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14-letter words containing b, h, a

  • telegraph buoy — a buoy placed over an underwater telegraph cable.
  • telephone bank — an array of telephones used in large-scale telephoning operations, as for a political campaign.
  • terebinthinate — of, relating to, or resembling turpentine.
  • the all blacks — the international Rugby Union football team of New Zealand
  • the bear state — a name for the state of Arkansas
  • the beatitudes — the pronouncements in the Sermon on the Mount, which begin “Blessed are the poor in spirit”: Matt. 5:3-12
  • the black belt — a region of the southern US extending from Georgia across central Alabama and Mississippi, in which the population contains a large number of Black people: also noted for its fertile black soil
  • the black caps — the international cricket team of New Zealand
  • the black isle — a peninsula in NE Scotland, in Highland council area, between the Cromarty and Moray Firths
  • 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 ice blacks — the international ice hockey team of New Zealand
  • the inevitable — something that is unavoidable
  • the job market — the people who are looking for work and the jobs available for them to do
  • the joe blakes — the DT's
  • the mabinogion — a collection of Welsh tales based on old Celtic legends and mythology in which magic and the supernatural play a large part
  • 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-bostonians — a novel (1886) by Henry James.
  • the-mabinogion — a collection of medieval Welsh romances that were translated (1838–49) by Lady Charlotte Guest.
  • thenard's blue — cobalt blue.
  • thermoformable — having the ability to be shaped using heat and pressure
  • thermolability — the state of being unstable or subject to transformation or destruction when heated
  • thorough brace — either of two strong braces or bands of leather supporting the body of a coach or other vehicle and connecting the front and back springs.
  • three-base hit — triple (def 7).
  • three-way bulb — a light bulb that can be switched to three successive degrees of illumination.
  • thromboplastic — causing or accelerating blood-clot formation.
  • thromboplastin — Biochemistry. a lipoprotein in the blood that converts prothrombin to thrombin.
  • throw a wobbly — to become suddenly very agitated or angry
  • thrust bearing — a bearing designed to absorb thrusts parallel to the axis of revolution.
  • to be the case — If you say that something is the case, you mean that it is true or correct.
  • to draw breath — If you do not have time to draw breath, you do not have time to have a break from what you are doing.
  • touch football — an informal variety of football in which the touching, usually with both hands, of a ball-carrier by a member of the opposing team results in a down.
  • treasury bench — (in Britain) the front bench to the right of the Speaker in the House of Commons, traditionally reserved for members of the Government
  • trichobacteria — filamentous bacteria
  • turbomachinery — machinery consisting of, incorporating, or constituting a turbine
  • unapproachable — not capable of being approached; remote; unreachable: an unapproachable spot; an unapproachable person.
  • undecipherable — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
  • undiminishable — unable to be diminished
  • unmerchantable — (of goods) not suitable for trading
  • unpurchaseable — not able to be bought or purchased
  • untouchability — the quality or condition of being an untouchable, ascribed in the Vedic tradition to persons of low caste or to persons excluded from the caste system.
  • unvanquishable — not able to be vanquished or overcome; unconquerable; undefeatable
  • variable-pitch — (of a propeller) controllable-pitch.
  • vasoinhibitory — an agent, as a drug, that inhibits the action of the vasomotor nerves.
  • vegetable dish — a dish designed to serve vegetables from
  • virginia beach — a town in SE Virginia.
  • warehouse club — A warehouse club is a large shop which sells goods at reduced prices to people who pay each year to become members of the organization that runs the shop.
  • warm the bench — having or giving out a moderate degree of heat, as perceived by the senses: a warm bath.
  • weather bureau — the former name of the U.S. National Weather Service.
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