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14-letter words containing h, y, b, r

  • hydrobiologist — someone who studies or specializes in hydrobiology
  • hydrophobicity — (chemistry, uncountable) The condition of being hydrophobic.
  • hydroxybenzene — phenol (def 1).
  • hydroxybenzoic — (organic chemistry) Of or pertaining to hydroxybenzoic acid or its derivatives.
  • hydroxybutyric — Of or pertaining to the hydroxybutyric acids or their derivatives.
  • hyperbarically — in a hyperbaric manner
  • hyperbatically — in a hyperbatic manner
  • hyperbolically — having the nature of hyperbole; exaggerated.
  • hyperexcitable — an excessive reaction to stimuli.
  • hyperirritable — extreme irritability.
  • hypermetabolic — of, relating to, or affected by metabolism.
  • hyperpermeable — Having higher than normal permeability.
  • indecipherably — not decipherable; illegible.
  • inheritability — capable of being inherited.
  • irreproachably — In an irreproachable manner; blamelessly.
  • labyrinth fish — any of several freshwater fishes of the order Labyrinthi, found in southeastern Asia and Africa, having a labyrinthine structure above each gill chamber enabling them to breathe air while out of water.
  • labyrinthodont — any member of several orders of small to large lizardlike terrestrial and freshwater amphibians, some ancestral to land vertebrates, forming the extinct subclass Labyrinthodonta that flourished from the Devonian through the Triassic periods, characterized by a solid, flattened skull and conical teeth.
  • learn by heart — memorize
  • lee's birthday — Jan. 19, Robert E. Lee's birthday, a legal holiday in several Southern states
  • methyl bromide — a colorless, poisonous gas, CH 3 Br, used chiefly as a solvent, refrigerant, and fumigant and in organic synthesis.
  • military brush — one of a pair of matched hairbrushes having no handles, especially for men and boys.
  • phenylcarbinol — benzyl alcohol.
  • raspberry bush — a bush on which raspberries grow
  • red chokeberry — See under chokeberry (def 1).
  • rhombenporphyr — an intermediate igneous rock embedded with rhombus-shaped crystals
  • scheme library — (library)   (SLIB) A portable Scheme library providing compatibiliy and utility functions for all standard Scheme implementations. Version 2c5 supports Bigloo, Chez, ELK, GAMBIT, MacScheme, MITScheme, PocketScheme, RScheme, Scheme->C, Scheme48, SCM, SCSH, T3.1, UMB-Scheme, and VSCM.
  • school library — a library within a school where teachers and students have access to books and other resources
  • sherry cobbler — a cobbler drink made with sherry, sliced fruits, and ice.
  • siberian husky — one of a Siberian breed of medium-size dogs having a thick, soft coat, raised originally as sled dogs.
  • sobriety coach — a person who is employed to help another to refrain from drinking alcohol
  • stretchability — to draw out or extend (oneself, a body, limbs, wings, etc.) to the full length or extent (often followed by out): to stretch oneself out on the ground.
  • symmetrophobia — an avoidance of symmetry, esp in Japanese art and Egyptian temples
  • telegraph buoy — a buoy placed over an underwater telegraph cable.
  • the upper body — the part of the body above the waist
  • thermolability — the state of being unstable or subject to transformation or destruction when heated
  • three-way bulb — a light bulb that can be switched to three successive degrees of illumination.
  • threepenny bit — a twelve-sided British coin of nickel-brass, valued at three old pence, obsolete since 1971
  • throw a wobbly — to become suddenly very agitated or angry
  • treasury bench — (in Britain) the front bench to the right of the Speaker in the House of Commons, traditionally reserved for members of the Government
  • turbomachinery — machinery consisting of, incorporating, or constituting a turbine
  • ubv photometry — the photometric measurement of the color index of a star, using ultraviolet, blue, and visual (yellow) filters.
  • vasoinhibitory — an agent, as a drug, that inhibits the action of the vasomotor nerves.
  • weatherability — the property of a material that permits it to endure or resist exposure to the weather.
  • white mulberry — See under mulberry (def 2).
  • witchetty grub — the large white larva of any of several species of moth and beetle of Australia, especially of the moth genus Cossus, occurring in decaying wood and traditionally used as food by Aborigines.
  • yorkshire bond — flying bond.
  • zygobranchiate — of or relating to zygobranchs or the Zygobranchia genus
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