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14-letter words containing s, a, b, t, h

  • burschenschaft — a students' fraternity, originally one concerned with Christian ideals, patriotism, etc
  • bush carpenter — a rough-and-ready unskilled workman
  • bush telegraph — a means of communication between primitive peoples over large areas, as by drum beats
  • by a long shot — People sometimes use the expression by a long shot to emphasize the opinion they are giving.
  • cable's length — a unit of length in nautical use that has various values, including 100 fathoms (600 feet)
  • charitableness — (uncountable) The quality of being charitable.
  • charles albert — 1798–1849, king of Sardinia-Piedmont (1831–49) during the Risorgimento: abdicated after the failure of his revolt against Austria
  • charles talbotCharles, Duke of Shrewsbury, 1660–1718, British statesman: prime minister 1714.
  • cheesebox seat — a chair seat, usually of rush, having a rounded form and surrounded with a thin strip of wood.
  • chicken breast — pigeon breast
  • chimney breast — A chimney breast is the part of a wall in a room which is built out round a chimney.
  • christiansburg — a town in SW Virginia.
  • christmas bush — any of various trees or shrubs flowering at Christmas and used for decoration
  • christmas club — a savings account in a bank in which regular deposits are made, usually throughout one year, as to provide funds for Christmas shopping.
  • christmasberry — toyon.
  • claustrophobes — Plural form of claustrophobe.
  • claustrophobia — Someone who suffers from claustrophobia feels very uncomfortable or anxious when they are in small or enclosed places.
  • claustrophobic — You describe a place or situation as claustrophobic when it makes you feel uncomfortable and unhappy because you are enclosed or restricted.
  • clothes basket — a basket for storing and transporting clothes that need washing, or have been washed
  • daughterboards — Plural form of daughterboard.
  • de haut en bas — with haughtiness; condescendingly
  • death benefits — Death benefits are the amount of money that an insurance policy will pay upon the death of the person whose life is being insured.
  • deathbed scene — a depiction in art or literature of events that take place at somebody's deathbed
  • discharge tube — gas tube.
  • disestablished — Simple past tense and past participle of disestablish.
  • disestablishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disestablish.
  • draughts board — A draughts board is a square board for playing draughts, with 64 equal-sized, black and white squares.
  • draw the crabs — to attract unwelcome attention
  • dunbartonshire — a historical county of W Scotland: became part of Strathclyde region in 1975; administered since 1996 by the council areas of East Dunbartonshire and West Dunbartonshire
  • erythroblastic — Relating to erythroblasts.
  • establishments — Plural form of establishment.
  • ethnobotanists — Plural form of ethnobotanist.
  • exhaustibility — The property of being exhaustible.
  • extinguishable — Able to be extinguished.
  • extra-base hit — any hit greater than a single; double, triple, or home run
  • fashionability — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
  • flabberghasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabberghast.
  • ghetto blaster — a large, powerful portable radio, especially as carried and played by a pedestrian or used outdoors in an urban area.
  • haight-ashbury — a district of San Francisco, in the central part of the city: a center for hippies and the drug culture in the 1960s.
  • hair's breadth — A hair's breadth is a very small degree or amount.
  • hair's-breadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
  • hamilton bassoHamilton, 1904–64, U.S. journalist and novelist.
  • hand's-breadth — handbreadth
  • hanging basket — suspended woven container for plants
  • harbour master — an official in charge of a harbour
  • hastings banda — Hastings Kamuzu [kah-moo-zoo] /kɑˈmu zu/ (Show IPA), 1906–97, Malawi physician, political leader, and public official: 1st president of Malawi 1966–94.
  • hats off to sb — If you say 'Hats off to someone', you are expressing admiration for them.
  • have a bash at — to make an attempt at
  • have sth on sb — If someone has something on you, they have evidence that you have done something wrong or bad. If they have nothing on you, they cannot prove that you have done anything wrong or bad.
  • heath robinson — (of a mechanical device) absurdly complicated in design and having a simple function
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