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15-letter words containing b, r, o, c, h

  • charcoal-burner — a device that burns charcoal, as a stove or brazier.
  • charles coulomb — Charles Augustin de [sharl oh-gy-stan duh] /ʃarl oʊ güˈstɛ̃ də/ (Show IPA), 1736–1806, French physicist and inventor.
  • chicken lobster — a young lobster weighing 1 pound (0.4 kg) or less.
  • 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
  • chronobiologist — A person who is involved in chronobiology.
  • claustrophobics — Plural form of claustrophobic.
  • 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.
  • copyright block — a block of four or more U.S. stamps that includes, in the selvage of the sheet, the copyright mark of the U.S. Postal Service.
  • 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.
  • cytotrophoblast — the thickened, inner part of the mammalian placenta nearest to the fetus, covering the chorion during early pregnancy
  • dartmouth basic — (language)   The original BASIC language, designed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College in 1963. Dartmouth BASIC first ran on a GE 235 [date?] and on an IBM 704 on 1964-05-01. It was designed for quick and easy programming by students and beginners using Dartmouth's experimental time-sharing system. Unlike most later BASIC dialects, Dartmouth BASIC was compiled.
  • 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
  • dysmorphophobic — relating to or affected with dysmorphophobia
  • eleutherophobic — afraid of freedom
  • 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.
  • four-ball match — a match, scored by holes, between two pairs of players, in which the four players tee off and the partners alternate in hitting the pair's ball having the better lie off the tee.
  • fourth republic — the republic established in France in 1945 and replaced by the Fifth Republic in 1958.
  • globe artichoke — artichoke (defs 1, 2).
  • haemoglobinuric — relating to the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
  • hibernicization — the process or act of making Irish
  • honeycomb tripe — a part of the inner lining of the stomach of the steer, calf, hog, or sheep, resembling a honeycomb in appearance and considered a table delicacy.
  • hoosier cabinet — a tall kitchen cabinet mass-produced during the early part of the 20th century, usually of oak, featuring an enameled work surface, storage bins, a flour sifter, etc.
  • horned cucumber — a tropical African plant, Cucumis metuliferus, having fruit with spiky, orange skin and jellylike pulp that tastes like cucumbers.
  • hybrid computer — a computer system containing both analog and digital hardware.
  • hydrobiological — of or relating to hydrobiology
  • hype-carbonated — (of a product or service) overvalued as a result of relentless marketing and PR or intensive media exposure
  • hyperbolic sine — one of a group of functions of an angle expressed as a relationship between the distances of a point on a hyperbola to the origin and to the coordinate axes; sinh
  • hypercatabolism — an abnormally high metabolic breakdown of a substance or tissue which leads to weight loss and physical deterioration
  • hypercoagulable — related to excessive coagulation of the blood or blood clots
  • jacob ben asher — c1269–c1340, Hebrew commentator on the Bible and codifier of Jewish law.
  • john barleycorn — a personification of barley as used in malt liquor, of malt liquor itself, or of any intoxicating liquor.
  • knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
  • micropublishing — the publishing of material in microfilm
  • mount suribachi — a volcanic hill in the Volcano Islands, on Iwo Jima: site of a US victory (1945) over the Japanese in World War II
  • mourners' bench — a front row of seats at a revival meeting, for those who are to profess penitence
  • nonbiographical — not biographical, not relating to biography or events in a person's life
  • orthoboric acid — boric acid (def 1). Compare ortho- (def 2).
  • orthopaedic bed — a specially firm bed designed to help correct or ameliorate the discomfort of disorders of the spine and joints
  • phlebosclerosis — sclerosis, or hardening, of the walls of veins.
  • psychobiography — a biographical study focusing on psychological factors, as childhood traumas and unconscious motives.
  • pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
  • rhombencephalon — the hindbrain.
  • rightabout-face — a turning directly about so as to face in the opposite direction
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