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14-letter words containing t, h, i, r

  • baltimore chop — a batted ball that takes a high bounce upon hitting the ground on or immediately in front of home plate, often enabling the batter to reach first base safely.
  • bang to rights — caught red-handed
  • 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.
  • barium-hydrate — Also called calcined baryta, barium oxide, barium monoxide, barium protoxide. a white or yellowish-white poisonous solid, BaO, highly reactive with water: used chiefly as a dehydrating agent and in the manufacture of glass.
  • barrel shifter — (hardware)   A hardware device that can shift or rotate a data word by any number of bits in a single operation. It is implemented like a multiplexor, each output can be connected to any input depending on the shift distance.
  • barrier method — Barrier methods of contraception involve the use of condoms, diaphragms, or other devices that physically prevent the sperm from reaching the egg.
  • 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.
  • bathygraphical — (of a maps) representing the contours of the seabed
  • batrachophobia — fear of amphibians
  • batrachophobic — relating to the fear of toads and frogs
  • be cursed with — to be afflicted with; suffer from
  • 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 struck with — to be attracted to or impressed by
  • belo horizonte — a city in SE Brazil, the capital of Minas Gerais state. Pop: 5 304 000 (2005 est)
  • beta-endorphin — a potent endorphin released by the anterior pituitary gland in response to pain, trauma, exercise, or other forms of stress.
  • big brotherism — paternalistic authoritarianism that seeks to supply the needs and regulate the conduct of people.
  • big red switch — (jargon)   (BRS) IBM jargon for the power switch on a computer, especially the "Emergency Pull" switch on an IBM mainframe or the power switch on an IBM PC where it really is large and red. "This [email protected]%$% bitty box is hung again; time to hit the Big Red Switch." It is alleged that the emergency pull switch on an IBM 360/91 actually fired a non-conducting bolt into the main power feed; the BRSes on more recent mainframes physically drop a block into place so that they can't be pushed back in. People get fired for pulling them, especially inappropriately (see also molly-guard). Compare power cycle, three-finger salute, 120 reset; see also scram switch.
  • bill of rights — A Bill of Rights is a written list of citizens' rights which is usually part of the constitution of a country.
  • bipartisanship — representing, characterized by, or including members from two parties or factions: Government leaders hope to achieve a bipartisan foreign policy.
  • birthday party — a party to celebrate someone's birthday
  • 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
  • bishop's mitre — a European heteropterous bug, Aelia acuminata, whose larvae are a pest of cereal grasses: family Pentatomidae
  • blacktip shark — a widely distributed sand shark, Charcharinus limbatus, having fins that appear to have been dipped in ink, inhabiting shallow waters of warm seas.
  • 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.
  • body of christ — the Christian Church
  • 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.
  • bosworth field — the site, two miles south of Market Bosworth in Leicestershire, of the battle that ended the Wars of the Roses (August 1485). Richard III was killed and Henry Tudor was crowned king as Henry VII
  • bowstring hemp — a hemplike fibre obtained from the sansevieria
  • brachydactylia — abnormal shortness of the fingers and toes.
  • brachydactylic — having abnormally short fingers or toes
  • branchiostegal — of or relating to the operculum covering the gill slits of fish
  • brass farthing — something of little or no value
  • breathtakingly — thrillingly beautiful, remarkable, astonishing, exciting, or the like: a breathtaking performance.
  • brewster chair — a chair of 17th-century New England having heavy turned uprights with vertical turned spindles filling in the back, the space beneath the arms, and the spaces between the legs.
  • 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.
  • british dollar — any of several coins formerly issued by the British Empire for use in certain territories, as the Straits dollar or the Hong Kong dollar.
  • british empire — (formerly) the United Kingdom and the territories under its control, which reached its greatest extent at the end of World War I when it embraced over a quarter of the world's population and more than a quarter of the world's land surface
  • british guiana — Guyana
  • british legion — (in Britain) a national social club for veterans of the armed forces.
  • british malaya — a comprehensive term for the former British possessions on the Malay Peninsula and the Malay Archipelago: now part of Malaysia.
  • british museum — a museum in London, founded in 1753: contains one of the world's richest collections of antiquities and (until 1997) most of the British Library
  • broad daylight — of great breadth: The river was too broad to swim across.
  • bronchial tube — Your bronchial tubes are the two tubes which connect your windpipe to your lungs.
  • bronchiectasis — chronic dilation of the bronchi or bronchial tubes, which often become infected
  • bronchodilator — any drug or other agent that causes dilation of the bronchial tubes by relaxing bronchial muscle: used, esp in the form of aerosol sprays, for the relief of asthma
  • bronchospastic — of or relating to bronchospasms
  • brother-in-law — Someone's brother-in-law is the brother of their husband or wife, or the man who is married to their sister.
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