13-letter words containing a, l, h, b
- polythene bag — a bag made of polythene, esp one used to store or protect food or household articles
- pomme blanche — breadroot.
- potato blight — fungal disease affecting potatoes
- pre-establish — to establish, set up, set out, arrange or make secure in advance or previously
- psychobabbler — a person who uses psychobabble
- public charge — a person who is in economic distress and is supported at government expense: He assured the American consul that the prospective immigrant would not become a public charge.
- public health — health services to improve and protect community health, especially sanitation, immunization, and preventive medicine.
- reestablished — to found, institute, build, or bring into being on a firm or stable basis: to establish a university; to establish a medical practice.
- rehabilitated — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
- rehabilitator — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
- replenishable — able to be replenished
- rhumb sailing — sea navigation along rhumb lines.
- rub' al khali — a desert in S Arabia, mainly in Saudi Arabia, extending southeast from Nejd to Hadramaut and northeast from Yemen to the United Arab Emirates. Area: about 777 000 sq km (300 000 sq miles)
- rub` al khali — a desert in S Arabia, N of Hadhramaut and extending from Yemen to Oman. About 250,000 sq. mi. (647,500 sq. km).
- school phobia — a fear of going to or returning to school
- scythian lamb — a fern, Cibotium barometz, of southeastern Asia, having stalks covered with shaggy, brownish hair and large, feathery leaves, formerly believed to be a source of vegetable wool.
- sensible heat — Sensible heat is heat which is exchanged in an energy generation system, and which only affects the temperature of one or more substances.
- shambolically — in a completely disorganized or chaotic manner
- shatt-al-arab — a river in SE Iraq, formed by the junction of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, flowing SE to the Persian Gulf. 123 miles (198 km) long.
- shield bearer — an attendant who carries the shield or arms of a warrior.
- shingle beach — a beach made of a mass of small pieces of rough stone
- shot-blasting — the cleaning of metal, etc, by a stream of shot
- sketchability — the suitability for being sketched
- slaughterable — (of an animal) ready for slaughter
- snowball bush — guelder rose.
- social phobia — a type of anxiety disorder characterized by shyness and heightened self-consciousness in particular social situations
- stamen blight — a disease of blackberries, characterized by a gray, powdery mass of spores covering the anthers, caused by a fungus, Hapalosphaeria deformans.
- subepithelial — any animal tissue that covers a surface, or lines a cavity or the like, and that, in addition, performs any of various secretory, transporting, or regulatory functions.
- swashbuckling — characteristic of or behaving in the manner of a swashbuckler.
- symbolography — the writing of symbolic characters or tracing of symbolic figures
- syphilophobia — the excessive fear of syphilis
- table--d-hote — a meal of preselected courses served at a fixed time and price to the guests at a hotel or restaurant.
- teachableness — the quality or condition of being teachable
- team handball — a game, similar to soccer, played between two teams of seven players who catch, dribble, throw, or hit the ball with the hands.
- techno-babble — technical jargon relating to computing and other technological subjects
- the backfield — the quarterback and running backs in a team
- the beautiful — the quality of beauty
- the big apple — New York City
- the new black — If you say that a particular colour is the new black, you mean that it has become fashionable.
- the noble art — boxing
- the-big-apple — New York City.
- thermal baths — warm water spa
- thermobalance — an analytical balance that measures weight changes when matter is heated
- thiabendazole — a drug used as an antifungal treatment and as an anthelmintic
- thinkableness — the state or quality of being conceivable or thinkable
- thoracolumbar — of the thoracic and lumbar regions
- thread blight — a fungal disease of woody plants, characterized by thick, threadlike strands of mycelium on the undersides of the leaves and branches.
- thromboclasis — thrombolysis.
- thrombophilia — a condition marked by the tendency to develop blood clots or thrombosis
- throttle back — If you throttle back, or you throttle back the engine, when driving a motor vehicle or flying an aircraft, you make it go slower by reducing the quantity of fuel entering the engine.