13-letter words containing b, h
- double-clutch — (of a bird) to produce a second clutch of eggs after the first has been removed, usually for hatching in an incubator.
- double-header — Sports. two games, as of baseball, between the same teams on the same day in immediate succession. two games, as of basketball, between two different pairs of teams on the same day in immediate succession.
- down the tube — a hollow, usually cylindrical body of metal, glass, rubber, or other material, used especially for conveying or containing liquids or gases.
- draughtboards — Plural form of draughtboard.
- draughtsboard — The board on which draughts is played, resembling a chessboard but (depending on the game variation) often having a side length of ten squares rather than eight.
- drop the ball — a spherical or approximately spherical body or shape; sphere: He rolled the piece of paper into a ball.
- dzibilchaltun — a large, ancient Mayan ceremonial and commercial center near Mérida, Mexico, founded perhaps as early as 3000 b.c. and in continuous use until the 16th century.
- 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.
- endobronchial — (anatomy) Pertaining to the lining of the bronchi.
- erin go bragh — Ireland forever
- erythroblasts — Plural form of erythroblast.
- erythrophobia — Abnormal and persistent fear of blushing.
- 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.
- false bulrush — a tall reedlike marsh plant, Typha latifolia, with straplike leaves and flowers in long brown sausage-shaped spikes: family Typhaceae
- featherbedded — Simple past tense and past participle of featherbed.
- featherbrains — Plural form of featherbrain.
- fibre channel — (storage, networking, communications) An ANSI standard originally intended for high-speed SANs connecting servers, disc arrays, and backup devices, also later adapted to form the physical layer of Gigabit Ethernet. Development work on Fibre channel started in 1988 and it was approved by the ANSI standards committee in 1994, running at 100Mb/s. More recent innovations have seen the speed of Fibre Channel SANs increase to 10Gb/s. Several topologies are possible with Fibre Channel, the most popular being a number of devices attached to one (or two, for redundancy) central Fibre Channel switches, creating a reliable infrastructure that allows servers to share storage arrays or tape libraries. One common use of Fibre Channel SANs is for high availability databaseq clusters where two servers are connected to one highly reliable RAID array. Should one server fail, the other server can mount the array itself and continue operations with minimal downtime and loss of data. Other advanced features include the ability to have servers and hard drives seperated by hundreds of miles or to rapidly mirror data between servers and hard drives, perhaps in seperate geographic locations.
- fill the bill — a statement of money owed for goods or services supplied: He paid the hotel bill when he checked out.
- finback whale — rorqual
- fingerbreadth — the breadth of a finger: approximately 3/4 inch (2 cm).
- first chamber — the parliament of the Netherlands, consisting of an upper chamber (First Chamber) and a lower chamber (Second Chamber)
- fishbone fern — a common Australian fern, Nephrolepsis cordifolia, having fronds with many pinnae
- fishing banks — a place where fish are abundant, as off Newfoundland
- flight number — the identifying number of a scheduled flight
- float chamber — Automotive. the bowl-shaped section of a carburetor in which a reserve of fuel is maintained, the fuel level being regulated by a float.
- foot the bill — pay the costs
- 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.
- forthbringing — Present participle of forthbring.
- frobisher bay — an inlet of the Atlantic in NE Canada, in the SE coast of Baffin Island
- fulbright act — an act of Congress (1946) by which funds derived chiefly from the sale of U.S. surplus property abroad are made available to U.S. citizens for study, research, and teaching in foreign countries as well as to foreigners to engage in similar activities in the U.S.
- gabrilowitsch — Ossip [aw-syip] /ˈɔ syɪp/ (Show IPA), 1878–1936, Russian pianist and conductor, in America.
- garbage chute — sloped channel for rubbish disposal
- george w bush — Barbara (Barbara Pierce) born 1925, U.S. First Lady 1989–93 (wife of George H. W. Bush).
- gerontophobia — a fear of old people.
- ghettoblaster — Alternative form of ghetto blaster.
- give birth to — an act or instance of being born: the day of his birth.
- give sb heart — If something gives you heart, it makes you feel more confident or happy about something.
- global search — a word-processing operation in which a complete computer file or set of files is searched for every occurrence of a particular word or other sequence of characters