17-letter words containing h, a, f, t, e

make sense of sth — When you make sense of something, you succeed in understanding it.
make something of — to find a use for
make the dust fly — earth or other matter in fine, dry particles.
make the worst of — to be pessimistic about
man enough to/for — If you say that a man is man enough to do something, you mean that he has the necessary courage or ability to do it.
manufactured home — a prefabricated house, assembled in modular sections.
mark of the beast — the mark put on the forehead of those who worship the beast, the symbol of opposition to God.
merchant of death — a company, nation, or person that sells military arms on the international market, usually to the highest bidder and without scruple or regard for political ramifications.
method of payment — cash, credit card, cheque, etc.
methyltransferase — any of a class of enzymes that catalyze the transfer of methyl groups from one molecule to another.
minion of the law — a policeman.
monarch butterfly — a large, deep-orange butterfly, Danaus plexippus, having black and white markings, the larvae of which feed on the leaves of milkweed.
month after month — every month
mother of vinegar — mother2 .
mount fairweather — a mountain in W North America, on the border between Alaska and British Columbia. Height: 4663 m (15 300 ft)
night after night — every night or for many successive nights
nightshade family — the plant family Solanaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, trees, shrubs, and vines having alternate, simple or pinnate leaves, conspicuous flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or capsule, and including belladonna, eggplant, nightshade, peppers of the genus Capsicum, petunia, potato, tobacco, and tomato.
nonteaching staff — employees within an academic or vocational environment whose jobs do not involve teaching
on the face of it — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
on the foundation — an endowment or legacy for the perpetual support of an institution such as a school or hospital
on the half shell — served raw, with seasonings, on a half shell
on the off chance — the absence of any cause of events that can be predicted, understood, or controlled: often personified or treated as a positive agency: Chance governs all.
on the off-chance — If you do something on the off-chance, you do it because you hope that it will succeed, although you think that this is unlikely.
one of these days — at some future time
out of one's head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
overhead camshaft — a camshaft in an automotive engine that is located in the cylinder head over the engine block rather than in the block. Abbreviation: OHC.
pacific northwest — the region of North America lying north of the Columbia River and west of the Rockies
paratyphoid fever — Also called paratyphoid fever. an infectious disease, similar in some of its symptoms to typhoid fever but usually milder, caused by any of several bacilli of the genus Salmonella other than S. typhi.
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.
phase of the moon — Used humorously as a random parameter on which something is said to depend. Sometimes implies unreliability of whatever is dependent, or that reliability seems to be dependent on conditions nobody has been able to determine. "This feature depends on having the channel open in mumble mode, having the foo switch set, and on the phase of the moon." See also heisenbug. True story: Once upon a time there was a bug that really did depend on the phase of the moon. There was a little subroutine that had traditionally been used in various programs at MIT to calculate an approximation to the moon's true phase. GLS incorporated this routine into a Lisp program that, when it wrote out a file, would print a timestamp line almost 80 characters long. Very occasionally the first line of the message would be too long and would overflow onto the next line, and when the file was later read back in the program would barf. The length of the first line depended on both the precise date and time and the length of the phase specification when the timestamp was printed, and so the bug literally depended on the phase of the moon! The first paper edition of the Jargon File (Steele-1983) included an example of one of the timestamp lines that exhibited this bug, but the typesetter "corrected" it. This has since been described as the phase-of-the-moon-bug bug.
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.
point of purchase — designating or in use at a retail outlet where an item can be purchased; point-of-sale: point-of-purchase displays to entice the buyer.
point-of-purchase — designating or in use at a retail outlet where an item can be purchased; point-of-sale: point-of-purchase displays to entice the buyer.
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.
rheumatoid factor — an antibody that is found in the blood of many persons afflicted with rheumatoid arthritis and that reacts against globulins in the blood.
right off the bat — Sports. the wooden club used in certain games, as baseball and cricket, to strike the ball. a racket, especially one used in badminton or table tennis. a whip used by a jockey. the act of using a club or racket in a game. the right or turn to use a club or racket.
salt of the earth — an individual or group considered as representative of the best or noblest elements of society.
sawed-off shotgun — rifle with a short barrel
scarlet firethorn — a Eurasian evergreen, thorny shrub, Pyracantha coccinea, of the rose family, having white, hairy flower clusters and bright red berries.
schiff-s--reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
seat-of-the-pants — using or based on experience, instinct, or guesswork: a seat-of-the-pants management style.
self-annihilation — self-destruction; suicide.
share certificate — a certificate of deposit issued by a credit union.
significant other — Sociology. a person, as a parent or peer, who has great influence on one's behavior and self-esteem.
sister of charity — a member of one of several congregations of sisters founded in 1634 by St. Vincent de Paul.
south farmingdale — a town on central Long Island, in SE New York.
south west africa — a former name of Namibia.

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