16-letter words containing b, e, h, i, s
- dishonorableness — The property of being dishonorable.
- do business with — trade or deal with
- eastern whipbird — an Australian whipbird, Psophodes olivaceus
- erythroblastosis — A medical condition in which erythroblasts are abnormally found in the blood.
- extensible shell — (operating system) (es) A Unix shell written by Byron Rakitzis <[email protected]> and Paul Haahr <[email protected]>, derived from rc. Es has real functions, closures, exceptions and lets you redefine most internal shell operations. Version: 0.84.
- fashion business — the business dealing with style in clothes, cosmetics, behaviour, etc, esp the latest or most admired style
- fisherman's bend — a knot made by taking a round turn on the object to which the rope is to be fastened, passing the end of the rope around the standing part and under the round turn, and securing the end.
- forbid the banns — to raise an objection to a marriage announced in this way
- give sb the slip — If you give someone the slip, you escape from them when they are following you or watching you.
- goldsmith beetle — a brilliant golden scarabaeid beetle, Cetonia aurata, of Europe.
- have no business — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
- hawksbill turtle — a sea turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata, the shell of which is the source of tortoise shell: an endangered species.
- hayes-compatible — (communications) A description of a modem which understands the same set of commands as one made by Hayes.
- hemangioblastoma — (medicine) Any of several benign neoplasm tumours of the brain.
- heterometabolism — insect development in which the young hatch in a form very similar to the adult and then mature without a pupal stage
- horseback riding — activity: riding a horse
- humanly possible — feasible, practical
- hypersensibility — capacity for sensation or feeling; responsiveness or susceptibility to sensory stimuli.
- hypersusceptible — hypersensitive (def 2).
- imperishableness — The characteristic or property of being imperishable.
- in the same boat — a vessel for transport by water, constructed to provide buoyancy by excluding water and shaped to give stability and permit propulsion.
- incomprehensible — impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
- incomprehensibly — impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
- inexhaustibility — not exhaustible; incapable of being depleted: an inexhaustible supply.
- inextinguishable — not extinguishable: an inextinguishable fire.
- inextinguishably — In a way that cannot be extinguished; immortally.
- inhospitableness — The quality of being inhospitable.
- invisible shadow — (in architectural shades and shadows) a three-dimensional space occupied by the shadow projected by a solid and within which a surface is in shadow.
- john the baptist — the forerunner and baptizer of Jesus. Matt. 3.
- khakass republic — a constituent republic of S central Russia, formerly in Krasnoyarsk Territory: formed in 1930. Capital: Abakan. Pop: 546 100 (2002). Area: 61 900 sq km (23 855 sq miles)
- kirribilli house — the official Sydney residence of the Australian Prime Minister
- lobe-finned fish — any fish that has rounded scales and lobed fins, as the coelacanth.
- long-established — having a long history; old
- lumberjack shirt — a thick checked shirt, as worn by lumberjacks
- machine washable — suitable for washing in a washing machine
- nash equilibrium — (in game theory) a stable state of a system involving the interaction of two or more players in which no player can gain by a unilateral change of strategy if the strategies of the other players remain unchanged
- niche publishing — publishing books that are intended for a very specialized market
- phlebothrombosis — the presence of a thrombus in a vein.
- post-elizabethan — of or relating to the reign of Elizabeth I, queen of England, or to her times: Elizabethan diplomacy; Elizabethan music.
- public ownership — ownership by the state; nationalization
- publishing house — a company that publishes books, pamphlets, engravings, or the like: a venerable publishing house in Boston.
- rainbow seaperch — an embiotocid fish, Hypsurus caryi, living off the Pacific coast of North America, having red, orange, and blue stripes on the body.
- re-establishment — the act or an instance of establishing.
- research library — a general or specialized library that collects materials for use in intensive research projects.
- rich tea biscuit — any of various semisweet biscuits
- 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).
- schaumburg-lippe — a former state in NW Germany.
- scottish borders — a council area in SE Scotland, on the English border: created in 1996, it has the same boundaries as the former Borders Region: it is mainly hilly, with agriculture (esp sheep farming) the chief economic activity. Administrative centre: Newtown St Boswells. Pop: 108 280 (2003 est). Area: 4734 sq km (1827 sq miles)
- semi-hibernation — Zoology. to spend the winter in close quarters in a dormant condition, as bears and certain other animals. Compare estivate.
- sensible horizon — the line or circle that forms the apparent boundary between earth and sky.