14-letter words containing c, i, b, a, h
- left-branching — (of a grammatical construction) characterized by greater structural complexity in the position preceding the head, as the phrase my brother's friend's house; having most of the constituents on the left in a tree diagram (opposed to right-branching).
- mashie niblick — a club with an iron head whose face has more slope than a mashie but less slope than a pitcher.
- merchandisable — Suitable for merchandising.
- metabolic heat — animal heat.
- microbarograph — a barograph for recording minute fluctuations of atmospheric pressure.
- multichambered — comprising or involving several chambers
- nudibranchiate — nudibranch.
- opisthobranchs — Plural form of opisthobranch.
- phallic symbol — any object, as a cigar or skyscraper, that may broadly resemble or represent the penis, especially such an object that symbolizes power, as an automobile.
- phenylcarbinol — benzyl alcohol.
- pitched battle — a battle in which the orderly arrangement of armed forces and the location have been predetermined.
- public holiday — national day off work
- rhombic aerial — a directional travelling-wave aerial, usually horizontal, consisting of two conductors each forming a pair of adjacent sides of a rhombus
- sakha republic — an administrative division in E Russia, in NE Siberia on the Arctic Ocean: the coldest inhabited region of the world; it has rich mineral resources. Capital: Yakutsk. Pop: 948 100 (2002). Area: 3 103 200 sq km (1 197 760 sq miles)
- sandwich board — two connected posters or signboards that hang in front of and behind a person and usually bear some advertisement, notice, exhortation, or the like.
- scheme library — (library) (SLIB) A portable Scheme library providing compatibiliy and utility functions for all standard Scheme implementations. Version 2c5 supports Bigloo, Chez, ELK, GAMBIT, MacScheme, MITScheme, PocketScheme, RScheme, Scheme->C, Scheme48, SCM, SCSH, T3.1, UMB-Scheme, and VSCM.
- school library — a library within a school where teachers and students have access to books and other resources
- scratchbuilder — a person who scratchbuilds
- shadow cabinet — (in the British Parliament) a group of prominent members of the opposition who are expected to hold positions in the cabinet when their party assumes power.
- sobriety coach — a person who is employed to help another to refrain from drinking alcohol
- son of a bitch — a contemptible or thoroughly disagreeable person; scoundrel.
- spanish arabic — the Arabic language as used in Spain during the period of Moorish domination and influence, c900–1500. Abbreviation: SpAr.
- special branch — The Special Branch is the department of the British police that is concerned with political security and deals with things such as terrorism and visits by foreign leaders.
- stretchability — to draw out or extend (oneself, a body, limbs, wings, etc.) to the full length or extent (often followed by out): to stretch oneself out on the ground.
- subatmospheric — (of a quantity) having a value lower than that of the atmosphere: subatmospheric temperatures.
- submachine gun — a lightweight automatic or semiautomatic gun, fired from the shoulder or hip.
- subtherapeutic — indicating a dosage, as of a drug or vitamin, less than the amount required for a therapeutic effect.
- the black isle — a peninsula in NE Scotland, in Highland council area, between the Cromarty and Moray Firths
- the ice blacks — the international ice hockey team of New Zealand
- thromboplastic — causing or accelerating blood-clot formation.
- trichobacteria — filamentous bacteria
- turbomachinery — machinery consisting of, incorporating, or constituting a turbine
- undecipherable — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
- untouchability — the quality or condition of being an untouchable, ascribed in the Vedic tradition to persons of low caste or to persons excluded from the caste system.
- variable-pitch — (of a propeller) controllable-pitch.
- virginia beach — a town in SE Virginia.
- wild buckwheat — umbrella plant (def 3).
- with bad grace — elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action: We watched her skate with effortless grace across the ice. Synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity. Antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness.
- xenophobically — relating to or exhibiting fear or hatred of foreigners, people from different cultures, or strangers.
- zygobranchiate — of or relating to zygobranchs or the Zygobranchia genus