14-letter words containing l, h, e, b
- cholera morbus — gastroenteritis
- church visible — the entire body of Christian believers on earth.
- clabber cheese — cottage cheese.
- claustrophobes — Plural form of claustrophobe.
- climb the wall — If you say that you are climbing the walls, you are emphasizing that you feel very frustrated, nervous, or anxious.
- climbing perch — any of a genus (Anabas) of freshwater gouramies of Southeast Asia and Africa that can live out of water briefly and travel short distances over land
- clincher-built — clinker-built (def 2).
- clothes basket — a basket for storing and transporting clothes that need washing, or have been washed
- colby (cheese) — a variety of cheese similar to Cheddar but softer, moister, and more porous
- comprehendable — Misspelling of comprehensible.
- comprehendible — comprehensible
- comprehensible — Something that is comprehensible can be understood.
- comprehensibly — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
- cyberthrillers — Plural form of cyberthriller.
- czech republic — a country in central Europe; formed part of Czechoslovakia until 1993; mostly wooded, with lowlands surrounding the River Morava, rising to the Bohemian plateau in the W and to highlands in the N; joined the EU in 2004. Language: Czech. Religion: Christian majority. Currency: koruna. Capital Prague. Pop: 10 162 921 (2013 est). Area: 78 864 sq km (30 450 sq miles)
- dehabilitation — (sociology) The process of social estrangement and progressive loosening of social bonds between an individual and his family and society as a result of long-term residence in an institution.
- disestablished — Simple past tense and past participle of disestablish.
- disestablishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disestablish.
- double harness — harness for a pair of horses.
- eat humble pie — humility forced upon someone, often under embarrassing conditions; humiliation.
- elder brethren — the senior members of the governing body of Trinity House
- embellishingly — in an embellishing manner
- embellishments — A decorative detail or feature added to something to make it more attractive.
- erythroblastic — Relating to erythroblasts.
- establishments — Plural form of establishment.
- ethnobotanical — Of or pertaining to ethnobotany.
- exhaustibility — The property of being exhaustible.
- extinguishable — Able to be extinguished.
- eyeball search — (jargon) (Or vgrep) To look for something in a mass of code or data with one's own native optical sensors, as opposed to using some sort of pattern matching software like grep or any other automated search tool. Compare vdiff, desk check.
- family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
- fichtelgebirge — a mountain range in E central Germany, near the Czech border. Highest peak, Schneeberg, 3447 feet (1051 meters).
- fifth republic — the republic established in France in 1958, the successor to the Fourth Republic.
- flabberghasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabberghast.
- fonthill abbey — a ruined Gothic Revival mansion in Wiltshire: rebuilt (1790–1810) for William Beckford by James Wyatt; the main tower collapsed in 1800 and, after rebuilding, again in 1827
- french bulldog — one of a French breed of small, bat-eared dogs having a large, square head, a short tail, and a short, sleek coat.
- gambling house — a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
- get hold of sb — If you get hold of someone, you manage to contact them.
- ghetto blaster — a large, powerful portable radio, especially as carried and played by a pedestrian or used outdoors in an urban area.
- globe amaranth — a plant, Gomphrena globosa, native to the Old World tropics, having dense heads of variously colored flowers that retain their color when cut.
- goliath beetle — any very large tropical scarabaeid beetle of the genus Goliathus, esp G. giganteus of Africa, which may grow to a length of 20 centimetres
- greek alphabet — the alphabetical script derived from a Semitic alphabet by way of the Phoenicians, used from about the 8th century b.c. for the writing of Greek, and forming the basis of many other scripts, including Latin and Cyrillic. The letters of the Greek alphabet are: alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu, nu1 , xi, omicron, pi1 , rho, sigma, tau, upsilon, phi, chi1 , psi1 , omega.
- hague tribunal — the court of arbitration for the peaceful settlement of international disputes, established at The Hague by the international peace conference of 1899: its panel of jurists nominates a list of persons from which members of the United Nations International Court of Justice are elected.
- half-submerged — under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium; inundated.
- he-huckleberry — swamp andromeda.
- health problem — ailment or disorder
- heaven help sb — You say 'Heaven help someone' when you are worried that something bad is going to happen to them, often because you disapprove of what they are doing or the way they are behaving.
- heidelberg jaw — a human lower jaw of early middle Pleistocene age found in 1907 near Heidelberg, Germany.
- heidelberg man — the primitive human being reconstructed from the Heidelberg jaw.
- helium balloon — a balloon that is filled with helium and rises up into the air if not held
- hemimetabolism — incomplete metamorphosis.