14-letter words containing h, a, r, d, b
- garden rubbish — organic refuse generated by gardening
- grow the beard — (of a TV series) to gain credibility or improve in quality during the course of a series following a specified development
- haberdasheries — Plural form of haberdashery.
- hair's breadth — A hair's breadth is a very small degree or amount.
- hair's-breadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
- half-submerged — under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium; inundated.
- hand's-breadth — handbreadth
- handbrake turn — a turn sharply reversing the direction of a vehicle by speedily applying the handbrake while turning the steering wheel
- heidelberg jaw — a human lower jaw of early middle Pleistocene age found in 1907 near Heidelberg, Germany.
- heidelberg man — the primitive human being reconstructed from the Heidelberg jaw.
- hereditability — heritable.
- homeward bound — going home
- hooded warbler — a wood warbler, Wilsonia citrina, of the U.S., olive-green above, yellow below, and having a black head and throat with a yellow face.
- hornyhead chub — a small N American fish, Nocomis biguttatus
- hors de combat — disabled or injured
- hospital board — the group of people responsible for the safe and efficient running of a hospital
- hubbard squash — a variety of winter squash having a green or yellow skin and yellow flesh.
- hybrid warfare — a military strategy in which conventional warfare is integrated with tactics such as covert operations and cyberattacks
- indecipherable — not decipherable; illegible.
- indecipherably — not decipherable; illegible.
- labyrinthodont — any member of several orders of small to large lizardlike terrestrial and freshwater amphibians, some ancestral to land vertebrates, forming the extinct subclass Labyrinthodonta that flourished from the Devonian through the Triassic periods, characterized by a solid, flattened skull and conical teeth.
- lambeth degree — an honorary degree conferred by the archbishop of Canterbury in divinity, arts, law, medicine, or music.
- lee's birthday — Jan. 19, Robert E. Lee's birthday, a legal holiday in several Southern states
- marble orchard — cemetery.
- marmalade bush — a shrub, Streptosolen jamesonii, of the nightshade family, native to South America, bearing showy trumpet-shaped orange flowers, grown as an ornamental or houseplant.
- merchandisable — Suitable for merchandising.
- molded breadth — the extreme breadth of the framing of a vessel, excluding the thickness of the plating or planking.
- mother hubbard — a full, loose gown, usually fitted at the shoulders, worn by women.
- multichambered — comprising or involving several chambers
- nabuchodonosor — Nebuchadnezzar (def 1).
- nebuchadnezzar — Also, Nebuchadrezzar [neb-uh-kuh d-rez-er, neb-yoo-] /ˌnɛb ə kədˈrɛz ər, ˌnɛb yʊ-/ (Show IPA). a king of Babylonia, 604?–561? b.c., and conqueror of Jerusalem. II Kings 24, 25.
- north branford — a town in S Connecticut.
- northumberland — a county in NE England. 1943 sq. mi. (5030 sq. km).
- nudibranchiate — nudibranch.
- over sb's head — If someone does something over another person's head, they do it without asking them or discussing it with them, especially when they should do so because the other person is in a position of authority.
- paddock-basher — a vehicle suited to driving on rough terrain
- preestablished — to establish beforehand.
- right of abode — If someone is given the right of abode in a particular country, they are legally allowed to live there.
- rob the cradle — a small bed for an infant, usually on rockers.
- 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.
- scratchbuilder — a person who scratchbuilds
- second chamber — the parliament of the Netherlands, consisting of an upper chamber (First Chamber) and a lower chamber (Second Chamber)
- shoulder blade — the scapula.
- shoulder board — one of a pair of narrow, stiff, cloth patches bearing an insignia of rank and worn on the shoulders by a commissioned officer.
- slash and burn — Slash and burn is a method of farming that involves clearing land by destroying and burning all the trees and plants on it, farming there for a short time, and then moving on to clear a new piece of land.
- slash-and-burn — of a method of agriculture used in the tropics, in which forest vegetation is felled and burned, the land is cropped for a few years, then the forest is allowed to reinvade.
- smash-and-grab — A smash-and-grab is a robbery in which a person breaks a shop window, takes the things that are on display there, and runs away with them.
- thenard's blue — cobalt blue.
- to draw breath — If you do not have time to draw breath, you do not have time to have a break from what you are doing.
- undecipherable — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.