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14-letter words containing h, e, u

  • big house, the — a penitentiary
  • bircher muesli — a type of muesli containing softened oats, dried fruit, and apple
  • black bullhead — a common freshwater catfish, Ictalurus melas, of North America, considered by some to be a food delicacy.
  • boarding house — A boarding house is a house which people pay to stay in for a short time.
  • boutique hotel — A boutique hotel is a small, high-quality and usually attractive hotel.
  • braunschweiger — a smoked liver sausage, named after the city of Braunschweig
  • bremsstrahlung — the radiation produced when an electrically charged particle, esp an electron, is slowed down by the electric field of an atomic nucleus or an atomic ion
  • british museum — a museum in London, founded in 1753: contains one of the world's richest collections of antiquities and (until 1997) most of the British Library
  • bronchial tube — Your bronchial tubes are the two tubes which connect your windpipe to your lungs.
  • brown bullhead — a freshwater catfish, Ictalurus nebulosus, of eastern North America, having an olive to brown body with dark markings on the sides.
  • brushed cotton — cotton fabric that is brushed to remove excess lint and fibres to leave a soft, smooth finish
  • bubble chamber — a device that enables the tracks of ionizing particles to be photographed as a row of bubbles in a superheated liquid. Immediately before the particles enter the chamber the pressure is reduced so that the ionized particles act as centres for small vapour bubbles
  • buchner funnel — a laboratory filter funnel used under reduced pressure. It consists of a shallow porcelain cylinder with a flat perforated base
  • buckwheat cake — a pancake made of buckwheat flour.
  • buckwheat coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 5/16 to 9/16 inch (7.9 to 13.9 m).
  • buckwheat note — shape note.
  • budget heading — a heading in a budget under which an expenditure is listed
  • bulgur (wheat) — wheat that has been cooked, dried, and coarsely ground: used to make tabbouleh or, sometimes, pilaf or couscous
  • bull stretcher — Also called bullnose stretcher. a brick having one of the edges along its length rounded for laying as a stretcher in a sill or the like.
  • burghley house — an Elizabethan mansion near Stamford in Lincolnshire: seat of the Cecil family; site of the annual Burghley Horse Trials
  • burschenschaft — a students' fraternity, originally one concerned with Christian ideals, patriotism, etc
  • bush carpenter — a rough-and-ready unskilled workman
  • bush telegraph — a means of communication between primitive peoples over large areas, as by drum beats
  • bush, vannevar — Vannevar Bush
  • business hours — Business hours are the hours of the day in which a shop or a company is open for business.
  • business lunch — a lunch at which business is discussed or transacted
  • butcher's shop — a shop dedicated to the selling of meat
  • buteyko method — a breath control technique used to prevent hyperventilation and treat asthma without drugs
  • butterfly bush — buddleia
  • butterfly fish — any small tropical marine percoid fish of the genera Chaetodon, Chelmon, etc, that has a deep flattened brightly coloured or strikingly marked body and brushlike teeth: family Chaetodontidae
  • butyl aldehyde — butyraldehyde
  • by the numbers — in prescribed sequence of movements and accompanied by a count
  • camphor laurel — an Australian name for the camphor tree, now occurring in the wild in parts of Australia
  • can't help but — to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.
  • carpet muncher — lesbian
  • carriage house — coach house.
  • catechumenship — the office or position of a catechumen
  • cathedral hull — a motorboat hull having a bottom characterized by two or more, usually three, V -shaped hull profiles meeting below the waterline.
  • cellular phone — A cellular phone or cellular telephone is a type of telephone which does not need wires to connect it to a telephone system.
  • channel surfer — to change from one channel on a television set to another with great or unusual frequency, especially by using a remote control.
  • channel tunnel — the Anglo-French railway tunnel that runs beneath the English Channel, between Folkestone and Coquelles, near Calais; opened in 1994
  • charge account — a business arrangement by which a customer may buy goods or services and pay for them within a specified future period
  • charles sumner — Charles, 1811–74, U.S. statesman.
  • charlottenburg — a district of Berlin (of West Berlin until 1990), formerly an independent city. Pop: 315 473 (2005 est)
  • chartered club — a private club licensed to serve alcohol to members
  • check-out time — the time by which one has to check out of a hotel
  • cheese product — a processed cheese consisting in the U.S. of at least 50 percent cheese to which cheese whey or whey albumin may be added.
  • chemical abuse — the habitual use of a mood-altering drug, alcoholic beverage, etc.
  • chemoautotroph — an organism that obtains energy through chemoautotrophy
  • cheque account — an account at a bank or a building society upon which cheques can be drawn
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