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18-letter words containing s, a, b, t, h

  • distinguishability — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • elizabethan sonnet — Shakespearean sonnet
  • established church — a Church that is officially recognized as a national institution, esp the Church of England
  • establishmentarian — Adhering to, advocating, or relating to the principle of an established church.
  • flash butt welding — a method of welding metal edge-to-edge with a powerful electric flash followed by the application of pressure.
  • gas-discharge tube — any tube in which an electric discharge takes place through a gas
  • give sb their head — If you give someone their head, you allow them to do what they want to do, without trying to advise or stop them.
  • gladden sb's heart — If you say that something gladdens someone's heart, you mean that it makes them feel pleased and hopeful.
  • hamilton's problem — Hamiltonian problem
  • handlebar mustache — A handlebar mustache is a long thick mustache with curled ends.
  • have words with sb — If one person has words with another, or if two or more people have words, they have a serious discussion or argument, especially because one has complained about the other's behaviour.
  • hawksbill (turtle) — a medium-sized marine turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata, family Cheloniidae) having a hawklike beak and a horny shell from which tortoise shell is obtained
  • heat of combustion — the heat evolved when one mole of a substance is burnt in oxygen at constant volume
  • histocompatibility — the condition of having antigenic similarities such that cells or tissues transplanted from one (the donor) to another (the recipient) are not rejected.
  • in company with sb — If you feel, believe, or know something in company with someone else, you both feel, believe, or know it.
  • in the same breath — the air inhaled and exhaled in respiration.
  • johannes gutenberg — Johannes [yoh-hahn-uh s] /yoʊˈhɑn əs/ (Show IPA), (Johann Gensfleisch) c1400–68, German printer: credited with invention of printing from movable type.
  • legislative branch — the branch of government having the power to make laws; the legislature.
  • lincoln's birthday — February 12, a legal holiday in some states of the U.S., in honor of the birth of Abraham Lincoln.
  • lonely hearts club — a club for people who are trying to find a lover or a friend
  • malpighian tubules — one of a group of long, slender excretory tubules at the anterior end of the hindgut in insects and other terrestrial arthropods.
  • nebular hypothesis — the theory that the solar system evolved from a mass of nebular matter: prominent in the 19th century following its precise formulation by Laplace.
  • northeast by north — a point on the compass 11°15′ north of northeast. Abbreviation: NEbN.
  • not by a long shot — absolutely not
  • one's heart bleeds — used to express sympathetic grief, but often used ironically
  • plumber's merchant — a shop or business that sells things needed for the job of installing and repairing pipes, fixtures, etc, for water, drainage, and gas
  • 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.
  • punishment beating — a form of corporal punishment carried out by a paramilitary organization on a member of another sectarian organization, usually in Northern Ireland
  • pyramus and thisbe — (in Greek legend) two lovers of Babylon: Pyramus, wrongly supposing Thisbe to be dead, killed himself and she, encountering him in his death throes, did the same
  • saint john's bread — carob (def 2).
  • scottish blackface — a common breed of hardy mountain sheep having horns and a black face, kept chiefly on the mainland of Scotland
  • see the last of sb — not encounter sb anymore
  • september holidays — a period of time in September when people do not have to go to school, college or work
  • shorthand notebook — a notebook used by a shorthand writer
  • sindbad the sailor — (in The Arabian Nights' Entertainments), a wealthy citizen of Baghdad who relates the adventures of his seven wonderful voyages.
  • southeast by south — a point on the compass 11°15′ south of southeast. Abbreviation: SEbS.
  • stomach sweetbread — sweetbread (def 1).
  • substitute teacher — educator: replaces sb temporarily
  • take a shine to sb — If you say that someone has taken a shine to another person, you mean that he or she liked them very much at their first meeting.
  • talk between ships — TBS (def 1).
  • the baptist church — any of various Protestant churches that believe in the baptism of believers
  • the bird has flown — the person in question has fled or escaped
  • the black and tans — a specially recruited armed auxiliary police force sent to Ireland in 1921 by the British Government to combat Sinn Féin
  • the blue hen state — a nickname for the state of Delaware
  • the powers that be — You can refer to people in authority as the powers that be, especially when you want to say that you disagree with them or do not understand what they say or do.
  • the queen of sheba — a queen of the Sabeans, who visited Solomon (I Kings 10:1–13)
  • the stars and bars — the flag of the Confederate States of America
  • the welsh assembly — the elected assembly for Wales, based in Cardiff, that has certain powers devolved from the UK government
  • the-master-builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
  • tick all the boxes — to satisfy all of the apparent requirements for success
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