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15-letter words containing l, h, e, b

  • climb the walls — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
  • close the books — to balance accounts in order to prepare a statement or report
  • cobble together — If you say that someone has cobbled something together, you mean that they have made or produced it roughly or quickly.
  • copenhagen blue — a greyish-blue colour
  • council chamber — the room in which council meetings are held
  • crude oil berth — A crude oil berth is a place at a port for ships carrying crude oil.
  • cybertechnology — Computer technology, especially that which involves the Internet or cyberspace.
  • decipherability — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
  • deerfield beach — a town in S Florida.
  • deoxyhemoglobin — the oxygen-carrying pigment of red blood cells that gives them their red color and serves to convey oxygen to the tissues: occurs in reduced form (deoxyhemoglobin) in venous blood and in combination with oxygen (oxyhemoglobin) in arterial blood. Symbol: Hb.
  • detachable lens — a lens on a digital camera that can be separated from the camera itself, making it easier for the photographer to take certain types of shot. A cable usually connects the disconnected lens and camera
  • developing bath — an amount of photographic developer into which photographic film or paper is inserted
  • dichlorobenzene — any of a group of three insoluble isomeric chemical compounds used in solvents, insecticides, and dyes
  • dimethylbenzene — xylene.
  • disestablishing — Present participle of disestablish.
  • distinguishable — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • double-declutch — to change to a lower gear in a motor vehicle by first placing the gear lever into the neutral position before engaging the desired gear, at the same time releasing the clutch pedal and increasing the engine speed
  • drop handlebars — aerodynamic handlebars that drop down and curve towards the rider at the ends rather than turning upwards as on conventional bicycles
  • eight-bit clean — (software)   A term which describes a system that deals correctly with extended character sets which (unlike ASCII) use all eight bits of a byte. Many programs and communications systems assume that all characters have codes in the range 0 to 127. This leaves the top bit of each byte free for use as a parity bit or some kind of flag bit. These assumptions break down when the program is used in some non-english-speaking countries with larger alphabets. If a binary file is transmitted via a communications link which is not eight-bit clean, it will be corrupted. To combat this you can encode it with uuencode which uses only ASCII characters. There are some links however which are not even "seven-bit clean" and cause problems even for uuencoded data.
  • eleutherophobia — the fear of freedom
  • eleutherophobic — afraid of freedom
  • english bulldog — bulldog (sense 1)
  • ethyl carbamate — a colourless odourless crystalline ester that is used in the manufacture of pesticides, fungicides, and pharmaceuticals. Formula: CO(NH2)OC2H5
  • everly brothers — the. US pop singing duo comprising Don Everly (born 1937) and Phil Everly 1939–2014, noted for their close harmonies
  • exchangeability — The condition of being exchangeable.
  • exhibition hall — a hall in which pictures, sculptures, or other objects of interest are displayed
  • false buckthorn — a spiny shrub or small tree, Bumelia lanuginosa, of the sapodilla family, native to the southern U.S., having gummy, milky sap and white, bell-shaped flowers and yielding a hard, light-brown wood.
  • false hellebore — any of various plants belonging to the genus Veratrum, of the lily family, especially a North American species, V. viride, which has clusters of yellowish-green flowers and is the source of substances used in certain medicines and insecticides.
  • fashionableness — The state of being fashionable; stylishness; elegance.
  • ferrihemoglobin — methemoglobin.
  • finger alphabet — a series of shapes made by the fingers that indicate letters of an alphabet and can be used in fingerspelling for the deaf
  • flemish brabant — a province of central Belgium, formed in 1995 from the N part of Brabant province: densely populated and intensively farmed, with large industrial centres. Pop: 1 031 904 (2004 est). Area: 2106 sq km (813 sq miles)
  • flesh and blood — offspring or relatives: one's own flesh and blood.
  • flowering shrub — any shrub that produces flowers
  • fourth republic — the republic established in France in 1945 and replaced by the Fifth Republic in 1958.
  • french mulberry — a shrub, Callicarpa americana, of the verbena family, of the south-central U.S. and the West Indies, having violet-colored fruit and bluish flowers.
  • ghetto fabulous — pertaining to or noting a lifestyle of showy but superficial glamour and luxury that is sometimes adopted by people in or from an urban ghetto: That man is just ghetto-fabulous; his bling wears bling!
  • ghetto-fabulous — pertaining to or noting a lifestyle of showy but superficial glamour and luxury that is sometimes adopted by people in or from an urban ghetto: That man is just ghetto-fabulous; his bling wears bling!
  • gladbach-rheydt — a former city in W Germany; now part of Mönchengladbach.
  • globe artichoke — artichoke (defs 1, 2).
  • globe lightning — ball lightning.
  • go to the block — to be beheaded
  • haemoglobinuria — the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
  • haemoglobinuric — relating to the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
  • half the battle — If you say that something is half the battle, you mean that it is the most important step towards achieving something.
  • half-remembered — (of a memory, idea, etc) partially remembered or recalled
  • halting problem — The problem of determining in advance whether a particular program or algorithm will terminate or run forever. The halting problem is the canonical example of a provably unsolvable problem. Obviously any attempt to answer the question by actually executing the algorithm or simulating each step of its execution will only give an answer if the algorithm under consideration does terminate, otherwise the algorithm attempting to answer the question will itself run forever. Some special cases of the halting problem are partially solvable given sufficient resources. For example, if it is possible to record the complete state of the execution of the algorithm at each step and the current state is ever identical to some previous state then the algorithm is in a loop. This might require an arbitrary amount of storage however. Alternatively, if there are at most N possible different states then the algorithm can run for at most N steps without looping. A program analysis called termination analysis attempts to answer this question for limited kinds of input algorithm.
  • hard-boiled egg — egg boiled until the yolk is set
  • hard-shell crab — a crab, especially an edible crab, that has not recently molted and has a hard shell.
  • harlequin table — a writing or dressing table having a central set of compartments that rise when drop leaves are raised.
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