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27-letter words containing h, o, t, b, e, d

  • a spider's web of something — a tangled arrangement
  • at the double/on the double — If you do something at the double or on the double, you do it very quickly or immediately.
  • beard the lion (in his den) — to approach, oppose, etc. an influential or feared person, as in a place where that person has the advantage
  • blood is thicker than water — People say 'blood is thicker than water' when they mean that their loyalty to their family is greater than their loyalty to anyone else.
  • breathe down someone's neck — to stay close to someone, esp to oversee what they are doing
  • brouwer fixed-point theorem — the theorem that for any continuous transformation of a circle into itself, including its boundary, there is at least one point that is mapped to itself.
  • bury one's head in the sand — to refuse to face a problem
  • charge of the light brigade — a poem (1854) by Tennyson, celebrating the British cavalry attack on the Russian position at Balaklava during the Crimean War.
  • chief cook and bottlewasher — a person or machine that washes bottles.
  • dibasic potassium phosphate — potassium monophosphate. See under potassium phosphate.
  • far be it from me to do sth — You say far be it from me to disagree, or far be it from me to criticize, when you are disagreeing or criticizing and you want to appear less hostile.
  • flatheaded apple tree borer — apple tree borer (def 1).
  • go/come/be under the hammer — If you say that something goes, comes, or is under the hammer, you mean that it is going to be sold at an auction.
  • hand sth to sb on a platter — If you say that someone has things handed to them on a platter, you disapprove of them because they get good things easily.
  • haul/drag sb over the coals — If a person in authority hauls or drags someone over the coals, they speak to them severely about something foolish or wrong that they have done.
  • healing by second intention — an act or instance of determining mentally upon some action or result.
  • hypergeometric distribution — a system of probabilities associated with finding a specified number of elements, as 5 white balls, from a given number of elements, as 10 balls, chosen from a set containing 2 kinds of elements of known quantity, as 15 white balls and 20 black balls.
  • index librorum prohibitorum — a list of books forbidden to be read except from expurgated editions or by special permission.
  • internet architecture board — (IAB) The technical body that oversees the development of the Internet suite of protocols. It has two task forces: the Internet Engineering Task Force and the Internet Research Task Force. "IAB" previously stood for Internet Activities Board.
  • introgressive-hybridization — the introduction of genes from one species into the gene pool of another species, occurring when matings between the two produce fertile hybrids.
  • keep body and soul together — the physical structure and material substance of an animal or plant, living or dead.
  • keep one's head above water — If you keep your head above water, you just avoid getting into difficulties; used especially to talk about business.
  • monoamine oxidase inhibitor — any of various substances, as isocarboxazid and phenelzine, that block enzymatic breakdown of certain monoamine neurotransmitters: used to treat severe depression. Abbreviation: MAOI.
  • not be the end of the world — If you say that something bad is not the end of the world, you are trying to stop yourself or someone else being so upset by it, by suggesting that it is not the worst thing that could happen.
  • rise/raise sb from the dead — When Christians say that Jesus Christ rose from the dead or raised someone from the dead, they mean that Jesus came back to life after he had died, or brought a dead person back to life.
  • the hunchback of notre dame — French Notre Dame de Paris. a novel (1831) by Victor Hugo.
  • the odds are in sb's favour — If you say that the odds are in someone's favour, you mean that they are likely to succeed in what they are doing.
  • throw someone under the bus — to expose someone to an unpleasant fate, esp in order to save oneself
  • to build up a head of steam — to develop power
  • to go into the record books — to achieve one of the best results that have ever been achieved in a particular sport or activity, for example the fastest time, the furthest distance, or the greatest number of victories
  • to know something backwards — In British English, if you say that someone knows something backwards, you are emphasizing that they know it very well. In American English, you say that someone knows something backward and forward.
  • to nip something in the bud — If you nip something such as bad behaviour in the bud, you stop it before it can develop very far.
  • to rule sb with a high hand — to behave imperiously towards someone

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