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17-letter words containing h, a, u

  • counterchallenges — Plural form of counterchallenge.
  • court of chancery — (in the US) a court of equity
  • court-of-chancery — chancery (def 4a).
  • courtship display — behaviour that is aimed at attracting a mate
  • crampon technique — a climbing style that uses crampons
  • creature of habit — If you say that someone is a creature of habit, you mean that they usually do the same thing at the same time each day, rather than doing new and different things.
  • culpable homicide — manslaughter
  • cultural exchange — an exchange of students, artists, athletes, etc., between two countries to promote mutual understanding.
  • cushing's disease — a rare condition caused by excess corticosteroid hormones in the body, characterized chiefly by obesity of the trunk and face, high blood pressure, fatigue, and loss of calcium from the bones
  • daughter language — a language that has evolved from another specified language.
  • denatured alcohol — ethanol rendered unfit for human consumption by the addition of a noxious substance, as in methylated spirits
  • diaphragm shutter — a camera shutter having a group of overlapping blades that open and close at the center when exposing film.
  • dibutyl phthalate — a colorless oily liquid, C 16 H 22 O 4 , insoluble in water, used as a solvent, insect repellent, and plasticizer.
  • dishonourableness — Alternative spelling of dishonorableness.
  • displacement hull — a hull that displaces a significant volume of water when under way.
  • douglas macarthur — Douglas, 1880–1964, U.S. general: supreme commander of allied forces in SW Pacific during World War II and of UN forces in Korea 1950–51.
  • dressed up as sth — portrayed as
  • drive up the wall — to cause to become crazy or furious
  • dull as dishwater — water in which dishes are, or have been, washed.
  • dutch east indies — a former name of the Republic of Indonesia.
  • dutch elm disease — a disease of elms characterized by wilting, yellowing, and falling of the leaves and caused by a fungus, Ceratostomella ulmi, transmitted by bark beetles.
  • dwarf huckleberry — tangleberry.
  • equivalent weight — the weight of an element or compound that will combine with or displace 8 grams of oxygen or 1.007 97 grams of hydrogen
  • exhaust emissions — Exhaust emissions are substances that come out of an exhaust system into the atmosphere.
  • fashion-conscious — interested in, and wanting to wear, fashionable clothes
  • father substitute — a male who replaces an absent father and becomes an object of attachment.
  • female chauvinist — a female who patronizes, disparages, or otherwise denigrates males in the belief that they are inferior to females and thus deserving of less than equal treatment or benefit.
  • female-chauvinist — a person who is aggressively and blindly patriotic, especially one devoted to military glory.
  • find fault (with) — to seek and point out faults (of); complain (about); criticize
  • fish out of water — any of various cold-blooded, aquatic vertebrates, having gills, commonly fins, and typically an elongated body covered with scales.
  • flight lieutenant — A flight lieutenant is an officer of middle rank in the British air force.
  • flower-of-an-hour — a malvaceous Old World herbaceous plant, Hibiscus trionum, having pale yellow flowers with a bladder-like calyx
  • foam at the mouth — a collection of minute bubbles formed on the surface of a liquid by agitation, fermentation, etc.: foam on a glass of beer.
  • fountain of youth — a fabled spring whose waters were supposed to restore health and youth, sought in the Bahamas and Florida by Ponce de León, Narváez, De Soto, and others.
  • four-part harmony — harmony in which each chord has four tones, creating, in sum, four melodic lines.
  • fourfold purchase — a tackle that is composed of a rope passed through two fourfold blocks in such a way as to provide mechanical power in the ratio of 1 to 5 or 1 to 4, depending on whether hauling is done on the running or the standing block and without considering friction. Compare tackle (def 2).
  • freight insurance — insurance paid on goods in transport
  • functional change — a change in the grammatical function of a word, as in the use of the noun input as a verb or the noun fun as an adjective.
  • further education — adult education.
  • fuss and feathers — an excessively elaborate or pretentious display; ostentation.
  • gaucher's disease — a rare inherited disorder of fat metabolism that causes spleen and liver enlargement, abnormal fragility and pain of the bones, and progressive neurologic disturbances, leading to early death.
  • glastonbury chair — a folding chair having legs crossed front-to-back and having arms connected to the back and to the front seat rail.
  • go out of fashion — be dated
  • go out of the way — to inconvenience oneself; do something that one would not ordinarily do, or that requires extra or deliberate effort or trouble
  • go without saying — something said, especially a proverb or apothegm.
  • grande chartreuse — the Carthusian monastery at Grenoble, France: the chief monastery of the Carthusians until 1903.
  • graphic equalizer — an equalizer in an audio system that is controlled by sliders that show graphically and correct the frequency response within the preset frequency range.
  • greenland halibut — a flatfish, Reinhardtius hippoglossoides, similar and related to the halibut
  • ground angle shot — a photograph or film shot in which the lens is near the ground, usually pointing up somewhat
  • guadalupe hidalgo — a city in the Federal District of Mexico: famous shrine; peace treaty 1848.
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