13-letter words containing b, h
- hiberno-saxon — having the characteristics of both the Irish and English; Anglo-Irish.
- hilbert space — a complete infinite-dimensional vector space on which an inner product is defined.
- hill climbing — Computer
- hill of beans — something of trifling value; virtually nothing at all: The problem didn't amount to a hill of beans.
- hit the books — to deal a blow or stroke to: Hit the nail with the hammer.
- hobson-jobson — the alteration of a word or phrase borrowed from a foreign language to accord more closely with the phonological and lexical patterns of the borrowing language, as in English hoosegow from Spanish juzgado.
- hollywood bed — a bed consisting of a metal frame, box spring, mattress, and headboard, but lacking a footboard.
- holometabolic — Of, pertaining to, or undergoing holometabolism.
- home assembly — assembly at home of something supplied in pieces
- homeobox gene — any of a group of genes whose function is to divide the early embryo into bands of cells with the potential to become specific organs or tissues.
- homework club — an after-school club where students can stay to do their homework
- honest broker — a neutral person or organization that mediates disputes; an impartial mediator.
- 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.
- honour bright — an exclamation pledging honour
- honourability — A state or condition or being honourable.
- hoodman-blind — blindman's buff.
- horse breeder — a person who breeds horses
- horse-breaker — a person who breaks in a horse
- horseshoe bat — any of numerous large-eared Old World insectivorous bats, mostly of the genus Rhinolophus, with a fleshy growth around the nostrils, used in echolocation: family Rhinolophidae
- hospitability — The quality of being hospitable.
- hospital bill — the bills incurred for receiving hospital treatment
- hot cross bun — a bun with a cross of frosting on it, eaten chiefly during Lent.
- hot-swappable — (of devices, disks, etc) capable of being inserted or removed from a computer system that is running, without causing damage or affecting performance
- hot-water bag — a bag, usually of rubber, for holding hot water to apply warmth to some part of the body, as the feet.
- hothouse lamb — a lamb born in the fall or early winter, usually reared indoors, specially fed, and marketed when from 9 to 16 weeks of age.
- housebreakers — Plural form of housebreaker.
- housebreaking — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
- housebuilding — The trade or activity of building houses.
- 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.
- hubble effect — redshift
- hubble-bubble — a simple form of the hookah, in which the smoke passes through water, causing a bubbling sound.
- hubli-dharwad — a city in Karnataka, SW India: the union of two cities, Hubli and Dharwar.
- hubli-dharwar — city in SW India: pop. 648,000
- hubristically — in a presumptuous or arrogant manner
- huckleberries — Plural form of huckleberry.
- humboldt peak — a mountain in S Colorado, in the Sangre de Cristo range. 14,064 feet (4290 meters).
- hummle bonnet — a cap formerly worn by Scottish soldiers
- 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.
- hunter's robe — pothos.
- husking (bee) — cornhusking (sense 2)
- 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.
- hybrid system — a way of working, organizing, or doing something that is composed of elements of two separate systems
- hybrid vigour — the increased size, strength, etc, of a hybrid as compared to either of its parents
- hybridisation — Alternative form of hybridization.
- hybridization — to cause to produce hybrids; cross.
- hydroaerobics — aerobic exercises performed in water, as in a swimming pool.
- hydroboration — (chemistry) the production or organoboranes by the addition of diborane to unsaturated organic compounds.
- hydrogen bomb — a bomb, more powerful than an atomic bomb, that derives its explosive energy from the thermonuclear fusion reaction of hydrogen isotopes.