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13-letter words containing b, u, h

  • a mixed bunch — if you say that a group of people or things is a mixed bunch, you mean that they are varied in style, character, quality, etc
  • absolute path — (file system)   A path relative to the root directory. Its first character must be the pathname separator.
  • alcohol abuse — the excessive consumption of alcoholic drinks
  • alphabet soup — a confusing series of acronyms or abbreviations
  • amphiblastula — the free-swimming larva of certain sponges, which consists of a hollow spherical mass of cells some of which have flagella
  • archie bunker — a poorly educated blue-collar worker, holding ultraconservative, racist, and male-chauvinist opinions.
  • aschaffenburg — a city in Germany, on the River Main in Bavaria: seat of the Imperial Diet (1447); ceded to Bavaria in 1814. Pop: 68 607 (2003 est)
  • at the double — at twice normal marching speed
  • autobiography — Your autobiography is an account of your life, which you write yourself.
  • baba ghanoush — a thick purée of aubergines, tahini, olive oil, lemon juice, and garlic, originating in North Africa and the Mediterranean
  • back-up light — a light on the rear of a motor vehicle to warn others that the vehicle is being reversed
  • balloon chuck — a lathe chuck having the form of a hollow hemisphere, for enclosing and holding small parts, as balance staffs of watches, so that only their ends are exposed.
  • banking hours — the hours during which a bank is open for business
  • banking house — a more formal term for a bank
  • bathtub curve — Common term for the curve (resembling an end-to-end section of one of those claw-footed antique bathtubs) that describes the expected failure rate of electronics with time: initially high, dropping to near 0 for most of the system's lifetime, then rising again as it "tires out". See also burn-in period, infant mortality.
  • bathurst burr — an Australian plant, Xanthium spinosum, having numerous hooked burrs that became entangled in sheep's wool
  • bearer cheque — a cheque payable to the person who has it
  • beat the drum — a musical percussion instrument consisting of a hollow, usually cylindrical, body covered at one or both ends with a tightly stretched membrane, or head, which is struck with the hand, a stick, or a pair of sticks, and typically produces a booming, tapping, or hollow sound.
  • beehive house — a prehistoric circular building found in various parts of Europe, usually of stone and having a dome-shaped roof
  • beehive round — an artillery shell that ejects thousands of naillike metal projectiles on exploding.
  • behaviourally — from a behavioural point of view
  • bell purchase — a tackle consisting of two standing single blocks, two running single blocks, a fall, and a runner, so arranged that it gives a mechanical advantage of six, neglecting friction.
  • benjamin-bush — Also called spice-wood. a yellow-flowered, North American shrub, Lindera benzoin, of the laurel family, whose bark and leaves have a spicy odor.
  • bible-thumper — an enthusiastic or aggressive exponent of the Bible
  • bio-autograph — an analytical technique in which organic compounds are separated by chromatography and identified by studying their effects on microorganisms.
  • bioautography — an analytical technique in which organic compounds are separated by chromatography and identified by studying their effects on microorganisms.
  • birthday suit — If you are in your birthday suit, you are not wearing any clothes.
  • bite the dust — to fail completely or cease to exist
  • blanchisseuse — a washer-woman
  • blasphemously — uttering, containing, or exhibiting blasphemy; irreverent; profane.
  • blue rockfish — a bluish-black rockfish, Sebastodes mystinus, inhabiting Pacific coastal waters of North America.
  • blue whistler — blue norther.
  • boardinghouse — a private house in which accommodation and meals are provided for paying guests
  • bolt up right — a movable bar or rod that when slid into a socket fastens a door, gate, etc.
  • bone-crushing — powerful or constricting enough to crush one's bones: a bone-crushing handshake.
  • book of hours — a book used esp in monasteries during the Middle Ages that contained the prayers and offices of the canonical hours
  • bounced flash — a flash bounced off a reflective surface, as a ceiling or wall, to illuminate a subject indirectly.
  • bound up with — closely or inextricably linked with
  • bounty hunter — A bounty hunter is someone who tries to find or kill someone in order to get the reward that has been offered.
  • boustrophedon — having alternate lines written from right to left and from left to right
  • boutros-ghali — ˈBoutros (ˈbutroʊs ) ; bo̅oˈtrōs) 1922- ; Egypt. diplomat: secretary-general of the United Nations (1992-96)
  • brachiosaurus — a dinosaur of the genus Brachiosaurus, up to 30 metres long: the largest land animal ever known
  • brachypterous — having very short or incompletely developed wings
  • break through — If you break through a barrier, you succeed in forcing your way through it.
  • breakthroughs — a military movement or advance all the way through and beyond an enemy's front-line defense.
  • breeches buoy — a ring-shaped life buoy with a support in the form of a pair of short breeches, in which a person is suspended for safe transfer from a ship
  • brigham young — Andrew (Jackson, Jr.) born 1932, U.S. clergyman, civil-rights leader, politician, and diplomat: mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, 1981–89.
  • bristle brush — a brush made with animal bristles
  • broiler house — a building in which broiler chickens are reared in confined conditions
  • bûche de noël — a French Christmas cake made from a thin layer of spongecake that is rolled up and frosted so as to resemble a decorative Yule log

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