15-letter words containing t, h, e, b
- bullock's-heart — the large, edible fruit of a tropical American tree, Annona reticulata.
- bun in the oven — in the womb
- business ethics — moral constraints on trading practices
- 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
- butterfly chair — a lightweight chair consisting of a piece of canvas, leather, etc. slung from a framework of metal bars
- buttress thread — a screw thread having one flank that is vertical while the other is inclined, and a flat top and bottom: used in machine tools and designed to withstand heavy thrust in one direction
- byzantine chant — liturgical plainsong identified with the Eastern Orthodox Church and dating from the Byzantine Empire.
- calabash nutmeg — a tropical African shrub, Monodora myristica, whose oily aromatic seeds can be used as nutmegs: family Annonaceae
- cannot help but — to be unable to do anything else except
- catchment board — a public body concerned with the conservation and organization of water supply from a catchment area
- center halfback — Field Hockey. the player in the middle among the halfbacks.
- chamber concert — a concert of chamber music
- characterizable — Able to be characterized.
- chestnut blight — a disease of chestnut trees, caused by a fungus (Endothia parasitica), that has virtually destroyed the American chestnut
- chestnut bottle — an American glass bottle or flask of the 19th century, having slightly flattened sides.
- chewing tobacco — tobacco, in the form of a plug, usually flavored, for chewing rather than smoking.
- chicken lobster — a young lobster weighing 1 pound (0.4 kg) or less.
- chief constable — A Chief Constable is the officer who is in charge of the police force in a particular county or area in Britain.
- child battering — child abuse in the form of battering
- child-battering — the physical abuse of a child by a parent or guardian, as by beating.
- chiller cabinet — a cupboard or chest in a shop where chilled foods and drinks are displayed and kept cool
- chocolate brown — a dark brown
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- debathification — The process of removing former members of the ruling Bath party of Iraq from the military and civil office following the ousting of w Saddam Hussein.
- decipherability — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
- 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
- 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.
- dithiocarbamate — any salt or ester of dithiocarbamic acid, commonly used as fungicides
- do the business — to achieve what is required
- dorsibranchiate — having branchiae or gills along the back
- 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
- 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
- ethyl carbamate — a colourless odourless crystalline ester that is used in the manufacture of pesticides, fungicides, and pharmaceuticals. Formula: CO(NH2)OC2H5
- eustachian tube — part of the ear
- 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 game — In sports, an exhibition game is a game that is not part of a competition, and is played for entertainment or practice, often without any serious effort to win.
- exhibition hall — a hall in which pictures, sculptures, or other objects of interest are displayed
- exhibitionistic — Having a tendency toward exhibitionism.