13-letter words containing b, e, h, s
- 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
- bush sickness — an animal disease caused by a cobalt deficiency in old bush country
- busheled iron — heterogeneous iron made from scrap iron and steel.
- butcher's boy — a boy doing deliveries for a butcher and perhaps also learning the butchery trade, esp in the past
- butcher's saw — a type of hacksaw used especially by butchers for cutting through meat and bones.
- butterflyfish — any small tropical marine percoid fish of the genera Chaetodon, Chelmon, etc, that has a deep flattened brightly coloured or strikingly marked body and brushlike teeth: family Chaetodontidae
- 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
- checkerblooms — Plural form of checkerbloom.
- cheeseburgers — Plural form of cheeseburger.
- chimneybreast — the wall or walls that surround the base of a chimney or fireplace
- chinese block — a percussion instrument consisting of a hollow wooden block played with a drumstick
- chinese boxes — a nest of boxes, each of which fits into the next larger box
- city chambers — (in Scotland) the municipal building of a city; town hall
- claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
- clothes brush — a brush used to remove dust, fluff, dirt, etc from clothes
- 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.
- creosote bush — a shrub, Larrea (or Covillea) tridentata of the western US and Mexico, that has resinous leaves with an odour resembling creosote, and can live for many thousands of years: family Zygophyllaceae
- cross the bar — to die
- cross-benches — (in the UK parliament) an area for members who are not allied to a particular party
- crossbenchers — Plural form of crossbencher.
- crush barrier — a barrier erected to separate sections of large crowds in order to prevent crushing
- cybershopping — Shopping by means of computers or the Internet.
- 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
- edinburgh sml — (EdML) Implementation of the Core language of SML. Byte-code interpreter in C. Ported to Amiga, Atari, Archimedes and IBM PC. Version: 0.44. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- elasmobranchs — Plural form of elasmobranch.
- elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
- embellishment — A decorative detail or feature added to something to make it more attractive.
- embranchments — Plural form of embranchment.
- erythroblasts — Plural form of erythroblast.
- establishable — Able to be established.
- establishment — The action of establishing something or being established.
- ethnobotanist — A scholar or researcher in the field of ethnobotany.
- exhibitioners — Plural form of exhibitioner.
- exhibitionism — Extravagant behavior that is intended to attract attention to oneself.