14-letter words containing b, e, c, h
- church visible — the entire body of Christian believers on earth.
- clabber cheese — cottage cheese.
- claustrophobes — Plural form of claustrophobe.
- climb the wall — If you say that you are climbing the walls, you are emphasizing that you feel very frustrated, nervous, or anxious.
- climbing perch — any of a genus (Anabas) of freshwater gouramies of Southeast Asia and Africa that can live out of water briefly and travel short distances over land
- clincher-built — clinker-built (def 2).
- clothes basket — a basket for storing and transporting clothes that need washing, or have been washed
- colby (cheese) — a variety of cheese similar to Cheddar but softer, moister, and more porous
- comprehendable — Misspelling of comprehensible.
- comprehendible — comprehensible
- comprehensible — Something that is comprehensible can be understood.
- comprehensibly — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
- computerphobia — the fear or dislike of computers
- computerphobic — a computerphobe
- cook the books — to make fraudulent alterations to business or other accounts
- cranberry bush — a North American caprifoliaceous shrub or small tree, Viburnum trilobum, producing acid red fruit
- croquembouches — Plural form of croquembouche.
- crunch numbers — to crush with the teeth; chew with a crushing noise.
- cyberchondriac — A hypochondriac who researches his/her potential medical condition on the Internet.
- cyberthrillers — Plural form of cyberthriller.
- czech republic — a country in central Europe; formed part of Czechoslovakia until 1993; mostly wooded, with lowlands surrounding the River Morava, rising to the Bohemian plateau in the W and to highlands in the N; joined the EU in 2004. Language: Czech. Religion: Christian majority. Currency: koruna. Capital Prague. Pop: 10 162 921 (2013 est). Area: 78 864 sq km (30 450 sq miles)
- deathbed scene — a depiction in art or literature of events that take place at somebody's deathbed
- discharge tube — gas tube.
- draw the crabs — to attract unwelcome attention
- erythroblastic — Relating to erythroblasts.
- ethnobotanical — Of or pertaining to ethnobotany.
- 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
- exchequer bond — a type of short-term government bond
- exercise bench — (in a gymnasium) a low table, which may be inclined, used for various exercises
- eyeball search — (jargon) (Or vgrep) To look for something in a mass of code or data with one's own native optical sensors, as opposed to using some sort of pattern matching software like grep or any other automated search tool. Compare vdiff, desk check.
- family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
- farmers branch — a city in NE Texas.
- fichtelgebirge — a mountain range in E central Germany, near the Czech border. Highest peak, Schneeberg, 3447 feet (1051 meters).
- fifth republic — the republic established in France in 1958, the successor to the Fourth Republic.
- force of habit — behavior occurring without thought and by virtue of constant repetition; habit.
- french bulldog — one of a French breed of small, bat-eared dogs having a large, square head, a short tail, and a short, sleek coat.
- get the bounce — to dismiss or be dismissed from a job
- he-huckleberry — swamp andromeda.
- hebrew-aramaic — a mixture of Hebrew and Jewish Aramaic
- herbaceousness — The state or quality of being herbaceous.
- hercules'-club — a prickly North American araliaceous shrub, Aralia spinosa, with medicinal bark and leaves
- hit the bricks — a block of clay hardened by drying in the sun or burning in a kiln, and used for building, paving, etc.: traditionally, in the U.S., a rectangle 2.25 × 3.75 × 8 inches (5.7 × 9.5 × 20.3 cm), red, brown, or yellow in color.
- honeycomb work — stalactite work.
- hornyhead chub — a small N American fish, Nocomis biguttatus
- 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.
- huckleberrying — the activity of gathering huckleberries
- humpback whale — a large whalebone whale of the genus Megaptera having long narrow flippers, and noted for its habit of arching deeply as it dives: once abundant in coastal waters, it is now rare but its numbers are increasing.
- hybrid vehicle — A hybrid vehicle is a vehicle using two different forms of power, such as an electric motor and an internal combustion engine, or an electric motor with a battery and fuel cells for energy storage.