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19-letter words containing b, i, l, t, h

  • non-distinguishable — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • not by a long sight — on no account; not at all
  • olive-backed thrush — Swainson's thrush.
  • on the baker's list — in good health
  • palaeoethnobotanist — someone who studies fossil seeds and grains to further archaeological knowledge, esp of the domestication of cereals
  • phenylthiocarbamide — a crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, C 6 H 5 NHCSNH 2 , that is either tasteless or bitter, depending upon the heredity of the taster, and is used in medical genetics and as a diagnostic.
  • phthalocyanine blue — a pigment used in painting, derived from copper phthalocyanine and characterized chiefly by its brilliant, dark-blue color and by permanence.
  • sb's spiritual home — your spiritual home is the place where you feel that you belong, usually because your ideas or attitudes are the same as those of the people who live there
  • short-tail business — Short-tail business is insurance business where it is known that claims will be made and settled quickly.
  • simple carbohydrate — a carbohydrate, as glucose, that consists of a single monosaccharide unit.
  • spaghetti bolognese — Italian dish of pasta and tomato sauce
  • stochastic variable — a random variable.
  • switchblade (knife) — a large jackknife that snaps open when a release button on the handle is pressed
  • tarnished plant bug — a bug, Lygus lineolaris, of the family Miridae, that is a common and widely distributed pest of alfalfa and other legumes and of peach and other fruit trees.
  • the admiralty board — (formerly) a department of the British Ministry of Defence, responsible for the administration and planning of the Royal Navy
  • the boxer rebellion — an unsuccessful rebellion in 1900 led by a nationalistic Chinese secret society against foreign interests in China
  • the compassion club — (in Canada) a nonprofit organization that provides uncontaminated cannabis for medical purposes and natural therapies in a safe environment
  • the likes of sb/sth — You can talk about the likes of someone or something to refer to people or things of a particular type.
  • the retail business — the business sector in which goods are sold individually or in small quantities to consumers
  • thermal equilibrium — the relationship between two systems connected only by a diathermic wall.
  • to be headline news — to attract a lot of attention from newspapers
  • to blow the whistle — If you blow the whistle on someone, or on something secret or illegal, you tell another person, especially a person in authority, what is happening.
  • to make like sth/sb — If you make like you are doing something, you act as if you are doing it, and if you make like someone, you act as if you are that person.
  • tubular steel chair — a chair with a frame made of tubular steel
  • wild bleeding-heart — a plant, Dicentra eximia, of the fumitory family, native to the eastern coast of the U.S., having elongated clusters of drooping, heart-shaped rose-colored or pink flowers.
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