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15-letter words containing b, e, h, a

  • show to a table — When you show a customer to a table in a restaurant, you take them to the table where you want them to sit and help them sit down.
  • 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.
  • spanish bayonet — any of certain plants belonging to the genus Yucca, of the agave family, having narrow, spine-tipped leaves and a cluster of white flowers.
  • spill the beans — the edible nutritious seed of various plants of the legume family, especially of the genus Phaseolus.
  • 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
  • sub-machine gun — a lightweight automatic or semiautomatic gun, fired from the shoulder or hip.
  • subject heading — a title or heading of a category, esp in a bibliography or index
  • 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
  • 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 gift of gab — If someone has the gift of gab, they are able to speak easily and confidently, and to persuade people.
  • the job in hand — The job or problem in hand is the job or problem that you are dealing with at the moment.
  • 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
  • the-ambassadors — a novel (1903) by Henry James.
  • the-arbitration — a comedy (c300 b.c.) by Menander, extant only as a fragment.
  • thermal barrier — the high temperatures produced by the friction between a supersonic object and the earth's atmosphere that limit the speed of an airplane or rocket.
  • thermal blanket — a specially warm blanket
  • thermobarograph — a device that simultaneously records the temperature and pressure of the atmosphere
  • thermobarometer — Also called hypsometer. an instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure, and sometimes altitude, from its effect upon the boiling point of a liquid.
  • thiobarbiturate — a barbiturate in which a sulphur atom has replaced one oxygen atom
  • 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.
  • throw overboard — to reject or abandon
  • 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
  • tribromoethanol — a white, crystalline powder, C 2 H 3 Br 3 O, used as a basal anesthetic.
  • 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
  • unchallengeably — in a way that cannot be challenged; in an unchallengeable manner
  • uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
  • under the table — of, relating to, or for use on a table: a table lamp.
  • under-the-table — transacted in secret or in an underhanded manner.
  • unrehabilitated — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
  • unteachableness — the quality or condition of being unteachable
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