13-letter words containing b, e, n, a
- get a bead on — a small, usually round object of glass, wood, stone, or the like with a hole through it, often strung with others of its kind in necklaces, rosaries, etc.
- gingerbreaded — flavoured with gingerbread
- gladstone bag — a small rectangular suitcase hinged to open into two compartments of equal size.
- glibenclamide — (medicine) An oral anti-diabetes medication.
- gnu assembler — (GAS) A Unix assembler for the GNU project. Many CPU types are handled and COFF and IEEE-695 formats are supported as well as standard a.out. Current version 2.2 ported to Sun-3, Sun-4, i386, 386BSD, BSD/386, Linux, PS/2-AIX, VAX, Ultrix, BSD, VMS. The assembler has been merged with GNU Binutils. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- gobar numeral — any of a set of ancient numerals derived from Hindu numerals
- gombeen (man) — a shopkeeper who engages in usury on the side
- governability — to rule over by right of authority: to govern a nation.
- granary bread — bread made from Granary flour
- grave-robbing — a person who steals valuables from graves and tombs: Graverobbers had emptied the Mayan tomb before archaeologists could examine its contents.
- great basinet — a basinet having a beaver permanently attached.
- great britain — an island of NW Europe, separated from the mainland by the English Channel and the North Sea: since 1707 the name has applied politically to England, Scotland, and Wales. 88,139 sq. mi. (228,280 sq. km).
- groundbreaker — a person who is an originator, innovator, or pioneer in a particular activity.
- gubernatorial — of or relating to a state governor or the office of state governor.
- guinea-bissau — a republic on the W coast of Africa, between Guinea and Senegal: formerly a Portuguese overseas province; gained independence in 1974. 13,948 sq. mi. (36,125 sq. km). Capital: Bissau.
- gynaecophobia — (psychology) An irrational fear of women.
- handleability — a part of a thing made specifically to be grasped or held by the hand.
- hardenability — The quality or degree of being hardenable.
- harlequin bug — a black stink bug, Murgantia histrionica, having red and yellow markings, that feeds on cabbages and other cruciferous plants.
- have a bun on — have a bun on, Slang. to be intoxicated: Everyone at the party seemed to have a bun on.
- heartbreaking — causing intense anguish or sorrow.
- heartbrokenly — In a heartbroken manner.
- heaven forbid — You say 'Heaven forbid!' to emphasize that you very much hope that something will not happen.
- heavenly body — celestial object: star, planet, etc.
- heli-boarding — the sport of snowboarding on mountains or glaciers accessible only by helicopter or skiplane
- helianthine b — methyl orange.
- herb patience — a European plant, Rumex patientia, of the buckwheat family, naturalized in North America, having long, wavy-margined, basal leaves used for salads.
- herborization — the act or process of herborizing
- hessian boots — a knee-high tasseled boot, fashionable in England in the early 19th century.
- hiberno-saxon — having the characteristics of both the Irish and English; Anglo-Irish.
- hill of beans — something of trifling value; virtually nothing at all: The problem didn't amount to a hill of beans.
- honey buzzard — a long-tailed Old World hawk, Pernis apivorus, that feeds on the larvae of bees as well as on small rodents, reptiles, and insects.
- honorableness — The property of being honorable.
- housebreaking — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
- househusbands — Plural form of househusband.
- hub-and-spoke — of or designating a system of air transportation by which local flights carry passengers to one major regional airport where they can board long-distance or other local flights for their final destinations.
- hunt saboteur — A hunt saboteur is someone who tries to stop a hunt from taking place or being successful because they believe it is cruel to the animal being hunted.
- 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.
- hypercinnabar — (mineral) A form of cinnabar that forms hexagonal crystals.
- 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).
- illiberalness — The state of being illiberal; illiberality.
- immovableness — The quality of being immovable.
- immutableness — The state of being immutable; unchangeableness.
- implementable — any article used in some activity, especially an instrument, tool, or utensil: agricultural implements.
- imponderables — Plural form of imponderable.
- in sb's place — If you say what you would have done in someone else's place, you say what you would have done if you had been in their situation and had been experiencing what they were experiencing.
- in sb's stead — If you do something in someone's stead, you replace them and do it instead of them.
- in-capable of — not capable.
- in-observance — lack of attention; inattention; heedlessness: drowsy inobservance.
- inappreciable — imperceptible; insignificant: an inappreciable difference.