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15-letter words containing b, i, r, t, h

  • british council — an organization founded (1934) to extend the influence of British culture and education throughout the world
  • british english — the English language as spoken and written in England and as distinguished esp. from American English
  • british library — the British national library, formed in 1973 from the British Museum library and other national collections: housed mainly in the British Museum until 1997 when a purpose-built library in St Pancras, London, was completed
  • british telecom — the popular name for British Telecommunications Group plc, the dominant fixed line telecommunications and broadband internet provider in the United Kingdom
  • bronchial tubes — the bronchi or their smaller divisions
  • brother-in-arms — a fellow soldier or comrade in a shared struggle
  • brown-tail moth — a white moth, Nygmia phaerrhoea, having a brown tuft at the end of the abdomen, the larvae of which feed on the foliage of various shade and fruit trees.
  • brushback pitch — a fast ball deliberately thrown at or too near a batter's head
  • burt l standish — Burt L. pseudonym of Gilbert Patten.
  • butterfly chair — a lightweight chair consisting of a piece of canvas, leather, etc. slung from a framework of metal bars
  • characterizable — Able to be characterized.
  • chicken lobster — a young lobster weighing 1 pound (0.4 kg) or less.
  • child battering — child abuse in the form of battering
  • child-battering — the physical abuse of a child by a parent or guardian, as by beating.
  • chiller cabinet — a cupboard or chest in a shop where chilled foods and drinks are displayed and kept cool
  • chronobiologist — A person who is involved in chronobiology.
  • claustrophobics — Plural form of claustrophobic.
  • computer-phobia — a person who distrusts or is intimidated by computers.
  • copyright block — a block of four or more U.S. stamps that includes, in the selvage of the sheet, the copyright mark of the U.S. Postal Service.
  • crude oil berth — A crude oil berth is a place at a port for ships carrying crude oil.
  • dartmouth basic — (language)   The original BASIC language, designed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College in 1963. Dartmouth BASIC first ran on a GE 235 [date?] and on an IBM 704 on 1964-05-01. It was designed for quick and easy programming by students and beginners using Dartmouth's experimental time-sharing system. Unlike most later BASIC dialects, Dartmouth BASIC was compiled.
  • decipherability — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
  • distributorship — a franchise held by a distributor.
  • dithiocarbamate — any salt or ester of dithiocarbamic acid, commonly used as fungicides
  • dithyrambically — In dithyrambic fashion.
  • dorsibranchiate — having branchiae or gills along the back
  • eleutherophobia — the fear of freedom
  • eleutherophobic — afraid of freedom
  • feather banding — decorative banding of veneer or inlay having the grain laid diagonally to the grain of the principal surface.
  • finger alphabet — a series of shapes made by the fingers that indicate letters of an alphabet and can be used in fingerspelling for the deaf
  • 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)
  • fourth republic — the republic established in France in 1945 and replaced by the Fifth Republic in 1958.
  • globe artichoke — artichoke (defs 1, 2).
  • halting problem — The problem of determining in advance whether a particular program or algorithm will terminate or run forever. The halting problem is the canonical example of a provably unsolvable problem. Obviously any attempt to answer the question by actually executing the algorithm or simulating each step of its execution will only give an answer if the algorithm under consideration does terminate, otherwise the algorithm attempting to answer the question will itself run forever. Some special cases of the halting problem are partially solvable given sufficient resources. For example, if it is possible to record the complete state of the execution of the algorithm at each step and the current state is ever identical to some previous state then the algorithm is in a loop. This might require an arbitrary amount of storage however. Alternatively, if there are at most N possible different states then the algorithm can run for at most N steps without looping. A program analysis called termination analysis attempts to answer this question for limited kinds of input algorithm.
  • harbour station — the part of a port where boats shelter or station
  • harlequin table — a writing or dressing table having a central set of compartments that rise when drop leaves are raised.
  • heartbreakingly — causing intense anguish or sorrow.
  • heavy breathing — stertorous breathing or breathing done with difficulty
  • hibernicization — the process or act of making Irish
  • high-fibre diet — a diet which contains a lot of fibre, supposed to help keep your digestive system healthy
  • hit the buffers — to finish or be stopped, esp unexpectedly
  • homoerotophobia — Homophobia; antipathy towards homosexuals.
  • honeycomb tripe — a part of the inner lining of the stomach of the steer, calf, hog, or sheep, resembling a honeycomb in appearance and considered a table delicacy.
  • 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.
  • hot-air balloon — passenger balloon
  • hybrid antibody — a synthetic antibody that is able to combine with two different antigens
  • hybrid computer — a computer system containing both analog and digital hardware.
  • 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.
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