14-letter words containing t, u, b, h
- computerphobia — the fear or dislike of computers
- computerphobic — a computerphobe
- county borough — (in England and Wales from 1888 to 1974 and in Wales from 1996) a borough administered independently of any higher tier of local government
- daughterboards — Plural form of daughterboard.
- de haut en bas — with haughtiness; condescendingly
- debt of honour — a debt that is morally but not legally binding, such as one contracted in gambling
- discharge tube — gas tube.
- down the tubes — a hollow, usually cylindrical body of metal, glass, rubber, or other material, used especially for conveying or containing liquids or gases.
- draughts board — A draughts board is a square board for playing draughts, with 64 equal-sized, black and white squares.
- dunbartonshire — a historical county of W Scotland: became part of Strathclyde region in 1975; administered since 1996 by the council areas of East Dunbartonshire and West Dunbartonshire
- dutch cupboard — a buffet with open upper shelves.
- eat humble pie — humility forced upon someone, often under embarrassing conditions; humiliation.
- exhaustibility — The property of being exhaustible.
- extinguishable — Able to be extinguished.
- family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
- fifth republic — the republic established in France in 1958, the successor to the Fourth Republic.
- get the bounce — to dismiss or be dismissed from a job
- 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.
- handbrake turn — a turn sharply reversing the direction of a vehicle by speedily applying the handbrake while turning the steering wheel
- 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.
- have bought it — to be killed
- hebetudinosity — mental dullness; insipidity
- hemimetabolous — incomplete metamorphosis.
- hepburn system — a widely used system of Romanization of Japanese devised by James Curtis Hepburn (1815–1911).
- holding thumbs — holding the thumb of one hand with the other, in the hope of bringing good luck
- holometabolous — undergoing complete metamorphosis.
- how about that — delight, surprise
- hydroxybutyric — Of or pertaining to the hydroxybutyric acids or their derivatives.
- interbehaviour — interaction between multiple individuals
- khirbet qumran — an archaeological site in W Jordan, near the NW coast of the Dead Sea: Dead Sea Scrolls found here 1947.
- left-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the left or port side.
- master butcher — a butcher who is fully qualified to practise his trade and to train others in it
- methylene blue — a dark-green, crystalline compound, C 1 6 H 1 8 ClN 3 S, that dissolves in water to form a deep-blue solution: used chiefly as a dye, as a bacteriological and biological stain, and as an antidote for cyanide poisoning.
- military brush — one of a pair of matched hairbrushes having no handles, especially for men and boys.
- miller's thumb — any of several small, freshwater sculpins of the genus Cottus, of Europe and North America.
- miller's-thumb — any of several small, freshwater sculpins of the genus Cottus, of Europe and North America.
- mother hubbard — a full, loose gown, usually fitted at the shoulders, worn by women.
- multichambered — comprising or involving several chambers
- multiple birth — a birth at which two or more children are born at the same time
- nip in the bud — Botany. a small axillary or terminal protuberance on a plant, containing rudimentary foliage (leaf bud) the rudimentary inflorescence (flower bud) or both (mixed bud) an undeveloped or rudimentary stem or branch of a plant.
- northumberland — a county in NE England. 1943 sq. mi. (5030 sq. km).
- nudibranchiate — nudibranch.
- on the rebound — to bound or spring back from force of impact.
- or thereabouts — You add or thereabouts after a number or date to indicate that it is approximate.
- out of the box — a container, case, or receptacle, usually rectangular, of wood, metal, cardboard, etc., and often with a lid or removable cover.
- outer hebrides — a group of islands (Inner Hebrides and Outer Hebrides) off the W coast of and belonging to Scotland. About 2900 sq. mi. (7500 sq. km).
- phenylbutazone — a potent substance, C 1 9 H 2 0 N 2 O 2 , used to reduce pain and inflammation in rheumatic diseases and gout, and used in veterinary medicine for musculoskeletal disorders.
- pocket borough — (before the Reform Bill of 1832) any English borough whose representatives in Parliament were controlled by an individual or family.