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16-letter words containing b, a, l, t, h, e

  • inhospitableness — The quality of being inhospitable.
  • interbehavioural — relating to or involving interbehaviour
  • labtech notebook — (tool, product)   Commercial data aquisition software.
  • lead by the nose — the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
  • long-established — having a long history; old
  • lumberjack shirt — a thick checked shirt, as worn by lumberjacks
  • non-alphabetical — in the order of the letters of the alphabet: alphabetical arrangement.
  • north battleford — a city in W central Saskatchewan, in central Canada.
  • north palm beach — a town in E Florida.
  • nubuck (leather) — tanned leather similar to suede, but with the nap on the grain side
  • oblique zenithal — a type of map projection in which part of the earth's surface is projected onto a plane tangential to it between the poles and the equator
  • on the breadline — impoverished; living at subsistence level
  • post-elizabethan — of or relating to the reign of Elizabeth I, queen of England, or to her times: Elizabethan diplomacy; Elizabethan music.
  • re-establishment — the act or an instance of establishing.
  • rhythm and blues — a folk-based but urbanized form of black popular music that is marked by strong, repetitious rhythms and simple melodies and was developed, in a commercialized form, into rock-'n'-roll.
  • rhythm-and-blues — a folk-based but urbanized form of black popular music that is marked by strong, repetitious rhythms and simple melodies and was developed, in a commercialized form, into rock-'n'-roll.
  • right honourable — (in Britain and certain Commonwealth countries) a title of respect for a Privy Councillor or an appeal-court judge
  • rough and tumble — characterized by violent, random, disorderly action and struggles: a rough-and-tumble fight; He led an adventuresome, rough-and-tumble life.
  • rough-and-tumble — characterized by violent, random, disorderly action and struggles: a rough-and-tumble fight; He led an adventuresome, rough-and-tumble life.
  • run the blockade — to go past or through a blockade
  • saint-barthelemy — (Saint Bartholomew; Saint Barts; Saint Barths) a resort island in the West Indies, in the Leeward Islands, part of the French department of Guadeloupe. 6900; 8 sq. mi. (21 sq. km).
  • scotch blackface — one of a Scottish breed of mountain sheep having a black face and growing long, coarse wool.
  • shoot-to-disable — of or relating to shooting by soldiers or police that is intended to disable rather than kill
  • slap on the back — to congratulate
  • south sea bubble — the financial crash that occurred in 1720 after the South Sea Company had taken over the national debt in return for a monopoly of trade with the South Seas, causing feverish speculation in their stocks
  • sth rings a bell — If you say that something rings a bell, you mean that it reminds you of something, but you cannot remember exactly what it is.
  • take the liberty — do sth without permission
  • take the trouble — If you take the trouble to do something, you do something which requires a small amount of additional effort.
  • teachable moment — a specific occurrence, situation, or experience that can be used to teach people about something more general: Her death created a teachable moment about prescription drug abuse.
  • thalidomide baby — a baby that has physical abnormalities due to the drug thalidomide being taken by the mother while the baby was still a developing fetus
  • the arabian gulf — the arm of the Arabian Sea between SW Iran and Arabia; important for the oilfields on its shores
  • the barren lands — a region of tundra in N Canada, extending westwards from Hudson Bay: sparsely inhabited, chiefly by Inuit
  • the black forest — a hilly wooded region of SW Germany, in Baden-Württemberg: a popular resort area
  • the eastern bloc — (formerly) the Soviet bloc
  • the unobservable — something that cannot be observed
  • the urban league — a civil rights organization based in New York City that advocates on behalf of African Americans and against racial discrimination in the United States
  • the war-disabled — those people who have been disabled by war
  • the wheel blacks — the international wheelchair rugby football team of New Zealand
  • three-ball match — a match among three players each of whom plays a ball.
  • thumbnail sketch — small preliminary drawing
  • tracheobronchial — of, relating to, or affecting the trachea and bronchi.
  • valet de chambre — valet (def 1).
  • well-established — permanently founded; settled; firmly set: a well-established business; a well-established habit.
  • your better half — If you talk about your better half or your other half you mean your wife, your husband, or the person of the opposite sex that you live with.
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