15-letter words containing r, h, e, o, b
- bread and honey — money
- break the mould — If you say that someone breaks the mould, you mean that they do completely different things from what has been done before or from what is usually done.
- breaking plough — a plough with a long shallow mouldboard for turning virgin land or sod land
- bridge of sighs — a covered 16th-century bridge in Venice, between the Doges' Palace and the prisons, through which prisoners were formerly led to trial or execution
- bring to a head — to bring or be brought to a crisis
- bristol channel — an inlet of the Atlantic, between S Wales and SW England, merging into the Severn estuary. Length: about 137 km (85 miles)
- british telecom — the popular name for British Telecommunications Group plc, the dominant fixed line telecommunications and broadband internet provider in the United Kingdom
- brompheniramine — a substance, C 16 H 19 BrN 2 , used as an antihistamine in the management of various allergies, as hay fever.
- bronchial tubes — the bronchi or their smaller divisions
- brother-in-arms — a fellow soldier or comrade in a shared struggle
- bughouse square — Informal. any intersection or park mall in a big city where political zealots, agitators, folk evangelists, etc., congregate to argue and make soapbox speeches.
- bullnose header — bull header (def 1).
- bullnose-header — Also called bullnose header. a brick having one of the edges across its width rounded for laying as a header in a sill or the like.
- bullock's heart — the large, edible fruit of a tropical American tree, Annona reticulata.
- bullock's-heart — the large, edible fruit of a tropical American tree, Annona reticulata.
- butcher's-broom — a liliaceous evergreen shrub, Ruscus aculeatus, that has stiff prickle-tipped flattened green stems, which resemble and function as true leaves. The plant was formerly used for making brooms
- catchment board — a public body concerned with the conservation and organization of water supply from a catchment area
- chamber concert — a concert of chamber music
- chamber counsel — a counsel who advises in private and does not plead in court
- chandler wobble — a slight, irregular nutation of the earth's rotational axis with a period of c. 428 days
- charcoal burner — (formerly) a person whose work was making charcoal by burning
- charcoal-burner — a device that burns charcoal, as a stove or brazier.
- charles coulomb — Charles Augustin de [sharl oh-gy-stan duh] /ʃarl oʊ güˈstɛ̃ də/ (Show IPA), 1736–1806, French physicist and inventor.
- chicken lobster — a young lobster weighing 1 pound (0.4 kg) or less.
- chocolate brown — a dark brown
- chromosome band — any of the transverse bands that appear on a chromosome after staining. The banding pattern is unique to each type of chromosome, allowing characterization
- cobble together — If you say that someone has cobbled something together, you mean that they have made or produced it roughly or quickly.
- computer-phobia — a person who distrusts or is intimidated by computers.
- corn on the cob — Corn on the cob is the long rounded part of the maize or corn plant on which small yellow seeds grow, and which is eaten as a vegetable.
- 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.
- dichlorobenzene — any of a group of three insoluble isomeric chemical compounds used in solvents, insecticides, and dyes
- dithiocarbamate — any salt or ester of dithiocarbamic acid, commonly used as fungicides
- dorsibranchiate — having branchiae or gills along the back
- drop handlebars — aerodynamic handlebars that drop down and curve towards the rider at the ends rather than turning upwards as on conventional bicycles
- eleutherophobia — the fear of freedom
- eleutherophobic — afraid of freedom
- everly brothers — the. US pop singing duo comprising Don Everly (born 1937) and Phil Everly 1939–2014, noted for their close harmonies
- fair-haired boy — having light-colored hair.
- 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.
- ferrihemoglobin — methemoglobin.
- flowering shrub — any shrub that produces flowers
- fourth republic — the republic established in France in 1945 and replaced by the Fifth Republic in 1958.
- globe artichoke — artichoke (defs 1, 2).
- go by the board — If something goes by the board, it is rejected or ignored, or is no longer possible.
- great south bay — an Atlantic Ocean inlet, between the S shore of Long Island and Fire Island and other barrier islands. 45 miles (72 km) long.
- haemoglobinuria — the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
- haemoglobinuric — relating to the presence of haemoglobin in the urine