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15-letter words containing a, b, m, h

  • most honourable — a courtesy title applied to marquesses and members of the Privy Council and the Order of the Bath
  • mount suribachi — a volcanic hill in the Volcano Islands, on Iwo Jima: site of a US victory (1945) over the Japanese in World War II
  • ophthalmophobia — the fear of being stared at
  • pinball machine — the tablelike, usually coin-operated machine on which pinball is played.
  • pseudo-bohemian — living a wandering or vagabond life, as a Gypsy.
  • pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
  • put sb to shame — If someone puts you to shame, they make you feel ashamed because they do something much better than you do.
  • refreshment bar — a bar or stall that offers a variety of drinks for sale
  • rhombencephalon — the hindbrain.
  • robe-de-chambre — a dressing gown.
  • 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.
  • smallmouth bass — a North American freshwater game fish, Micropterus dolomieu, yellowish-green above and lighter below, having the lower jaw extending to the eye.
  • strephosymbolia — a condition of perceiving objects as their mirror image and, specifically, having difficulty in distinguishing letters in words
  • sub-machine gun — a lightweight automatic or semiautomatic gun, fired from the shoulder or hip.
  • the black stump — an imaginary marker of the extent of civilization (esp in the phrase beyond the black stump)
  • the precambrian — the Precambrian era
  • the-ambassadors — a novel (1903) by Henry James.
  • 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.
  • thermal blanket — a specially warm blanket
  • thermobarograph — a device that simultaneously records the temperature and pressure of the atmosphere
  • thermobarometer — Also called hypsometer. an instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure, and sometimes altitude, from its effect upon the boiling point of a liquid.
  • thomas a becket — Saint Thomas à, 1118?–70, archbishop of Canterbury: murdered because of his opposition to Henry II's policies toward the church.
  • 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
  • torture chamber — a room where somebody is caused extreme physical pain, esp in order to extract information, break resistance, etc
  • tribromoethanol — a white, crystalline powder, C 2 H 3 Br 3 O, used as a basal anesthetic.
  • west palm beach — a city in SE Florida: winter resort.
  • wheatgerm bread — bread made with wheat germ
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