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15-letter words containing b, a, s, r, h

  • reuben sandwich — a grilled sandwich of corned beef, Swiss cheese, and sauerkraut on rye bread.
  • rough bluegrass — a grass, Poa trivialis, native to Eurasia and naturalized in North America, where it is used in mixtures for lawns and pasturage.
  • self-abhorrence — a feeling of extreme repugnance or aversion; utter loathing; abomination.
  • set by the ears — to cause disagreement or commotion
  • shock probation — the release on probation of a criminal after brief imprisonment
  • short of breath — If you are short of breath, you find it difficult to breathe properly, for example because you are ill. You can also say that someone suffers from shortness of breath.
  • sink a borehole — To sink a borehole means to drill a deep hole in the ground.
  • soft-shell crab — a crab, especially the blue crab, that has recently molted and therefore has a soft, edible shell.
  • spinach-rhubarb — an Ethiopian plant, Rumex abyssinicus, of the buckwheat family, having leaves that are sometimes used as spinach and leafstalks sometimes used as rhubarb.
  • straight-backed — having a straight, usually high, back: a straight-backed chair.
  • strawberry bush — an E North American shrub or small tree, Euonymus americanus, having pendulous capsules that split when ripe to reveal scarlet seeds: family Celastraceae
  • 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
  • substratosphere — the upper troposphere.
  • 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.
  • sweep the board — (in gambling) to win all the cards or money
  • the black ferns — the women's international Rugby Union football team of New Zealand
  • the-ambassadors — a novel (1903) by Henry James.
  • turkish tobacco — a strongly aromatic tobacco, grown chiefly in Turkey and Greece, used in cigarettes.
  • turn the tables — an article of furniture consisting of a flat, slablike top supported on one or more legs or other supports: a kitchen table; an operating table; a pool table.
  • unapprehensible — not able to be understood or comprehended
  • welsbach burner — a type of gaslight in which a mantle containing thorium and cerium compounds becomes incandescent when heated by a gas flame
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