15-letter words containing a, b, h, i, n
- pre-elizabethan — (of English culture, history, traditions, etc.) before the reign of Queen Elizabeth I; before the second half of the 16th century.
- probationership — the position of a probationer
- pseudo-bohemian — living a wandering or vagabond life, as a Gypsy.
- pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
- reuben sandwich — a grilled sandwich of corned beef, Swiss cheese, and sauerkraut on rye bread.
- right-branching — (of a grammatical construction) characterized by greater structural complexity in the position following the head, as the phrase the house of the friend of my brother; having most of the constituents on the right in a tree diagram (opposed to left-branching).
- right-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the right, or starboard, side.
- rough breathing — the symbol (ʿ) used in the writing of Greek to indicate aspiration of the initial vowel or of the ρ (rho) over which it is placed.
- rubbing alcohol — a poisonous solution of about 70 percent isopropyl or denatured ethyl alcohol, usually containing a perfume oil, used chiefly in massaging.
- saint elisabeth — the wife of Zacharias, mother of John the Baptist, and kinswoman of the Virgin Mary. Feast day: Nov 5 or 8
- saint elizabeth — the wife of Zacharias, mother of John the Baptist, and kinswoman of the Virgin Mary. Feast day: Nov 5 or 8
- self-banishment — to expel from or relegate to a country or place by authoritative decree; condemn to exile: He was banished to Devil's Island.
- shock probation — the release on probation of a criminal after brief imprisonment
- shopping basket — a metal or plastic container with one or two handles, used to carry shopping in a shop
- sink a borehole — To sink a borehole means to drill a deep hole in the ground.
- spanish bayonet — any of certain plants belonging to the genus Yucca, of the agave family, having narrow, spine-tipped leaves and a cluster of white flowers.
- spill the beans — the edible nutritious seed of various plants of the legume family, especially of the genus Phaseolus.
- spinach-rhubarb — an Ethiopian plant, Rumex abyssinicus, of the buckwheat family, having leaves that are sometimes used as spinach and leafstalks sometimes used as rhubarb.
- sub-machine gun — a lightweight automatic or semiautomatic gun, fired from the shoulder or hip.
- subject heading — a title or heading of a category, esp in a bibliography or index
- subtrochanteric — Anatomy. either of two knobs at the top of the femur, the greater on the outside and the lesser on the inside, serving for the attachment of muscles between the thigh and pelvis.
- swing both ways — to enjoy sexual partners of both sexes
- tectibranchiate — denoting or relating to the suborder of molluscs Tectibranchia
- tetrabranchiate — belonging or pertaining to the Nautiloidea (Tetrabranchiata), a subclass or order of cephalopods with four gills, including the pearly nautilus and numerous fossil forms.
- the job in hand — The job or problem in hand is the job or problem that you are dealing with at the moment.
- the precambrian — the Precambrian era
- the-arbitration — a comedy (c300 b.c.) by Menander, extant only as a fragment.
- thiocarbanilide — a gray powder, C 13 H 12 N 2 S, used as an intermediate in dyes and as an accelerator in vulcanization.
- tidal benchmark — a benchmark used as a reference for tidal observations.
- timber merchant — a merchant that deals in wood for use as a building material
- tribromoethanol — a white, crystalline powder, C 2 H 3 Br 3 O, used as a basal anesthetic.
- unapprehensible — not able to be understood or comprehended
- uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
- unrehabilitated — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
- washing-up bowl — plastic bowl used for washing dishes
- weatherboarding — an early type of board used as a siding for a building.
- wheelchairbound — Confined to a wheelchair.