17-letter words containing b, o, k, h
- 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.
- baggage checkroom — a left luggage office; a place at, for example, a railway station where baggage can be left
- balance the books — do accounting
- be on tenterhooks — If you are on tenterhooks, you are very nervous and excited because you are wondering what is going to happen in a particular situation.
- behind one's back — without one's knowledge; secretly or deceitfully
- 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.
- broken white line — a regular, discontinuous white line on a roadway, indicating that overtaking is permitted
- bury the tomahawk — to stop fighting; make peace
- buttock-clenching — making one tighten the buttocks through extreme fear or embarrassment
- 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".
- close the book on — to bring to a definite end
- desktop publisher — desktop publishing
- go back to the pa — to abandon city life in favour of rural life
- hasbrouck heights — a borough in NE New Jersey.
- histamine blocker — any of various substances that act at a specific receptor site to block certain actions of histamine.
- in the background — behind the focus of attention
- john wilkes booth — Ballington [bal-ing-tuh n] /ˈbæl ɪŋ tən/ (Show IPA), 1859–1940, founder of the Volunteers of America 1896 (son of William Booth).
- lick the boots of — to be servile, obsequious, or flattering towards
- 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
- one for the books — a handwritten or printed work of fiction or nonfiction, usually on sheets of paper fastened or bound together within covers.
- pocket battleship — a small heavily armed and armored warship serving as a battleship because of limitations imposed by treaty.
- purple chokeberry — See under chokeberry (def 1).
- put the kibosh on — nonsense.
- shake one's booty — to dance
- stick to the ribs — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
- 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 joke is on sb — If you say that the joke is on a particular person, you mean that they have been made to look very foolish by something.
- 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.
- to cook the books — If you say that someone has cooked the books, you mean that they have changed figures or a written record in order to deceive people.
- to keep the books — to keep written records of the finances of a business or other enterprise
- 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.
- whiskey rebellion — a revolt of settlers in western Pennsylvania in 1794 against a federal excise tax on whiskey: suppressed by militia called out by President George Washington to establish the authority of the federal government.
- white book cd-rom — (hardware, standard) A more open CD-ROM standard than Green Book CD-ROM. All films mastered on CD-ROM after March 1994 use White Book. Like Green Book, it is ISO 9660 compliant, uses mode 2 form 2 addressing and can only be played on a CD-ROM drive which is XA (Extended Architecture) compatible. White book CDs are labelled "Video CD".
- write the book on — to be the definitive authority or expert on
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