — a flatfish, Reinhardtius hippoglossoides, similar and related to the halibut
  • ground angle shot — a photograph or film shot in which the lens is near the ground, usually pointing up somewhat
  • guerrilla theater — the presentation of short propaganda plays or skits, usually on sociopolitical themes, as war or repression, often on the streets or in other nontheater locations.
  • haemagglutinating — That agglutinates red blood cells.
  • haemagglutination — Alternative form of hemagglutination.
  • hairline fracture — a very fine crack in a bone
  • hasbrouck heights — a borough in NE New Jersey.
  • have a reputation — to be known or notorious, esp for promiscuity, excessive drinking, or the like
  • have a short fuse — a tube, cord, or the like, filled or saturated with combustible matter, for igniting an explosive.
  • heating apparatus — an apparatus that heats something
  • henry of portugal — ("the Navigator") 1394–1460, prince of Portugal: sponsor of geographic explorations.
  • hepatitis b virus — a form of hepatitis caused by a DNA virus (hepatitis B virus, or HBV) that persists in the blood, characterized by a long incubation period: usually transmitted by sexual contact or by injection or ingestion of infected blood or other bodily fluids.
  • heritage industry — an industry that manages the historical sites, buildings, and museums in a particular place, with the aim of encouraging tourism
  • heterochlamydeous — (of a plant) having a perianth consisting of distinct sepals and petals
  • hillel foundation — a national organization, founded in 1924 by the B'nai B'rith, that institutes and administers programs designed to enrich the religious, cultural, and social life of Jewish college students.
  • homeland security — national defence
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