13-letter words containing b, a, s, h, e
- 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.
- calabash tree — a tropical American evergreen tree, Crescentia cujete, that produces large round gourds: family Bignoniaceae
- carbohydrates — foods which contain carbohydrate
- catcher's box — box1 (def 16d).
- chalcostibite — a mineral, antimony copper sulfide, CuSbS 2 , occurring in lead-gray crystals.
- chamber music — Chamber music is classical music written for a small number of instruments.
- charles abbot — Charles Greeley, 1872–1973, U.S. astrophysicist.
- 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
- city chambers — (in Scotland) the municipal building of a city; town hall
- claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
- clothesbasket — a basket for holding and carrying laundry.
- 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.
- cross the bar — to die
- crush barrier — a barrier erected to separate sections of large crowds in order to prevent crushing
- debauchedness — The state or quality of being debauched.
- 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.
- east by north — a point on the compass 11°15′ north of east. Abbreviation: EbN.
- east by south — a point on the compass 11°15prime; south of east. Abbreviation: EbS.
- eating habits — the way a person or group eats, considered in terms of what types of food are eaten, in what quantities, and when
- elasmobranchs — Plural form of elasmobranch.
- elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
- embranchments — Plural form of embranchment.
- erythroblasts — Plural form of erythroblast.
- establishable — Able to be established.