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14-letter words containing r, h, n

  • ban-the-bomber — a person who vigorously advocates banning the development or use of nuclear weapons.
  • banach algebra — (mathematics)   An algebra in which the vector space is a Banach space.
  • bang to rights — caught red-handed
  • banker's check — cashier's check.
  • bare ownership — ownership of a piece of property without the right to use and derive profit from that property
  • bargain hunter — A bargain hunter is someone who is looking for goods that are value for money, usually because they are on sale at a lower price than normal.
  • bark chippings — small pieces of tree bark used chiefly for pathways in gardens or woodland
  • basting thread — inexpensive, loosely twisted thread that can be easily pulled out when permanent stitching is in place
  • bathing trunks — Bathing trunks are shorts that a man wears when he goes swimming.
  • bayonet charge — a charge by riflemen with fixed bayonets
  • be in the wars — If someone has been in the wars, they have been injured, for example in a fight or in an accident.
  • be riding high — If you say that someone or something is riding high, you mean that they are popular or successful at the present time.
  • bean bag chair — a small cloth bag filled with dried beans, as for tossing in various children's games.
  • bean-bag chair — a small cloth bag filled with dried beans, as for tossing in various children's games.
  • bearer channel — (communications)   Originally, a channel suited for carrying one voice-grade connection. Typically a DS0 channel. Compare data channel. (1997-03-7)
  • belo horizonte — a city in SE Brazil, the capital of Minas Gerais state. Pop: 5 304 000 (2005 est)
  • bend the rules — to ignore rules or change them to suit one's own convenience
  • benzanthracene — a carcinogenic hydrocarbon
  • beta-endorphin — a potent endorphin released by the anterior pituitary gland in response to pain, trauma, exercise, or other forms of stress.
  • bipartisanship — representing, characterized by, or including members from two parties or factions: Government leaders hope to achieve a bipartisan foreign policy.
  • birthing chair — a chair constructed to allow a woman in labour to give birth in a sitting position
  • birthing stool — a stool constructed to allow a woman in labour to give birth in a sitting position
  • black panthers — (in the US) a militant Black political party founded in 1965 to end the political dominance of White people
  • blade-shearing — the shearing of sheep using hand shears
  • bleeding heart — If you describe someone as a bleeding heart, you are criticizing them for being sympathetic towards people who are poor and suffering, without doing anything practical to help.
  • bletheranskate — a blatherer
  • board chairman — the chairman of the board of a company, etc
  • boarding house — A boarding house is a house which people pay to stay in for a short time.
  • bony labyrinth — an intricate combination of paths or passages in which it is difficult to find one's way or to reach the exit. Synonyms: maze, network, web.
  • boolean search — (information science)   (Or "Boolean query") A query using the Boolean operators, AND, OR, and NOT, and parentheses to construct a complex condition from simpler criteria. A typical example is searching for combinatons of keywords on a web search engine. Examples: car or automobile "New York" and not "New York state" The term is sometimes stretched to include searches using other operators, e.g. "near". Not to be confused with binary search. See also: weighted search.
  • boring machine — a machine that bores holes, tunnels, etc
  • bornyl alcohol — white solid alcohol from a Malaysian tree
  • bowstring hemp — a hemplike fibre obtained from the sansevieria
  • brachydiagonal — the shorter lateral axis of a rhombic prism
  • brachypinakoid — the side parallel to the shorter horizontal axis in a crystal
  • branch manager — a person who manages the local branch of a bank, shop, or other business
  • branch officer — (in the British navy since 1949) any officer who holds warrant
  • branched chain — an open chain of atoms with one or more side chains attached to it
  • branchial arch — Zoology. one of a series of bony or cartilaginous arches on each side of the pharynx that support the gills of fishes and aquatic amphibians; gill bar.
  • branchiostegal — of or relating to the operculum covering the gill slits of fish
  • brass farthing — something of little or no value
  • braunschweiger — a smoked liver sausage, named after the city of Braunschweig
  • break the bank — to ruin financially or deplete the resources of a bank (as in gambling)
  • break the news — announce sth
  • breathtakingly — thrillingly beautiful, remarkable, astonishing, exciting, or the like: a breathtaking performance.
  • brecknockshire — a historic county in S Wales, now part of Powys, Gwent, and Mid Glamorgan.
  • breech-loading — (of a firearm) loaded at the breech
  • bremsstrahlung — the radiation produced when an electrically charged particle, esp an electron, is slowed down by the electric field of an atomic nucleus or an atomic ion
  • bring sth home — To bring something home to someone means to make them understand how important or serious it is.
  • bring to light — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
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