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17-letter words containing e, b, a

  • garboard (strake) — the strake adjoining the keel
  • garden strawberry — a plant which has white flowers and red edible fruits and is spread by runners, Fragaria ananassa
  • get a bang out of — to experience a thrill or excitement from
  • get above oneself — If you say that someone is getting above themself, you disapprove of them because they think they are better than everyone else.
  • get one's back up — the rear part of the human body, extending from the neck to the lower end of the spine.
  • get to first base — Baseball. the first in counterclockwise order of the bases from home plate. the position of the player covering the area of the infield near first base.
  • glass box testing — white box testing
  • go back to the pa — to abandon city life in favour of rural life
  • go by the wayside — to be put aside on account of something more urgent
  • goldbeater's skin — the prepared outside membrane of the large intestine of the ox, used by goldbeaters to lay between the leaves of the metal while they beat it into gold leaf.
  • golf ball printer — IBM 2741
  • great st. bernard — Great, a mountain pass between SW Switzerland and NW Italy, in the Pennine Alps: Napoleon led his army through it in 1800; location of a hospice. 8108 feet (2470 meters) high.
  • great willow herb — either of two tall, large-flowered willow herbs, Epilobium angustifolium or E. hirsutum.
  • greater forkbeard — a fish of the Phycidae family
  • greenland halibut — a flatfish, Reinhardtius hippoglossoides, similar and related to the halibut
  • haemoglobinometer — an instrument used to determine the haemoglobin content of blood
  • haemoglobinopathy — (medicine) Any of a group of inherited disorders in which haemoglobin does not function properly.
  • half-breadth plan — a diagrammatic plan of one half of the hull of a vessel divided lengthwise amidships, showing water lines, stations, diagonals, and bow and buttock lines.
  • hard-shelled crab — a crab, esp. an edible sea crab, before it has shed its hard shell
  • harvey wallbanger — a screwdriver cocktail topped with Galliano.
  • hasbrouck heights — a borough in NE New Jersey.
  • have a bearing on — If something has a bearing on a situation or event, it is relevant to it.
  • have it both ways — to try to get the best of a situation, argument, etc, by chopping and changing between alternatives or opposites
  • have it in for sb — If someone has it in for you, they dislike you and try to cause problems for you.
  • have on the brain — If someone has something on the brain, they keep thinking about it.
  • headline-grabbing — A headline-grabbing statement or activity is one that is intended to attract a lot of attention, especially from the media.
  • heartbreakingness — The state or quality of being heartbreaking.
  • henry cabot lodge — Henry Cabot, 1850–1924, U.S. public servant and author: senator 1893–1924.
  • hepatitis b virus — a form of hepatitis caused by a DNA virus (hepatitis B virus, or HBV) that persists in the blood, characterized by a long incubation period: usually transmitted by sexual contact or by injection or ingestion of infected blood or other bodily fluids.
  • herbaceous border — A herbaceous border is a flower bed containing a mixture of plants that flower every year.
  • high-carbon steel — steel containing between 0.5 and 1.5 per cent carbon
  • histamine blocker — any of various substances that act at a specific receptor site to block certain actions of histamine.
  • hold one's breath — If you say that someone is holding their breath, you mean that they are waiting anxiously or excitedly for something to happen.
  • honorable mention — a citation conferred on a contestant, exhibit, etc., having exceptional merit though not winning a top honor or prize.
  • hottentot's bread — elephant's-foot.
  • house of assembly — the legislature or the lower house of the legislature in certain countries of the Commonwealth of Nations.
  • hubble's constant — the ratio of the recessional velocity of galaxies to their distance from the sun, with current measurements of its value ranging from 50 to 100 km/sec per megaparsec.
  • humpbacked bridge — A humpbacked bridge or humpback bridge is a short and very curved bridge with a shape similar to a semi-circle.
  • hybrid fiber coax — (networking)   (HFC) A kind of physical connection used in networks for audio, video, and data. DVB (Digital Video Broadcast) is used in Europe and DOCSIS is used in N America.
  • hyperbolic secant — a hyperbolic function that is the reciprocal of cosh; sech
  • hyperbolic spiral — rθ = a, (where a is a constant)
  • hyperexcitability — an excessive reaction to stimuli.
  • hyperirritability — extreme irritability.
  • i beg your pardon — You say 'Pardon?' or 'I beg your pardon?' or, in American English, 'Pardon me?' when you want someone to repeat what they have just said because you have not heard or understood it.
  • i can't be fagged — I can't be bothered
  • iambic pentameter — a verse line consisting of five metrical iambs
  • iberian peninsula — Also called Iberian Peninsula. a peninsula in SW Europe, comprising Spain and Portugal.
  • imitation doublet — a doublet formed entirely of glass.
  • impracticableness — The state of being impracticable; impracticability.
  • impressionability — easily impressed or influenced; susceptible: an impressionable youngster.
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