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13-letter words containing b, e, c, h

  • hypometabolic — Relating to hypometabolism.
  • inhabitancies — Plural form of inhabitancy.
  • knee breeches — trousers worn by men in the past, which came down as far as their knees rather than their ankles
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • multibranched — Having more than one branch.
  • newport beach — a city in SW California, SE of Los Angeles.
  • 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
  • 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
  • pied-de-biche — a termination to a leg, consisting of a slight outward curve ending in the semblance of a cloven hoof.
  • playback head — the part of a tape recorder that is used to pick up the magnetic pattern on tape in order to play back material previously recorded.
  • pomme blanche — breadroot.
  • pompano beach — a city in SE Florida.
  • privy chamber — a private apartment in a royal residence.
  • 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.
  • queen's bench — a court, originally the principal court for criminal cases, gradually acquiring a civil jurisdiction concurrent with that of the Court of Common Pleas, and also possessing appellate jurisdiction over the Court of Common Pleas: now a division of the High Court of Justice.
  • rauschenbusch — Walter, 1861–1918, U.S. clergyman and social reformer.
  • redondo beach — a city in SW California.
  • right bracket — (character)   "]". ASCII character 93. Common names: right square bracket; ITU-T: closing bracket; unbracket. Rare: unsquare; INTERCAL: U turn back. Paired with left bracket.
  • riviera beach — a town in SE Florida.
  • robber trench — a trench that originally contained the foundations of a wall, the stones of which have been taken away
  • rock the boat — to move or sway to and fro or from side to side.
  • rubber cheque — a cheque that bounces
  • rubbish chute — an inclined channel or vertical passage down which rubbish may be dropped for disposal
  • ruth benedict — Ruth (Fulton) 1887–1948, U.S. writer and anthropologist.
  • sandwich beam — flitch beam.
  • schreibersite — a mineral, iron-nickel phosphide, (Fe, Ni) 3 P, found only in meteorites.
  • scotch bonnet — a small, irregularly shaped, extremely hot chili pepper, the fruit of a variety of Capsicum chinense related to the habanero and ranging from yellow to red.
  • sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
  • she-crab soup — a thick, bisquelike soup made with the meat and eggs of the female crab.
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