14-letter words containing b, o, h, r
- little bighorn — a river flowing N from N Wyoming to S Montana into the Bighorn River: General Custer and troops defeated near its juncture by Indians 1876. 80 miles (130 km) long.
- louangphrabang — a city in N Laos, on the Mekong River: former royal capital.
- lower the boom — Nautical. any of various more or less horizontal spars or poles for extending the feet of sails, especially fore-and-aft sails, for handling cargo, suspending mooring lines alongside a vessel, pushing a vessel away from wharves, etc.
- marble orchard — cemetery.
- membranophones — Plural form of membranophone.
- methyl bromide — a colorless, poisonous gas, CH 3 Br, used chiefly as a solvent, refrigerant, and fumigant and in organic synthesis.
- microbarograph — a barograph for recording minute fluctuations of atmospheric pressure.
- micropublisher — a publisher of material in microfilm
- middlesborough — a city in SE Kentucky.
- molded breadth — the extreme breadth of the framing of a vessel, excluding the thickness of the plating or planking.
- morse alphabet — the set of symbols used to represent letters in Morse code
- mother hubbard — a full, loose gown, usually fitted at the shoulders, worn by women.
- nabuchodonosor — Nebuchadnezzar (def 1).
- neighborliness — having or showing qualities befitting a neighbor; friendly.
- neighbourhoods — Plural form of neighbourhood.
- nephroblastoma — a malignant tumour arising from the embryonic kidney that occurs in young children, esp in the age range 3–8 years
- non perishable — not subject to rapid deterioration or decay: A supply of nonperishable food was kept for emergencies.
- nonbehavioural — not related to or concerned with behaviour
- noninheritable — Not inheritable.
- north bellmore — a town on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- north branford — a town in S Connecticut.
- northumberland — a county in NE England. 1943 sq. mi. (5030 sq. km).
- of one's birth — The country, town, or village of your birth is the place where you were born.
- on the rebound — to bound or spring back from force of impact.
- opisthobranchs — Plural form of opisthobranch.
- or thereabouts — You add or thereabouts after a number or date to indicate that it is approximate.
- orobanchaceous — belonging to the Orobanchaceae, the broomrape family of plants.
- 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).
- over sb's head — If someone does something over another person's head, they do it without asking them or discussing it with them, especially when they should do so because the other person is in a position of authority.
- paddock-basher — a vehicle suited to driving on rough terrain
- phenobarbitone — a white, crystalline powder, C 1 2 H 1 2 N 2 O 3 , used as a sedative, a hypnotic, and as an antispasmodic in epilepsy.
- phenylcarbinol — benzyl alcohol.
- pocket borough — (before the Reform Bill of 1832) any English borough whose representatives in Parliament were controlled by an individual or family.
- port elizabeth — a seaport in the SE Cape of Good Hope province, in the S Republic of South Africa.
- pre-bachelor's — an unmarried man.
- prohibitionist — a person who favors or advocates prohibition.
- red chokeberry — See under chokeberry (def 1).
- rehabilitation — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
- rehoboth beach — a town in SE Delaware: beach resort.
- rhombenporphyr — an intermediate igneous rock embedded with rhombus-shaped crystals
- rhombic aerial — a directional travelling-wave aerial, usually horizontal, consisting of two conductors each forming a pair of adjacent sides of a rhombus
- right of abode — If someone is given the right of abode in a particular country, they are legally allowed to live there.
- rob the cradle — a small bed for an infant, usually on rockers.
- roman alphabet — Latin alphabet.
- 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.
- sandwich board — two connected posters or signboards that hang in front of and behind a person and usually bear some advertisement, notice, exhortation, or the like.
- school library — a library within a school where teachers and students have access to books and other resources
- second chamber — the parliament of the Netherlands, consisting of an upper chamber (First Chamber) and a lower chamber (Second Chamber)
- sheepback rock — roche moutonnée.