17-letter words that end in h
- a charter for sth — If you describe a decision or policy as a charter for someone or something you disapprove of, you mean that it is likely to help or encourage them.
- a philip randolph — A(sa) Philip, 1889–1979, U.S. labor leader: president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters 1925–68.
- abyssinian church — the Monophysitic church founded by Frumentius in the 4th century a.d., and resembling the Coptic Church in doctrine, practice, and discipline, but using Ethiopic in its liturgy.
- acceptance speech — a speech that someone makes when they are accepting a prize, honour, or award
- aerial photograph — a photograph taken from the air
- american flagfish — flagfish (def 1).
- american-flagfish — flagfish (def 1).
- aneroid barograph — an aneroid barometer equipped with an automatic recording mechanism.
- anomalistic month — the interval between two successive passages of the moon through perigee; 27.55455 days
- antitwilight arch — a narrow band, pink or with a purple cast, that sometimes appears at twilight just above the horizon opposite the sun.
- arunachal pradesh — a state in NE India, formed in 1986 from the former Union Territory. Capital: Itanagar. Pop: 1 091 117 (2001). Area: 83 743 sq km (32 648 sq miles)
- ashby-de-la-zouch — a town in central England, in Leicestershire: Mary, Queen of Scots, was imprisoned (1569) in the castle. Pop: 11 409 (2001)
- audience research — research into the make-up and habits of the audience of a particular television or radio programme or network
- baile atha cliath — Dublin
- baile-atha-cliath — Gaelic Baile Àtha Cliath. a seaport in and the capital of the Republic of Ireland, in the E part, on the Irish Sea.
- beat to the punch — to be quicker than (another) in doing something, as in striking a blow
- bergisch gladbach — city in W Germany, in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia: pop. 105,000
- bergisch-gladbach — an industrial city in W Germany, near Cologne.
- best first search — (algorithm) A graph search algorithm which optimises breadth first search by ordering all current paths according to some heuristic. The heuristic attempts to predict how close the end of a path is to a solution. Paths which are judged to be closer to a solution are extended first. See also beam search, hill climbing.
- blackcurrant bush — a bush of the blackcurrant plant
- bursting strength — the capacity of a thing or substance to resist change when under pressure.
- buttonhole stitch — a reinforcing looped stitch for the edge of material, such as around a buttonhole
- catch one's death — to contract a severe cold
- cellulose varnish — a varnish made from cellulose nitrate, used as a protective sealing film
- chadless keypunch — (hardware) A card punch which cut little U-shapes in punched cards, rather than punching out a circle or rectangle. The U's made a hole when folded back. One of the Jargon File's correspondents believed that the term "chad" derived from the Chadless keypunch. Obviously, if the Chadless keypunch didn't make them, then the stuff that other keypunches made had to be "chad". The assertion that the keypunch was named after its inventor is not supported by any record in US or UK patents or surname references.
- charles lindbergh — Anne (Spencer) Morrow, 1906–2001, U.S. writer (wife of Charles Augustus Lindbergh).
- china grass cloth — grass cloth.
- collegiate church — a church that has an endowed chapter of canons and prebendaries attached to it but that is not a cathedral
- colour photograph — a photograph that is developed and printed in colour
- compressed speech — speech reproduced on tape at a faster rate than originally spoken, but without loss of intelligibility, by being filtered through a mechanism that deletes very small segments of the original signal at random intervals.
- consumer research — business: investigation of behaviors
- contradistinguish — to differentiate by means of contrasting or opposing qualities
- death's-head moth — a European hawk moth, Acherontia atropos, having markings resembling a human skull on its upper thorax
- down-in-the-mouth — glum
- dressed up as sth — portrayed as
- drink like a fish — any of various cold-blooded, aquatic vertebrates, having gills, commonly fins, and typically an elongated body covered with scales.
- eat flaming death — (humour, abuse) A construction popularised among hackers by the infamous CPU Wars comic; supposedly derive from a famously turgid line in a WWII-era anti-Nazi propaganda comic that ran "Eat flaming death, non-Aryan mongrels!" or something of the sort (however, it is also reported that the Firesign Theater's 1975 album "In The Next World, You're On Your Own" included the phrase "Eat flaming death, fascist media pigs"; this may have been an influence). Used in humorously overblown expressions of hostility. "Eat flaming death, EBCDIC users!"
- electric strength — the maximum voltage sustainable by an insulating material, after which it loses its insulating properties
- ends of the earth — remote regions
- 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.
- florentine stitch — a straight stitch worked in a high and low relief pattern to form a variety of zigzag or oblique designs.
- foam at the mouth — a collection of minute bubbles formed on the surface of a liquid by agitation, fermentation, etc.: foam on a glass of beer.
- fort walton beach — a city in NW Florida.
- fountain of youth — a fabled spring whose waters were supposed to restore health and youth, sought in the Bahamas and Florida by Ponce de León, Narváez, De Soto, and others.
- freedom of speech — the right of people to express their opinions publicly without governmental interference, subject to the laws against libel, incitement to violence or rebellion, etc.
- gas chromatograph — a chromatograph used for the separation of volatile substances.
- get into bed with — a piece of furniture upon which or within which a person sleeps, rests, or stays when not well.
- gnash one's teeth — If you say that someone is gnashing their teeth, you mean they are angry or frustrated about something.
- grandstand finish — a close or exciting ending to a sports match or competition
- hold one's breath — If you say that someone is holding their breath, you mean that they are waiting anxiously or excitedly for something to happen.
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