13-letter words containing b, e, h, i, s
- hyperurbanism — a pronunciation or grammatical form or usage produced by a speaker of one dialect according to an analogical rule formed by comparison of the speaker's own usage with that of another, more prestigious, dialect and often applied in an inappropriate context, especially in an effort to avoid sounding countrified, rural, or provincial, as in the pronunciation of the word two (to̅o̅) as (tyo̅o̅).
- inexhaustible — not exhaustible; incapable of being depleted: an inexhaustible supply.
- inexhaustibly — not exhaustible; incapable of being depleted: an inexhaustible supply.
- inhabitancies — Plural form of inhabitancy.
- isobathytherm — a line on a chart or diagram of a body of water, connecting depths having the same temperature.
- isothermobath — a line drawn on a diagram of a vertical section of the ocean connecting all points having equal temperature.
- john sobieski — John, John III (def 2).
- liberty horse — (in a circus) a riderless horse that performs movements to verbal commands
- lobster shift — Also called lobster trick. dogwatch (def 2).
- luxembourgish — Also, Luxembourgish [luhk-suh m-bur-gish] /ˈlʌk səmˌbɜr gɪʃ/ (Show IPA). Letzeburgesch.
- middlesbrough — a seaport in NE England, on the Tees estuary.
- miss the boat — a vessel for transport by water, constructed to provide buoyancy by excluding water and shaped to give stability and permit propulsion.
- neighborhoods — Plural form of neighborhood.
- nonce-bashing — violent attacks against rapists, child molesters, or sexual offenders, esp inside a prison
- nonmembership — the fact or condition of being a nonmember
- nonperishable — not subject to rapid deterioration or decay: A supply of nonperishable food was kept for emergencies.
- nonpunishable — Not punishable; of an act, for which no punishment has been authorized; of a person, beyond the reach of punishment.
- nonshrinkable — incapable of being shrunk
- overembellish — Make (something) too ornate or complicated.
- pembrokeshire — a historic county in Dyfed, in SW Wales.
- perishability — subject to decay, ruin, or destruction: perishable fruits and vegetables.
- pre-establish — to establish, set up, set out, arrange or make secure in advance or previously
- queer-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked verbal or physical assaults upon homosexuals or supposed homosexuals
- reestablished — to found, institute, build, or bring into being on a firm or stable basis: to establish a university; to establish a medical practice.
- refurbishment — to furbish again; renovate; brighten: to refurbish the lobby.
- replenishable — able to be replenished
- reprehensible — deserving of reproof, rebuke, or censure; blameworthy.
- roxburghshire — a historic county in SE Scotland.
- rubbish chute — an inclined channel or vertical passage down which rubbish may be dropped for disposal
- rushed behind — a situation when the ball passes through the goalposts but was last touched by a defending player, causing the attacking team to win a point
- sandwich beam — flitch beam.
- schreibersite — a mineral, iron-nickel phosphide, (Fe, Ni) 3 P, found only in meteorites.
- 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.
- 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
- shoeshine boy — a man or boy who cleans shoes
- show business — the entertainment industry, as theater, motion pictures, television, radio, carnival, and circus.
- shub-internet — /shuhb in't*r-net/ (MUD, from H. P. Lovecraft's evil fictional deity "Shub-Niggurath", the Black Goat with a Thousand Young) The harsh personification of the Internet, Beast of a Thousand Processes, Eater of Characters, Avatar of Line Noise, and Imp of Call Waiting; the hideous multi-tendriled entity formed of all the manifold connections of the net. A sect of MUDders worships Shub-Internet, sacrificing objects and praying for good connections. To no avail - its purpose is malign and evil, and is the cause of all network slowdown. Often heard as in "Freela casts a tac nuke at Shub-Internet for slowing her down." (A forged response often follows along the lines of: "Shub-Internet gulps down the tac nuke and burps happily.") Also cursed by users of FTP and telnet when the system slows down. The dread name of Shub-Internet is seldom spoken aloud, as it is said that repeating it three times will cause the being to wake, deep within its lair beneath the Pentagon.
- siberian high — the prevailing high pressure system over Asia in winter.
- siphon bottle — a bottle for aerated water, fitted with a bent tube through the neck, the water being forced out, when a valve is opened, by the pressure on its surface of the gas accumulating within the bottle.
- sketchability — the suitability for being sketched
- sphenoid bone — the large butterfly-shaped compound bone at the base of the skull, containing a protective depression for the pituitary gland
- spine-bashing — to rest; loaf.
- stamen blight — a disease of blackberries, characterized by a gray, powdery mass of spores covering the anthers, caused by a fungus, Hapalosphaeria deformans.
- sub-franchise — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- subeditorship — the position or office of a subeditor
- 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.
- testing bench — a piece of equipment for testing if a machine or device is working properly
- the big house — a penitentiary (usually preceded by the).
- the big issue — a weekly magazine, founded to highlight the plight of the homeless, and sold by homeless people