13-letter words containing a, s, h, e
- bell purchase — a tackle consisting of two standing single blocks, two running single blocks, a fall, and a runner, so arranged that it gives a mechanical advantage of six, neglecting friction.
- benjamin-bush — Also called spice-wood. a yellow-flowered, North American shrub, Lindera benzoin, of the laurel family, whose bark and leaves have a spicy odor.
- berchtesgaden — a town in Germany, in SE Bavaria: site of the fortified mountain retreat of Adolf Hitler. Pop: 7667 (2003 est)
- betamethasone — a synthetic analogue of a glucocorticoid, C 22 H 29 FO 5 , used in various forms in the treatment of inflammation, allergies, and tumors, and for replacement therapy in adrenal insufficiency.
- binary search — (algorithm) A search algorithm which repeatedly divides an ordered search space in half according to how the required (key) value compares with the middle element. The following pseudo-C routine performs a binary search return the index of the element of vector "thing[first..last]" equal to "target": if (target < thing[first] || target > thing[last]) return NOT_FOUND; while (first < last) { mid = (first+last)/2; /* truncate to integer */ if (target == thing[mid]) return mid; if (target < thing[mid]) last = mid-1; else first = mid+1; } if (target == thing[last]) return last; return NOT_FOUND; (2003-01-14)
- birth parents — a child's biological parents, regardless of whether they subsequently bring up the child
- black english — the group of related dialects of American English spoken variously by many black people in the U.S.
- blanchisseuse — a washer-woman
- blandishments — Blandishments are pleasant things that someone says to another person in order to persuade them to do something.
- blanket chest — a chest, with or without drawers, having a rectangular space under a lifting lid or top, used for storing blankets, bedding, or clothing.
- blanket sheet — a newspaper of larger than average size, common in the mid 19th century.
- blasphemously — uttering, containing, or exhibiting blasphemy; irreverent; profane.
- blepharoplast — a cylindrical cytoplasmic body in protozoa
- blepharospasm — spasm of the muscle of the eyelids, causing the eyes to shut tightly, either as a response to painful stimuli or occurring as a form of dystonia
- boardinghouse — a private house in which accommodation and meals are provided for paying guests
- body snatcher — (formerly) a person who robbed graves and sold the corpses for dissection
- bois de vache — dried buffalo dung, used as fuel by Canadian and U.S. fur trappers in the 18th and 19th centuries.
- bottle-washer — a menial or factotum
- bounced flash — a flash bounced off a reflective surface, as a ceiling or wall, to illuminate a subject indirectly.
- brachypterous — having very short or incompletely developed wings
- breakthroughs — a military movement or advance all the way through and beyond an enemy's front-line defense.
- breeches part — a male role played by an actress.
- bridal shower — a party, held for a woman before her wedding, to which her friends bring gifts
- buenas noches — good night
- bundle sheath — a layer of cells in plant leaves and stems that surrounds a vascular bundle.
- burgess shale — a bed of Cambrian sedimentary rock in the Rocky Mountains in British Columbia containing many unique invertebrate fossils
- burnham scale — the salary scale for teachers in English state schools, which is revised periodically
- butcher's saw — a type of hacksaw used especially by butchers for cutting through meat and bones.
- cache storage — cache (def 3).
- calabash tree — a tropical American evergreen tree, Crescentia cujete, that produces large round gourds: family Bignoniaceae
- callisthenics — light exercises designed to promote general fitness, develop muscle tone, etc
- camphoraceous — similar to camphor
- candidateship — candidature
- candleholders — Plural form of candleholder.
- cape crawfish — an edible South African spiny lobster, Jasus lalandii.
- cape hatteras — a promontory off the E coast of North Carolina, on Hatteras Island, which is situated between Pamlico Sound and the Atlantic: known as the "Graveyard of the Atlantic" for its danger to shipping
- capstan lathe — a lathe for repetitive work, having a rotatable turret resembling a capstan to hold tools for successive operations
- capsule shell — A capsule shell is an outer skin in which a medicinal substance is contained.
- carbohydrates — foods which contain carbohydrate
- cardiganshire — a former county of W Wales: became part of Dyfed in 1974; reinstated as Ceredigion in 1996
- cardiopathies — Plural form of cardiopathy.
- cartographers — Plural form of cartographer.
- casehardening — Present participle of caseharden.
- cash customer — a purchaser who pays cash rather than by check, credit card, or charge account.
- cash dealings — transactions that are carried out using cash
- cash receipts — the money a business receives from its customers over a specified period
- cash register — A cash register is a machine in a shop, pub, or restaurant that is used to add up and record how much money people pay, and in which the money is kept.
- cash reserves — money set aside by an individual or a company for use in an emergency
- cash-strapped — If a person or organization is cash-strapped, they do not have enough money to buy or pay for the things they want or need.
- cashew family — the plant family Anacardiaceae, typified by trees, shrubs, or vines having resinous and sometimes poisonous juice, alternate leaves, small flowers, and a nut or fleshy fruit, and including the cashew, mango, pistachio, poison ivy, and sumac.