13-letter words containing b, e, s, h, t
- the best part — If you say that something happened for the best part or the better part of a period of time, you mean that it happened for most of that time.
- 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
- the big smoke — a large city, esp London
- the dust bowl — the area of the south central US that became denuded of topsoil by wind erosion during the droughts of the mid-1930s
- the gas board — any company supplying gas as a source of domestic and industrial heat
- the invisible — God
- the west bank — a semi-autonomous Palestinian region in the Middle East on the W bank of the River Jordan, comprising the hills of Judaea and Samaria and part of Jerusalem: formerly part of Palestine (the entity created by the League of Nations in 1922 and operating until 1948): became part of Jordan after the ceasefire of 1949: occupied by Israel since the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. In 1993 a peace treaty between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization provided for the West Bank to become a self-governing Palestinian area; a new Palestinian National Authority assumed control of parts of the territory in 1994–95, but subsequent talks broke down and Israel reoccupied much of this in 2001–02 and continues to maintain most existing Israeli settlements. Pop: 2 676 740 (2013 est). Area: 5879 sq km (2270 sq miles)
- thermal baths — warm water spa
- thinkableness — the state or quality of being conceivable or thinkable
- third baseman — the player whose position is third base.
- thomas becket — Saint Thomas à, 1118?–70, archbishop of Canterbury: murdered because of his opposition to Henry II's policies toward the church.
- thomas hobbes — Thomas, 1588–1679, English philosopher and author.
- thrombokinase — Biochemistry. a lipoprotein in the blood that converts prothrombin to thrombin.
- unchastisable — not deserving to be chastised; beyond reproach
- unestablished — not established.
- unscratchable — to break, mar, or mark the surface of by rubbing, scraping, or tearing with something sharp or rough: to scratch one's hand on a nail.
- unsmotherable — unquenchable
- unstaunchable — incapable of being stopped
- unstretchable — to draw out or extend (oneself, a body, limbs, wings, etc.) to the full length or extent (often followed by out): to stretch oneself out on the ground.
- untarnishable — to dull the luster of (a metallic surface), especially by oxidation; discolor.
- unwhistleable — incapable of being whistled
- visible light — the part of the electromagnetic spectrum that humans perceive
- weatherboards — Plural form of weatherboard.
- weights bench — a piece of equipment for use by someone who is weight-training
- west bromwich — a city in West Midlands, in central England, near Birmingham.
- west by north — a point on the compass 11°15prime; north of west. Abbreviation: WbN.
- west by south — a point on the compass 11°15prime; south of west. Abbreviation: WbS.
- whistleblower — a person who informs on another or makes public disclosure of corruption or wrongdoing.
- whitefish bay — a city in SE Wisconsin, N of Milwaukee.
- witches' brew — a potent magical concoction supposedly prepared by witches.
- with bells on — a hollow instrument of cast metal, typically cup-shaped with a flaring mouth, suspended from the vertex and rung by the strokes of a clapper, hammer, or the like.
- with the best — as ably as the most able