15-letter words containing c, h, a, b
- straight-backed — having a straight, usually high, back: a straight-backed chair.
- sub-machine gun — a lightweight automatic or semiautomatic gun, fired from the shoulder or hip.
- subject heading — a title or heading of a category, esp in a bibliography or index
- subtrochanteric — Anatomy. either of two knobs at the top of the femur, the greater on the outside and the lesser on the inside, serving for the attachment of muscles between the thigh and pelvis.
- tectibranchiate — denoting or relating to the suborder of molluscs Tectibranchia
- tetrabranchiate — belonging or pertaining to the Nautiloidea (Tetrabranchiata), a subclass or order of cephalopods with four gills, including the pearly nautilus and numerous fossil forms.
- the black death — a form of bubonic plague pandemic in Europe and Asia during the 14th century, when it killed over 50 million people
- the black ferns — the women's international Rugby Union football team of New Zealand
- the black stump — an imaginary marker of the extent of civilization (esp in the phrase beyond the black stump)
- the black watch — (formerly) the Royal Highland Regiment in the British Army; (since 2006) an infantry battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland
- the precambrian — the Precambrian era
- the public weal — the public good; the good of society
- the tall blacks — the international basketball team of New Zealand
- thiocarbanilide — a gray powder, C 13 H 12 N 2 S, used as an intermediate in dyes and as an accelerator in vulcanization.
- thomas a becket — Saint Thomas à, 1118?–70, archbishop of Canterbury: murdered because of his opposition to Henry II's policies toward the church.
- tidal benchmark — a benchmark used as a reference for tidal observations.
- timber merchant — a merchant that deals in wood for use as a building material
- torture chamber — a room where somebody is caused extreme physical pain, esp in order to extract information, break resistance, etc
- touch base with — the bottom support of anything; that on which a thing stands or rests: a metal base for the table.
- travel brochure — a brochure, often from a travel agency, which advertises holidays, hotels, etc
- tree-and-branch — denoting a cable television system in which all available programme channels are fed to each subscriber
- turkish tobacco — a strongly aromatic tobacco, grown chiefly in Turkey and Greece, used in cigarettes.
- unchallengeably — in a way that cannot be challenged; in an unchallengeable manner
- uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
- unteachableness — the quality or condition of being unteachable
- vegetable patch — part of a garden used for growing vegetables
- welsbach burner — a type of gaslight in which a mantle containing thorium and cerium compounds becomes incandescent when heated by a gas flame
- west palm beach — a city in SE Florida: winter resort.
- wheelchairbound — Confined to a wheelchair.