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15-letter words containing h, a, b, n

  • hendecasyllable — a word or line of verse of 11 syllables.
  • herbal medicine — the use of herbs to treat illness
  • hibernicization — the process or act of making Irish
  • hoosier cabinet — a tall kitchen cabinet mass-produced during the early part of the 20th century, usually of oak, featuring an enameled work surface, storage bins, a flour sifter, etc.
  • horse-and-buggy — of or relating to the last few generations preceding the invention of the automobile: vivid recollections of horse-and-buggy days.
  • hot-air balloon — passenger balloon
  • hubble constant — the ratio of the recessional velocity of galaxies to their distance from the sun, with current measurements of its value ranging from 50 to 100 km/sec per megaparsec.
  • humpback salmon — a pink salmon inhabiting North Pacific waters: so-called because of the hump that appears behind the head of the male when it is ready for spawning.
  • hybrid antibody — a synthetic antibody that is able to combine with two different antigens
  • hype-carbonated — (of a product or service) overvalued as a result of relentless marketing and PR or intensive media exposure
  • hypnotisability — Alternative spelling of hypnotizability.
  • hypnotizability — to put in the hypnotic state.
  • hypoalbuminemia — an abnormally small quantity of albumin in the blood.
  • in the abstract — When you talk or think about something in the abstract, you talk or think about it in a general way, rather than considering particular things or events.
  • in the ballpark — a tract of land where ball games, especially baseball, are played.
  • in the box seat — in the best position
  • in-visible hand — (in the economics of Adam Smith) an unseen force or mechanism that guides individuals to unwittingly benefit society through the pursuit of their private interests.
  • inapprehensible — That cannot be apprehended; not apprehensible to or graspable by either body or mind.
  • infeasible path — dead code
  • interchangeable — (of two things) capable of being put or used in the place of each other: interchangeable symbols.
  • interchangeably — (of two things) capable of being put or used in the place of each other: interchangeable symbols.
  • isolation booth — a soundproof booth located within a television studio, used to prevent the occupant, usually a contestant in a game show, from hearing certain parts of the show.
  • jack-in-the-box — a toy consisting of a box from which an enclosed figure springs up when the lid is opened.
  • jacob ben asher — c1269–c1340, Hebrew commentator on the Bible and codifier of Jewish law.
  • john barleycorn — a personification of barley as used in malt liquor, of malt liquor itself, or of any intoxicating liquor.
  • judicial branch — the branch of government charged with the interpretation of laws and the administration of justice; the judiciary.
  • kitchen cabinet — a cupboard built into a kitchen or a chest of drawers for kitchen use, as for dishes and silverware.
  • knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
  • knight banneret — banneret1 (def 2).
  • label switching — (networking)   A routing technique that uses information from existing IP routing protocols to identify IP datagrams with labels and forwards them to a modified switch or router, which then uses the labels to switch the datagrams through the network. Label switching combines the best attributes of data link layer (layer two) switching (as in ATM and Frame Relay) with the best attributes of network layer (layer three) routing (as in IP). Prior to the formation of the MPLS Working Group in 1997, a number of vendors had announced and/or implemented proprietary label switching.
  • labyrinthodonts — Plural form of labyrinthodont.
  • low bandwidth x — (networking)   (LBX) An implementation of the X Window System designed to improve performance over ISDN, WAN, and serial lines.
  • luncheon basket — a basket that you put food in and take somewhere for a picnic
  • malpighian body — Also called kidney corpuscle, Malpighian body. the structure at the beginning of a vertebrate nephron, consisting of a glomerulus and its surrounding Bowman's capsule.
  • malpighian tube — one of a group of long, slender excretory tubules at the anterior end of the hindgut in insects and other terrestrial arthropods.
  • manhattan beach — a city in SW California, SW of Los Angeles.
  • manual alphabet — a set of finger configurations corresponding to the letters of the alphabet, used by the deaf in fingerspelling.
  • manukau harbour — an inlet of the Tasman Sea near Auckland in New Zealand on NW North Island
  • mechanical bank — a toy bank in which a coin is deposited by a mechanical process that is usually activated by pushing a lever.
  • merchant banker — A merchant banker is someone who works for a merchant bank.
  • merchantability — The state of being merchantable.
  • methylcobalamin — A cobalamin used to treat neuropathies.
  • might-have-been — that which might have occurred if it were not for other events
  • mishnaic hebrew — the Hebrew language as used from about a.d. 70 to 500.
  • monchengladbach — a city in W North Rhine-Westphalia, in W Germany.
  • moreton bay ash — an Australian eucalyptus tree, E. tessellaris, having drooping branches and grey bark
  • most honourable — a courtesy title applied to marquesses and members of the Privy Council and the Order of the Bath
  • mount suribachi — a volcanic hill in the Volcano Islands, on Iwo Jima: site of a US victory (1945) over the Japanese in World War II
  • nathaniel bacon — Francis (Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans) 1561–1626, English essayist, philosopher, and statesman.
  • neighbor states — the states or countries next to another state or country
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