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15-letter words containing a, b, i, t, h

  • old-established — established for a long time
  • ophthalmophobia — the fear of being stared at
  • orthoboric acid — boric acid (def 1). Compare ortho- (def 2).
  • orthopaedic bed — a specially firm bed designed to help correct or ameliorate the discomfort of disorders of the spine and joints
  • pick up the tab — If you pick up the tab, you pay a bill on behalf of a group of people or provide the money that is needed for something.
  • pitch blackness — extreme darkness; lack of light
  • planning blight — the harmful effects of uncertainty about likely restrictions on the types and extent of future development in a particular area on the quality of life of its inhabitants and the normal growth of its business and community enterprises
  • pre-elizabethan — (of English culture, history, traditions, etc.) before the reign of Queen Elizabeth I; before the second half of the 16th century.
  • pre-established — to establish beforehand.
  • probationership — the position of a probationer
  • public footpath — a footpath along which the public has right of way
  • pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
  • rechargeability — (of a storage battery) capable of being charged repeatedly. Compare cordless (def 2).
  • 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.
  • rightabout-face — a turning directly about so as to face in the opposite direction
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • straight-backed — having a straight, usually high, back: a straight-backed chair.
  • strawberry dish — a shallow, circular fruit dish with a fluted or pierced border.
  • strephosymbolia — a condition of perceiving objects as their mirror image and, specifically, having difficulty in distinguishing letters in words
  • 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 gift of gab — If someone has the gift of gab, they are able to speak easily and confidently, and to persuade people.
  • 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 public weal — the public good; the good of society
  • the-arbitration — a comedy (c300 b.c.) by Menander, extant only as a fragment.
  • thermal barrier — the high temperatures produced by the friction between a supersonic object and the earth's atmosphere that limit the speed of an airplane or rocket.
  • thiobarbiturate — a barbiturate in which a sulphur atom has replaced one oxygen atom
  • 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
  • touch base with — the bottom support of anything; that on which a thing stands or rests: a metal base for the table.
  • tribromoethanol — a white, crystalline powder, C 2 H 3 Br 3 O, used as a basal anesthetic.
  • turkish tobacco — a strongly aromatic tobacco, grown chiefly in Turkey and Greece, used in cigarettes.
  • uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
  • unrehabilitated — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
  • weatherboarding — an early type of board used as a siding for a building.
  • white bear lake — a city in E Minnesota: summer resort.
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