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14-letter words containing b, e, t, h, u

  • family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
  • fifth republic — the republic established in France in 1958, the successor to the Fourth Republic.
  • get the bounce — to dismiss or be dismissed from a job
  • hague tribunal — the court of arbitration for the peaceful settlement of international disputes, established at The Hague by the international peace conference of 1899: its panel of jurists nominates a list of persons from which members of the United Nations International Court of Justice are elected.
  • handbrake turn — a turn sharply reversing the direction of a vehicle by speedily applying the handbrake while turning the steering wheel
  • harbour master — an official in charge of a harbour
  • harriet tubman — Harriet (Araminta) 1820?–1913, U.S. abolitionist: escaped slave and leader of the Underground Railroad; served as a Union scout during Civil War.
  • have bought it — to be killed
  • hebetudinosity — mental dullness; insipidity
  • hemimetabolous — incomplete metamorphosis.
  • hepburn system — a widely used system of Romanization of Japanese devised by James Curtis Hepburn (1815–1911).
  • holometabolous — undergoing complete metamorphosis.
  • interbehaviour — interaction between multiple individuals
  • khirbet qumran — an archaeological site in W Jordan, near the NW coast of the Dead Sea: Dead Sea Scrolls found here 1947.
  • left-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the left or port side.
  • master butcher — a butcher who is fully qualified to practise his trade and to train others in it
  • methylene blue — a dark-green, crystalline compound, C 1 6 H 1 8 ClN 3 S, that dissolves in water to form a deep-blue solution: used chiefly as a dye, as a bacteriological and biological stain, and as an antidote for cyanide poisoning.
  • miller's thumb — any of several small, freshwater sculpins of the genus Cottus, of Europe and North America.
  • miller's-thumb — any of several small, freshwater sculpins of the genus Cottus, of Europe and North America.
  • mother hubbard — a full, loose gown, usually fitted at the shoulders, worn by women.
  • multichambered — comprising or involving several chambers
  • multiple birth — a birth at which two or more children are born at the same time
  • nip in the bud — Botany. a small axillary or terminal protuberance on a plant, containing rudimentary foliage (leaf bud) the rudimentary inflorescence (flower bud) or both (mixed bud) an undeveloped or rudimentary stem or branch of a plant.
  • northumberland — a county in NE England. 1943 sq. mi. (5030 sq. km).
  • nudibranchiate — nudibranch.
  • on the rebound — to bound or spring back from force of impact.
  • or thereabouts — You add or thereabouts after a number or date to indicate that it is approximate.
  • out of the box — a container, case, or receptacle, usually rectangular, of wood, metal, cardboard, etc., and often with a lid or removable cover.
  • outer hebrides — a group of islands (Inner Hebrides and Outer Hebrides) off the W coast of and belonging to Scotland. About 2900 sq. mi. (7500 sq. km).
  • phenylbutazone — a potent substance, C 1 9 H 2 0 N 2 O 2 , used to reduce pain and inflammation in rheumatic diseases and gout, and used in veterinary medicine for musculoskeletal disorders.
  • pocket borough — (before the Reform Bill of 1832) any English borough whose representatives in Parliament were controlled by an individual or family.
  • rotten borough — (before the Reform Bill of 1832) any English borough that had very few voters yet was represented in Parliament.
  • round the bend — to force (an object, especially a long or thin one) from a straight form into a curved or angular one, or from a curved or angular form into some different form: to bend an iron rod into a hoop.
  • rumbledethumps — a Scottish dish of butter and mashed potatoes, sometimes mixed with cabbage or turnips
  • scratchbuilder — a person who scratchbuilds
  • shit disturber — a person who enjoys causing controversy or upsetting people
  • shoot the bull — exaggerations; lies; nonsense.
  • subatmospheric — (of a quantity) having a value lower than that of the atmosphere: subatmospheric temperatures.
  • subject to sth — If an event will take place subject to a condition, it will take place only if that thing happens.
  • subtherapeutic — indicating a dosage, as of a drug or vitamin, less than the amount required for a therapeutic effect.
  • telegraph buoy — a buoy placed over an underwater telegraph cable.
  • the beatitudes — the pronouncements in the Sermon on the Mount, which begin “Blessed are the poor in spirit”: Matt. 5:3-12
  • the blue angel — a legendary German expressionist film of 1930, the first major German sound film, starring Marlene Dietrich
  • the honourable — a title of respect placed before a name: employed before the names of various officials in the English-speaking world, as a courtesy title in Britain for the children of viscounts and barons and the younger sons of earls, and in Parliament by one member speaking of another
  • the public eye — If someone is in the public eye, many people know who they are, because they are famous or because they are often mentioned on television or in the newspapers.
  • the unknowable — the ultimate reality that underlies all phenomena but cannot be known
  • the upper back — the part of the back between the shoulders
  • the upper body — the part of the body above the waist
  • thenard's blue — cobalt blue.
  • third republic — the republic established in France in 1870 and terminating with the Nazi occupation in 1940.
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