13-letter words containing b, s, c, h
- buffalo chips — the dried dung of buffalo used as fuel, especially by early settlers on the western plains.
- burnham scale — the salary scale for teachers in English state schools, which is revised periodically
- bush sickness — an animal disease caused by a cobalt deficiency in old bush country
- 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.
- 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.
- chamber music — Chamber music is classical music written for a small number of instruments.
- 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
- checkerblooms — Plural form of checkerbloom.
- cheeseburgers — Plural form of cheeseburger.
- chimneybreast — the wall or walls that surround the base of a chimney or fireplace
- chinese block — a percussion instrument consisting of a hollow wooden block played with a drumstick
- chinese boxes — a nest of boxes, each of which fits into the next larger box
- christmas box — a tip or present given at Christmas, esp to postmen, tradesmen, etc
- city chambers — (in Scotland) the municipal building of a city; town hall
- claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
- climbing fish — an Asian labyrinth fish, Anabas testudineus, that resembles a perch and can travel over land on its spiny gill covers and pectoral fins
- clothes brush — a brush used to remove dust, fluff, dirt, etc from clothes
- clothesbasket — a basket for holding and carrying laundry.
- club sandwich — a sandwich consisting of three or more slices of toast or bread with a filling
- coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
- crash barrier — A crash barrier is a strong low fence built along the side of a road or between the two halves of a motorway in order to prevent accidents.
- crash blossom — an ambiguously worded headline whose meaning can be interpreted in the wrong way, as “Missing Woman Remains Found.”. See also garden-path.
- 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
- cross-benches — (in the UK parliament) an area for members who are not allied to a particular party
- crossbenchers — Plural form of crossbencher.
- crush barrier — a barrier erected to separate sections of large crowds in order to prevent crushing
- crystal habit — the external shape of a crystal
- cut both ways — to have both good and bad effects
- cybershopping — Shopping by means of computers or the Internet.
- debauchedness — The state or quality of being debauched.
- dischargeable — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
- dispatch boat — a small, fast boat used for delivering dispatches.
- elasmobranchs — Plural form of elasmobranch.
- embranchments — Plural form of embranchment.
- first chamber — the parliament of the Netherlands, consisting of an upper chamber (First Chamber) and a lower chamber (Second Chamber)
- gabrilowitsch — Ossip [aw-syip] /ˈɔ syɪp/ (Show IPA), 1878–1936, Russian pianist and conductor, in America.
- 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
- habeas corpus — a writ requiring a person to be brought before a judge or court, especially for investigation of a restraint of the person's liberty, used as a protection against illegal imprisonment.
- haber process — a process for synthesizing ammonia from gaseous nitrogen and hydrogen under high pressure and temperature in the presence of a catalyst.
- hemocytoblast — a primordial cell capable of developing into any type of blood cell.
- heptasyllabic — having seven syllables
- hercules-club — Also called Southern prickly ash. a prickly tree, Zanthoxylum clava-herculis, of the rue family, having a medicinal bark and berries.
- hermosa beach — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- hertogenbosch — 's Hertogenbosch.