13-letter words containing b, o, s, t, h
- 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.
- 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.
- gabrilowitsch — Ossip [aw-syip] /ˈɔ syɪp/ (Show IPA), 1878–1936, Russian pianist and conductor, in America.
- ghettoblaster — Alternative form of ghetto blaster.
- 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.
- hemocytoblast — a primordial cell capable of developing into any type of blood cell.
- 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
- hit the books — to deal a blow or stroke to: Hit the nail with the hammer.
- honest broker — a neutral person or organization that mediates disputes; an impartial mediator.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- hybridisation — Alternative form of hybridization.
- inhabitations — Plural form of inhabitation.
- isobathytherm — a line on a chart or diagram of a body of water, connecting depths having the same temperature.
- isothermobath — a line drawn on a diagram of a vertical section of the ocean connecting all points having equal temperature.
- know by sight — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
- liberty horse — (in a circus) a riderless horse that performs movements to verbal commands
- lobster shift — Also called lobster trick. dogwatch (def 2).
- lymphoblastic — (US, cytology, immunology) Of or pertaining to a lymphoblast.
- marx brothers — the. a US family of film comedians, esp Arthur Marx, known as Harpo (1888–1964), Herbert Marx, known as Zeppo (1901–79), Julius Marx, known as Groucho (1890–1977), and Leonard Marx, known as Chico (1886–1961). Their films include Animal Crackers (1930), Monkey Business (1931), Horsefeathers (1932), Duck Soup (1933), and A Day at the Races (1937)
- microhabitats — Plural form of microhabitat.
- miss the boat — a vessel for transport by water, constructed to provide buoyancy by excluding water and shaped to give stability and permit propulsion.
- mother abbess — the female head of a religious house of nuns
- north by east — a point on the compass 11°15′ east of north. Abbreviation: NbE.
- north by west — a point on the compass 11°15′ west of north. Abbreviation: NbW.
- off the books — of or relating to a book or books: the book department; a book salesman.
- off-the-books — not recorded in account books or not reported as taxable income.
- opisthobranch — any gastropod mollusk of the order Opisthobranchia, as the sea slugs, sea butterflies, and sea hares, characterized by a vestigial or absent mantle and shell and two pairs of tentacles.
- rosebud mouth — a mouth that resembles the unopened flower of a rose in shape
- saber-toothed — having long, saberlike upper canine teeth, sometimes extending below the margin of the lower jaw.
- scotch bonnet — a small, irregularly shaped, extremely hot chili pepper, the fruit of a variety of Capsicum chinense related to the habanero and ranging from yellow to red.
- sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
- short subject — a short film, as a documentary or travelogue, shown as part of a program with a feature-length film.
- shot-blasting — the cleaning of metal, etc, by a stream of shot
- siphon bottle — a bottle for aerated water, fitted with a bent tube through the neck, the water being forced out, when a valve is opened, by the pressure on its surface of the gas accumulating within the bottle.
- south arabian — of or relating to the former South Arabia (now South Yemen) or its inhabitants
- south by east — a point on the compass 11°15′ east of south. Abbreviation: SbE.