17-letter words containing ha

microphanerophyte — any shrub or tree having a height of 2 to 8 metres
mikhail gorbachev — Mikhail S(ergeyevich) [mi-kahyl sur-gey-uh-vich,, mi-keyl;; Russian myi-khuh-yeel syir-gye-yi-vyich] /mɪˈkaɪl sɜrˈgeɪ ə vɪtʃ,, mɪˈkeɪl;; Russian myɪ xʌˈyil syɪrˈgyɛ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), born 1931, Soviet political leader: general secretary of the Communist Party 1985–91; president of the Soviet Union 1988–91; Nobel Peace Prize 1990.
mischaracterizing — Present participle of mischaracterize.
montagu's harrier — a brownish European bird of prey, Circus pygargus, with long narrow wings and a long tail: family Accipitridae (hawks, harriers, etc)
more than usually — You use more than usually to show that something shows even more of a particular quality than it normally does.
mountain viscacha — the mountain chinchilla
nakhon ratchasima — a city in central Thailand.
nathaniel currier — Nathaniel, 1813–88, U.S. lithographer. Compare Ives (def 4).
natural harmonics — harmonics of a note produced on a stringed instrument by lightly touching an open or unstopped sounded string.
natural hat trick — three goals scored in succession by one player in one game or one period.
neuropharmacology — the branch of pharmacology concerned with the effects of drugs on the nervous system.
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.
north-wall hammer — a type of ice axe that has a hammer as part of its head
not a happy bunny — deeply dissatisfied or discontented
nothing less than — You can use nothing less than to emphasize your next words, often indicating that something seems very surprising or important.
nothing more than — merely, solely
old orchard beach — a resort town in S Maine.
omphalomesenteric — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the umbilicus and mesentery.
on condition that — a particular mode of being of a person or thing; existing state; situation with respect to circumstances.
on the half shell — served raw, with seasonings, on a half shell
on the off chance — the absence of any cause of events that can be predicted, understood, or controlled: often personified or treated as a positive agency: Chance governs all.
on the off-chance — If you do something on the off-chance, you do it because you hope that it will succeed, although you think that this is unlikely.
on the other hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
open-channel flow — Open-channel flow is a liquid flow in a channel, which has a free liquid surface.
orifice discharge — Orifice discharge is a model for calculating how quickly a fluid will come out of a punctured vessel or pipe.
out of harm's way — If someone or something is out of harm's way, they are in a safe place away from danger or from the possibility of being damaged.
overhead camshaft — a camshaft in an automotive engine that is located in the cylinder head over the engine block rather than in the block. Abbreviation: OHC.
palaeoarchaeology — the branch of archaeology concerned with the earliest fossil remains
patriarchal cross — a Latin cross having a shorter crosspiece above the customary one.
pay-cable channel — a television channel that has to be paid for
petrarchan sonnet — a sonnet form popularized by Petrarch, consisting of an octave with the rhyme scheme abbaabba and of a sestet with one of several rhyme schemes, as cdecde or cdcdcd.
phantom limb pain — a phenomenon characterized by the experience of pain, discomfort, or other sensation in the area of a missing limb or other body part, as a breast.
phantom pregnancy — the occurrence of signs of pregnancy, such as enlarged abdomen and absence of menstruation, when no embryo is present, due to hormonal imbalance
pharmacologically — the science dealing with the preparation, uses, and especially the effects of drugs.
phase of the moon — Used humorously as a random parameter on which something is said to depend. Sometimes implies unreliability of whatever is dependent, or that reliability seems to be dependent on conditions nobody has been able to determine. "This feature depends on having the channel open in mumble mode, having the foo switch set, and on the phase of the moon." See also heisenbug. True story: Once upon a time there was a bug that really did depend on the phase of the moon. There was a little subroutine that had traditionally been used in various programs at MIT to calculate an approximation to the moon's true phase. GLS incorporated this routine into a Lisp program that, when it wrote out a file, would print a timestamp line almost 80 characters long. Very occasionally the first line of the message would be too long and would overflow onto the next line, and when the file was later read back in the program would barf. The length of the first line depended on both the precise date and time and the length of the phase specification when the timestamp was printed, and so the bug literally depended on the phase of the moon! The first paper edition of the Jargon File (Steele-1983) included an example of one of the timestamp lines that exhibited this bug, but the typesetter "corrected" it. This has since been described as the phase-of-the-moon-bug bug.
phonetic alphabet — an alphabet containing a separate character for each distinguishable speech sound.
physical handicap — loss of or failure to develop a specific bodily function or functions, whether of movement, sensation, coordination, or speech, but excluding mental impairments or disabilities
plains of abraham — a high plain adjoining the city of Quebec, Canada: battlefield where the English under Wolfe defeated the French under Montcalm in 1759.
point of purchase — designating or in use at a retail outlet where an item can be purchased; point-of-sale: point-of-purchase displays to entice the buyer.
point-of-purchase — designating or in use at a retail outlet where an item can be purchased; point-of-sale: point-of-purchase displays to entice the buyer.
polioencephalitis — a disease characterized by inflammation of the gray matter of the brain.
preference shares — a share of preferred stock.
proof of purchase — a document, such as a receipt, etc, that proves that you have purchased or bought something
proof-of-purchase — a sales slip, label, box top, or other item associated with a product that is presentable as evidence of actual purchase, as for claiming a refund or rebate.
put one's hand to — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
pythagorean scale — the major scale as derived acoustically by Pythagoras from the perfect fifth.
quantum mechanics — a theory of the mechanics of atoms, molecules, and other physical systems that are subject to the uncertainty principle. Abbreviation: QM.
racial harassment — persecution on the basis of race
receding hairline — hair that is thinning at the front
respiratory chain — a series of mitochondrial proteins that transport electrons of hydrogen, released in the Krebs cycle, from acetyl coenzyme A to inhaled oxygen to form H 2 O: the energy released in the process is conserved as ATP.

Was this page helpful?

Yes No

Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page

Tell us why?