13-letter words containing b, c, h
- hilbert space — a complete infinite-dimensional vector space on which an inner product is defined.
- hill climbing — Computer
- holometabolic — Of, pertaining to, or undergoing holometabolism.
- homework club — an after-school club where students can stay to do their homework
- hot cross bun — a bun with a cross of frosting on it, eaten chiefly during Lent.
- hubble effect — redshift
- hubristically — in a presumptuous or arrogant manner
- huckleberries — Plural form of huckleberry.
- 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.
- hydroaerobics — aerobic exercises performed in water, as in a swimming pool.
- hypercinnabar — (mineral) A form of cinnabar that forms hexagonal crystals.
- hypobranchial — situated below the gills or beneath the branchial arches.
- hypometabolic — Relating to hypometabolism.
- inhabitancies — Plural form of inhabitancy.
- john q public — the average or typical U.S. citizen: an entertainment aimed at Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Public.
- kirkcudbright — a historic county in SW Scotland.
- knee breeches — trousers worn by men in the past, which came down as far as their knees rather than their ankles
- labyrinthical — Labyrinthine; like or relating to a labyrinth.
- lamellibranch — bivalve.
- laughter club — a group of people who meet regularly to take part in communal laughing for therapeutic effect
- letzeburgesch — a Germanic dialect that is the native language of most of the people of Luxembourg.
- liebfraumilch — a white wine produced chiefly in the region of Hesse in Germany.
- lower chamber — lower house.
- luncheon club — (in Britain) an arrangement or organization for serving hot midday meals for a small charge to old people in clubs or daycentres
- lymphoblastic — (US, cytology, immunology) Of or pertaining to a lymphoblast.
- machinability — The condition of being machinable.
- magma chamber — a reservoir of magma in the earth's crust where the magma may reside temporarily on its way from the upper mantle to the earth's surface
- marching band — musical group that parades
- matchboarding — a construction of matchboards.
- merchant bank — a private banking firm engaged chiefly in investing in new issues of securities and in accepting bills of exchange in foreign trade.
- methocarbamol — a substance, C 1 1 H 1 5 NO 5 , used as a muscle relaxant in combination with other drugs in the treatment of acute, painful musculoskeletal conditions.
- microhabitats — Plural form of microhabitat.
- mock whipbird — an Australian bird, Pachycephala rufiventris, which is not of the whipbird family
- multibranched — Having more than one branch.
- newport beach — a city in SW California, SE of Los Angeles.
- nightclubbing — Also, night club. an establishment for evening entertainment, generally open until the early morning, that serves liquor and usually food and offers patrons music, comedy acts, a floor show, or dancing; nightspot.
- nonalphabetic — not employing alphabetic order
- nonce-bashing — violent attacks against rapists, child molesters, or sexual offenders, esp inside a prison
- nondetachable — Not capable of being detached.
- object method — (programming) In object-oriented programming, a function that is called, or "invoked", on an object, as opposed to a class method which is invoked on a class. For example, a class "Person" might have an object method to return a person's name and a class method to return the number of people. An object method called on an object of class C may be defined by C or may be inherited from one of C's superclasses.
- on the bounce — in succession; one after the other
- 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.
- pass the buck — Poker. any object in the pot that reminds the winner of some privilege or obligation when his or her turn to deal next comes.
- peach blossom — the flower of the peach tree: the state flower of Delaware.
- peccatophobia — an abnormal fear of sinning.
- perching bird — any member of the avian order Passeriformes.
- perennibranch — any amphibian that retains its gills throughout its life
- phlebographic — relating to phlebography or the X-ray imaging of a vein that has been injected with a dye that is visible on the image taken
- photocopiable — able or legally permitted to be photocopied