16-letter words containing b, o, s, t, h, n
- 's hertogenbosch — a city in the S Netherlands, capital of North Brabant province: birthplace of Hieronymus Bosch. Pop: 133 000 (2003 est)
- absolute monarch — a monarchy that is not limited or restrained by laws or a constitution.
- bastard mahogany — an Australian tree, Eucalyptus botryoides, of the myrtle family, having lance-shaped leaves and furrowed bark.
- batch processing — manufacturing products or treating materials in batches, by passing the output of one process to subsequent processes
- bbn technologies — (company) A company, originally known as Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc. (BBN), based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. BBN were awarded the original contract to build the ARPANET and have been extensively involved in Internet development. They are responsible for managing NNSC, CSNET, and NEARnet. The language LOGO was developed at BBN, as was the BBN Butterfly supercomputer.
- beg the question — If you say that something begs a particular question, you mean that it makes people want to ask that question; some people consider that this use is incorrect.
- beside the point — If you say that something is beside the point, you mean that it is not relevant to the subject that you are discussing.
- birthday honours — (in Britain) honorary titles conferred on the official birthday of the sovereign
- branchiopneustic — breathing by means of gills, as certain aquatic insect larvae.
- bring sb to heel — If you bring someone to heel, you force them to obey you.
- british honduras — Belize
- british longhair — a breed of large cat with a semi-long thick soft coat
- bronchial asthma — asthma.
- brown house moth — a species of micro moth, Hofmannophila pseudospretella, which, although it usually inhabits birds' nests, sometimes enters houses where its larvae can be very destructive of stored fabrics and foodstuffs
- bust one's chops — Usually, chops. the jaw.
- christening robe — a long white dress worn by a baby at his or her christening
- close by/at hand — Something that is close by or close at hand is near to you.
- combination shot — a shot in pool in which the cue ball strikes at least one object ball before contact is made with the ball to be pocketed.
- dearborn heights — city in SE Mich.: suburb of Detroit: pop. 58,000
- do business with — trade or deal with
- forbid the banns — to raise an objection to a marriage announced in this way
- growth substance — any substance, produced naturally by a plant or manufactured commercially, that, in very low concentrations, affects plant growth; a plant hormone
- have sb to thank — If you say that you have someone to thank for something, you mean that you are grateful to them because they caused it to happen.
- hedge one's bets — If you hedge your bets, you reduce the risk of losing a lot by supporting more than one person or thing in a situation where they are opposed to each other.
- hemangioblastoma — (medicine) Any of several benign neoplasm tumours of the brain.
- in the same boat — a vessel for transport by water, constructed to provide buoyancy by excluding water and shaped to give stability and permit propulsion.
- inhospitableness — The quality of being inhospitable.
- john the baptist — the forerunner and baptizer of Jesus. Matt. 3.
- knights of labor — a secret workingmen's organization formed in 1869 to defend the interests of labor.
- lead by the nose — the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
- long-established — having a long history; old
- mobility housing — houses designed or adapted for people who have difficulty in walking but are not necessarily chairbound
- on the beam-ends — tipping so far to the side as to be in danger of capsizing
- post-elizabethan — of or relating to the reign of Elizabeth I, queen of England, or to her times: Elizabethan diplomacy; Elizabethan music.
- prometheus bound — a tragedy (c457 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
- put in mothballs — to postpone work on (a project, activity, etc)
- semi-hibernation — Zoology. to spend the winter in close quarters in a dormant condition, as bears and certain other animals. Compare estivate.
- shoot one's bolt — a movable bar or rod that when slid into a socket fastens a door, gate, etc.
- siberian mammoth — a shaggy-coated mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius, that lived in cold regions across Eurasia and North America during the Ice Age, known from fossils, cave paintings, and well-preserved frozen carcasses.
- slap on the back — to congratulate
- smooth breathing — a symbol (') used in the writing of Greek to indicate that the initial vowel over which it is placed is unaspirated.
- south burlington — a town in NW Vermont.
- southern baptist — a member of the Southern Baptist Convention, founded in Augusta, Georgia, in 1845, that is strictly Calvinistic and active in religious publishing and education.
- st. john's-bread — carob (def 2).
- the amazon basin — the catchment area of the River Amazon
- the boys in blue — The police are sometimes referred to as the boys in blue.
- the eastern bloc — (formerly) the Soviet bloc
- the subconscious — subconscious mental activity
- the unobservable — something that cannot be observed
- thumb one's nose — the short, thick, inner digit of the human hand, next to the forefinger.
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