15-letter words containing h, e, b, r
- reuben sandwich — a grilled sandwich of corned beef, Swiss cheese, and sauerkraut on rye bread.
- rhombencephalon — the hindbrain.
- richard gabriel — (person) (Dick, RPG) Dr. Richard P. Gabriel. A noted SAIL LISP hacker and volleyball fanatic. Consulting Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. Richard Gabriel is a leader in the Lisp and OOP community, with years of contributions to standardisation. He founded the successful company, Lucid Technologies, Inc.. In 1996 he was Distinguished Computer Scientist at ParcPlace-Digitalk, Inc. (later renamed ObjectShare, Inc.). See also gabriel, Qlambda, QLISP, saga.
- riding breeches — calf-length trousers of whipcord or other durable fabric, flaring at the sides of the thighs and fitting snugly at and below the knees, worn with riding boots for horseback riding, hunting, etc.
- rightabout-face — a turning directly about so as to face in the opposite direction
- robe-de-chambre — a dressing gown.
- rough bluegrass — a grass, Poa trivialis, native to Eurasia and naturalized in North America, where it is used in mixtures for lawns and pasturage.
- rough breathing — the symbol (ʿ) used in the writing of Greek to indicate aspiration of the initial vowel or of the ρ (rho) over which it is placed.
- rub elbows with — the bend or joint of the human arm between upper arm and forearm.
- self-abhorrence — a feeling of extreme repugnance or aversion; utter loathing; abomination.
- set by the ears — to cause disagreement or commotion
- she'll be right — that's all right; not to worry
- short of breath — If you are short of breath, you find it difficult to breathe properly, for example because you are ill. You can also say that someone suffers from shortness of breath.
- sink a borehole — To sink a borehole means to drill a deep hole in the ground.
- soft-shell crab — a crab, especially the blue crab, that has recently molted and therefore has a soft, edible shell.
- southern blight — a disease of peanuts, tomatoes, and other plants, caused by a fungus, Sclerotium rolfsii, affecting the roots and resulting in rapid wilting.
- straight-backed — having a straight, usually high, back: a straight-backed chair.
- strawberry bush — an E North American shrub or small tree, Euonymus americanus, having pendulous capsules that split when ripe to reveal scarlet seeds: family Celastraceae
- strawberry dish — a shallow, circular fruit dish with a fluted or pierced border.
- strephosymbolia — a condition of perceiving objects as their mirror image and, specifically, having difficulty in distinguishing letters in words
- strobe lighting — a high-intensity flashing beam of light produced by rapid electrical discharges in a tube or by a perforated disc rotating in front of an intense light source: used in discotheques, etc
- substratosphere — the upper troposphere.
- subtrochanteric — Anatomy. either of two knobs at the top of the femur, the greater on the outside and the lesser on the inside, serving for the attachment of muscles between the thigh and pelvis.
- sweep the board — (in gambling) to win all the cards or money
- tectibranchiate — denoting or relating to the suborder of molluscs Tectibranchia
- tetrabranchiate — belonging or pertaining to the Nautiloidea (Tetrabranchiata), a subclass or order of cephalopods with four gills, including the pearly nautilus and numerous fossil forms.
- the black ferns — the women's international Rugby Union football team of New Zealand
- the lost tribes — the ten tribes deported from the N kingdom of Israel in 721 bc and believed never to have returned to Palestine
- the precambrian — the Precambrian era
- the-ambassadors — a novel (1903) by Henry James.
- the-arbitration — a comedy (c300 b.c.) by Menander, extant only as a fragment.
- thermal barrier — the high temperatures produced by the friction between a supersonic object and the earth's atmosphere that limit the speed of an airplane or rocket.
- thermal blanket — a specially warm blanket
- thermionic tube — a vacuum tube in which the cathode is heated electrically to cause the emission of electrons by thermal agitation.
- thermobarograph — a device that simultaneously records the temperature and pressure of the atmosphere
- thermobarometer — Also called hypsometer. an instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure, and sometimes altitude, from its effect upon the boiling point of a liquid.
- thimble-rigging — a sleight-of-hand swindling game in which the operator palms a pellet or pea while appearing to cover it with one of three thimblelike cups, and then, moving the cups about, offers to bet that no one can tell under which cup the pellet or pea lies.
- think better of — to have a conscious mind, to some extent of reasoning, remembering experiences, making rational decisions, etc.
- thiobarbiturate — a barbiturate in which a sulphur atom has replaced one oxygen atom
- thiocarbanilide — a gray powder, C 13 H 12 N 2 S, used as an intermediate in dyes and as an accelerator in vulcanization.
- thromboembolism — the blockage of a blood vessel by a thrombus carried through the bloodstream from its site of formation.
- throw overboard — to reject or abandon
- tidal benchmark — a benchmark used as a reference for tidal observations.
- timber merchant — a merchant that deals in wood for use as a building material
- tortoise brooch — a domed, oval brooch worn in pairs by Viking women.
- torture chamber — a room where somebody is caused extreme physical pain, esp in order to extract information, break resistance, etc
- travel brochure — a brochure, often from a travel agency, which advertises holidays, hotels, etc
- tree-and-branch — denoting a cable television system in which all available programme channels are fed to each subscriber
- tribromoethanol — a white, crystalline powder, C 2 H 3 Br 3 O, used as a basal anesthetic.
- troubleshooting — to act or be employed as a troubleshooter: She troubleshoots for a large industrial firm.