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27-letter words containing d, a, b, h, n

  • a spider's web of something — a tangled arrangement
  • at the double/on the double — If you do something at the double or on the double, you do it very quickly or immediately.
  • be on one's hands and knees — If you are on your hands and knees, your knees and feet and the palms of your hands are touching the ground.
  • beard the lion (in his den) — to approach, oppose, etc. an influential or feared person, as in a place where that person has the advantage
  • blood is thicker than water — People say 'blood is thicker than water' when they mean that their loyalty to their family is greater than their loyalty to anyone else.
  • breathe down someone's neck — to stay close to someone, esp to oversee what they are doing
  • british standards institute — (body, standard)   (BSI) The British member of ISO.
  • brown and sharpe wire gauge — American Wire Gauge
  • bury one's head in the sand — to refuse to face a problem
  • chief cook and bottlewasher — a person or machine that washes bottles.
  • commodore business machines — (company)   (CBM) Makers of the PET, Commodore 64, Commodore 16, Commodore 128, and Amiga personal computers. Their logo is a chicken head. The Commodore name is controlled by Commodore Licensing BV, now a subsidiary of Asiarim. Commodore USA signed an agreement with Commodore Licensing BV. On 1994-04-29, Commodore International announced that it had been unable to renegotiate terms of outstanding loans and was closing down the business. Commodore US was expected to go into liquidation. Commodore US, France, Spain, and Belgium were liquidated for various reasons. The names Commodore and Amiga were maintained after the liquidation. After 1994, the rights to the Commodore name bounced across several European companies. On 1995-04-21, German retailer Escom AG bought Commodore International for $14m and production of the Amiga resumed. Netherlands-based Tulip Computers took over the brand. Production of the 8-bit range alledgedly never stopped during the time in liquidation because a Chinese company were producing the C64 in large numbers for the local market there. In 2004, Tulip sold the Commodore name to another Dutch firm, Yeahronimo, that eventually changed its name to Commodore International. In April 2008 three creditors took the company to court demanding a bankruptcy ruling. On 2010-03-17, Commodore USA announced that it was to release a new PC in June 2010 which looks very similar to the old Commodore 64 but comes with a Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad, Pentium D or Celeron D processor and with Ubuntu Linux or Windows 7 installed. PC World article.
  • give sb/sthing a wide berth — If you give someone or something a wide berth, you avoid them because you think they are unpleasant, or dangerous, or simply because you do not like them.
  • go/come/be under the hammer — If you say that something goes, comes, or is under the hammer, you mean that it is going to be sold at an auction.
  • hand sth to sb on a platter — If you say that someone has things handed to them on a platter, you disapprove of them because they get good things easily.
  • healing by second intention — an act or instance of determining mentally upon some action or result.
  • high-deductible health plan — In the U.S., a high-deductible health plan is a health insurance plan with lower premiums and higher deductibles than usual.
  • internet architecture board — (IAB) The technical body that oversees the development of the Internet suite of protocols. It has two task forces: the Internet Engineering Task Force and the Internet Research Task Force. "IAB" previously stood for Internet Activities Board.
  • introgressive-hybridization — the introduction of genes from one species into the gene pool of another species, occurring when matings between the two produce fertile hybrids.
  • keep body and soul together — the physical structure and material substance of an animal or plant, living or dead.
  • keep one's head above water — If you keep your head above water, you just avoid getting into difficulties; used especially to talk about business.
  • monoamine oxidase inhibitor — any of various substances, as isocarboxazid and phenelzine, that block enzymatic breakdown of certain monoamine neurotransmitters: used to treat severe depression. Abbreviation: MAOI.
  • one's (own) flesh and blood — one's close relatives
  • the hunchback of notre dame — French Notre Dame de Paris. a novel (1831) by Victor Hugo.
  • the odds are in sb's favour — If you say that the odds are in someone's favour, you mean that they are likely to succeed in what they are doing.
  • to know something backwards — In British English, if you say that someone knows something backwards, you are emphasizing that they know it very well. In American English, you say that someone knows something backward and forward.
  • to rule sb with a high hand — to behave imperiously towards someone

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