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14-letter words containing e, n, t, h

  • blanket-stitch — a basic sewing stitch in which widely spaced, interlocking loops, or purls, are formed, used for cutwork, as a decorative finish for edges, etc.
  • bleeding heart — If you describe someone as a bleeding heart, you are criticizing them for being sympathetic towards people who are poor and suffering, without doing anything practical to help.
  • bletheranskate — a blatherer
  • bowstring hemp — a hemplike fibre obtained from the sansevieria
  • branchiostegal — of or relating to the operculum covering the gill slits of fish
  • break the bank — to ruin financially or deplete the resources of a bank (as in gambling)
  • break the news — announce sth
  • breathtakingly — thrillingly beautiful, remarkable, astonishing, exciting, or the like: a breathtaking performance.
  • bremsstrahlung — the radiation produced when an electrically charged particle, esp an electron, is slowed down by the electric field of an atomic nucleus or an atomic ion
  • bring sth home — To bring something home to someone means to make them understand how important or serious it is.
  • british legion — (in Britain) a national social club for veterans of the armed forces.
  • broken-hearted — Someone who is broken-hearted is very sad and upset because they have had a serious disappointment.
  • bronchial tube — Your bronchial tubes are the two tubes which connect your windpipe to your lungs.
  • bronchiectasis — chronic dilation of the bronchi or bronchial tubes, which often become infected
  • brother-in-law — Someone's brother-in-law is the brother of their husband or wife, or the man who is married to their sister.
  • brown thrasher — a common large songbird, Toxostoma rufum, of the eastern U.S., having reddish-brown plumage.
  • brushed cotton — cotton fabric that is brushed to remove excess lint and fibres to leave a soft, smooth finish
  • buckwheat note — shape note.
  • budget heading — a heading in a budget under which an expenditure is listed
  • burschenschaft — a students' fraternity, originally one concerned with Christian ideals, patriotism, etc
  • bush carpenter — a rough-and-ready unskilled workman
  • by the numbers — in prescribed sequence of movements and accompanied by a count
  • by the vanload — in very large quantities
  • cable's length — a unit of length in nautical use that has various values, including 100 fathoms (600 feet)
  • cache conflict — (storage)   A sequence of accesses to memory repeatedly overwriting the same cache entry. This can happen if two blocks of data, which are mapped to the same set of cache locations, are needed simultaneously. For example, in the case of a direct mapped cache, if arrays A, B, and C map to the same range of cache locations, thrashing will occur when the following loop is executed: See also ping-pong.
  • calendar month — A calendar month is one of the twelve months of the year.
  • calendar watch — a watch that indicates date of the month, day of the week, etc., as well as the time.
  • campaign chest — money collected and set aside for use in a campaign, especially a political one; a campaign fund.
  • can't help but — to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.
  • can't help sth — If you can't help the way you feel or behave, you cannot control it or stop it happening. You can also say that you can't help yourself.
  • canada thistle — a prickly European weed (Cirsium arvense) of the composite family, with heads of purplish flowers and wavy leaves: now common as a fast-spreading, injurious weed throughout the N U.S.
  • carpenter moth — any of various large moths of the family Cossidae, the larvae of which bore beneath and cause damage to tree bark
  • carpet muncher — lesbian
  • cartoonishness — The state or condition of being cartoonish.
  • casement cloth — a sheer fabric made of a variety of fibers, used for window curtains and as backing for heavy drapery or decorative fabrics.
  • castle shannon — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
  • catchment area — The catchment area of a school, hospital, or other service is the area that it serves.
  • catechumenship — the office or position of a catechumen
  • catherine parr — Catherine, Catherine Parr.
  • centrolecithal — (of animal eggs) having a centrally located yolk
  • chain reaction — A chain reaction is a series of chemical changes, each of which causes the next.
  • channel tunnel — the Anglo-French railway tunnel that runs beneath the English Channel, between Folkestone and Coquelles, near Calais; opened in 1994
  • channelization — the action or process of channelizing
  • chantilly lace — a delicate ornamental lace
  • characterising — Present participle of characterise.
  • characterizing — Present participle of characterize.
  • charge account — a business arrangement by which a customer may buy goods or services and pay for them within a specified future period
  • charge density — the electric charge per unit volume of a medium or body or per unit area of a surface
  • charitableness — (uncountable) The quality of being charitable.
  • charlottenburg — a district of Berlin (of West Berlin until 1990), formerly an independent city. Pop: 315 473 (2005 est)
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