16-letter words containing h, y, b
- southerly buster — a sudden violent cold wind on the SE coast of Australia causing a rapid drop in temperature
- strawberry shrub — Carolina allspice
- synthetic cubism — the late phase of cubism, characterized chiefly by an increased use of color and the imitation or introduction of a wide range of textures and material into painting.
- synthetic rubber — any of several substances similar to natural rubber in properties and uses, produced by the polymerization of an unsaturated hydrocarbon, as butylene or isoprene, or by the copolymerization of such hydrocarbons with styrene, butadiene, or the like.
- take the liberty — do sth without permission
- 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
- that's as may be — even so
- 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.
- the easter bunny — the rabbit that brings Easter eggs
- the great gatsby — a novel (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
- 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.
- trinity brethren — the members of Trinity House
- typhoid bacillus — the bacterium Salmonella typhosa, causing typhoid fever.
- uninhabitability — to live or dwell in (a place), as people or animals: Small animals inhabited the woods.
- whiptail wallaby — a wallaby of NE Australia, Macropus parryi, with a long slender tail
- 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.