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18-letter words containing c, h, a, b

  • palm beach gardens — a city in SE Florida, near North Palm Beach.
  • play catch-up ball — to adjust one's style of play so as to make up for a lack of points, runs, etc.
  • plumber's merchant — a shop or business that sells things needed for the job of installing and repairing pipes, fixtures, etc, for water, drainage, and gas
  • 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.
  • publishing company — a firm which publishes books
  • put the clock back — to regress
  • richard p. gabriel — Richard Gabriel
  • schofield barracks — a town on central Oahu, in central Hawaii.
  • scottish blackface — a common breed of hardy mountain sheep having horns and a black face, kept chiefly on the mainland of Scotland
  • stomach sweetbread — sweetbread (def 1).
  • sub-saharan africa — the region of Africa to the south of the Sahara desert
  • submarine sandwich — a sandwich made with a long cylindrical bread roll
  • substitute teacher — educator: replaces sb temporarily
  • the back of beyond — a very remote place
  • the baptist church — any of various Protestant churches that believe in the baptism of believers
  • the black and tans — a specially recruited armed auxiliary police force sent to Ireland in 1921 by the British Government to combat Sinn Féin
  • the black mountain — a mountain range in S Wales, in E Carmarthenshire and W Powys. Highest peak: Carmarthen Van, 802 m (2632 ft)
  • the general public — the people in a society; people in general
  • thermonuclear bomb — hydrogen bomb.
  • tick all the boxes — to satisfy all of the apparent requirements for success
  • to be caught short — If you are caught short or are taken short, you feel a sudden strong need to urinate, especially when you cannot easily find a toilet.
  • too clever by half — If someone is too clever by half, they are very clever and they show their cleverness in a way that annoys other people.
  • two-chamber system — the system of having two parliamentary chambers, as the House of Lords and the House of Commons in the United Kingdom
  • under the jackboot — If a country or group of people is under the jackboot, they are suffering because the government is cruel and undemocratic.
  • what has become of — If you wonder what has become of someone or something, you wonder where they are and what has happened to them.
  • whittaker chambersRobert, 1802–71, Scottish publisher and editor.
  • widemouth blindcat — any of several catfishes, as Satan eurystomus (widemouth blindcat) of Texas, that inhabit underground streams and have undeveloped eyes and unpigmented skin.
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