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14-letter words containing b, u, h, r

  • coff's harbour — a seaport in E Australia.
  • computerphobia — the fear or dislike of computers
  • computerphobic — a computerphobe
  • county borough — (in England and Wales from 1888 to 1974 and in Wales from 1996) a borough administered independently of any higher tier of local government
  • cranberry bush — a North American caprifoliaceous shrub or small tree, Viburnum trilobum, producing acid red fruit
  • crash and burn — to fail; be unsuccessful
  • croquembouches — Plural form of croquembouche.
  • crunch numbers — to crush with the teeth; chew with a crushing noise.
  • czech republic — a country in central Europe; formed part of Czechoslovakia until 1993; mostly wooded, with lowlands surrounding the River Morava, rising to the Bohemian plateau in the W and to highlands in the N; joined the EU in 2004. Language: Czech. Religion: Christian majority. Currency: koruna. Capital Prague. Pop: 10 162 921 (2013 est). Area: 78 864 sq km (30 450 sq miles)
  • daughterboards — Plural form of daughterboard.
  • debt of honour — a debt that is morally but not legally binding, such as one contracted in gambling
  • discharge tube — gas tube.
  • double harness — harness for a pair of horses.
  • draughts board — A draughts board is a square board for playing draughts, with 64 equal-sized, black and white squares.
  • 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
  • dutch cupboard — a buffet with open upper shelves.
  • euphorbiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Euphorbiaceae, a family of plants typically having capsular fruits: includes the spurges, the castor oil and cassava plants, cascarilla, and poinsettia
  • exchequer bond — a type of short-term government bond
  • family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
  • fifth republic — the republic established in France in 1958, the successor to the Fourth Republic.
  • french bulldog — one of a French breed of small, bat-eared dogs having a large, square head, a short tail, and a short, sleek coat.
  • garden rubbish — organic refuse generated by gardening
  • george hw bushBarbara (Barbara Pierce) born 1925, U.S. First Lady 1989–93 (wife of George H. W. Bush).
  • hague tribunal — the court of arbitration for the peaceful settlement of international disputes, established at The Hague by the international peace conference of 1899: its panel of jurists nominates a list of persons from which members of the United Nations International Court of Justice are elected.
  • 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.
  • half-submerged — under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium; inundated.
  • handbrake turn — a turn sharply reversing the direction of a vehicle by speedily applying the handbrake while turning the steering wheel
  • harbour master — an official in charge of a harbour
  • harriet tubmanHarriet (Araminta) 1820?–1913, U.S. abolitionist: escaped slave and leader of the Underground Railroad; served as a Union scout during Civil War.
  • he-huckleberry — swamp andromeda.
  • hemoglobinuria — the presence of hemoglobin pigment in the urine.
  • hepburn system — a widely used system of Romanization of Japanese devised by James Curtis Hepburn (1815–1911).
  • herbaceousness — The state or quality of being herbaceous.
  • hercules'-club — a prickly North American araliaceous shrub, Aralia spinosa, with medicinal bark and leaves
  • homeward bound — going home
  • honourableness — Alternative spelling of honorableness.
  • hornyhead chub — a small N American fish, Nocomis biguttatus
  • hubbard squash — a variety of winter squash having a green or yellow skin and yellow flesh.
  • huckleberrying — the activity of gathering huckleberries
  • hydroxybutyric — Of or pertaining to the hydroxybutyric acids or their derivatives.
  • in sb's honour — If something is arranged or happens in someone's honour, it is done specially to show appreciation of them.
  • interbehaviour — interaction between multiple individuals
  • khirbet qumran — an archaeological site in W Jordan, near the NW coast of the Dead Sea: Dead Sea Scrolls found here 1947.
  • khmer republic — a former official name of Cambodia.
  • limburg cheese — a semihard white cheese of very strong smell and flavour
  • louangphrabang — a city in N Laos, on the Mekong River: former royal capital.
  • marmalade bush — a shrub, Streptosolen jamesonii, of the nightshade family, native to South America, bearing showy trumpet-shaped orange flowers, grown as an ornamental or houseplant.
  • master butcher — a butcher who is fully qualified to practise his trade and to train others in it
  • micropublisher — a publisher of material in microfilm
  • middlesborough — a city in SE Kentucky.
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