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18-letter words containing r, h, i, n, o, a

  • over and done with — If you say that something is over and done with, you mean that it is completely finished and you do not have to think about it any more.
  • overnight telegram — a type of domestic telegram sent at a reduced rate with a minimum charge for 10 words or less and accepted until midnight for delivery the following day.
  • paint the town red — a substance composed of solid coloring matter suspended in a liquid medium and applied as a protective or decorative coating to various surfaces, or to canvas or other materials in producing a work of art.
  • pairs championship — an event in a sport such as tennis or darts open to pairs of competitors
  • parathyroid glands — any of several small oval glands usually lying near or embedded in the thyroid gland.
  • peppermint camphor — menthol.
  • phanerocrystalline — (of a rock) having the principal constituents in the form of crystals visible to the naked eye.
  • phantasmagorically — having a fantastic or deceptive appearance, as something in a dream or created by the imagination.
  • phantom withdrawal — the unauthorized removal of funds from a bank account using an automated teller machine
  • philharmonic pitch — a standard of pitch in which A above middle C is established at 440 vibrations per second.
  • phoenician juniper — a type of juniper that is found in the Mediterranean region
  • phosphatidylserine — any of a class of phospholipids occurring in biological membranes and fats
  • photoisomerization — isomerization induced by light.
  • physical inventory — To carry out a physical inventory is to count all the stock on hand.
  • pitch-and-run shot — chip shot.
  • plains grasshopper — a large, destructive short-horned grasshopper, Brachystola magna, of the western U.S., marked by pinkish hind wings.
  • prerelease showing — a showing of a film before it goes on general release
  • price on sb's head — If there is a price on someone 's head, an amount of money has been offered for the capture or killing of that person.
  • prison authorities — the people in charge of running a prison
  • processionary moth — a moth of the family Thaumetopoeidae, esp the oak processionary moth (Thaumetopoea processionea), the larvae of which leave the communal shelter nightly for food in a V-shaped procession
  • projection machine — an apparatus that projects motion pictures; projector.
  • propaganda machine — the group of people, publications, etc, such as of a government, country etc, responsible for the organized dissemination of information, allegations, etc, to assist or damage the cause of a government, movement, etc
  • protease inhibitor — a drug that inhibits the action of protease, especially any of a class of antiviral drugs that prevent the cleavage and replication of HIV proteins.
  • provision merchant — a person or company in the business of retailing food and other provisions
  • pseudo-anarchistic — a person who advocates or believes in anarchy or anarchism.
  • purchasing officer — the member of staff in an organization who is responsible for buying goods or products
  • quite the contrary — not at all, the very opposite
  • recharacterization — portrayal; description: the actor's characterization of a politician.
  • residential school — (in Canada) a boarding school maintained by the Canadian government for Indian and Inuit children from sparsely populated settlements
  • rhode island white — one of a dual-purpose American breed of chickens having white feathers and a rose comb.
  • rhyming dictionary — a specialist dictionary organized by the final sounds of words, used to write poetry
  • roman architecture — buildings in style of ancient Rome
  • rotary clothesline — an apparatus of radiating spokes that support lines on which clothes are hung to dry
  • saint john's bread — carob (def 2).
  • secondary syphilis — the second stage of syphilis, characterized by eruptions of the skin and mucous membrane.
  • shipping container — a large, strong container, usually of metal, used to store goods in during shipment
  • shunting operation — an operation in which rail coaches are manoeuvred
  • sindbad the sailor — (in The Arabian Nights' Entertainments), a wealthy citizen of Baghdad who relates the adventures of his seven wonderful voyages.
  • something to spare — a surplus of something
  • southern rhodesian — a former name (until 1964) of Zimbabwe (def 1).
  • strathclyde region — a former local government region in W Scotland: formed in 1975 from Glasgow, Renfrewshire, Lanarkshire, Buteshire, Dunbartonshire, and parts of Argyllshire, Ayrshire, and Stirlingshire; replaced in 1996 by the council areas of Glasgow, Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, North Lanarkshire, South Lanarkshire, Argyll and Bute, East Dunbartonshire, West Dunbartonshire, North Ayrshire, South Ayrshire, and East Ayrshire
  • teacher evaluation — the process of vetting teachers to maintain teaching standards
  • the bird has flown — the person in question has fled or escaped
  • the dark continent — a term for Africa when it was relatively unexplored
  • the electronic age — the electronic age began when electronic equipment, including computers came into use
  • the grand national — an annual steeplechase run at Aintree, Liverpool, since 1839
  • the internationale — a revolutionary socialist hymn, first sung in 1871 in France
  • the major rogation — April 25, observed by Christians as a day of solemn supplication for the harvest and marked by processions, special prayers, and blessing of the crops
  • the north atlantic — the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean, especially the waters separating North America and Europe
  • the sun also rises — a novel (1926) by Ernest Hemingway.
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