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14-letter words containing b, r, a, s, h, t

  • discharge tube — gas tube.
  • draughts board — A draughts board is a square board for playing draughts, with 64 equal-sized, black and white squares.
  • draw the crabs — to attract unwelcome attention
  • 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
  • erythroblastic — Relating to erythroblasts.
  • extra-base hit — any hit greater than a single; double, triple, or home run
  • flabberghasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabberghast.
  • ghetto blaster — a large, powerful portable radio, especially as carried and played by a pedestrian or used outdoors in an urban area.
  • haight-ashbury — a district of San Francisco, in the central part of the city: a center for hippies and the drug culture in the 1960s.
  • hair's breadth — A hair's breadth is a very small degree or amount.
  • hair's-breadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
  • hand's-breadth — handbreadth
  • harbour master — an official in charge of a harbour
  • heath robinson — (of a mechanical device) absurdly complicated in design and having a simple function
  • hors de combat — disabled or injured
  • hospital board — the group of people responsible for the safe and efficient running of a hospital
  • hybristophilia — A paraphilia involving attraction to somebody who has committed a crime or outrage.
  • labyrinth fish — any of several freshwater fishes of the order Labyrinthi, found in southeastern Asia and Africa, having a labyrinthine structure above each gill chamber enabling them to breathe air while out of water.
  • lee's birthday — Jan. 19, Robert E. Lee's birthday, a legal holiday in several Southern states
  • master butcher — a butcher who is fully qualified to practise his trade and to train others in it
  • military brush — one of a pair of matched hairbrushes having no handles, especially for men and boys.
  • morse alphabet — the set of symbols used to represent letters in Morse code
  • nephroblastoma — a malignant tumour arising from the embryonic kidney that occurs in young children, esp in the age range 3–8 years
  • opisthobranchs — Plural form of opisthobranch.
  • or thereabouts — You add or thereabouts after a number or date to indicate that it is approximate.
  • preestablished — to establish beforehand.
  • scratchbuilder — a person who scratchbuilds
  • sheva brachoth — the seven blessings said during the marriage service and repeated at the celebration thereafter
  • shooting brake — station wagon.
  • sobriety coach — a person who is employed to help another to refrain from drinking alcohol
  • south suburban — a city in SE West Bengal, in E India: a suburb of Calcutta.
  • spanish burton — any of several tackles employing a runner in addition to the fall.
  • starch blocker — a substance ingested in the belief that it inhibits the body's ability to metabolize starch and thereby promotes weight loss: declared illegal in the U.S. by the FDA.
  • stealth bomber — a type of US military aircraft using advanced technology to render it virtually undetectable to sight, radar, or infrared sensors
  • stretchability — to draw out or extend (oneself, a body, limbs, wings, etc.) to the full length or extent (often followed by out): to stretch oneself out on the ground.
  • subatmospheric — (of a quantity) having a value lower than that of the atmosphere: subatmospheric temperatures.
  • subtherapeutic — indicating a dosage, as of a drug or vitamin, less than the amount required for a therapeutic effect.
  • symmetrophobia — an avoidance of symmetry, esp in Japanese art and Egyptian temples
  • the bear state — a name for the state of Arkansas
  • thenard's blue — cobalt blue.
  • three-base hit — triple (def 7).
  • thromboplastic — causing or accelerating blood-clot formation.
  • thromboplastin — Biochemistry. a lipoprotein in the blood that converts prothrombin to thrombin.
  • thrust bearing — a bearing designed to absorb thrusts parallel to the axis of revolution.
  • 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
  • vasoinhibitory — an agent, as a drug, that inhibits the action of the vasomotor nerves.
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