16-letter words containing b, e, h, n
- do business with — trade or deal with
- double-clutching — (of a bird) to produce a second clutch of eggs after the first has been removed, usually for hatching in an incubator.
- draw the longbow — to exaggerate in telling something
- eastern whipbird — an Australian whipbird, Psophodes olivaceus
- edinburgh prolog — Prolog dialect which eventually developed into the standard, as opposed to Marseille Prolog. (The difference is largely syntax.) Clocksin & Mellish describe Edinburgh Prolog. Version: C-Prolog.
- erymanthian boar — a wild boar that ravaged the district around Mount Erymanthus: captured by Hercules as his fourth labour
- exhibition match — a sports match which is not part of a competition but instead serves the function of demonstrating the skills of the players
- extensible shell — (operating system) (es) A Unix shell written by Byron Rakitzis <[email protected]> and Paul Haahr <[email protected]>, derived from rc. Es has real functions, closures, exceptions and lets you redefine most internal shell operations. Version: 0.84.
- fashion business — the business dealing with style in clothes, cosmetics, behaviour, etc, esp the latest or most admired style
- fisherman's bend — a knot made by taking a round turn on the object to which the rope is to be fastened, passing the end of the rope around the standing part and under the round turn, and securing the end.
- forbid the banns — to raise an objection to a marriage announced in this way
- freeboard length — the length of a vessel, measured on the summer load line from the fore side of the stem to some part of the stern, usually the after side of the rudderpost.
- great blue heron — a large American heron, Ardea herodias, having bluish-gray plumage.
- growth substance — any substance, produced naturally by a plant or manufactured commercially, that, in very low concentrations, affects plant growth; a plant hormone
- hanging wardrobe — a wardrobe containing a rail with a large amount of space underneath, so that clothes can be hung on hangers placed onto the rail
- harleian library — a large library of manuscripts collected by the British statesman Robert Harley and his son and now housed in the British Museum.
- have been around — be experienced
- have no business — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
- have sb to thank — If you say that you have someone to thank for something, you mean that you are grateful to them because they caused it to happen.
- hebbian learning — (artificial intelligence) The most common way to train a neural network; a kind of unsupervised learning; named after canadian neuropsychologist, Donald O. Hebb. The algorithm is based on Hebb's Postulate, which states that where one cell's firing repeatedly contributes to the firing of another cell, the magnitude of this contribution will tend to increase gradually with time. This means that what may start as little more than a coincidental relationship between the firing of two nearby neurons becomes strongly causal. Despite limitations with Hebbian learning, e.g., the inability to learn certain patterns, variations such as Signal Hebbian Learning and Differential Hebbian Learning are still used.
- hedge one's bets — If you hedge your bets, you reduce the risk of losing a lot by supporting more than one person or thing in a situation where they are opposed to each other.
- hemangioblastoma — (medicine) Any of several benign neoplasm tumours of the brain.
- hendecasyllables — Plural form of hendecasyllable.
- herringbone bond — a brickwork bond in which the exposed brickwork is bonded to the heart of the wall by concealed courses of bricks laid diagonally to the faces of the wall in a herringbone pattern, with the end of each brick butting against the side of the adjoining brick; a form of raking bond.
- herringbone gear — a helical gear having teeth that lie on the pitch cylinder in a V -shaped form so that one half of each tooth is on a right-handed helix and the other half on a left-handed helix.
- hexahydrobenzene — cyclohexane.
- honeymoon bridge — any of several varieties of bridge for two players.
- horseback riding — activity: riding a horse
- horsehead nebula — a dark nebula in the constellation Orion, composed of opaque cosmic dust and resembling the head of a horse.
- hot and bothered — having or giving off heat; having a high temperature: a hot fire; hot coffee.
- houphouet-boigny — Félix [French fey-leeks] /French feɪˈliks/ (Show IPA), 1905–1993, Ivory Coast political leader: president 1960–93.
- huckleberry finn — (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) a novel (1884) by Mark Twain.
- humanly possible — feasible, practical
- humboldt current — a cold Pacific Ocean current flowing N along the coasts of Chile and Peru.
- hunt the thimble — a children's game in which the players look for a hidden thimble
- huntington beach — a city in SW California, SE of Los Angeles.
- hyaloid membrane — the delicate, pellucid, and nearly structureless membrane enclosing the vitreous humor of the eye.
- hydration number — the number of molecules of water with which an ion can combine in an aqueous solution of given concentration.
- hydrogen bromide — a colorless gas, HBr, having a pungent odor: the anhydride of hydrobromic acid.
- hyperreal number — any of the set of numbers formed by the addition of infinite numbers and infinitesimal numbers to the set of real numbers
- hypersensibility — capacity for sensation or feeling; responsiveness or susceptibility to sensory stimuli.
- imperishableness — The characteristic or property of being imperishable.
- in the same boat — a vessel for transport by water, constructed to provide buoyancy by excluding water and shaped to give stability and permit propulsion.
- incomprehensible — impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
- incomprehensibly — impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
- inexhaustibility — not exhaustible; incapable of being depleted: an inexhaustible supply.
- inextinguishable — not extinguishable: an inextinguishable fire.
- inextinguishably — In a way that cannot be extinguished; immortally.
- inhospitableness — The quality of being inhospitable.
- intake of breath — When someone takes an intake of breath, they breathe in quickly and noisily, usually because they are shocked at something.