14-letter words containing a, b, s, h, e
- hair's-breadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
- half-submerged — under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium; inundated.
- hand's-breadth — handbreadth
- hanging basket — suspended woven container for plants
- harbour master — an official in charge of a harbour
- have a bash at — to make an attempt at
- have sth on sb — If someone has something on you, they have evidence that you have done something wrong or bad. If they have nothing on you, they cannot prove that you have done anything wrong or bad.
- heath robinson — (of a mechanical device) absurdly complicated in design and having a simple function
- heaven help sb — You say 'Heaven help someone' when you are worried that something bad is going to happen to them, often because you disapprove of what they are doing or the way they are behaving.
- hemimetabolism — incomplete metamorphosis.
- hemimetabolous — incomplete metamorphosis.
- herbaceousness — The state or quality of being herbaceous.
- holometabolism — The complete metamorphosis of an insect.
- holometabolous — undergoing complete metamorphosis.
- honourableness — Alternative spelling of honorableness.
- hors de combat — disabled or injured
- horseshoe back — a bow back having a slight outward splay at its bottom.
- horseshoe crab — a large marine arthropod, Limulus polyphemus, of shallow coastal waters of eastern North America and eastern Asia, having both compound and simple eyes, book gills, a stiff tail, and a brown carapace curved like a horseshoe: a living fossil related to the woodlouse.
- hospitableness — The quality of being hospitable.
- husein ibn-ali — 1856–1931, 1st king of Hejaz 1916–24.
- hypometabolism — The physiological state of having an decreased rate of metabolic activity.
- inhabitiveness — the disposition to remain in one place; the inclination not to leave home
- invisible hand — (in the economics of Adam Smith) an unseen force or mechanism that guides individuals to unwittingly benefit society through the pursuit of their private interests.
- james buchanan — James, 1791–1868, 15th president of the U.S. 1857–61.
- john constable — John, 1776–1837, English painter.
- lake athabaska — a lake in W Canada, in NW Saskatchewan and NE Alberta. Area: about 7770 sq km (3000 sq miles)
- lee's birthday — Jan. 19, Robert E. Lee's birthday, a legal holiday in several Southern states
- marmalade bush — a shrub, Streptosolen jamesonii, of the nightshade family, native to South America, bearing showy trumpet-shaped orange flowers, grown as an ornamental or houseplant.
- mashie niblick — a club with an iron head whose face has more slope than a mashie but less slope than a pitcher.
- master butcher — a butcher who is fully qualified to practise his trade and to train others in it
- membranophones — Plural form of membranophone.
- merchandisable — Suitable for merchandising.
- morse alphabet — the set of symbols used to represent letters in Morse code
- nephroblastoma — a malignant tumour arising from the embryonic kidney that occurs in young children, esp in the age range 3–8 years
- non perishable — not subject to rapid deterioration or decay: A supply of nonperishable food was kept for emergencies.
- nonestablished — without the official support of the government
- on sb's behalf — If you do something on someone's behalf, you do it for that person as their representative.
- or thereabouts — You add or thereabouts after a number or date to indicate that it is approximate.
- orobanchaceous — belonging to the Orobanchaceae, the broomrape family of plants.
- over sb's head — If someone does something over another person's head, they do it without asking them or discussing it with them, especially when they should do so because the other person is in a position of authority.
- paddock-basher — a vehicle suited to driving on rough terrain
- pre-bachelor's — an unmarried man.
- preestablished — to establish beforehand.
- queen of sheba — a queen of the Sabeans, who visited Solomon (I Kings 10:1–13)
- raspberry bush — a bush on which raspberries grow
- sakha republic — an administrative division in E Russia, in NE Siberia on the Arctic Ocean: the coldest inhabited region of the world; it has rich mineral resources. Capital: Yakutsk. Pop: 948 100 (2002). Area: 3 103 200 sq km (1 197 760 sq miles)
- scheme library — (library) (SLIB) A portable Scheme library providing compatibiliy and utility functions for all standard Scheme implementations. Version 2c5 supports Bigloo, Chez, ELK, GAMBIT, MacScheme, MITScheme, PocketScheme, RScheme, Scheme->C, Scheme48, SCM, SCSH, T3.1, UMB-Scheme, and VSCM.
- scratchbuilder — a person who scratchbuilds
- second chamber — the parliament of the Netherlands, consisting of an upper chamber (First Chamber) and a lower chamber (Second Chamber)
- shabby-genteel — trying to maintain dignity and self-respect despite shabbiness.