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14-letter words containing b, o, n, h, a

  • by the vanload — in very large quantities
  • charlottenburg — a district of Berlin (of West Berlin until 1990), formerly an independent city. Pop: 315 473 (2005 est)
  • chopping board — A chopping board is a wooden or plastic board that you chop meat and vegetables on.
  • comprehendable — Misspelling of comprehensible.
  • cyberchondriac — A hypochondriac who researches his/her potential medical condition on the Internet.
  • dehabilitation — (sociology) The process of social estrangement and progressive loosening of social bonds between an individual and his family and society as a result of long-term residence in an institution.
  • double harness — harness for a pair of horses.
  • dunbartonshire — a historical county of W Scotland: became part of Strathclyde region in 1975; administered since 1996 by the council areas of East Dunbartonshire and West Dunbartonshire
  • ethnobotanical — Of or pertaining to ethnobotany.
  • ethnobotanists — Plural form of ethnobotanist.
  • fashionability — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
  • fonthill abbey — a ruined Gothic Revival mansion in Wiltshire: rebuilt (1790–1810) for William Beckford by James Wyatt; the main tower collapsed in 1800 and, after rebuilding, again in 1827
  • gambling house — a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
  • globe amaranth — a plant, Gomphrena globosa, native to the Old World tropics, having dense heads of variously colored flowers that retain their color when cut.
  • hamilton bassoHamilton, 1904–64, U.S. journalist and novelist.
  • have sth on sb — If someone has something on you, they have evidence that you have done something wrong or bad. If they have nothing on you, they cannot prove that you have done anything wrong or bad.
  • heath robinson — (of a mechanical device) absurdly complicated in design and having a simple function
  • helium balloon — a balloon that is filled with helium and rises up into the air if not held
  • hemoglobinuria — the presence of hemoglobin pigment in the urine.
  • herbaceousness — The state or quality of being herbaceous.
  • hold sb's hand — If you ask someone to hold your hand at an event that you are worried about, you ask them to support you by being there with you.
  • homeward bound — going home
  • honourableness — Alternative spelling of honorableness.
  • horizontal bar — on a bar chart
  • hornyhead chub — a small N American fish, Nocomis biguttatus
  • hoshana rabbah — the seventh day of the Jewish festival of Sukkoth, occurring on the twenty-first day of Tishri and having a special liturgy containing a series of invocations to God for forgiveness and salvation.
  • hospitableness — The quality of being hospitable.
  • inapproachable — not approachable.
  • interbehaviour — interaction between multiple individuals
  • into the black — into a profitable condition financially
  • john constableJohn, 1776–1837, English painter.
  • labyrinthodont — any member of several orders of small to large lizardlike terrestrial and freshwater amphibians, some ancestral to land vertebrates, forming the extinct subclass Labyrinthodonta that flourished from the Devonian through the Triassic periods, characterized by a solid, flattened skull and conical teeth.
  • land of beulah — (in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress) the peaceful land in which the pilgrim awaits the call to the Celestial City.
  • left-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the left or port side.
  • louangphrabang — a city in N Laos, on the Mekong River: former royal capital.
  • mandibulohyoid — (anatomy) Pertaining both to the mandibular and the hyoid arch.
  • membranophones — Plural form of membranophone.
  • methaemoglobin — a brownish compound of oxygen and hemoglobin, formed in the blood, as by the use of certain drugs.
  • nabuchodonosor — Nebuchadnezzar (def 1).
  • nanopublishing — an inexpensive form of online publishing that uses blogging as a model to reach a specific audience
  • 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.
  • non-changeable — liable to change or to be changed; variable.
  • nonbehavioural — not related to or concerned with behaviour
  • nonestablished — without the official support of the government
  • noninheritable — Not inheritable.
  • north branford — a town in S Connecticut.
  • northumberland — a county in NE England. 1943 sq. mi. (5030 sq. km).
  • on sb's behalf — If you do something on someone's behalf, you do it for that person as their representative.
  • on the back of — If you say that one thing happens on the back of another thing, you mean that it happens after that other thing and in addition to it.
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