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15-letter words containing b, a, t, c, h

  • merchantability — The state of being merchantable.
  • methylcobalamin — A cobalamin used to treat neuropathies.
  • 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
  • nathaniel bacon — Francis (Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans) 1561–1626, English essayist, philosopher, and statesman.
  • object exchange — (protocol)   (OBEX) A Bluetooth protocol in the Core Protocol Stack for data exchange.
  • orthoboric acid — boric acid (def 1). Compare ortho- (def 2).
  • orthopaedic bed — a specially firm bed designed to help correct or ameliorate the discomfort of disorders of the spine and joints
  • parachute brake — a parachute opened horizontally from the tail of an airplane upon landing, used as an aid in braking. Also called parabrake. Compare drogue parachute (def 2).
  • pat on the back — to strike lightly or gently with something flat, as with a paddle or the palm of the hand, usually in order to flatten, smooth, or shape: to pat dough into flat pastry forms.
  • pick up the tab — If you pick up the tab, you pay a bill on behalf of a group of people or provide the money that is needed for something.
  • pitch blackness — extreme darkness; lack of light
  • public footpath — a footpath along which the public has right of way
  • pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
  • rechargeability — (of a storage battery) capable of being charged repeatedly. Compare cordless (def 2).
  • right-branching — (of a grammatical construction) characterized by greater structural complexity in the position following the head, as the phrase the house of the friend of my brother; having most of the constituents on the right in a tree diagram (opposed to left-branching).
  • rightabout-face — a turning directly about so as to face in the opposite direction
  • root and branch — a part of the body of a plant that develops, typically, from the radicle and grows downward into the soil, anchoring the plant and absorbing nutriment and moisture.
  • root-and-branch — a part of the body of a plant that develops, typically, from the radicle and grows downward into the soil, anchoring the plant and absorbing nutriment and moisture.
  • see the back of — to be rid of
  • shock probation — the release on probation of a criminal after brief imprisonment
  • soft-shell crab — a crab, especially the blue crab, that has recently molted and therefore has a soft, edible shell.
  • straight-backed — having a straight, usually high, back: a straight-backed chair.
  • subject heading — a title or heading of a category, esp in a bibliography or index
  • 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.
  • tectibranchiate — denoting or relating to the suborder of molluscs Tectibranchia
  • tetrabranchiate — belonging or pertaining to the Nautiloidea (Tetrabranchiata), a subclass or order of cephalopods with four gills, including the pearly nautilus and numerous fossil forms.
  • the black death — a form of bubonic plague pandemic in Europe and Asia during the 14th century, when it killed over 50 million people
  • the black ferns — the women's international Rugby Union football team of New Zealand
  • the black stump — an imaginary marker of the extent of civilization (esp in the phrase beyond the black stump)
  • the black watch — (formerly) the Royal Highland Regiment in the British Army; (since 2006) an infantry battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland
  • the precambrian — the Precambrian era
  • the public weal — the public good; the good of society
  • the tall blacks — the international basketball team of New Zealand
  • thiocarbanilide — a gray powder, C 13 H 12 N 2 S, used as an intermediate in dyes and as an accelerator in vulcanization.
  • 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
  • touch base with — the bottom support of anything; that on which a thing stands or rests: a metal base for the table.
  • travel brochure — a brochure, often from a travel agency, which advertises holidays, hotels, etc
  • tree-and-branch — denoting a cable television system in which all available programme channels are fed to each subscriber
  • turkish tobacco — a strongly aromatic tobacco, grown chiefly in Turkey and Greece, used in cigarettes.
  • uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
  • unteachableness — the quality or condition of being unteachable
  • vegetable patch — part of a garden used for growing vegetables
  • west palm beach — a city in SE Florida: winter resort.
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