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17-letter words containing l, e, f, t, h

  • hit for the cycle — any complete round or series of occurrences that repeats or is repeated.
  • household effects — domestic belongings
  • hyperinflationary — (economics) Having very high levels of inflation.
  • in the family way — a basic social unit consisting of parents and their children, considered as a group, whether dwelling together or not: the traditional family. a social unit consisting of one or more adults together with the children they care for: a single-parent family.
  • in the front line — Someone who is in the front line has to play a very important part in defending or achieving something.
  • island of the sun — Sicily: the island where Helius kept his oxen.
  • john of lancaster — Duke of Bedford, 1389–1435, Bedford, John of Lancaster, Duke of.
  • lady of the house — the female head of a household (usually preceded by the).
  • lady of the night — a tropical American shrub, Brunfelsia americana, of the nightshade family, having berrylike yellow fruit and fragrant white flowers.
  • lady-of-the-night — a tropical American shrub, Brunfelsia americana, of the nightshade family, having berrylike yellow fruit and fragrant white flowers.
  • lake of the woods — Eldrick [el-drik] /ˈɛl drɪk/ (Show IPA), ("Tiger") born 1975, U.S. professional golfer.
  • law of the jungle — a system or mode of action in which the strongest survive, presumably as animals in nature or as human beings whose activity is not regulated by the laws or ethics of civilization.
  • liberty of speech — freedom of speech.
  • lick the boots of — to be servile, obsequious, or flattering towards
  • life and/or death — If you say that something is a matter of life and death, you are emphasizing that it is extremely important, often because someone may die or suffer great harm if people do not act immediately.
  • life of the party — most lively, outgoing person
  • lord of the flies — a novel (1954) by William Golding.
  • lower forty-eight — the forty-eight conterminous states of the United States
  • make light of sth — If you make light of something, you treat it as though it is not serious or important, when in fact it is.
  • make the dust fly — earth or other matter in fine, dry particles.
  • methyltransferase — any of a class of enzymes that catalyze the transfer of methyl groups from one molecule to another.
  • mill on the floss — a novel (1860) by George Eliot.
  • minion of the law — a policeman.
  • monarch butterfly — a large, deep-orange butterfly, Danaus plexippus, having black and white markings, the larvae of which feed on the leaves of milkweed.
  • nightshade family — the plant family Solanaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, trees, shrubs, and vines having alternate, simple or pinnate leaves, conspicuous flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or capsule, and including belladonna, eggplant, nightshade, peppers of the genus Capsicum, petunia, potato, tobacco, and tomato.
  • not the full quid — mentally subnormal
  • of the old school — If you approve of someone because they have good qualities that used to be more common in the past, you can describe them as one of the old school.
  • on the half shell — served raw, with seasonings, on a half shell
  • past life therapy — a form of hypnosis or meditation based on the belief that an individual's present problems are rooted in events that occurred before birth in this life
  • peer of the realm — any of a class of peers in Great Britain and Ireland entitled by heredity to sit in the House of Lords.
  • phlebotomus fever — sandfly fever.
  • play with oneself — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
  • plug and feathers — an apparatus for splitting stone, consisting of two tapered bars (feathers) inserted into a hole drilled into the stone, between which a narrow wedge (plug) is hammered to spread them.
  • potato leafhopper — any of various leafhoppers that are serious pests, damaging a wide variety of cultivated and wild plants, especially potatoes.
  • preferential shop — a shop in which union members are preferred, usually by agreement of an employer with a union.
  • roof of the world — Tibet, Plateau of.
  • salt of the earth — an individual or group considered as representative of the best or noblest elements of society.
  • scarlet firethorn — a Eurasian evergreen, thorny shrub, Pyracantha coccinea, of the rose family, having white, hairy flower clusters and bright red berries.
  • self-annihilation — self-destruction; suicide.
  • single-sheet feed — a mechanism for feeding or taking single sheets of paper into a printer
  • south farmingdale — a town on central Long Island, in SE New York.
  • speech difficulty — a problem encountered in speaking
  • star of bethlehem — the star that is supposed to have appeared above Bethlehem at the birth of Christ
  • star-of-bethlehem — any of several plants belonging to the genus Ornithogalum, of the lily family, having grasslike leaves and clusters of white flowers.
  • striped killifish — a killifish, Fundulus majalis, of the Atlantic coast of the U.S., the female of which is marked with black stripes.
  • sulfurated potash — a yellowish-brown mixture consisting mainly of potassium polysulfides and potassium thiosulfate, used in treating mange.
  • sulphur butterfly — sulfur butterfly.
  • take the place of — replace, be a substitute for
  • take to the floor — If you take to the floor, you start dancing at a dance or disco.
  • technical offence — an action which is prohibited by law, but for which no blame can be attached to the person who commits it
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