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20-letter words containing b, e, s, h

  • get/give so the bird — If an audience gives someone the bird, they shout loudly in order to show their disappointment or disapproval.
  • give sb/get the push — If you get the push or are given the push, you are told that you are not wanted any more, either in your job or by someone you are having a relationship with.
  • grievous bodily harm — law: serious injury
  • highbush huckleberry — black huckleberry.
  • how about something? — what is your wish, opinion, or information concerning something (or someone)?
  • hudson's bay blanket — a woollen blanket with wide stripes
  • hungarian bromegrass — a pasture grass, Bromus inermis, native to Europe, having smooth blades.
  • incomprehensibleness — The state of being incomprehensible.
  • justifiable homicide — murder committed under extenuating circumstances
  • lampbrush chromosome — a chromosome with looped projections resembling a brush
  • liberty of the press — freedom of the press.
  • live and breathe sth — be passionately interested in sth
  • magdeburg hemisphere — one of a pair of hemispherical cups from which air can be evacuated when they are placed together: used to demonstrate the force of air pressure.
  • massachusetts ballot — a ballot on which the candidates, with their party designations, are listed alphabetically in columns under the office for which they were nominated.
  • mean something to sb — If a name, word, or phrase means something to you, you have heard it before and you know what it refers to.
  • mecklenburg-schwerin — a former state in NE Germany, formed in 1934 from two states (Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz)
  • membranous labyrinth — an intricate combination of paths or passages in which it is difficult to find one's way or to reach the exit. Synonyms: maze, network, web.
  • moreton bay chestnut — an Australian leguminous tree, Castanospermum australe, having thin smooth bark and yellow or reddish flowers: used in furniture manufacture
  • on o's best behavior — If someone is on their best behavior, they are trying very hard to behave well.
  • on the starboard bow — within 45 degrees to the starboard of straight ahead
  • outside (of) the box — in a fresh, inventive, unconventional way
  • physical double star — two stars that appear as one if not viewed through a telescope with adequate magnification, such as two stars that are separated by a great distance but are nearly in line with each other and an observer (optical double star) or those that are relatively close together and comprise a single physical system (physical double star)
  • pipeline burst cache — (hardware, storage)   (PB Cache) A synchronous cache built from pipelined SRAM. A cache in which reading or writing a new location takes multiple cycles but subsequent locations can be accessed in a single cycle. On Pentium systems in 1996, pipeline burst caches are frequently used as secondary caches. The first 8 bytes of data are transferred in 3 CPU cycles, and the next 3 8-byte pieces of data are transferred in one cycle each.
  • potassium bichromate — an orange-red, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous powder, K 2 Cr 2 O 7 , used chiefly in dyeing, photography, and as a laboratory reagent.
  • prohibited substance — a substance, such as a drug, etc, that is banned or forbidden by law or other authority
  • roller-blind shutter — curtain shutter.
  • royal british legion — an organization founded in 1921 to provide services and assistance for former members of the armed forces
  • rub sb's nose in sth — To rub someone's nose in something that they do not want to think about, such as a failing or a mistake they have made, means to remind them repeatedly about it.
  • saint john ambulance — an organization that provides first aid and first-aid training
  • sb's future lies swh — If you say that someone's future lies in a particular place or activity, you think they will be most successful or happy in that place or doing that activity.
  • scheme object system — (SOS) Chris Hanson?
  • second-hand bookshop — a shop selling second-hand books
  • semiautobiographical — pertaining to or being a fictionalized account of an author's own life.
  • set the ball rolling — to open or initiate (an action, discussion, movement, etc)
  • seven against thebes — (used with a plural verb) Classical Mythology. seven heroes, Amphiaraus, Capaneus, Eteoclus, Hippomedon, Parthenopaeus, Polynices, and Tydeus, who led an expedition against Thebes to depose Eteocles in favor of his brother Polynices: the expedition failed, but the Epigoni, the sons of the Seven against Thebes, conquered the city ten years later.
  • shaken baby syndrome — a usually fatal condition of abused infants brought on by violent shaking by the arms or shoulders that causes severe internal bleeding, especially around the brain and in the eyes.
  • shibah asar betammuz — Shivah Asar Betammuz.
  • shivah asar betammuz — a Jewish fast day observed on the 17th day of Tammuz in memory of the breach of the walls of Jerusalem by the Romans in a.d. 70.
  • short back and sides — If a man has a short back and sides, his hair is cut very short at the back and sides with slightly thicker, longer hair on the top of the head.
  • soke of peterborough — a former administrative unit of E central England, generally considered part of Northamptonshire or Huntingdonshire: absorbed into Cambridgeshire in 1974
  • spherical aberration — variation in focal length of a lens or mirror from center to edge, due to its spherical shape.
  • splice the mainbrace — to issue and partake of an extra allocation of alcoholic spirits
  • stare sb in the face — If a situation or the answer to a problem is staring you in the face, it is very obvious, although you may not be immediately aware of it.
  • step into the breach — If you step into the breach, you do a job or task which someone else was supposed to do or has done in the past, because they are suddenly unable to do it.
  • switchboard operator — a person who operates an installation in a telephone exchange, office, hotel, etc, at which the interconnection of telephone lines is manually controlled
  • telephone subscriber — a person who subscribes to a telephone service
  • the better to do sth — If you do something the better to do something else, you do the first thing in order to be able to do the second thing more effectively.
  • the canterbury tales — an uncompleted sequence of tales by Chaucer, written for the most part after 1387.
  • the toronto blessing — a variety of emotional reactions such as laughing, weeping, and fainting, experienced by participants in a form of charismatic Christian worship
  • to be a one-man show — to be reliant on one person alone
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