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16-letter words containing n, a, b, o, t, h

  • knights of labor — a secret workingmen's organization formed in 1869 to defend the interests of labor.
  • labtech notebook — (tool, product)   Commercial data aquisition software.
  • lead by the nose — the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
  • long-established — having a long history; old
  • non-alphabetical — in the order of the letters of the alphabet: alphabetical arrangement.
  • non-carbohydrate — any of a class of organic compounds that are polyhydroxy aldehydes or polyhydroxy ketones, or change to such substances on simple chemical transformations, as hydrolysis, oxidation, or reduction, and that form the supporting tissues of plants and are important food for animals and people.
  • non-cohabitation — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
  • north battleford — a city in W central Saskatchewan, in central Canada.
  • north palm beach — a town in E Florida.
  • northanger abbey — a novel (1818) by Jane Austen.
  • oblique zenithal — a type of map projection in which part of the earth's surface is projected onto a plane tangential to it between the poles and the equator
  • on the back foot — at a disadvantage; outmanoeuvred or outclassed by an opponent
  • on the bandwagon — on the popular or apparently winning side, as in an election
  • on the beam-ends — tipping so far to the side as to be in danger of capsizing
  • on the breadline — impoverished; living at subsistence level
  • post-elizabethan — of or relating to the reign of Elizabeth I, queen of England, or to her times: Elizabethan diplomacy; Elizabethan music.
  • put in mothballs — to postpone work on (a project, activity, etc)
  • reaction chamber — the chamber in a rocket engine in which the reaction or combustion of fuel occurs
  • redbank whiteoak — a city in S Tennessee.
  • right honourable — (in Britain and certain Commonwealth countries) a title of respect for a Privy Councillor or an appeal-court judge
  • rough and tumble — characterized by violent, random, disorderly action and struggles: a rough-and-tumble fight; He led an adventuresome, rough-and-tumble life.
  • rough-and-tumble — characterized by violent, random, disorderly action and struggles: a rough-and-tumble fight; He led an adventuresome, rough-and-tumble life.
  • roundabout chair — corner chair.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • the amazon basin — the catchment area of the River Amazon
  • the eastern bloc — (formerly) the Soviet bloc
  • the unobservable — something that cannot be observed
  • thrombocytopenia — an abnormal decrease in the number of blood platelets.
  • 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.
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