16-letter words containing t, h, o, n, b
- run the blockade — to go past or through a blockade
- semi-hibernation — Zoology. to spend the winter in close quarters in a dormant condition, as bears and certain other animals. Compare estivate.
- shoot one's bolt — a movable bar or rod that when slid into a socket fastens a door, gate, etc.
- siberian mammoth — a shaggy-coated mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius, that lived in cold regions across Eurasia and North America during the Ice Age, known from fossils, cave paintings, and well-preserved frozen carcasses.
- slap on the back — to congratulate
- smooth breathing — a symbol (') used in the writing of Greek to indicate that the initial vowel over which it is placed is unaspirated.
- south burlington — a town in NW Vermont.
- southern baptist — a member of the Southern Baptist Convention, founded in Augusta, Georgia, in 1845, that is strictly Calvinistic and active in religious publishing and education.
- st. john's-bread — carob (def 2).
- teachable moment — a specific occurrence, situation, or experience that can be used to teach people about something more general: Her death created a teachable moment about prescription drug abuse.
- telephone number — digits dialled to reach sb by phone
- the amazon basin — the catchment area of the River Amazon
- the boys in blue — The police are sometimes referred to as the boys in blue.
- the eastern bloc — (formerly) the Soviet bloc
- the foreign-born — immigrants of a country
- the next but one — the one after the next
- the subconscious — subconscious mental activity
- the unobservable — something that cannot be observed
- thrombocytopenia — an abnormal decrease in the number of blood platelets.
- thumb one's nose — the short, thick, inner digit of the human hand, next to the forefinger.
- to beat the band — a company of persons or, sometimes, animals or things, joined, acting, or functioning together; aggregation; party; troop: a band of protesters.
- tobacco hornworm — the larva of a hawk moth, Manduca sexta, having a hornlike structure at its posterior end and feeding on the leaves of tobacco and other plants of the nightshade family.
- tracheobronchial — of, relating to, or affecting the trachea and bronchi.
- xaverian brother — a member of a congregation of Roman Catholic laymen bound by simple vows and dedicated to education.