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15-letter words containing h, e, r, b, l

  • butterfly chair — a lightweight chair consisting of a piece of canvas, leather, etc. slung from a framework of metal bars
  • center halfback — Field Hockey. the player in the middle among the halfbacks.
  • chamber counsel — a counsel who advises in private and does not plead in court
  • chandler wobble — a slight, irregular nutation of the earth's rotational axis with a period of c. 428 days
  • characterizable — Able to be characterized.
  • charcoal burner — (formerly) a person whose work was making charcoal by burning
  • charcoal-burner — a device that burns charcoal, as a stove or brazier.
  • charles babbage — Charles, 1792–1871, English mathematician: invented the precursor of the modern computer.
  • charles coulomb — Charles Augustin de [sharl oh-gy-stan duh] /ʃarl oʊ güˈstɛ̃ də/ (Show IPA), 1736–1806, French physicist and inventor.
  • cheap assembler — (tool)   (CHASM) A shareware assembler for MS-DOS.
  • chicken lobster — a young lobster weighing 1 pound (0.4 kg) or less.
  • child battering — child abuse in the form of battering
  • child-battering — the physical abuse of a child by a parent or guardian, as by beating.
  • chiller cabinet — a cupboard or chest in a shop where chilled foods and drinks are displayed and kept cool
  • chocolate brown — a dark brown
  • cobble together — If you say that someone has cobbled something together, you mean that they have made or produced it roughly or quickly.
  • council chamber — the room in which council meetings are held
  • crude oil berth — A crude oil berth is a place at a port for ships carrying crude oil.
  • cybertechnology — Computer technology, especially that which involves the Internet or cyberspace.
  • decipherability — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
  • deerfield beach — a town in S Florida.
  • dichlorobenzene — any of a group of three insoluble isomeric chemical compounds used in solvents, insecticides, and dyes
  • drop handlebars — aerodynamic handlebars that drop down and curve towards the rider at the ends rather than turning upwards as on conventional bicycles
  • eleutherophobia — the fear of freedom
  • eleutherophobic — afraid of freedom
  • ethyl carbamate — a colourless odourless crystalline ester that is used in the manufacture of pesticides, fungicides, and pharmaceuticals. Formula: CO(NH2)OC2H5
  • everly brothers — the. US pop singing duo comprising Don Everly (born 1937) and Phil Everly 1939–2014, noted for their close harmonies
  • 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.
  • ferrihemoglobin — methemoglobin.
  • 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
  • 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)
  • flowering shrub — any shrub that produces flowers
  • fourth republic — the republic established in France in 1945 and replaced by the Fifth Republic in 1958.
  • french mulberry — a shrub, Callicarpa americana, of the verbena family, of the south-central U.S. and the West Indies, having violet-colored fruit and bluish flowers.
  • gladbach-rheydt — a former city in W Germany; now part of Mönchengladbach.
  • globe artichoke — artichoke (defs 1, 2).
  • haemoglobinuria — the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
  • haemoglobinuric — relating to the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • heartbreakingly — causing intense anguish or sorrow.
  • 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.
  • herbal medicine — the use of herbs to treat illness
  • hercules beetle — a large Neotropical rhinoceros beetle, Dynastes hercules.
  • herpes labialis — oral herpes.
  • hiberno-english — Also called Anglo-Irish. the English language as spoken in Ireland.
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