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14-letter words containing a, b, h

  • biogeochemical — of or relating to biogeochemistry
  • biomathematics — the study of the application of mathematics to biology
  • 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
  • bisphosphonate — any drug of a class that inhibits the resorption of bone; used in treating certain bone disorders, esp osteoporosis
  • black as night — totally dark
  • black bullhead — a common freshwater catfish, Ictalurus melas, of North America, considered by some to be a food delicacy.
  • black hawk war — a war fought in northern Illinois and present-day southern Wisconsin, 1831–32, in which U.S. regulars and militia with Indian allies defeated the Sauk and Fox Indians, led by Chief Black Hawk, attempting to recover lost hunting grounds.
  • black panthers — (in the US) a militant Black political party founded in 1965 to end the political dominance of White people
  • 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.
  • blade-shearing — the shearing of sheep using hand shears
  • blah-blah-blah — and so on; and so forth.
  • blanket finish — a finish so close that a blanket would cover all the contestants involved
  • blanket stitch — a strong reinforcing stitch for the edges of blankets and other thick material
  • blanket-stitch — a basic sewing stitch in which widely spaced, interlocking loops, or purls, are formed, used for cutwork, as a decorative finish for edges, etc.
  • 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.
  • blepharoplasty — cosmetic surgery performed on the eyelid
  • bletchley park — the Buckinghamshire estate which was the centre of British code-breaking operations during World War II
  • bletheranskate — a blatherer
  • board chairman — the chairman of the board of a company, etc
  • boarding house — A boarding house is a house which people pay to stay in for a short time.
  • body mechanics — body exercises that are intended to improve one's posture, stamina, poise, etc.
  • body snatching — the act or practice of robbing a grave to obtain a cadaver for dissection.
  • bokhara clover — white melilot.
  • bolshoi ballet — a ballet company founded in Moscow in 1776.
  • 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.
  • boolean search — (information science)   (Or "Boolean query") A query using the Boolean operators, AND, OR, and NOT, and parentheses to construct a complex condition from simpler criteria. A typical example is searching for combinatons of keywords on a web search engine. Examples: car or automobile "New York" and not "New York state" The term is sometimes stretched to include searches using other operators, e.g. "near". Not to be confused with binary search. See also: weighted search.
  • bophuthatswana — (formerly) a Bantu homeland in N South Africa: consisted of six separate areas; declared independent by South Africa in 1977 although this was not internationally recognized; abolished in 1993. Capital: Mmabatho
  • bored to death — very weary and lack stimulation
  • boring machine — a machine that bores holes, tunnels, etc
  • bornyl alcohol — white solid alcohol from a Malaysian tree
  • brachycephalic — having a head nearly as broad from side to side as from front to back, esp one with a cephalic index over 80
  • brachydactylia — abnormal shortness of the fingers and toes.
  • brachydactylic — having abnormally short fingers or toes
  • brachydiagonal — the shorter lateral axis of a rhombic prism
  • brachypinakoid — the side parallel to the shorter horizontal axis in a crystal
  • braddock hills — a town in SE Pennsylvania.
  • branch manager — a person who manages the local branch of a bank, shop, or other business
  • branch officer — (in the British navy since 1949) any officer who holds warrant
  • branched chain — an open chain of atoms with one or more side chains attached to it
  • branchial arch — Zoology. one of a series of bony or cartilaginous arches on each side of the pharynx that support the gills of fishes and aquatic amphibians; gill bar.
  • branchiostegal — of or relating to the operculum covering the gill slits of fish
  • brass farthing — something of little or no value
  • braunschweiger — a smoked liver sausage, named after the city of Braunschweig
  • break the bank — to ruin financially or deplete the resources of a bank (as in gambling)
  • 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.
  • break the news — announce sth
  • breakfast show — a radio or television broadcast that airs around breakfast time
  • breathe a word — to say something or anything
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