15-letter words containing b, r, e, c, h
- british america — British North America.
- 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
- brush discharge — a slightly luminous electrical discharge between points of high charge density when the charge density is insufficient to cause a spark or around sharp points on a highly charged conductor because of ionization of air molecules in their vicinity
- buckinghamshire — a county in SE central England, containing the Vale of Aylesbury and parts of the Chiltern Hills: the geographic and ceremonial county includes Milton Keynes, which became an independent unitary authority in 1997. Administrative centre: Aylesbury. Pop (excluding Milton Keynes): 478 000 (2003 est). Area (excluding Milton Keynes): 1568 sq km (605 sq miles)
- bullock's heart — the large, edible fruit of a tropical American tree, Annona reticulata.
- bullock's-heart — the large, edible fruit of a tropical American tree, Annona reticulata.
- butcher's-broom — a liliaceous evergreen shrub, Ruscus aculeatus, that has stiff prickle-tipped flattened green stems, which resemble and function as true leaves. The plant was formerly used for making brooms
- butterfly chair — a lightweight chair consisting of a piece of canvas, leather, etc. slung from a framework of metal bars
- catchment board — a public body concerned with the conservation and organization of water supply from a catchment area
- center halfback — Field Hockey. the player in the middle among the halfbacks.
- chamber concert — a concert of chamber music
- chamber counsel — a counsel who advises in private and does not plead in court
- chandler wobble — a slight, irregular nutation of the earth's rotational axis with a period of c. 428 days
- characterizable — Able to be characterized.
- charcoal burner — (formerly) a person whose work was making charcoal by burning
- charcoal-burner — a device that burns charcoal, as a stove or brazier.
- charles babbage — Charles, 1792–1871, English mathematician: invented the precursor of the modern computer.
- charles coulomb — Charles Augustin de [sharl oh-gy-stan duh] /ʃarl oʊ güˈstɛ̃ də/ (Show IPA), 1736–1806, French physicist and inventor.
- cheap assembler — (tool) (CHASM) A shareware assembler for MS-DOS.
- 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
- chocolate brown — a dark brown
- chromosome band — any of the transverse bands that appear on a chromosome after staining. The banding pattern is unique to each type of chromosome, allowing characterization
- cobble together — If you say that someone has cobbled something together, you mean that they have made or produced it roughly or quickly.
- computer-phobia — a person who distrusts or is intimidated by computers.
- corn on the cob — Corn on the cob is the long rounded part of the maize or corn plant on which small yellow seeds grow, and which is eaten as a vegetable.
- council chamber — the room in which council meetings are held
- crude oil berth — A crude oil berth is a place at a port for ships carrying crude oil.
- cybertechnology — Computer technology, especially that which involves the Internet or cyberspace.
- decipherability — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
- deerfield beach — a town in S Florida.
- dichlorobenzene — any of a group of three insoluble isomeric chemical compounds used in solvents, insecticides, and dyes
- dithiocarbamate — any salt or ester of dithiocarbamic acid, commonly used as fungicides
- dorsibranchiate — having branchiae or gills along the back
- duchesse brisee — See under duchesse.
- eleutherophobic — afraid of freedom
- ethyl carbamate — a colourless odourless crystalline ester that is used in the manufacture of pesticides, fungicides, and pharmaceuticals. Formula: CO(NH2)OC2H5
- false buckthorn — a spiny shrub or small tree, Bumelia lanuginosa, of the sapodilla family, native to the southern U.S., having gummy, milky sap and white, bell-shaped flowers and yielding a hard, light-brown wood.
- fourth republic — the republic established in France in 1945 and replaced by the Fifth Republic in 1958.
- french mulberry — a shrub, Callicarpa americana, of the verbena family, of the south-central U.S. and the West Indies, having violet-colored fruit and bluish flowers.
- gladbach-rheydt — a former city in W Germany; now part of Mönchengladbach.
- globe artichoke — artichoke (defs 1, 2).
- haemoglobinuric — relating to the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
- hard-shell crab — a crab, especially an edible crab, that has not recently molted and has a hard shell.
- hebrew calendar — the lunisolar calendar used by Jews, as for determining religious holidays, that is reckoned from 3761 b.c. and was established by Hillel II in the 4th century a.d., the calendar year consisting of 353 days (defective year) 354 days (regular year) or 355 days (perfect year or abundant year) and containing 12 months: Tishri, Heshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, Adar, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, and Elul, with the 29-day intercalary month of Adar Sheni added after Adar seven times in every 19-year cycle in order to adjust the calendar to the solar cycle. The Jewish ecclesiastical year begins with Nisan and the civil year with Tishri.
- herbal medicine — the use of herbs to treat illness
- hercules beetle — a large Neotropical rhinoceros beetle, Dynastes hercules.