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

  • bacteriophages — Plural form of bacteriophage.
  • 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.
  • ban-the-bomber — a person who vigorously advocates banning the development or use of nuclear weapons.
  • bang to rights — caught red-handed
  • barbados earth — a diatomaceous marl found in Barbados
  • barometrograph — barograph.
  • barrier method — Barrier methods of contraception involve the use of condoms, diaphragms, or other devices that physically prevent the sperm from reaching the egg.
  • batrachophobia — fear of amphibians
  • batrachophobic — relating to the fear of toads and frogs
  • bayes' theorem — the fundamental result which expresses the conditional probability P(E/A) of an event E given an event A as P(A/E).P(E)/P(A); more generally, where En is one of a set of values Ei which partition the sample space, P(En/A) = P(A/En)P(En)/Σ P(A/Ei)P(Ei). This enables prior estimates of probability to be continually revised in the light of observations
  • bayonet charge — a charge by riflemen with fixed bayonets
  • belo horizonte — a city in SE Brazil, the capital of Minas Gerais state. Pop: 5 304 000 (2005 est)
  • bermuda shorts — close-fitting shorts that come down to the knees
  • 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.
  • bill of rights — A Bill of Rights is a written list of citizens' rights which is usually part of the constitution of a country.
  • 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
  • blepharoplasty — cosmetic surgery performed on the eyelid
  • 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.
  • bored to death — very weary and lack stimulation
  • 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
  • branchiostegal — of or relating to the operculum covering the gill slits of fish
  • break the mold — If you say that someone breaks the mold, you mean that they do completely different things from what has been done before or from what is usually done.
  • breakfast show — a radio or television broadcast that airs around breakfast time
  • breathe a word — to say something or anything
  • 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 legion — (in Britain) a national social club for veterans of the armed forces.
  • broad daylight — of great breadth: The river was too broad to swim across.
  • broken-hearted — Someone who is broken-hearted is very sad and upset because they have had a serious disappointment.
  • 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.
  • brown thrasher — a common large songbird, Toxostoma rufum, of the eastern U.S., having reddish-brown plumage.
  • browntail moth — kind of moth
  • brushed cotton — cotton fabric that is brushed to remove excess lint and fibres to leave a soft, smooth finish
  • butcher's shop — a shop dedicated to the selling of meat
  • button-through — (of a dress or skirt) fastened with buttons from top to hem
  • calendar month — A calendar month is one of the twelve months of the year.
  • cardiomyopathy — a disease of the heart muscle usually caused by a biochemical defect or a toxin such as alcohol
  • cardiothoracic — of or relating to the heart and the chest
  • carpenter moth — any of various large moths of the family Cossidae, the larvae of which bore beneath and cause damage to tree bark
  • cartographical — Pertaining to cartography.
  • cartoonishness — The state or condition of being cartoonish.
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