16-letter words containing h, o, b, y
- mobility housing — houses designed or adapted for people who have difficulty in walking but are not necessarily chairbound
- monohybrid cross — the offspring of individuals that differ with respect to a particular gene pair.
- mulberry harbour — either of two prefabricated floating harbours towed across the English Channel to the French coast for the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944
- non-carbohydrate — any of a class of organic compounds that are polyhydroxy aldehydes or polyhydroxy ketones, or change to such substances on simple chemical transformations, as hydrolysis, oxidation, or reduction, and that form the supporting tissues of plants and are important food for animals and people.
- northanger abbey — a novel (1818) by Jane Austen.
- phenoxybenzamine — an alpha blocker, C 1 8 H 2 2 ClNO, used to dilate vascular peripheral blood vessels in the treatment of Raynaud's disease and in pheochromocytoma.
- port phillip bay — a bay in SE Australia: the harbor of Melbourne. 31 miles (50 km) long; 25 miles (40 km) wide.
- psychobiological — the use of biological methods to study normal and abnormal emotional and cognitive processes, as the anatomical basis of memory or neurochemical abnormalities in schizophrenia.
- public schoolboy — a boy attending a public school, or a man who attended one
- rhabdomyosarcoma — a malignant tumor made up of striated muscle tissue.
- scarborough lily — a plant, Vallota speciosa, of the amaryllis family, native to southern Africa, having clusters of funnel-shaped, scarlet flowers.
- sharpe's grysbok — either of two small, usually solitary antelopes of southern Africa, Raphicerus melanotis, or R. sharpei (Sharpe's grysbok) having a light to dark reddish-brown coat speckled with white.
- showy crab apple — a large Japanese bush or tree, Malus floribunda, of the rose family, having red fruit and rose-colored flowers that fade to white.
- simeon ben yohai — flourished 2nd century a.d, Palestinian rabbi.
- southerly buster — a sudden violent cold wind on the SE coast of Australia causing a rapid drop in temperature
- thalidomide baby — a baby that has physical abnormalities due to the drug thalidomide being taken by the mother while the baby was still a developing fetus
- the body politic — the people of a nation or the nation itself considered as a political entity; the state
- the boys in blue — The police are sometimes referred to as the boys in blue.
- thrombocytopenia — an abnormal decrease in the number of blood platelets.
- to cut both ways — If you say that something cuts both ways, you mean that it can have two opposite effects, or can have both good and bad effects.
- typhoid bacillus — the bacterium Salmonella typhosa, causing typhoid fever.
- white globe lily — a bulbous Californian plant, Calochortus albus, of the lily family, having egg-shaped white flowers with a purplish base.
- white-haired boy — a favourite; darling
- yah-boo politics — adversarial politics in which politicians constantly deride their opponents and dismiss everything suggested by them
- your better half — If you talk about your better half or your other half you mean your wife, your husband, or the person of the opposite sex that you live with.