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17-letter words containing c, h, e, k

  • against the clock — If you are doing something against the clock, you are doing it in a great hurry, because there is very little time.
  • ask for the check — If you ask for the check, you ask the waitperson in a restaurant to bring you a piece of paper on which the price of your meal is written.
  • 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
  • barkhausen effect — the phenomenon of short, sudden changes in the magnetism of a ferromagnetic substance occurring when the intensity of the magnetizing field is continuously altered.
  • behind one's back — without one's knowledge; secretly or deceitfully
  • black huckleberry — a low eastern North American shrub, Gaylussacia baccata, of the heath family, having yellowish-green leaves with resinous dots on the underside, clustered orange-red flowers, and shiny, black, edible fruit.
  • black-headed gull — a small gull, Chroicocephalus ridibundus, that breeds in much of Europe and Asia, and often scavenges in towns
  • break the back of — to complete the greatest or hardest part of (a task)
  • buckingham palace — the London residence of the British sovereign: built in 1703, rebuilt by John Nash in 1821–36 and partially redesigned in the early 20th century
  • buttock-clenching — making one tighten the buttocks through extreme fear or embarrassment
  • cardiogenic shock — a type of shock caused by decreased cardiac output despite adequate blood volume, owing to a disease of the heart itself, as myocardial infarction, or any other factor that interferes with the filling or emptying of the heart.
  • chadless keypunch — (hardware)   A card punch which cut little U-shapes in punched cards, rather than punching out a circle or rectangle. The U's made a hole when folded back. One of the Jargon File's correspondents believed that the term "chad" derived from the Chadless keypunch. Obviously, if the Chadless keypunch didn't make them, then the stuff that other keypunches made had to be "chad". The assertion that the keypunch was named after its inventor is not supported by any record in US or UK patents or surname references.
  • checkable deposit — a checking account
  • chicken drumstick — a chicken leg, considered as food
  • chicklet keyboard — (spelling)   It's spelled "chiclet keyboard".
  • chinese artichoke — a hairy plant, Stachys affinis, of China and Japan, having numerous small, white, edible tubers.
  • chinese turkestan — the E part of the central Asian region of Turkestan: corresponds generally to the present-day Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China
  • christmas cracker — a decorated cardboard tube that emits a bang when pulled apart, releasing a toy, a joke, or a paper hat.
  • chukchi peninsula — a peninsula in the extreme NE of Russia, in NE Siberia: mainly tundra
  • close the book on — to bring to a definite end
  • cock of the woods — pileated woodpecker.
  • coral honeysuckle — trumpet honeysuckle.
  • corner the market — dominate trade
  • dwarf huckleberry — tangleberry.
  • fishnet stockings — leg coverings for women, made from an open mesh fabric resembling netting
  • go back to the pa — to abandon city life in favour of rural life
  • go like hot cakes — to be sold very quickly or in large quantities
  • grandfather clock — a pendulum floor clock having a case as tall as or taller than a person; tall-case clock; long-case clock.
  • grandmother clock — a pendulum clock similar to a grandfather's clock but shorter.
  • hammer and sickle — the emblem of the Soviet Union, adopted in 1923 and consisting of an insignia of a hammer with its handle across the blade of a sickle and a star above.
  • hard rock geology — (loosely) of or relating to igneous or metamorphic rocks, as in mining (hard-rock mining) and geology (hard-rock geology)
  • hasbrouck heights — a borough in NE New Jersey.
  • have a thick skin — to be insensitive (or acutely sensitive) to blame, criticism, insults, etc.
  • high muckety-muck — high muck-a-muck
  • histamine blocker — any of various substances that act at a specific receptor site to block certain actions of histamine.
  • homework exercise — an exercise that is set as homework
  • horatio kitchenerHoratio Herbert (1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and of Broome) 1850–1916, English field marshal and statesman.
  • houndstooth check — a pattern of broken checks, used in woven material for jackets, shirts, etc.
  • housekeeping cart — A housekeeping cart is a large metal basket on wheels which is used by a cleaner in a hotel to move clean bed linen, towels, and cleaning equipment.
  • humpbacked bridge — A humpbacked bridge or humpback bridge is a short and very curved bridge with a shape similar to a semi-circle.
  • hypovolemic shock — a type of shock caused by reduced blood volume, as from massive bleeding or dehydration.
  • icing on the cake — a sweet mixture, cooked or uncooked, for coating or filling cakes, cookies, and the like; icing.
  • in the background — behind the focus of attention
  • jack-in-the-green — (in England, formerly) a man who wore or supported a leaf-covered wooden framework while dancing in May-Day celebrations
  • kick in the pants — a reprimand or scolding designed to produce greater effort, enthusiasm, etc, in the person receiving it
  • kick in the teeth — If you describe an event as a kick in the teeth, you are emphasizing that it is very disappointing and upsetting.
  • kitchen appliance — a machine intended for use in the kitchen, such as a fridge or a food processor
  • knock on the head — to daze or kill (a person) by striking on the head

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