20-letter words containing h, b, e
- (whole) new ballgame — a situation changed so drastically as to need new approaches or solutions
- a bolt from the blue — a sudden, unexpected, and usually unwelcome event
- a drop in the bucket — an amount very small in relation to what is needed or desired
- abreast of the times — up-to-date, as in ideas, fashions, etc.; modern
- absent without leave — absent from duty without official permission but with no intention of deserting
- acetylmethylcarbinol — acetoin.
- africanized honeybee — killer bee.
- aluminum borohydride — a volatile liquid, Al(BH 4) 3 , that ignites spontaneously in air and reacts vigorously with water to form hydrogen, used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- antidisestablishment — Opposed to the separation of church and state.
- architectural bronze — a brass alloy of about 57 percent copper, 41 percent zinc, and 2 percent lead.
- armchair quarterback — a person who is not a quarterback (or general, etc.), but offers opinions and criticism on the performance or decisions of those who are
- at the best of times — You say at the best of times when you are making a negative or critical comment to emphasize that it is true even when the circumstances are as favourable as possible.
- at the bottom of sth — If something is at the bottom of a problem or unpleasant situation, it is the real cause of it.
- back the wrong horse — to bet on a horse that loses the race
- back-of-the-envelope — (of a plan, calculation, etc) composed or performed quickly and without detailed analysis or research
- bacteriochlorophylls — Plural form of bacteriochlorophyll.
- balanced three-phase — A balanced three-phase voltage or current is one in which the size of each phase is the same, and the phase angles of the three phases differ from each other by 120 degrees.
- baptism for the dead — the baptism of a living person in the place of and for the sake of one who has died unbaptized: now practiced chiefly by Mormons.
- barking and dagenham — a borough of E Greater London. Pop: 165 900 (2003 est). Area: 34 sq km (13 sq miles)
- barothermohygrograph — an automatic instrument for recording pressure, temperature, and humidity.
- be called to the bar — to become a barrister
- be for the high jump — to be liable to receive a severe reprimand or punishment
- be getting somewhere — If you say that you are getting somewhere, you mean that you are making progress towards achieving something.
- be hard pushed to do — If you are hard pushed to do something, you find it very difficult to do it.
- be in the market for — to wish to buy or acquire
- be shot through with — If something is shot through with an element or feature, it contains a lot of that element or feature.
- be there for someone — If someone is there for you, they help and support you, especially when you have problems.
- be tops, be the tops — If you say that something is tops or is the tops, you mean that it is better or more successful than anything else.
- beat around the bush — to talk around a subject without getting to the point
- beat the shit out of — to give a severe beating to
- beaverhead mountains — a mountain range on the border of E Idaho and SW Montana, in the Bitterroot Range. 10,961 feet (3343 meters).
- been-there done-that — an exclamation expressing familiarity and boredom with a situation, experience, etc
- beggar-your-neighbor — a children's card game for two, played with 52 cards, that is won when a player captures all of the cards.
- belgian shepherd dog — a medium-sized well-proportioned dog of a breed that resembles an Alsatian in appearance and is often used as a sheepdog or a guard dog
- benefit of the doubt — a favorable opinion or judgment adopted despite uncertainty.
- benzene hexachloride — a compound, C6H6Cl6, used as an insecticide
- benzyl isoamyl ether — a colorless liquid, C 12 H 18 O, used in soap perfumes.
- biogeochemical cycle — the cycle in which nitrogen, carbon, and other inorganic elements of the soil, atmosphere, etc. of a region are converted into the organic substances of animals or plants and released back into the environment
- biological half life — Physics. the time required for one half the atoms of a given amount of a radioactive substance to disintegrate.
- biological half-life — the time required for half of a quantity of radioactive material absorbed by a living tissue or organism to be naturally eliminated
- bismarck archipelago — a group of over 200 islands in the SW Pacific, northeast of New Guinea: part of Papua New Guinea. Main islands: New Britain, New Ireland, Lavongai, and the Admiralty Islands. Chief town: Rabaul, on New Britain. Pop: 566 610 (2000). Area: 49 658 sq km (19 173 sq miles)
- black-throated diver — a diving bird, Gavia arctica, found in Europe and Asia, and a rare summer visitor to the UK
- blending inheritance — the blending of characteristics of the parents in the offspring, as in a pink flower that results from the mating of a red flower with a white one
- blood on one's hands — If you say that someone has a person's blood on their hands, you mean that they are responsible for that person's death.
- blue screen of death — (humour) (BSOD) The infamous white-on-blue text screen which appears when Microsoft Windows crashes. BSOD is mostly seen on the 16-bit systems such as Windows 3.1, but also on Windows 95 and apparently even under Windows NT 4. It is most likely to be caused by a GPF, although Windows 95 can do it if you've removed a required CD-ROM from the drive. It is often impossible to recover cleanly from a BSOD. The acronym BSOD is sometimes used as a verb, e.g. "Windoze just keeps BSODing on me today".
- bottle-nosed dolphin — any of several dolphins of the genus Tursiops, common in North Atlantic and Mediterranean waters, having a rounded forehead and well-defined beak.
- bottom hole pressure — Bottom hole pressure is the pressure at the bottom of the hole, usually measured in pounds per square inch.
- bottom of the barrel — poor quality
- bowling on the green — lawn bowling.
- bowling-on-the-green — a game played with wooden balls on a level, closely mowed green having a slight bias, the object being to roll one's ball as near as possible to a smaller white ball at the other end of the green. Also called bowls, bowling on the green. Compare bowl2 (def 2), bowling green, jack1 (def 7), rink (def 5).
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