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15-letter words containing h, a, b

  • drop handlebars — aerodynamic handlebars that drop down and curve towards the rider at the ends rather than turning upwards as on conventional bicycles
  • dysmorphophobia — an obsessive fear that one's body, or any part of it, is repulsive or may become so
  • eight-bit clean — (software)   A term which describes a system that deals correctly with extended character sets which (unlike ASCII) use all eight bits of a byte. Many programs and communications systems assume that all characters have codes in the range 0 to 127. This leaves the top bit of each byte free for use as a parity bit or some kind of flag bit. These assumptions break down when the program is used in some non-english-speaking countries with larger alphabets. If a binary file is transmitted via a communications link which is not eight-bit clean, it will be corrupted. To combat this you can encode it with uuencode which uses only ASCII characters. There are some links however which are not even "seven-bit clean" and cause problems even for uuencoded data.
  • eleutherophobia — the fear of freedom
  • ethyl carbamate — a colourless odourless crystalline ester that is used in the manufacture of pesticides, fungicides, and pharmaceuticals. Formula: CO(NH2)OC2H5
  • eustachian tube — part of the ear
  • exchangeability — The condition of being exchangeable.
  • exhibition game — In sports, an exhibition game is a game that is not part of a competition, and is played for entertainment or practice, often without any serious effort to win.
  • exhibition hall — a hall in which pictures, sculptures, or other objects of interest are displayed
  • fair-haired boy — having light-colored hair.
  • false buckthorn — a spiny shrub or small tree, Bumelia lanuginosa, of the sapodilla family, native to the southern U.S., having gummy, milky sap and white, bell-shaped flowers and yielding a hard, light-brown wood.
  • false hellebore — any of various plants belonging to the genus Veratrum, of the lily family, especially a North American species, V. viride, which has clusters of yellowish-green flowers and is the source of substances used in certain medicines and insecticides.
  • fashionableness — The state of being fashionable; stylishness; elegance.
  • feather banding — decorative banding of veneer or inlay having the grain laid diagonally to the grain of the principal surface.
  • finger alphabet — a series of shapes made by the fingers that indicate letters of an alphabet and can be used in fingerspelling for the deaf
  • fish and brewis — a Newfoundland dish of cooked salt cod and soaked hard bread
  • fishing harbour — a place where fishing boats are tied up
  • flemish brabant — a province of central Belgium, formed in 1995 from the N part of Brabant province: densely populated and intensively farmed, with large industrial centres. Pop: 1 031 904 (2004 est). Area: 2106 sq km (813 sq miles)
  • flesh and blood — offspring or relatives: one's own flesh and blood.
  • four-ball match — a match, scored by holes, between two pairs of players, in which the four players tee off and the partners alternate in hitting the pair's ball having the better lie off the tee.
  • francis bushman — Francis X(avier) 1883–1966, U.S. film actor.
  • ghetto fabulous — pertaining to or noting a lifestyle of showy but superficial glamour and luxury that is sometimes adopted by people in or from an urban ghetto: That man is just ghetto-fabulous; his bling wears bling!
  • ghetto-fabulous — pertaining to or noting a lifestyle of showy but superficial glamour and luxury that is sometimes adopted by people in or from an urban ghetto: That man is just ghetto-fabulous; his bling wears bling!
  • gift of the gab — ability to speak effortlessly, glibly, or persuasively
  • gladbach-rheydt — a former city in W Germany; now part of Mönchengladbach.
  • globe artichoke — artichoke (defs 1, 2).
  • go by the board — If something goes by the board, it is rejected or ignored, or is no longer possible.
  • great south bay — an Atlantic Ocean inlet, between the S shore of Long Island and Fire Island and other barrier islands. 45 miles (72 km) long.
  • gulf of bothnia — an arm of the Baltic Sea, extending north between Sweden and Finland
  • haemoglobinuria — the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
  • haemoglobinuric — relating to the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
  • half the battle — If you say that something is half the battle, you mean that it is the most important step towards achieving something.
  • half-remembered — (of a memory, idea, etc) partially remembered or recalled
  • halting problem — The problem of determining in advance whether a particular program or algorithm will terminate or run forever. The halting problem is the canonical example of a provably unsolvable problem. Obviously any attempt to answer the question by actually executing the algorithm or simulating each step of its execution will only give an answer if the algorithm under consideration does terminate, otherwise the algorithm attempting to answer the question will itself run forever. Some special cases of the halting problem are partially solvable given sufficient resources. For example, if it is possible to record the complete state of the execution of the algorithm at each step and the current state is ever identical to some previous state then the algorithm is in a loop. This might require an arbitrary amount of storage however. Alternatively, if there are at most N possible different states then the algorithm can run for at most N steps without looping. A program analysis called termination analysis attempts to answer this question for limited kinds of input algorithm.
  • harbour station — the part of a port where boats shelter or station
  • hard-boiled egg — egg boiled until the yolk is set
  • hard-shell crab — a crab, especially an edible crab, that has not recently molted and has a hard shell.
  • harlequin table — a writing or dressing table having a central set of compartments that rise when drop leaves are raised.
  • have a go at sb — If someone has a go at you, they criticize you, often in a way that you feel is unfair.
  • have got it bad — to be infatuated
  • health benefits — positive effects on health
  • heartbreakingly — causing intense anguish or sorrow.
  • heartbrokenness — The state or quality of being heartbroken.
  • heavy breathing — stertorous breathing or breathing done with difficulty
  • hebrew calendar — the lunisolar calendar used by Jews, as for determining religious holidays, that is reckoned from 3761 b.c. and was established by Hillel II in the 4th century a.d., the calendar year consisting of 353 days (defective year) 354 days (regular year) or 355 days (perfect year or abundant year) and containing 12 months: Tishri, Heshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, Adar, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, and Elul, with the 29-day intercalary month of Adar Sheni added after Adar seven times in every 19-year cycle in order to adjust the calendar to the solar cycle. The Jewish ecclesiastical year begins with Nisan and the civil year with Tishri.
  • hendecasyllabic — having 11 syllables.
  • hendecasyllable — a word or line of verse of 11 syllables.
  • herbal medicine — the use of herbs to treat illness
  • herpes labialis — oral herpes.
  • hibernicization — the process or act of making Irish
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