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14-letter words containing h, r, o

  • blepharoplasty — cosmetic surgery performed on the eyelid
  • board chairman — the chairman of the board of a company, etc
  • boarding house — A boarding house is a house which people pay to stay in for a short time.
  • body of christ — the Christian Church
  • bokhara clover — white melilot.
  • bony labyrinth — an intricate combination of paths or passages in which it is difficult to find one's way or to reach the exit. Synonyms: maze, network, web.
  • boolean search — (information science)   (Or "Boolean query") A query using the Boolean operators, AND, OR, and NOT, and parentheses to construct a complex condition from simpler criteria. A typical example is searching for combinatons of keywords on a web search engine. Examples: car or automobile "New York" and not "New York state" The term is sometimes stretched to include searches using other operators, e.g. "near". Not to be confused with binary search. See also: weighted search.
  • bored to death — very weary and lack stimulation
  • boring machine — a machine that bores holes, tunnels, etc
  • bornyl alcohol — white solid alcohol from a Malaysian tree
  • bosworth field — the site, two miles south of Market Bosworth in Leicestershire, of the battle that ended the Wars of the Roses (August 1485). Richard III was killed and Henry Tudor was crowned king as Henry VII
  • bowstring hemp — a hemplike fibre obtained from the sansevieria
  • brachydiagonal — the shorter lateral axis of a rhombic prism
  • brachypinakoid — the side parallel to the shorter horizontal axis in a crystal
  • braddock hills — a town in SE Pennsylvania.
  • branch officer — (in the British navy since 1949) any officer who holds warrant
  • branchiostegal — of or relating to the operculum covering the gill slits of fish
  • break the mold — If you say that someone breaks the mold, you mean that they do completely different things from what has been done before or from what is usually done.
  • breakfast show — a radio or television broadcast that airs around breakfast time
  • breathe a word — to say something or anything
  • brecknockshire — a historic county in S Wales, now part of Powys, Gwent, and Mid Glamorgan.
  • breech-loading — (of a firearm) loaded at the breech
  • bring sth home — To bring something home to someone means to make them understand how important or serious it is.
  • bring to light — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
  • british dollar — any of several coins formerly issued by the British Empire for use in certain territories, as the Straits dollar or the Hong Kong dollar.
  • british legion — (in Britain) a national social club for veterans of the armed forces.
  • broad daylight — of great breadth: The river was too broad to swim across.
  • broken-hearted — Someone who is broken-hearted is very sad and upset because they have had a serious disappointment.
  • bronchial tube — Your bronchial tubes are the two tubes which connect your windpipe to your lungs.
  • bronchiectasis — chronic dilation of the bronchi or bronchial tubes, which often become infected
  • bronchodilator — any drug or other agent that causes dilation of the bronchial tubes by relaxing bronchial muscle: used, esp in the form of aerosol sprays, for the relief of asthma
  • bronchorrhagia — hemorrhage from the bronchial tubes.
  • bronchospastic — of or relating to bronchospasms
  • brother-in-law — Someone's brother-in-law is the brother of their husband or wife, or the man who is married to their sister.
  • brown bullhead — a freshwater catfish, Ictalurus nebulosus, of eastern North America, having an olive to brown body with dark markings on the sides.
  • brown thrasher — a common large songbird, Toxostoma rufum, of the eastern U.S., having reddish-brown plumage.
  • browntail moth — kind of moth
  • brushed cotton — cotton fabric that is brushed to remove excess lint and fibres to leave a soft, smooth finish
  • burghley house — an Elizabethan mansion near Stamford in Lincolnshire: seat of the Cecil family; site of the annual Burghley Horse Trials
  • business hours — Business hours are the hours of the day in which a shop or a company is open for business.
  • butcher's shop — a shop dedicated to the selling of meat
  • button-through — (of a dress or skirt) fastened with buttons from top to hem
  • calendar month — A calendar month is one of the twelve months of the year.
  • camphor laurel — an Australian name for the camphor tree, now occurring in the wild in parts of Australia
  • camphoric acid — a whitish crystallizable substance derived from the oxidization of camphor, used in solution in medicine as an antiseptic. Formula: C10H16O4
  • canonical hour — one of the seven prayer times appointed for each day by canon law
  • cardiomyopathy — a disease of the heart muscle usually caused by a biochemical defect or a toxin such as alcohol
  • cardiothoracic — of or relating to the heart and the chest
  • carnarvonshire — Caernarvon.
  • carpenter moth — any of various large moths of the family Cossidae, the larvae of which bore beneath and cause damage to tree bark
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