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17-letter words containing h, e, n, b

  • rhode island bent — a European pasture grass, Agrostis tenuis, naturalized in North America, having red flower clusters.
  • ribbon microphone — a microphone that utilizes a metal ribbon suspended in a magnetic field.
  • rub the wrong way — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
  • save one's breath — the air inhaled and exhaled in respiration.
  • say the unsayable — to express an opinion thought to be too controversial to mention
  • shake one's booty — to dance
  • sinbad the sailor — a merchant in The Arabian Nights who makes seven adventurous voyages
  • squash vine borer — the larva of a clearwing moth, Melittia satyriniformis, that bores into the stems of squash and related plants.
  • substantive right — a right, as life, liberty, or property, recognized for its own sake and as part of the natural legal order of society.
  • sunbury-on-thames — a town in SE England, in N Surrey. Pop: 27 415 (2001)
  • synthetic biology — the application of computer science techniques to create artificial biological systems
  • teething problems — If a project or new product has teething problems, it has problems in its early stages or when it first becomes available.
  • teething troubles — Teething troubles are the same as teething problems.
  • telephone banking — a facility enabling customers to make use of banking services, such as oral payment instructions, account movements, raising loans, etc, over the telephone rather than by personal visit
  • telephone numbers — extremely large numbers, esp in reference to salaries or prices
  • thabana-ntlenyana — a mountain in Lesotho: the highest peak of the Drakensberg Mountains. Height: 3482 m (11 425 ft)
  • the black country — the formerly heavily industrialized region of central England, northwest of Birmingham
  • the carboniferous — the Carboniferous period or rock system
  • the establishment — a group or class of people having institutional authority within a society, esp those who control the civil service, the government, the armed forces, and the Church: usually identified with a conservative outlook
  • the joke is on sb — If you say that the joke is on a particular person, you mean that they have been made to look very foolish by something.
  • the whole boiling — the whole lot
  • the whole shebang — The whole shebang is the whole situation or business that you are describing.
  • the-invisible-man — a novel (1897) by H.G. Wells.
  • theory of numbers — number theory.
  • third-degree burn — a burned place or area: a burn where fire had ripped through the forest.
  • thyestean banquet — a banquet at which human flesh is served
  • tibetan highlands — Tibet, Plateau of.
  • to break the bank — If you say that the cost of something will not break the bank, you mean that it will not cost a large sum of money.
  • to the bitter end — If you say that you will continue doing something to the bitter end, especially something difficult or unpleasant, you are emphasizing that you will continue doing it until it is completely finished.
  • undistinguishable — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • ventura publisher — Corel VENTURA
  • war establishment — the full wartime complement of men, equipment, and vehicles of a military unit
  • welshman's button — an angler's name for a species of caddis fly, Sericostoma personatum
  • what does sb know — You can use expressions such as What does she know? and What do they know? when you think that someone has no right to comment on a situation because they do not understand it.
  • wheatstone bridge — a circuit for measuring an unknown resistance by comparing it with known resistances.
  • whiskey rebellion — a revolt of settlers in western Pennsylvania in 1794 against a federal excise tax on whiskey: suppressed by militia called out by President George Washington to establish the authority of the federal government.
  • winchester bushel — a unit of dry measure containing 4 pecks, equivalent in the U.S. (and formerly in England) to 2150.42 cubic inches or 35.24 liters (Winchester bushel) and in Great Britain to 2219.36 cubic inches or 36.38 liters (Imperial bushel) Abbreviation: bu., bush.
  • write the book on — to be the definitive authority or expert on
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