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17-letter words containing h, i, s, t, o, b

  • absolute humidity — the humidity of the atmosphere, usually expressed as the number of grams of water contained in 1 cubic metre of air
  • abstinence theory — the theory that interest is payment for conserving current income.
  • babe in the woods — a baby or child.
  • back on the rails — If something is back on the rails, it is beginning to be successful again after a period when it almost failed.
  • bacteriorhodopsin — a purple protein containing retinal and found in the plasma membrane of certain bacteria (genus Halobacterium): it directly supplies electrochemical energy from sunlight
  • bartholin's gland — either of two small glands near the vaginal opening: during sexual excitement they secrete a mucous lubricating substance
  • baseboard heating — a heating system by pipes, through which steam or hot water circulates, near the base of the walls of rooms
  • bathroom fittings — plumbing fixtures or accessories suitable for use in a bathroom
  • bighorn mountains — range of the Rocky Mountains in N Wyo. and S Mont.: highest peak, 13,165 ft (4,013 m)
  • boatswain's chair — a seat consisting of a short flat board slung from ropes, used to support a person working on the side of a vessel or in its rigging
  • boothia peninsula — a peninsula of N Canada: the northernmost part of the mainland of North America, lying west of the Gulf of Boothia, an arm of the Arctic Ocean
  • british cameroons — a former British trust territory of West Africa
  • british columbian — of or relating to British Columbia or its inhabitants
  • british shorthair — a breed of large cat with a short dense coat
  • british-cameroons — German Kamerun. a region in W Africa: a German protectorate 1884–1919; divided in 1919 into British and French mandates.
  • broadview heights — a town in N Ohio.
  • buttonhole stitch — a reinforcing looped stitch for the edge of material, such as around a buttonhole
  • checkable deposit — a checking account
  • chocolate biscuit — a biscuit covered with chocolate
  • combine harvester — A combine harvester is a large machine which is used on farms to cut, sort, and clean grain.
  • comprehensibility — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
  • cross the rubicon — If you say that someone has crossed the Rubicon, you mean that they have reached a point where they cannot change a decision or course of action.
  • cytotrophoblastic — Relating to, or containing, cytotrophoblasts.
  • desktop publisher — desktop publishing
  • digital dashboard — (software)   A personalised desktop portal that focuses on business intelligence and knowledge management.
  • drive-by shooting — an incident in which a person, building, or vehicle is shot at by someone in a moving vehicle
  • establishing shot — Cinema
  • furbish lousewort — any plant belonging to the genus Pedicularis, of the figwort family, as the wood betony, formerly supposed to cause lice in sheep feeding on it: one species, P. furbishiae (Furbish lousewort) of parts of Maine and New Brunswick, Canada, having finely toothed leaves and a cluster of yellow flowers, is endangered and was thought to be extinct until specimens were discovered in 1946 and again in 1976.
  • gi bill of rights — any of various Congressional bills enacted to provide funds for college educations, home-buying loans, and other benefits for armed-services veterans.
  • glastonbury chair — a folding chair having legs crossed front-to-back and having arms connected to the back and to the front seat rail.
  • globus hystericus — the sensation of having a lump in the throat or difficulty in swallowing for which no medical cause can be found.
  • go by the wayside — to be put aside on account of something more urgent
  • hasbrouck heights — a borough in NE New Jersey.
  • have it both ways — to try to get the best of a situation, argument, etc, by chopping and changing between alternatives or opposites
  • have it in for sb — If someone has it in for you, they dislike you and try to cause problems for you.
  • high-carbon steel — steel containing between 0.5 and 1.5 per cent carbon
  • histamine blocker — any of various substances that act at a specific receptor site to block certain actions of histamine.
  • hornblende schist — a variety of schist containing needles of hornblende that lie in parallel planes.
  • hyperbolic secant — a hyperbolic function that is the reciprocal of cosh; sech
  • john wilkes booth — Ballington [bal-ing-tuh n] /ˈbæl ɪŋ tən/ (Show IPA), 1859–1940, founder of the Volunteers of America 1896 (son of William Booth).
  • liberty of speech — freedom of speech.
  • lick the boots of — to be servile, obsequious, or flattering towards
  • light dawns on sb — If light dawns on you, you begin to understand something after a period of not being able to understand it.
  • lobster thermidor — a dish of cooked lobster meat placed back in the shell with a cream sauce, sprinkled with grated cheese and melted butter, and browned in the oven.
  • old south arabian — a group of four closely related Semitic languages, having a writing system and used from about the eighth to the fifth centuries b.c. in the southern part of Arabia.
  • on the debit side — the debit side of a situation is the aspect of it which is less positive, pleasant, or useful than its other aspects
  • on the pig's back — successful; established
  • opisthobranchiate — (zoology) Of or pertaining to the Opisthobranchiata.
  • paleobiochemistry — the study of biochemical processes that occurred in fossil life forms.
  • pocket battleship — a small heavily armed and armored warship serving as a battleship because of limitations imposed by treaty.

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