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17-letter words containing f, l, e, h

  • of the old school — If you approve of someone because they have good qualities that used to be more common in the past, you can describe them as one of the old school.
  • old norman french — Norman French (sense 1)
  • on the half shell — served raw, with seasonings, on a half shell
  • open-channel flow — Open-channel flow is a liquid flow in a channel, which has a free liquid surface.
  • overreach oneself — to fail because of trying to do more than one can
  • past life therapy — a form of hypnosis or meditation based on the belief that an individual's present problems are rooted in events that occurred before birth in this life
  • peer of the realm — any of a class of peers in Great Britain and Ireland entitled by heredity to sit in the House of Lords.
  • phenylformic acid — benzoic acid.
  • phlebotomus fever — sandfly fever.
  • pincushion flower — scabious2 (def 1).
  • play with oneself — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
  • plug and feathers — an apparatus for splitting stone, consisting of two tapered bars (feathers) inserted into a hole drilled into the stone, between which a narrow wedge (plug) is hammered to spread them.
  • potato leafhopper — any of various leafhoppers that are serious pests, damaging a wide variety of cultivated and wild plants, especially potatoes.
  • preferential shop — a shop in which union members are preferred, usually by agreement of an employer with a union.
  • republic of china — People's Republic of, a country in E Asia. 3,691,502 sq. mi. (9,560,990 sq. km). Capital: Beijing.
  • republic-of-china — People's Republic of, a country in E Asia. 3,691,502 sq. mi. (9,560,990 sq. km). Capital: Beijing.
  • roof of the world — Tibet, Plateau of.
  • salt of the earth — an individual or group considered as representative of the best or noblest elements of society.
  • scarlet firethorn — a Eurasian evergreen, thorny shrub, Pyracantha coccinea, of the rose family, having white, hairy flower clusters and bright red berries.
  • self-annihilation — self-destruction; suicide.
  • single-sheet feed — a mechanism for feeding or taking single sheets of paper into a printer
  • south farmingdale — a town on central Long Island, in SE New York.
  • spanish influenza — the pandemic respiratory infection that spread throughout the world during 1917–18.
  • speech difficulty — a problem encountered in speaking
  • star of bethlehem — the star that is supposed to have appeared above Bethlehem at the birth of Christ
  • star-of-bethlehem — any of several plants belonging to the genus Ornithogalum, of the lily family, having grasslike leaves and clusters of white flowers.
  • striped killifish — a killifish, Fundulus majalis, of the Atlantic coast of the U.S., the female of which is marked with black stripes.
  • sulfonyl chloride — a colorless liquid, SO 2 Cl 2 , having a very pungent odor and corrosive to the skin and mucous membranes: used as a chlorinating or sulfonating agent.
  • sulfurated potash — a yellowish-brown mixture consisting mainly of potassium polysulfides and potassium thiosulfate, used in treating mange.
  • sulphur butterfly — sulfur butterfly.
  • take the place of — replace, be a substitute for
  • take to the floor — If you take to the floor, you start dancing at a dance or disco.
  • technical offence — an action which is prohibited by law, but for which no blame can be attached to the person who commits it
  • tetrafluoroethene — a dense colourless gas that is polymerized to make polytetrafluorethene (PTFE). Formula: F2C:CF2
  • the factory floor — all the workers in a factory
  • the facts of life — the details of sexual behaviour and reproduction, esp as told to children
  • the fall (of man) — Adam's sin of yielding to temptation in eating the forbidden fruit, and his subsequent loss of grace
  • the final curtain — the closing of the curtain at the end of the action of a play
  • the final whistle — a blast on a referee's whistle to indicate that a game is over
  • the first line of — If you refer to a method as the first line of, for example, defence or treatment, you mean that it is the first or most important method to be used in dealing with a problem.
  • the life and soul — a person regarded as the main source of merriment and liveliness
  • the life of riley — If you say that someone is living the life of Riley, you mean that they have a very easy and comfortable life with few worries.
  • the life sciences — sciences such as biology, botany, physiology, zoology which are concerned with the study of living organisms
  • the mother of all — something regarded as the biggest, most impressive, or most important of (its kind)
  • the olympic flame — the flame that is symbolically lit at the site of the ancient Olympics in Olympia and transported by relay to the place where the Olympic Games are to be held. It is used to ignite a fire in a cauldron that will burn throughout the Games
  • the sound of mull — the water that separates the island of Mull from the mainland of Scotland
  • thermal diffusion — the separation of constituents, often isotopes, of a fluid under the influence of a temperature gradient.
  • thistle butterfly — any nymphalid butterfly of the genus Vanessa, as the red admiral or painted lady.
  • through the floor — If you say that prices or sales have fallen through the floor, you mean that they have suddenly decreased.
  • to fan the flames — If someone or something fans the flames of a situation or feeling, usually a bad one, they make it more intense or extreme in some way.
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