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16-letter words containing b, e, h

  • combining weight — the atomic weight of an atom or radical divided by its valence.
  • come from behind — sport: win from a disadvantaged position
  • comparable worth — the doctrine that a woman's and man's pay should be equal when their work requires equal training, skills, and responsibilities.
  • corned beef hash — a dish consisting of corned beef chopped and mixed together with mashed potatoes and various other ingredients, then fried
  • crossbow archery — the sport of shooting with a crossbow
  • database machine — (hardware)   A computer or special hardware that stores and retrieves data from a database. It is specially designed for database access and is coupled to the main (front-end) computer(s) by a high-speed channel. This contrasts with a database server, which is a computer in a local area network that holds a database. The database machine is tightly coupled to the main CPU, whereas the database server is loosely coupled via the network.
  • daylight robbery — If someone charges you a great deal of money for something and you think this is unfair or unreasonable, you can refer to this as daylight robbery.
  • dearborn heights — city in SE Mich.: suburb of Detroit: pop. 58,000
  • debating chamber — a room where a legislative assembly holds debates
  • debenture holder — a person or organization holds a debenture
  • dehydroascorbate — (organic compound) Any salt or ester of dehydroascorbic acid.
  • deoxyhaemoglobin — (biochemistry) The form of haemoglobin that has released its oxygen.
  • derbyshire chair — a chair of the mid-17th century, made of oak, usually without arms, and having a back of two carved rails between square uprights.
  • dichlorobiphenyl — (organic compound) Either of twelve isomers of the polychlorinated biphenyl containing two chlorine atoms.
  • diethyl carbinol — a colorless, liquid isomer of amyl alcohol, (CH3CH2)2CHOH, used in drugs and as a solvent
  • dimethylcarbinol — isopropyl alcohol.
  • disestablishment — to deprive of the character of being established; cancel; abolish.
  • dishonorableness — The property of being dishonorable.
  • do business with — trade or deal with
  • double-clutching — (of a bird) to produce a second clutch of eggs after the first has been removed, usually for hatching in an incubator.
  • draw the longbow — to exaggerate in telling something
  • drop a bombshell — If someone drops a bombshell, they give you a sudden piece of bad or unexpected news.
  • drumhead cabbage — acommon type of cabbage with tightly packed leaves and a rounded form with a slightly flattened top
  • eastern whipbird — an Australian whipbird, Psophodes olivaceus
  • edinburgh prolog — Prolog dialect which eventually developed into the standard, as opposed to Marseille Prolog. (The difference is largely syntax.) Clocksin & Mellish describe Edinburgh Prolog. Version: C-Prolog.
  • erymanthian boar — a wild boar that ravaged the district around Mount Erymanthus: captured by Hercules as his fourth labour
  • erythroblastosis — A medical condition in which erythroblasts are abnormally found in the blood.
  • exhibition match — a sports match which is not part of a competition but instead serves the function of demonstrating the skills of the players
  • 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.
  • false beechdrops — either of two parasitic or saprophytic plants of the genus Monotropa, especially the tawny or reddish M. hypopithys (false beechdrops) of eastern North America.
  • fashion business — the business dealing with style in clothes, cosmetics, behaviour, etc, esp the latest or most admired style
  • femme de chambre — a chambermaid
  • 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.
  • flamborough head — a chalk promontory in NE England, on the coast of the East Riding of Yorkshire
  • flashbulb memory — the clear recollections that a person may have of the circumstances associated with a dramatic event
  • flatheaded borer — the larva of a metallic wood-boring beetle, having an expanded and flattened anterior end.
  • forbid the banns — to raise an objection to a marriage announced in this way
  • forbush decrease — the sudden decrease in the intensity of cosmic rays after an increase in solar activity.
  • freeboard length — the length of a vessel, measured on the summer load line from the fore side of the stem to some part of the stern, usually the after side of the rudderpost.
  • full to the brim — If something, especially a container, is filled to the brim or full to the brim with something, it is filled right up to the top.
  • gabriel, richard — Richard Gabriel
  • 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.
  • great blue heron — a large American heron, Ardea herodias, having bluish-gray plumage.
  • growth substance — any substance, produced naturally by a plant or manufactured commercially, that, in very low concentrations, affects plant growth; a plant hormone
  • hanging wardrobe — a wardrobe containing a rail with a large amount of space underneath, so that clothes can be hung on hangers placed onto the rail
  • harleian library — a large library of manuscripts collected by the British statesman Robert Harley and his son and now housed in the British Museum.
  • have a big mouth — to speak indiscreetly, loudly, or excessively
  • have been around — be experienced
  • have no business — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
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