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 bush — Barbara (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 tubman — Harriet (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.