13-letter words containing b, e, s, h, t
- brotherliness — of, like, or befitting a brother; affectionate and loyal; fraternal: brotherly love.
- budget speech — the speech in which the Chancellor presents his budget to parliament
- bundle sheath — a layer of cells in plant leaves and stems that surrounds a vascular bundle.
- 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.
- 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
- chimneybreast — the wall or walls that surround the base of a chimney or fireplace
- 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.
- 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
- dishabilitate — to disqualify
- dishabituated — to cause to be no longer habituated or accustomed.
- 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
- 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.
- exhibitionist — A person who behaves in an extravagant way in order to attract attention.
- featherbrains — Plural form of featherbrain.
- first chamber — the parliament of the Netherlands, consisting of an upper chamber (First Chamber) and a lower chamber (Second Chamber)
- for the birds — any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
- ghettoblaster — Alternative form of ghetto blaster.
- give sb heart — If something gives you heart, it makes you feel more confident or happy about something.
- globe thistle — any of various Old World, thistlelike, composite plants of the genus Echinops, having dense heads of tubular blue or white flowers.
- harbor master — an official who supervises operations in a harbor area and administers its rules.
- harbourmaster — (British, Canada, nautical) An official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port.
- heartbreakers — Plural form of heartbreaker.
- hemocytoblast — a primordial cell capable of developing into any type of blood cell.
- heptasyllabic — having seven syllables
- heptasyllable — a word or line of verse of seven syllables.
- hertogenbosch — 's Hertogenbosch.
- hessian boots — a knee-high tasseled boot, fashionable in England in the early 19th century.
- heteroblastic — (of a plant or plant part) showing a marked difference in form between the juvenile and the adult structures
- hilbert space — a complete infinite-dimensional vector space on which an inner product is defined.