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

  • anzhero-sudzhensk — a city in the S Russian Federation in Central Asia.
  • bury the tomahawk — to stop fighting; make peace
  • buttock-clenching — making one tighten the buttocks through extreme fear or embarrassment
  • coral honeysuckle — trumpet honeysuckle.
  • desktop publisher — desktop publishing
  • figure-eight knot — a kind of knot
  • hard nut to crack — a dry fruit consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell.
  • hasbrouck heights — a borough in NE New Jersey.
  • houndstooth check — a pattern of broken checks, used in woven material for jackets, shirts, etc.
  • housekeeping cart — A housekeeping cart is a large metal basket on wheels which is used by a cleaner in a hotel to move clean bed linen, towels, and cleaning equipment.
  • i'll thank you to — used ironically to intensify a command, request, etc
  • in the background — behind the focus of attention
  • khingan mountains — a mountain system of NE China, in W Manchuria. Highest peak: 2034 m (6673 ft)
  • lighthouse keeper — a person who mans a lighthouse and makes sure that the light is working properly
  • make hay (out) of — to turn (something) to one's advantage
  • nicholas bourbaki — the pseudonym of a group of mainly French mathematicians that, since 1939, has been producing a monumental work on advanced mathematics, Eléments de Mathématique
  • not think much of — be unimpressed by
  • parker house roll — a soft dinner roll made by folding a flat disk of dough in half.
  • pick the eyes out — to select the best parts or pieces (of)
  • porterhouse steak — large cut of beef loin
  • purple chokeberry — See under chokeberry (def 1).
  • put on the market — offer for sale
  • put the kibosh on — nonsense.
  • quick on the draw — having fast reflexes
  • rodolphe kreutzer — Rodolphe [raw-dawlf] /rɔˈdɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1766–1831, French violinist.
  • rough-legged hawk — a large hawk, Buteo lagopus, of the Northern Hemisphere, that feeds chiefly on small rodents.
  • run out the clock — to maintain control of the ball in the closing minutes of a game
  • skin of our teeth — a play (1942) by Thornton Wilder.
  • south lanarkshire — a council area of S Scotland, comprising the S part of the historical county of Lanarkshire: included within Strathclyde Region from 1975 to 1996: has uplands in the S and part of the Glasgow conurbation in the N: mainly agricultural. Administrative centre: Hamilton. Pop: 303 010 (2003 est). Area: 1771 sq km (684 sq miles)
  • take sth on trust — If you take something on trust after having heard or read it, you believe it completely without checking it.
  • the black country — the formerly heavily industrialized region of central England, northwest of Birmingham
  • the rann of kutch — an extensive salt waste in W central India, and S Pakistan: consists of the Great Rann in the north and the Little Rann in the southeast; seasonal alternation between marsh and desert; some saltworks. In 1968 an international tribunal awarded about 10 per cent of the border area to Pakistan. Area: 23 000 sq km (9000 sq miles)
  • thought-provoking — If something such as a book or a film is thought-provoking, it contains interesting ideas that make people think seriously.
  • to keep your head — If you keep your head, you remain calm in a difficult situation. If you lose your head, you panic or do not remain calm in a difficult situation.
  • 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.
  • trucial sheikdoms — an independent federation in E Arabia, formed in 1971, now comprising seven emirates on the S coast (formerly, Pirate Coast or Trucial Coast) of the Persian Gulf, formerly under British protection: Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm al-Qaiwain, Ras al-Khaimah (joined 1972), and Fujairah. About 32,300 sq. mi. (83,657 sq. km). Capital: Abu Dhabi. Abbreviation: U.A.E.
  • turkish towelling — woven cloth which is used to make towels, wash cloths, etc
  • utagawa kuniyoshi — original name Igusa Magosabwo. 1797–1861, Japanese painter and printmaker of the ukiyo-e school, best known for his prints of warriors and landscapes
  • yorkshire pudding — a pudding made of an unsweetened batter of flour, salt, eggs, and milk, baked under meat as it roasts to catch the drippings or baked separately with a small amount of meat drippings.
  • yuzhno-sakhalinsk — a city in the SE Russian Federation in Asia, on S Sakhalin Island.

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