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17-letter words containing h, o, u, r, i

  • achromatic colour — colour, such as white, black, and grey, that is devoid of hue
  • adventure holiday — a holiday that involves some physically challenging activity such as canoeing, rock climbing, etc
  • affaire d'honneur — a duel
  • agricultural show — a display of agricultural equipment and livestock, often including competitions, entertainment, and a trade fair
  • aluminum chloride — a yellow-white, crystalline, water-soluble solid that in its white hydrated form, AlCl 3 ⋅6H 2 O, is used chiefly as a wood preservative and in its yellow-white anhydrous form, AlCl 3 , chiefly as a catalyst.
  • american foxhound — one of an American breed of medium-sized dogs having a smooth, glossy coat usually black, tan, and white in color, a square-cut muzzle, hanging ears, and a moderately high-set tail, used for hunting both in packs or individually, tailing the game by scent.
  • ammonium chloride — a white soluble crystalline solid used chiefly as an electrolyte in dry batteries and as a mordant and soldering flux. Formula: NH4Cl
  • anthraquinone dye — any of the class of dyes derived from anthraquinone, used for dyeing textiles, especially cotton, rayon, and silk.
  • antiauthoritarian — Opposed to authority.
  • aristolochiaceous — belonging to the Aristolochiaceae, the birthwort family of plants.
  • australopithecine — any of various extinct apelike primates of the genus Australopithecus and related genera, remains of which have been discovered in southern and E Africa. Some species are estimated to be over 4.5 million years old
  • authoritativeness — having due authority; having the sanction or weight of authority: an authoritative opinion.
  • authority control — the establishment and maintainance of consistent forms of terms, as of names, subjects, and titles, to be used as headings in bibliographic records.
  • behaviour therapy — any of various means of treating psychological disorders, such as desensitization, aversion therapy, and instrumental conditioning, that depend on the patient systematically learning new modes of behaviour
  • bighorn mountains — range of the Rocky Mountains in N Wyo. and S Mont.: highest peak, 13,165 ft (4,013 m)
  • biopharmaceutical — of or relating to drugs produced using biotechnology
  • blue-headed vireo — solitary vireo.
  • british columbian — of or relating to British Columbia or its inhabitants
  • calcium hydroxide — a white crystalline slightly soluble alkali with many uses, esp in cement, water softening, and the neutralization of acid soils. Formula: Ca(OH)2
  • carbon disulphide — a colourless slightly soluble volatile flammable poisonous liquid commonly having a disagreeable odour due to the presence of impurities: used as an organic solvent and in the manufacture of rayon and carbon tetrachloride. Formula: CS2
  • cellulose varnish — a varnish made from cellulose nitrate, used as a protective sealing film
  • chemotherapeutics — chemotherapy.
  • code of behaviour — the generally accepted rules governing how people behave
  • code of hammurabi — a Babylonian legal code of the 18th century b.c. or earlier, instituted by Hammurabi and dealing with criminal and civil matters.
  • collegiate church — a church that has an endowed chapter of canons and prebendaries attached to it but that is not a cathedral
  • computer graphics — the use of a computer to produce and manipulate pictorial images on a video screen, as in animation techniques or the production of audiovisual aids
  • contour ploughing — ploughing following the contours of the land, to minimize the effects of erosion
  • contradistinguish — to differentiate by means of contrasting or opposing qualities
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • crucifixion thorn — one of several leafless, very thorny shrubs or small trees of the southwestern desert areas of North America.
  • deduction theorem — the property of many formal systems that the conditional derived from a valid argument by taking the conjunction of the premises as antecedent and the conclusion as consequent is true
  • desktop publisher — desktop publishing
  • dishonourableness — Alternative spelling of dishonorableness.
  • do your own thing — If you do your own thing, you live, act, or behave in the way you want to, without paying attention to convention or depending on other people.
  • figure-eight knot — a kind of knot
  • fish out of water — any of various cold-blooded, aquatic vertebrates, having gills, commonly fins, and typically an elongated body covered with scales.
  • fluorescent light — a fluorescent lamp in domestic or commercial use; a fluorescent strip
  • french revolution — the revolution that began in 1789, overthrew the absolute monarchy of the Bourbons and the system of aristocratic privileges, and ended with Napoleon's overthrow of the Directory and seizure of power in 1799.
  • 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.
  • further education — adult education.
  • 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.
  • guinea-hen flower — checkered lily.
  • half-round chisel — a cold chisel with a semicircular cutting edge used for making narrow channels
  • haroun-al-raschid — Harun al-Rashid.
  • hasbrouck heights — a borough in NE New Jersey.
  • have a reputation — to be known or notorious, esp for promiscuity, excessive drinking, or the like

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