24-letter words containing h, a, b
- a chip off the old block — If you describe someone as a chip off the old block, you mean that they are just like one of their parents in character or behaviour.
- a mixed bunch of flowers — a bunch of flowers of different, complementary, kinds
- above-the-line promotion — Above-the-line promotion is the use of promotional methods that cannot be directly controlled by the company selling the goods or service, such as television or press advertising. Compare below-the-line promotion.
- accidental death benefit — a life insurance benefit, usually in the form of a rider or policy addition, under which the proceeds are payable to the beneficiary only if the insured dies by accident.
- advance purchase booking — Advance purchase booking is an arrangement that allows you to book and pay for a hotel room before you arrive, usually at a discounted rate.
- assembly of the notables — notable (def 5).
- assembly-of-the-notables — a prominent, distinguished, or important person.
- azimuthal quantum number — the quantum number that designates the orbital angular momentum of a particular quantum state of an electron in an atom and that assumes integral values from zero to one less than the value of the principal quantum number.
- bay of mont-saint-michel — an inlet of the Gulf of St Malo
- be a bear for punishment — to be able to withstand much rough treatment; be rugged, tough, determined, etc.
- be a breath of fresh air — If you describe something new or different as a breath of fresh air, you mean that it makes a situation or subject more interesting or exciting.
- be called within the bar — to be appointed as a Queen's Counsel
- be left holding the baby — If you are left holding the baby, you are put in a situation where you are responsible for something, often in an unfair way because other people fail or refuse to take responsibility for it.
- be/feel/look (half) dead — If you say that you feel dead or are half dead, you mean that you feel very tired or ill and very weak.
- behavioral psychophysics — the branch of psychology that deals with measurement of mental and sensory phenomena brought on by physical stimuli.
- black english vernacular — Black English (def 1). Abbreviation: BEV.
- black vernacular english — Black English (def 1). Abbreviation: BEV.
- black-english-vernacular — Also called African American Vernacular English, African American English, Afro-American English, Black English Vernacular, Black Vernacular English.a dialect of American English characterized by pronunciations, syntactic structures, and vocabulary associated with and used by some North American black people and exhibiting a wide variety and range of forms varying in the extent to which they differ from standard English.
- bradley fighting vehicle — a 25-ton, tracked U.S. armored personnel carrier of the 1980s, designed to carry nine soldiers into battle and armed with a 25mm rapid-fire cannon, a machine gun, and an antitank missile launcher.
- but that's another story — You say 'but that's another story' when you have mentioned a subject that you are not going to talk about or explain in detail.
- butylated hydroxyanisole — Chemistry, Pharmacology. BHA.
- butylated hydroxytoluene — BHT.
- by/through the back door — If you say that someone gets or does something by the back door or through the back door, you are criticizing them for doing it secretly and unofficially.
- carbamylchloride choline — carbachol.
- chesapeake bay retriever — a strongly built variety of retriever with a short thick, slightly wavy coat in straw colour, reddish gold, or brown
- crypt breakers workbench — (cbw) A freely distributable multi-window integrated workbench of tools for cryptanalysis of files encrypted with the 4.2BSD Unix crypt command. It was originally written by Robert W. Baldwin at MIT.
- descriptive bibliography — the aspect of bibliography concerned with the close physical study and description of books and other works.
- dibasic sodium phosphate — sodium phosphate (def 2).
- dibasic-sodium-phosphate — Also called monobasic sodium phosphate. a white, crystalline, slightly hygroscopic, water-soluble powder, NaH 2 PO 4 , used chiefly in dyeing and in electroplating.
- disestablishmentarianism — a person who favors the separation of church and state, especially the withdrawal of special rights, status, and support granted an established church by a state; an advocate of disestablishing a state church.
- disturbance of the peace — a malicious and willful intrusion on the peace and quiet of a community or neighbourhood
- do no harm/do sb no harm — If you say that something would do no harm, or do someone no harm, you are recommending a course of action which you think is worthwhile, helpful, or useful.
- double overhead camshaft — a pair of overhead camshafts, one to operate the intake valves and the other to operate the exhaust valves. Abbreviation: DOHC.
- dream of the red chamber — Chinese Hung Lou Mêng or Hong Lou Meng. an 18th-century Chinese novel by Ts'ao Hsüeh-ch'in, completed by Kao E, in 120 chapters.
- electronic whiteboarding — audiographic teleconferencing
- erythroblastosis fetalis — an anaemic blood disease of a fetus or newborn child, characterized by erythroblasts in the circulating blood: caused by a blood incompatibility between mother and fetus
- ethyl-para-aminobenzoate — benzocaine
- give sb/sth 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.
- hardware circular buffer — (programming, hardware) digital signal processors which support hardware circular buffers automatically generate and increment pointers for memory accesses which wrap to the beginning of the buffer when its end is reached, thus saving the time and instructions otherwise needed to ensure that the address pointer stays within the boundary of the buffer, and speeding the execution of repetitive DSP algorithms.
- have a tiger by the tail — to find oneself in a situation that has turned out to be much more difficult to control than one had expected
- head and shoulders above — vastly superior to
- high bypass ratio engine — a type of by-pass engine in which a large fan driven by a turbine and housed in a short duct forces air rearwards around the exhaust gases in order to increase the propulsive thrust
- hyaline membrane disease — respiratory distress syndrome.
- hydrochlorofluorocarbons — Plural form of hydrochlorofluorocarbon.
- hyperbetalipoproteinemia — An abnormally high level of betalipoprotein in the blood.
- know what sb is on about — If you say that someone knows what they are on about, you are confident that what they are saying is true or makes sense, for example because they are an expert.
- laryngotracheobronchitis — A respiratory disease, a form of croup.
- lead someone by the nose — to make someone do unquestioningly all one wishes; dominate someone
- lease with option to buy — A lease with option to buy is a lease that states that the person leasing the property has the right to purchase it at the end of the lease period.
- leave much to be desired — be inadequate
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