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14-letter words containing h, a, b, e, n

  • branch officer — (in the British navy since 1949) any officer who holds warrant
  • branched chain — an open chain of atoms with one or more side chains attached to it
  • branchiostegal — of or relating to the operculum covering the gill slits of fish
  • braunschweiger — a smoked liver sausage, named after the city of Braunschweig
  • 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.
  • breech-loading — (of a firearm) loaded at the breech
  • 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
  • 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 bullhead — a freshwater catfish, Ictalurus nebulosus, of eastern North America, having an olive to brown body with dark markings on the sides.
  • brown thrasher — a common large songbird, Toxostoma rufum, of the eastern U.S., having reddish-brown plumage.
  • 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
  • bush, vannevar — Vannevar Bush
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • changeableness — The condition of being changeable.
  • 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)
  • chartered bank — a privately owned bank that has been incorporated by Parliament to operate in the commercial banking system
  • chicken breast — pigeon breast
  • chimney breast — A chimney breast is the part of a wall in a room which is built out round a chimney.
  • chinese banana — a large southern Chinese plant, Musa acuminata, of the banana family, having blue-green leaves, yellowish-white flowers with reddish-brown bracts, and fragrant, edible, curved fruit from 4 to 5 inches (10 to 13 cm) long, often borne in clusters of 200.
  • comprehendable — Misspelling of comprehensible.
  • cranberry bush — a North American caprifoliaceous shrub or small tree, Viburnum trilobum, producing acid red fruit
  • cyberchondriac — A hypochondriac who researches his/her potential medical condition on the Internet.
  • de haut en bas — with haughtiness; condescendingly
  • death benefits — Death benefits are the amount of money that an insurance policy will pay upon the death of the person whose life is being insured.
  • deathbed scene — a depiction in art or literature of events that take place at somebody's deathbed
  • dehabilitation — (sociology) The process of social estrangement and progressive loosening of social bonds between an individual and his family and society as a result of long-term residence in an institution.
  • double harness — harness for a pair of horses.
  • 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
  • establishments — Plural form of establishment.
  • ethnobotanical — Of or pertaining to ethnobotany.
  • ethnobotanists — Plural form of ethnobotanist.
  • extinguishable — Able to be extinguished.
  • farmers branch — a city in NE Texas.
  • featherbedding — the practice of requiring an employer to hire unnecessary employees, to assign unnecessary work, or to limit production according to a union rule or safety statute: Featherbedding forced the railroads to employ firemen on diesel locomotives.
  • featherbrained — Alternative spelling of feather-brained.
  • fonthill abbey — a ruined Gothic Revival mansion in Wiltshire: rebuilt (1790–1810) for William Beckford by James Wyatt; the main tower collapsed in 1800 and, after rebuilding, again in 1827
  • gambling house — a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
  • garden rubbish — organic refuse generated by gardening
  • globe amaranth — a plant, Gomphrena globosa, native to the Old World tropics, having dense heads of variously colored flowers that retain their color when cut.
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