18-letter words containing c, o, b, h
- 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.
- to be on the rocks — if something such as a marriage or a business is on the rocks, it is experiencing very severe difficulties and looks likely to end very soon
- to close the books — to balance accounts in order to prepare a statement or report
- to kick the bucket — If you say that someone has kicked the bucket, you mean that they have died.
- 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.
- widemouth blindcat — any of several catfishes, as Satan eurystomus (widemouth blindcat) of Texas, that inhabit underground streams and have undeveloped eyes and unpigmented skin.