14-letter words containing b, a, h, e, i
- boarding house — A boarding house is a house which people pay to stay in for a short time.
- body mechanics — body exercises that are intended to improve one's posture, stamina, poise, etc.
- bolshoi ballet — a ballet company founded in Moscow in 1776.
- boring machine — a machine that bores holes, tunnels, etc
- brachycephalic — having a head nearly as broad from side to side as from front to back, esp one with a cephalic index over 80
- branch officer — (in the British navy since 1949) any officer who holds warrant
- branched chain — an open chain of atoms with one or more side chains attached to it
- branchiostegal — of or relating to the operculum covering the gill slits of fish
- braunschweiger — a smoked liver sausage, named after the city of Braunschweig
- breathtakingly — thrillingly beautiful, remarkable, astonishing, exciting, or the like: a breathtaking performance.
- breech-loading — (of a firearm) loaded at the breech
- brewster chair — a chair of 17th-century New England having heavy turned uprights with vertical turned spindles filling in the back, the space beneath the arms, and the spaces between the legs.
- bronchial tube — Your bronchial tubes are the two tubes which connect your windpipe to your lungs.
- bronchiectasis — chronic dilation of the bronchi or bronchial tubes, which often become infected
- brother-in-law — Someone's brother-in-law is the brother of their husband or wife, or the man who is married to their sister.
- budget heading — a heading in a budget under which an expenditure is listed
- cambridgeshire — a county of E England, in East Anglia: includes the former counties of the Isle of Ely and Huntingdon and lies largely in the Fens: Peterborough became an independent unitary authority in 1998. Administrative centre: Cambridge. Pop (excluding Peterborough): 571 000 (2003 est). Area (excluding Peterborough): 3068 sq km (184 sq miles)
- charitableness — (uncountable) The quality of being charitable.
- chemical abuse — the habitual use of a mood-altering drug, alcoholic beverage, etc.
- chicken breast — pigeon breast
- chimney breast — A chimney breast is the part of a wall in a room which is built out round a chimney.
- chinese banana — a large southern Chinese plant, Musa acuminata, of the banana family, having blue-green leaves, yellowish-white flowers with reddish-brown bracts, and fragrant, edible, curved fruit from 4 to 5 inches (10 to 13 cm) long, often borne in clusters of 200.
- christmasberry — toyon.
- climb the wall — If you say that you are climbing the walls, you are emphasizing that you feel very frustrated, nervous, or anxious.
- computerphobia — the fear or dislike of computers
- cyberchondriac — A hypochondriac who researches his/her potential medical condition on the Internet.
- death benefits — Death benefits are the amount of money that an insurance policy will pay upon the death of the person whose life is being insured.
- dehabilitation — (sociology) The process of social estrangement and progressive loosening of social bonds between an individual and his family and society as a result of long-term residence in an institution.
- discharge tube — gas tube.
- disestablished — Simple past tense and past participle of disestablish.
- disestablishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disestablish.
- dunbartonshire — a historical county of W Scotland: became part of Strathclyde region in 1975; administered since 1996 by the council areas of East Dunbartonshire and West Dunbartonshire
- eat humble pie — humility forced upon someone, often under embarrassing conditions; humiliation.
- erythroblastic — Relating to erythroblasts.
- establishments — Plural form of establishment.
- ethnobotanical — Of or pertaining to ethnobotany.
- ethnobotanists — Plural form of ethnobotanist.
- euphorbiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Euphorbiaceae, a family of plants typically having capsular fruits: includes the spurges, the castor oil and cassava plants, cascarilla, and poinsettia
- exhaustibility — The property of being exhaustible.
- extinguishable — Able to be extinguished.
- extra-base hit — any hit greater than a single; double, triple, or home run
- family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
- featherbedding — the practice of requiring an employer to hire unnecessary employees, to assign unnecessary work, or to limit production according to a union rule or safety statute: Featherbedding forced the railroads to employ firemen on diesel locomotives.
- featherbrained — Alternative spelling of feather-brained.
- fonthill abbey — a ruined Gothic Revival mansion in Wiltshire: rebuilt (1790–1810) for William Beckford by James Wyatt; the main tower collapsed in 1800 and, after rebuilding, again in 1827
- force of habit — behavior occurring without thought and by virtue of constant repetition; habit.
- gambling house — a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
- garden rubbish — organic refuse generated by gardening
- goliath beetle — any very large tropical scarabaeid beetle of the genus Goliathus, esp G. giganteus of Africa, which may grow to a length of 20 centimetres
- haberdasheries — Plural form of haberdashery.