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18-letter words containing e, a, r, t, h, b

  • the powers that be — You can refer to people in authority as the powers that be, especially when you want to say that you disagree with them or do not understand what they say or do.
  • the stars and bars — the flag of the Confederate States of America
  • the weather bureau — the national agency responsible for collecting data about the weather and issuing forecasts
  • the-master-builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
  • thermonuclear bomb — hydrogen bomb.
  • 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 radar — to be noticed or important
  • to be said for sth — If you say there is a lot to be said for something, you mean you think it has a lot of good qualities or aspects.
  • to sweep the board — If someone sweeps the board in a competition or election, they win nearly everything that it is possible to win.
  • to the manner born — a way of doing, being done, or happening; mode of action, occurrence, etc.: I don't like the manner in which he complained.
  • 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 one's breath — the air inhaled and exhaled in respiration.
  • under the jackboot — If a country or group of people is under the jackboot, they are suffering because the government is cruel and undemocratic.
  • urban homesteading — homesteading (def 2).
  • water on the brain — hydrocephalus.
  • westinghouse brake — a railroad air brake operated by compressed air.
  • white man's burden — the alleged duty of white colonizers to care for nonwhite indigenous subjects in their colonial possessions.
  • whittaker chambersRobert, 1802–71, Scottish publisher and editor.
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