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14-letter words containing t, h, b

  • elder brethren — the senior members of the governing body of Trinity House
  • 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.
  • ethnobotanists — Plural form of ethnobotanist.
  • exhaustibility — The property of being exhaustible.
  • exhibitionists — Plural form of exhibitionist.
  • extinguishable — Able to be extinguished.
  • extra-base hit — any hit greater than a single; double, triple, or home run
  • family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
  • fashionability — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
  • featherbedding — the practice of requiring an employer to hire unnecessary employees, to assign unnecessary work, or to limit production according to a union rule or safety statute: Featherbedding forced the railroads to employ firemen on diesel locomotives.
  • featherbrained — Alternative spelling of feather-brained.
  • 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.
  • fighter-bomber — an aircraft that combines the functions of a fighter and a bomber.
  • 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
  • football match — a match played between two football teams
  • football pitch — ground where soccer is played
  • for the better — by way of improvement
  • force of habit — behavior occurring without thought and by virtue of constant repetition; habit.
  • foster brother — a boy brought up with another child of different parents.
  • get hold of sb — If you get hold of someone, you manage to contact them.
  • get the bounce — to dismiss or be dismissed from a job
  • 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.
  • go to bed with — a piece of furniture upon which or within which a person sleeps, rests, or stays when not well.
  • 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.
  • grow the beard — (of a TV series) to gain credibility or improve in quality during the course of a series following a specified development
  • 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.
  • 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 basso — Hamilton, 1904–64, U.S. journalist and novelist.
  • hand's-breadth — handbreadth
  • handbrake turn — a turn sharply reversing the direction of a vehicle by speedily applying the handbrake while turning the steering wheel
  • hanging basket — suspended woven container for plants
  • harbour master — an official in charge of a harbour
  • harriet tubman — Harriet (Araminta) 1820?–1913, U.S. abolitionist: escaped slave and leader of the Underground Railroad; served as a Union scout during Civil War.
  • 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 bought it — to be killed
  • 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.
  • health problem — ailment or disorder
  • heath robinson — (of a mechanical device) absurdly complicated in design and having a simple function
  • heavy breather — a person who breathes stertorously or with difficulty
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