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13-letter words containing a, b, i, s, h

  • chastity belt — a locking beltlike device with a loop designed to go between a woman's legs in order to prevent her from having sexual intercourse
  • chimneybreast — the wall or walls that surround the base of a chimney or fireplace
  • christmas box — a tip or present given at Christmas, esp to postmen, tradesmen, etc
  • city chambers — (in Scotland) the municipal building of a city; town hall
  • club sandwich — a sandwich consisting of three or more slices of toast or bread with a filling
  • coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
  • crash barrier — A crash barrier is a strong low fence built along the side of a road or between the two halves of a motorway in order to prevent accidents.
  • crush barrier — a barrier erected to separate sections of large crowds in order to prevent crushing
  • crystal habit — the external shape of a crystal
  • dischargeable — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
  • dishabilitate — to disqualify
  • dishabituated — to cause to be no longer habituated or accustomed.
  • dishonourable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
  • dishonourably — (British) alternative spelling of dishonorably.
  • dispatch boat — a small, fast boat used for delivering dispatches.
  • eating habits — the way a person or group eats, considered in terms of what types of food are eaten, in what quantities, and when
  • elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
  • establishable — Able to be established.
  • establishment — The action of establishing something or being established.
  • ethnobotanist — A scholar or researcher in the field of ethnobotany.
  • featherbrains — Plural form of featherbrain.
  • first chamber — the parliament of the Netherlands, consisting of an upper chamber (First Chamber) and a lower chamber (Second Chamber)
  • fishing banks — a place where fish are abundant, as off Newfoundland
  • frobisher bay — an inlet of the Atlantic in NE Canada, in the SE coast of Baffin Island
  • gabrilowitsch — Ossip [aw-syip] /ˈɔ syɪp/ (Show IPA), 1878–1936, Russian pianist and conductor, in America.
  • give sb heart — If something gives you heart, it makes you feel more confident or happy about something.
  • heptasyllabic — having seven syllables
  • hessian boots — a knee-high tasseled boot, fashionable in England in the early 19th century.
  • heteroblastic — (of a plant or plant part) showing a marked difference in form between the juvenile and the adult structures
  • hiberno-saxon — having the characteristics of both the Irish and English; Anglo-Irish.
  • hilbert space — a complete infinite-dimensional vector space on which an inner product is defined.
  • hill of beans — something of trifling value; virtually nothing at all: The problem didn't amount to a hill of beans.
  • hospitability — The quality of being hospitable.
  • hospital bill — the bills incurred for receiving hospital treatment
  • housebreaking — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
  • hubristically — in a presumptuous or arrogant manner
  • hybridisation — Alternative form of hybridization.
  • hydroaerobics — aerobic exercises performed in water, as in a swimming pool.
  • 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).
  • ibrahim pasha — 1789–1848, Egyptian general: governor of Syria 1833–40 (son of Mehemet Ali).
  • 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.
  • isobathytherm — a line on a chart or diagram of a body of water, connecting depths having the same temperature.
  • isothermobath — a line drawn on a diagram of a vertical section of the ocean connecting all points having equal temperature.
  • labyrinthitis — inflammation of the inner ear, or labyrinth, characterized by dizziness, nausea, and visual disturbances.
  • librarianship — a profession concerned with acquiring and organizing collections of books and related materials in libraries and servicing readers and others with these resources.
  • lymphoblastic — (US, cytology, immunology) Of or pertaining to a lymphoblast.
  • microhabitats — Plural form of microhabitat.
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