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16-letter words containing b, u, s, h

  • heterometabolous — undergoing development in which the young are born adultlike in form, often maturing without a pupal stage.
  • horsehead nebula — a dark nebula in the constellation Orion, composed of opaque cosmic dust and resembling the head of a horse.
  • hubble telescope — a telescope launched into orbit around the earth in 1990 to provide information about the universe in the visible, infrared, and ultraviolet ranges
  • humanly possible — feasible, practical
  • hypersusceptible — hypersensitive (def 2).
  • inexhaustibility — not exhaustible; incapable of being depleted: an inexhaustible supply.
  • inextinguishable — not extinguishable: an inextinguishable fire.
  • inextinguishably — In a way that cannot be extinguished; immortally.
  • jacques bonhomme — the contemptuous title given by the nobles to the peasants in the revolt of the Jacquerie in 1358 and adopted by the peasants in subsequent revolts.
  • jude the obscure — a novel (1895) by Thomas Hardy.
  • khakass republic — a constituent republic of S central Russia, formerly in Krasnoyarsk Territory: formed in 1930. Capital: Abakan. Pop: 546 100 (2002). Area: 61 900 sq km (23 855 sq miles)
  • kirribilli house — the official Sydney residence of the Australian Prime Minister
  • lumberjack shirt — a thick checked shirt, as worn by lumberjacks
  • mesembryanthemum — any of various chiefly Old World plants of the genus Mesembryanthemum, having thick, fleshy leaves and often showy flowers.
  • mobility housing — houses designed or adapted for people who have difficulty in walking but are not necessarily chairbound
  • murasaki shikibu — Lady, 978?–1031? Japanese poet and novelist.
  • nash equilibrium — (in game theory) a stable state of a system involving the interaction of two or more players in which no player can gain by a unilateral change of strategy if the strategies of the other players remain unchanged
  • niche publishing — publishing books that are intended for a very specialized market
  • plumber's helper — plunger (def 3).
  • prometheus bound — a tragedy (c457 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
  • public ownership — ownership by the state; nationalization
  • public schoolboy — a boy attending a public school, or a man who attended one
  • publishing house — a company that publishes books, pamphlets, engravings, or the like: a venerable publishing house in Boston.
  • put in mothballs — to postpone work on (a project, activity, etc)
  • put sb/sth first — If you put someone or something first, you treat or consider them as more important than anything else.
  • rhythm and blues — a folk-based but urbanized form of black popular music that is marked by strong, repetitious rhythms and simple melodies and was developed, in a commercialized form, into rock-'n'-roll.
  • rhythm-and-blues — a folk-based but urbanized form of black popular music that is marked by strong, repetitious rhythms and simple melodies and was developed, in a commercialized form, into rock-'n'-roll.
  • rich tea biscuit — any of various semisweet biscuits
  • scarborough lily — a plant, Vallota speciosa, of the amaryllis family, native to southern Africa, having clusters of funnel-shaped, scarlet flowers.
  • schaumburg-lippe — a former state in NW Germany.
  • south burlington — a town in NW Vermont.
  • south sea bubble — the financial crash that occurred in 1720 after the South Sea Company had taken over the national debt in return for a monopoly of trade with the South Seas, causing feverish speculation in their stocks
  • southerly buster — a sudden violent cold wind on the SE coast of Australia causing a rapid drop in temperature
  • southern baptist — a member of the Southern Baptist Convention, founded in Augusta, Georgia, in 1845, that is strictly Calvinistic and active in religious publishing and education.
  • spanish bluebell — a bulbous plant, Endymion hispanicus, of the lily family, native to Spain and Portugal, having blue, white, or pink, bell-shaped flowers.
  • strawberry shrub — Carolina allspice
  • submarine chaser — a small patrol vessel, 100–200 feet (30–60 meters) long, designed for military operations against submarines.
  • subtropical high — one of several highs, as the Azores and Pacific highs, that prevail over the oceans at latitudes of about 30 degrees N and S. Also called subtropical anticyclone. Compare high (def 37).
  • sweet pepperbush — a shrub, Clethra alnifolia, of the eastern and southern coastal U.S., having numerous erect clusters of white or pinkish flowers.
  • synthetic cubism — the late phase of cubism, characterized chiefly by an increased use of color and the imitation or introduction of a wide range of textures and material into painting.
  • synthetic rubber — any of several substances similar to natural rubber in properties and uses, produced by the polymerization of an unsaturated hydrocarbon, as butylene or isoprene, or by the copolymerization of such hydrocarbons with styrene, butadiene, or the like.
  • take the biscuit — Take the biscuit means the same as take the cake.
  • the boys in blue — The police are sometimes referred to as the boys in blue.
  • the easter bunny — the rabbit that brings Easter eggs
  • the public purse — money from or controlled by the government
  • the subconscious — subconscious mental activity
  • 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 unobservable — something that cannot be observed
  • thumb one's nose — the short, thick, inner digit of the human hand, next to the forefinger.
  • thumbnail sketch — small preliminary drawing
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