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

  • false buckthorn — a spiny shrub or small tree, Bumelia lanuginosa, of the sapodilla family, native to the southern U.S., having gummy, milky sap and white, bell-shaped flowers and yielding a hard, light-brown wood.
  • false hellebore — any of various plants belonging to the genus Veratrum, of the lily family, especially a North American species, V. viride, which has clusters of yellowish-green flowers and is the source of substances used in certain medicines and insecticides.
  • fashionableness — The state of being fashionable; stylishness; elegance.
  • fish and brewis — a Newfoundland dish of cooked salt cod and soaked hard bread
  • flemish brabant — a province of central Belgium, formed in 1995 from the N part of Brabant province: densely populated and intensively farmed, with large industrial centres. Pop: 1 031 904 (2004 est). Area: 2106 sq km (813 sq miles)
  • flesh and blood — offspring or relatives: one's own flesh and blood.
  • flowering shrub — any shrub that produces flowers
  • get the best of — to surpass, defeat, or outwit; better
  • ghetto fabulous — pertaining to or noting a lifestyle of showy but superficial glamour and luxury that is sometimes adopted by people in or from an urban ghetto: That man is just ghetto-fabulous; his bling wears bling!
  • ghetto-fabulous — pertaining to or noting a lifestyle of showy but superficial glamour and luxury that is sometimes adopted by people in or from an urban ghetto: That man is just ghetto-fabulous; his bling wears bling!
  • great south bay — an Atlantic Ocean inlet, between the S shore of Long Island and Fire Island and other barrier islands. 45 miles (72 km) long.
  • hard-shell crab — a crab, especially an edible crab, that has not recently molted and has a hard shell.
  • have a go at sb — If someone has a go at you, they criticize you, often in a way that you feel is unfair.
  • health benefits — positive effects on health
  • heartbrokenness — The state or quality of being heartbroken.
  • hedge your bets — play it safe, lessen a risk
  • hendecasyllabic — having 11 syllables.
  • hendecasyllable — a word or line of verse of 11 syllables.
  • hercules beetle — a large Neotropical rhinoceros beetle, Dynastes hercules.
  • herpes labialis — oral herpes.
  • hiberno-english — Also called Anglo-Irish. the English language as spoken in Ireland.
  • hit the buffers — to finish or be stopped, esp unexpectedly
  • hobson's choice — the choice of taking either that which is offered or nothing; the absence of a real alternative.
  • hoosier cabinet — a tall kitchen cabinet mass-produced during the early part of the 20th century, usually of oak, featuring an enameled work surface, storage bins, a flour sifter, etc.
  • horse-and-buggy — of or relating to the last few generations preceding the invention of the automobile: vivid recollections of horse-and-buggy days.
  • housing benefit — In Britain, housing benefit is money that the government gives to people with no income or very low incomes to pay for part or all of their rent.
  • hubble constant — the ratio of the recessional velocity of galaxies to their distance from the sun, with current measurements of its value ranging from 50 to 100 km/sec per megaparsec.
  • hyperbolic sine — one of a group of functions of an angle expressed as a relationship between the distances of a point on a hyperbola to the origin and to the coordinate axes; sinh
  • hypercatabolism — an abnormally high metabolic breakdown of a substance or tissue which leads to weight loss and physical deterioration
  • hyperextensible — Capable of being stretched and extended.
  • hypermetabolism — Biology, Physiology. the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available. Compare anabolism, catabolism.
  • imperial bushel — a unit of dry measure containing 4 pecks, equivalent in the U.S. (and formerly in England) to 2150.42 cubic inches or 35.24 liters (Winchester bushel) and in Great Britain to 2219.36 cubic inches or 36.38 liters (Imperial bushel) Abbreviation: bu., bush.
  • imperishability — not subject to decay; indestructible; enduring.
  • in the abstract — When you talk or think about something in the abstract, you talk or think about it in a general way, rather than considering particular things or events.
  • in the box seat — in the best position
  • in-visible hand — (in the economics of Adam Smith) an unseen force or mechanism that guides individuals to unwittingly benefit society through the pursuit of their private interests.
  • inapprehensible — That cannot be apprehended; not apprehensible to or graspable by either body or mind.
  • infeasible path — dead code
  • ingush republic — a constituent republic of S Russia: part of the Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Republic from 1936 until 1992. Capital: Magas (formerly at Nazran). Pop: 468 900 (2002). Area: 3600 sq km (1390 sq miles)
  • irreprehensible — Not reprehensible, blameless, without blame; innocent.
  • irreprehensibly — in an irreprehensible manner
  • jacob ben asher — c1269–c1340, Hebrew commentator on the Bible and codifier of Jewish law.
  • knebworth house — a Tudor mansion in Knebworth in Hertfordshire: home of Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton; decorated (1843) in the Gothic style
  • label switching — (networking)   A routing technique that uses information from existing IP routing protocols to identify IP datagrams with labels and forwards them to a modified switch or router, which then uses the labels to switch the datagrams through the network. Label switching combines the best attributes of data link layer (layer two) switching (as in ATM and Frame Relay) with the best attributes of network layer (layer three) routing (as in IP). Prior to the formation of the MPLS Working Group in 1997, a number of vendors had announced and/or implemented proprietary label switching.
  • labour shortage — a shortage or insufficiency of qualified candidates for employment (in an economy, country, etc)
  • largemouth bass — a North American freshwater game fish, Micropterus salmoides, having an upper jaw extending behind the eye and a broad, dark, irregular stripe along each side of the body. Compare smallmouth bass.
  • life membership — the fact or condition of being a life member
  • lighthouse tube — a vacuum tube with the electrodes arranged in parallel layers closely spaced, giving a relatively high-power output at high frequencies.
  • luncheon basket — a basket that you put food in and take somewhere for a picnic
  • membership pack — a collection of documents, information leaflets, cards, etc, that is given to members, especially new ones
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