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17-letter words containing r, a, s, h, l

  • china grass cloth — grass cloth.
  • chocolate soldier — a person who mistakenly believes that he or she is very powerful, important, or impressive
  • chromolithographs — Plural form of chromolithograph.
  • circle the wagons — to take defensive action; prepare for an attack: from arranging a wagon train in a circular formation
  • civil partnership — A civil partnership is a legal relationship between two people of the same sex that is similar to marriage.
  • close parenthesis — right parenthesis
  • coral honeysuckle — trumpet honeysuckle.
  • corporal of horse — a noncommissioned rank in the British Household Cavalry above that of sergeant and below that of staff sergeant
  • counterchallenges — Plural form of counterchallenge.
  • courtship display — behaviour that is aimed at attracting a mate
  • cytotrophoblastic — Relating to, or containing, cytotrophoblasts.
  • dehydrochlorinase — an enzyme that catalyzes the removal of hydrogen and chlorine atoms or ions from chlorinated hydrocarbons.
  • dephosphorylation — the removal of a phosphate group from an organic compound, as in the changing of ATP to ADP.
  • dessert chocolate — cooking chocolate
  • digital dashboard — (software)   A personalised desktop portal that focuses on business intelligence and knowledge management.
  • dishonourableness — Alternative spelling of dishonorableness.
  • douglas macarthur — Douglas, 1880–1964, U.S. general: supreme commander of allied forces in SW Pacific during World War II and of UN forces in Korea 1950–51.
  • drink like a fish — any of various cold-blooded, aquatic vertebrates, having gills, commonly fins, and typically an elongated body covered with scales.
  • dull as dishwater — water in which dishes are, or have been, washed.
  • electroanesthesia — Anesthesia induced by cranial electrotherapy stimulation.
  • elementary school — primary school
  • english breakfast — An English breakfast is a breakfast consisting of cooked food such as bacon, eggs, sausages, and tomatoes. It also includes toast and tea or coffee.
  • ethinyloestradiol — Alternative form of ethinylestradiol.
  • first call on sth — If you have first call on something, you will be asked before anyone else whether you want to buy or use it.
  • flash photography — photography using a momentary flash of artificial light as a source of illumination.
  • flog a dead horse — a large, solid-hoofed, herbivorous quadruped, Equus caballus, domesticated since prehistoric times, bred in a number of varieties, and used for carrying or pulling loads, for riding, and for racing.
  • fourfold purchase — a tackle that is composed of a rope passed through two fourfold blocks in such a way as to provide mechanical power in the ratio of 1 to 5 or 1 to 4, depending on whether hauling is done on the running or the standing block and without considering friction. Compare tackle (def 2).
  • french somaliland — a former name of Djibouti (def 1).
  • general discharge — a discharge from military service of a person who has served honorably but who has not met all the conditions of an honorable discharge.
  • gestatorial chair — a ceremonial chair on which the pope is carried
  • glastonbury chair — a folding chair having legs crossed front-to-back and having arms connected to the back and to the front seat rail.
  • great vowel shift — a series of changes in the quality of the long vowels between Middle and Modern English as a result of which all were raised, while the high vowels (ē) and (o̅o̅), already at the upper limit, underwent breaking to become the diphthongs (ī) and (ou).
  • ground angle shot — a photograph or film shot in which the lens is near the ground, usually pointing up somewhat
  • guardhouse lawyer — a person in military service, especially an inmate of a guardhouse or brig, who is or claims to be an authority on military law, regulations, and soldiers' rights.
  • haematocrystallin — Alternative form of hematocrystallin.
  • half-round chisel — a cold chisel with a semicircular cutting edge used for making narrow channels
  • hall of residence — Halls of residence are buildings with rooms or flats, usually built by universities or colleges, in which students live during the term.
  • hammer and sickle — the emblem of the Soviet Union, adopted in 1923 and consisting of an insignia of a hammer with its handle across the blade of a sickle and a star above.
  • hard-shelled clam — quahog
  • hard-shelled crab — a crab, esp. an edible sea crab, before it has shed its hard shell
  • harmonic analysis — the calculation of Fourier series and their generalization.
  • haroun-al-raschid — Harun al-Rashid.
  • have feelings for — to be emotionally or sexually attracted to
  • heterochlamydeous — (of a plant) having a perianth consisting of distinct sepals and petals
  • high-carbon steel — steel containing between 0.5 and 1.5 per cent carbon
  • hippocampal gyrus — a convolution on the inner surface of the temporal lobe of the cerebrum, bordering the hippocampus.
  • histamine blocker — any of various substances that act at a specific receptor site to block certain actions of histamine.
  • historical method — the process of establishing general facts and principles through attention to chronology and to the evolution or historical course of what is being studied.
  • historical school — a school of economists that arose in Germany in the 19th century in reaction to the principles of the classical economists, and that maintained that the factors making up an economy are variable and develop out of social institutions.
  • historiographical — the body of literature dealing with historical matters; histories collectively.
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