16-letter words containing b, r, e, i, d, h
- norwegian buhund — a slightly-built medium-sized dog of a breed with erect pointed ears and a short thick tail carried curled over its back
- on the breadline — impoverished; living at subsistence level
- redbank whiteoak — a city in S Tennessee.
- scottish borders — a council area in SE Scotland, on the English border: created in 1996, it has the same boundaries as the former Borders Region: it is mainly hilly, with agriculture (esp sheep farming) the chief economic activity. Administrative centre: Newtown St Boswells. Pop: 108 280 (2003 est). Area: 4734 sq km (1827 sq miles)
- sir herbert read — George, 1733–98, American political leader: served in the Continental Congress 1774–77.
- the red brigades — a group of urban guerrillas, based in Italy, who kidnapped and murdered the former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro (1916–78) in 1978
- the subsidiariat — a collective term for the news sources that would not survive without being subsidized directly (by a government, etc), or indirectly (through sharing a parent company with another more profitable revenue source)
- the war-disabled — those people who have been disabled by war
- three blind mice — nursery rhyme
- thrilled to bits — If someone is thrilled, they are extremely pleased about something.
- uniformed branch — the branch of a police force in which officers wear a uniform
- unpublished work — a literary work that has not been reproduced for sale or publicly distributed.
- verbal diarrhoea — a tendency to speak at excessive length
- wheelchair-bound — unable to walk through injury, illness, etc and relying on a wheelchair to move around
- white-haired boy — a favourite; darling