13-letter words containing a, b, h, i, n
- heartbreaking — causing intense anguish or sorrow.
- heaven forbid — You say 'Heaven forbid!' to emphasize that you very much hope that something will not happen.
- heli-boarding — the sport of snowboarding on mountains or glaciers accessible only by helicopter or skiplane
- helianthine b — methyl orange.
- herb patience — a European plant, Rumex patientia, of the buckwheat family, naturalized in North America, having long, wavy-margined, basal leaves used for salads.
- herborization — the act or process of herborizing
- hessian boots — a knee-high tasseled boot, fashionable in England in the early 19th century.
- hiberno-saxon — having the characteristics of both the Irish and English; Anglo-Irish.
- hill of beans — something of trifling value; virtually nothing at all: The problem didn't amount to a hill of beans.
- honourability — A state or condition or being honourable.
- hoodman-blind — blindman's buff.
- housebreaking — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
- hyacinth bean — an Old World tropical vine, Dolichos lablab, of the legume family, having purple or white flowers and black or white seeds in a papery, beaked pod.
- hybridisation — Alternative form of hybridization.
- hybridization — to cause to produce hybrids; cross.
- hydroboration — (chemistry) the production or organoboranes by the addition of diborane to unsaturated organic compounds.
- hypercinnabar — (mineral) A form of cinnabar that forms hexagonal crystals.
- hyperurbanism — a pronunciation or grammatical form or usage produced by a speaker of one dialect according to an analogical rule formed by comparison of the speaker's own usage with that of another, more prestigious, dialect and often applied in an inappropriate context, especially in an effort to avoid sounding countrified, rural, or provincial, as in the pronunciation of the word two (to̅o̅) as (tyo̅o̅).
- hypobranchial — situated below the gills or beneath the branchial arches.
- immunity bath — the giving of testimony that is self-incriminating in order to avail oneself of the immunity granted a witness.
- inexhaustible — not exhaustible; incapable of being depleted: an inexhaustible supply.
- inexhaustibly — not exhaustible; incapable of being depleted: an inexhaustible supply.
- inhabitancies — Plural form of inhabitancy.
- inhabitations — Plural form of inhabitation.
- inner harbour — a part of a harbour which is further inland
- labyrinthical — Labyrinthine; like or relating to a labyrinth.
- labyrinthitis — inflammation of the inner ear, or labyrinth, characterized by dizziness, nausea, and visual disturbances.
- lamellibranch — bivalve.
- librarianship — a profession concerned with acquiring and organizing collections of books and related materials in libraries and servicing readers and others with these resources.
- low-bandwidth — [communication theory] Used to indicate a talk that, although not content-free, was not terribly informative. "That was a low-bandwidth talk, but what can you expect for an audience of suits!" Compare zero-content, bandwidth, math-out.
- machinability — The condition of being machinable.
- mao inhibitor — any of various substances, as isocarboxazid and phenelzine, that block enzymatic breakdown of certain monoamine neurotransmitters: used to treat severe depression. Abbreviation: MAOI.
- marching band — musical group that parades
- matchboarding — a construction of matchboards.
- multibranched — Having more than one branch.
- nonalphabetic — not employing alphabetic order
- nonce-bashing — violent attacks against rapists, child molesters, or sexual offenders, esp inside a prison
- nonperishable — not subject to rapid deterioration or decay: A supply of nonperishable food was kept for emergencies.
- nonpunishable — Not punishable; of an act, for which no punishment has been authorized; of a person, beyond the reach of punishment.
- nonshrinkable — incapable of being shrunk
- ombudsmanship — The position or office of an ombudsman.
- opisthobranch — any gastropod mollusk of the order Opisthobranchia, as the sea slugs, sea butterflies, and sea hares, characterized by a vestigial or absent mantle and shell and two pairs of tentacles.
- optical bench — an apparatus, as a special table or rigid beam, for the precise positioning of light sources, screens, and optical instruments used for optical and photometric studies, having a ruled bar to which these devices can be attached and along which they can be readily adjusted.
- ornithophobia — Fear of birds.
- overbreathing — hyperventilation
- overnight bag — a travel bag large enough to hold personal articles and clothing for an overnight trip.
- path-breaking — very original; ground-breaking
- perennibranch — any amphibian that retains its gills throughout its life
- phenobarbital — a white, crystalline powder, C 1 2 H 1 2 N 2 O 3 , used as a sedative, a hypnotic, and as an antispasmodic in epilepsy.
- queer-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked verbal or physical assaults upon homosexuals or supposed homosexuals