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

  • a hundred and one — You can use expressions such as a hundred and one, a thousand and one, and a million and one to emphasize that you are talking about a large number of things or people.
  • absolute monarchy — a monarchy without constitutional limits
  • 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
  • all-weather court — a tennis court suitable to be used in all kinds of weather
  • 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.
  • anzhero-sudzhensk — a city in the S Russian Federation in Central Asia.
  • aristolochiaceous — belonging to the Aristolochiaceae, the birthwort family of plants.
  • around the corner — If you say that something is around the corner, you mean that it will happen very soon. In British English, you can also say that something is round the corner.
  • ashton-under-lyne — a town in NW England, in Tameside unitary authority, Greater Manchester. Pop: 43 236 (2001)
  • at the request of — in accordance with the specific demand or wish of (someone)
  • 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.
  • bachelor's button — any of several plants of a genus (Centaurea) of the composite family, that have scaly, vase-shaped bracts below the white, pink, or blue flowers; esp., the cornflower and knapweed
  • bachelor's-button — any of various plants with round flower heads, especially the cornflower.
  • be on the rebound — If you say that someone is on the rebound, you mean that they have just ended a relationship with a girlfriend or boyfriend. This often makes them do things they would not normally do.
  • beat the drum for — to attempt to arouse interest in
  • 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
  • blood and thunder — A blood and thunder performer or performance is very loud and emotional.
  • blood-and-thunder — sensationalism, violence, or exaggerated melodrama: a movie full of blood and thunder.
  • blue-headed vireo — solitary vireo.
  • bottlebrush grass — a North American grass, Hystrix patula, having loose flower spikes with long awns.
  • british columbian — of or relating to British Columbia or its inhabitants
  • buncher resonator — See under Klystron.
  • bury the tomahawk — to stop fighting; make peace
  • 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
  • cape horn current — the part of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current flowing E at Cape Horn.
  • 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
  • châlons-sur-marne — city in NE France, on the Marne River: scene of defeat ( a.d. 451) of Attila by the Romans: pop. 50,000
  • chart of accounts — A chart of accounts is a list of all the accounts used in a business to classify transactions or report balances.
  • chateau cardboard — wine sold in a winebox
  • chemotherapeutics — chemotherapy.
  • chromosome number — the number of chromosomes present in each somatic cell, which is constant for any one species of plant or animal. In the reproductive cells this number is halved
  • church of england — The Church of England is the main church in England. It has the Queen as its head and it does not recognize the authority of the Pope.
  • clare boothe luceClare Boothe, 1903–87, U.S. writer, politician, and diplomat.
  • 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
  • colour photograph — a photograph that is developed and printed in colour
  • 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

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