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20-letter words containing i, n, e, r, h, b

  • neighbourhood warden — a person employed by a local authority to patrol residential areas and deal with antisocial behaviour
  • northern leaf blight — a disease of corn caused by the fungus Exsherohilum turcicum, characterized by elongate tan-gray elliptical spots with subsequent blighting and necrosis of leaves.
  • off-the-job training — training which is carried out away from your normal place of work
  • on o's best behavior — If someone is on their best behavior, they are trying very hard to behave well.
  • on the drawing board — in the planning stage
  • para-dichlorobenzene — a white, crystalline, volatile, water-insoluble solid, C 6 H 4 Cl 2 , of the benzene series, having a penetrating odor: used chiefly as a moth repellent.
  • pipeline burst cache — (hardware, storage)   (PB Cache) A synchronous cache built from pipelined SRAM. A cache in which reading or writing a new location takes multiple cycles but subsequent locations can be accessed in a single cycle. On Pentium systems in 1996, pipeline burst caches are frequently used as secondary caches. The first 8 bytes of data are transferred in 3 CPU cycles, and the next 3 8-byte pieces of data are transferred in one cycle each.
  • prime number theorem — the theorem that the number of prime numbers less than or equal to a given number is approximately equal to the given number divided by its natural logarithm.
  • proactive inhibition — the tendency for earlier memories to interfere with the retrieval of material learned later
  • prohibited substance — a substance, such as a drug, etc, that is banned or forbidden by law or other authority
  • public lending right — (in Britain) an act of Parliament that directs compensation to an author for the library loan of his or her book.
  • ring of the nibelung — Richard Wagner's tetralogy of music dramas: Das Rheingold (completed 1869), Die Walküre (completed 1870), Siegfried (completed 1876), and Götterdämmerung (completed 1876): the cycle was first performed at Bayreuth, 1876.
  • roller-blind shutter — curtain shutter.
  • royal british legion — an organization founded in 1921 to provide services and assistance for former members of the armed forces
  • rub sb's nose in sth — To rub someone's nose in something that they do not want to think about, such as a failing or a mistake they have made, means to remind them repeatedly about it.
  • set the ball rolling — to open or initiate (an action, discussion, movement, etc)
  • short back and sides — If a man has a short back and sides, his hair is cut very short at the back and sides with slightly thicker, longer hair on the top of the head.
  • spherical aberration — variation in focal length of a lens or mirror from center to edge, due to its spherical shape.
  • splice the mainbrace — to issue and partake of an extra allocation of alcoholic spirits
  • stare sb in the face — If a situation or the answer to a problem is staring you in the face, it is very obvious, although you may not be immediately aware of it.
  • step into the breach — If you step into the breach, you do a job or task which someone else was supposed to do or has done in the past, because they are suddenly unable to do it.
  • telephone subscriber — a person who subscribes to a telephone service
  • tetrahydrocannabinol — a compound, C 21 H 30 O 2 , that is the physiologically active component in cannabis preparations (marijuana, hashish, etc.) derived from the Indian hemp plant or produced synthetically. Abbreviation: THC.
  • the toronto blessing — a variety of emotional reactions such as laughing, weeping, and fainting, experienced by participants in a form of charismatic Christian worship
  • therapeutic abortion — abortion performed when a woman's pregnancy endangers her health.
  • to be a warning shot — to be a warning
  • to bring up the rear — If a person or vehicle is bringing up the rear, they are the last person or vehicle in a moving line of them.
  • to 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.
  • to have it in for sb — If someone has it in for you, they do not like you and they want to make life difficult for you.
  • to tighten your belt — If you have to tighten your belt, you have to spend less money and manage without things because you have less money than you used to have.
  • tubing head pressure — The tubing head pressure is the pressure on the tubing, which is measured at the wellhead.
  • war of the rebellion — American Civil War.
  • white-fringed beetle — any of several weevils of the genus Graphognathus, native to South America and now of southeastern and mid-Atlantic U.S., whose larvae feed on roots and cause serious damage to a wide variety of plants.
  • wilson cloud chamber — cloud chamber.
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