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16-letter words containing k, h, a, b, r

  • abdurrahman khan — 1830?–1901, amir of Afghanistan 1880–1901.
  • armchair banking — the management of one's bank account or accounts using a computer, telephone, or television in the home or via the postal system
  • background check — an investigation into a person's origins and previous history
  • bashkir republic — a constituent republic of E central Russia, in the S Urals: established as the first Soviet autonomous republic in 1919; rich mineral resources. Capital: Ufa. Pop: 4 012 900 (2002). Area: 143 600 sq km (55 430 sq miles)
  • be on the market — to be offered for sale
  • behavioural sink — a small area in which people or animals live in overcrowded conditions
  • birchbark biting — a Native Canadian craft in which designs are bitten onto bark from birch trees
  • bismarck herring — marinaded herring, served cold
  • black chokeberry — See under chokeberry (def 1).
  • black-light trap — a trap for insects that uses ultraviolet light as an attractant.
  • boreal chickadee — a brown-capped, black-throated chickadee (Parus hudsonicus) found near the Atlantic coast from Labrador to N New York
  • brake horsepower — the rate at which an engine does work, expressed in horsepower. It is measured by the resistance of an applied brake
  • break faith with — If you break faith with someone you made a promise to or something you believed in, you stop acting in a way that supports them.
  • break sb's heart — If something breaks your heart, it makes you feel very sad and depressed, especially because people are suffering but you can do nothing to help them.
  • break the record — surpass previous highest, best
  • buckthorn family — the plant family Rhamnaceae, characterized by shrubs and trees having alternate, simple leaves, clusters of small flowers, and fruit in the form of a drupe or capsule, and including the buckthorn, cascara, and New Jersey tea.
  • burkitt lymphoma — a rare type of tumour of the white blood cells, occurring mainly in Africa and associated with infection by Epstein-Barr virus
  • chernobyl packet — (networking)   /cher-noh'b*l pak'*t/ A network packet that induces a broadcast storm and/or network meltdown, named in memory of the April 1986 nuclear accident at Chernobyl in Ukraine. The typical scenario involves an IP Ethernet datagram that passes through a gateway with both source and destination Ethernet address and IP address set as the respective broadcast addresses for the subnetworks being gated between. Compare Christmas tree packet.
  • chiclet keyboard — (hardware, abuse)   A keyboard with a small, flat rectangular or lozenge-shaped rubber or plastic keys that look like pieces of Chiclets chewing gum. Used especially to describe the original IBM PCjr keyboard. Vendors unanimously liked these because they were cheap, and a lot of early portable and laptop computers were launched with them. Customers rejected the idea with almost equal unanimity, and chiclets are not often seen on anything larger than a digital watch any more.
  • hawksbill turtle — a sea turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata, the shell of which is the source of tortoise shell: an endangered species.
  • hit a brick wall — unable to continue or make progress because of a hindrance
  • horseback riding — activity: riding a horse
  • intake of breath — When someone takes an intake of breath, they breathe in quickly and noisily, usually because they are shocked at something.
  • khakass republic — a constituent republic of S central Russia, formerly in Krasnoyarsk Territory: formed in 1930. Capital: Abakan. Pop: 546 100 (2002). Area: 61 900 sq km (23 855 sq miles)
  • knights of labor — a secret workingmen's organization formed in 1869 to defend the interests of labor.
  • lumberjack shirt — a thick checked shirt, as worn by lumberjacks
  • mahalla el kubra — a city in Egypt, on the Nile delta.
  • man on horseback — a military leader who presents himself as the savior of the country during a period of crisis and either assumes or threatens to assume dictatorial powers.
  • murasaki shikibuLady, 978?–1031? Japanese poet and novelist.
  • nagorno-karabakh — a region in SW Azerbaijan: residents mostly Armenian. 1700 sq. mi. (4400 sq. km).
  • nubuck (leather) — tanned leather similar to suede, but with the nap on the grain side
  • redbank whiteoak — a city in S Tennessee.
  • round lake beach — a town in NE Illinois.
  • run the blockade — to go past or through a blockade
  • sharpe's grysbok — either of two small, usually solitary antelopes of southern Africa, Raphicerus melanotis, or R. sharpei (Sharpe's grysbok) having a light to dark reddish-brown coat speckled with white.
  • take the liberty — do sth without permission
  • take the trouble — If you take the trouble to do something, you do something which requires a small amount of additional effort.
  • the black forest — a hilly wooded region of SW Germany, in Baden-Württemberg: a popular resort area
  • to break the ice — If you break the ice at a party or meeting, or in a new situation, you say or do something to make people feel relaxed and comfortable.
  • to rock the boat — If you say that someone is rocking the boat, you mean that they are upsetting a calm situation and causing trouble.

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