17-letter words containing k, h, l, y
- black huckleberry — a low eastern North American shrub, Gaylussacia baccata, of the heath family, having yellowish-green leaves with resinous dots on the underside, clustered orange-red flowers, and shiny, black, edible fruit.
- blue-sky thinking — Blue-sky thinking is the activity of trying to find completely new ideas.
- chadless keypunch — (hardware) A card punch which cut little U-shapes in punched cards, rather than punching out a circle or rectangle. The U's made a hole when folded back. One of the Jargon File's correspondents believed that the term "chad" derived from the Chadless keypunch. Obviously, if the Chadless keypunch didn't make them, then the stuff that other keypunches made had to be "chad". The assertion that the keypunch was named after its inventor is not supported by any record in US or UK patents or surname references.
- chicklet keyboard — (spelling) It's spelled "chiclet keyboard".
- coral honeysuckle — trumpet honeysuckle.
- dwarf huckleberry — tangleberry.
- ethylmethylketone — (organic compound) The industrial solvent butanone.
- hard rock geology — (loosely) of or relating to igneous or metamorphic rocks, as in mining (hard-rock mining) and geology (hard-rock geology)
- hypovolemic shock — a type of shock caused by reduced blood volume, as from massive bleeding or dehydration.
- i'll thank you to — used ironically to intensify a command, request, etc
- lay it on (thick) — to exaggerate
- make the dust fly — earth or other matter in fine, dry particles.
- purple chokeberry — See under chokeberry (def 1).
- rocket technology — the technology of the design, operation, maintenance, and launching of rockets
- shubra al khaymah — a city in NE Egypt, a Cairo suburb.
- squaw huckleberry — deerberry.
- the black country — the formerly heavily industrialized region of central England, northwest of Birmingham
- to push your luck — If you say that someone is pushing their luck, you think they are taking a bigger risk than is sensible, and may get into trouble.
- whiskey rebellion — a revolt of settlers in western Pennsylvania in 1794 against a federal excise tax on whiskey: suppressed by militia called out by President George Washington to establish the authority of the federal government.
- yuzhno-sakhalinsk — a city in the SE Russian Federation in Asia, on S Sakhalin Island.
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