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13-letter words containing d, a, h, b, e

  • death benefit — the benefit payable if the holder of a life insurance policy dies before the policy matures
  • death chamber — a room in which someone has died
  • debauchedness — The state or quality of being debauched.
  • demothballing — to remove (naval or military equipment) from storage or reserve, usually for active duty; reactivate.
  • detachability — The quality of being detachable.
  • dieffenbachia — any of various plants belonging to the genus Dieffenbachia, of the arum family, native to tropical America, often cultivated as houseplants for their decorative foliage.
  • dischargeable — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
  • dishabilitate — to disqualify
  • dishabituated — to cause to be no longer habituated or accustomed.
  • dishonourable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
  • double whammy — twofold misfortune
  • 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.
  • drop the ball — a spherical or approximately spherical body or shape; sphere: He rolled the piece of paper into a ball.
  • elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
  • endobronchial — (anatomy) Pertaining to the lining of the bronchi.
  • featherbedded — Simple past tense and past participle of featherbed.
  • fingerbreadth — the breadth of a finger: approximately 3/4 inch (2 cm).
  • go to the bad — to become wicked, shiftless, etc.; degenerate
  • good behavior — satisfactory, proper, or polite conduct.
  • haberdasher's — a shop that sells small articles for sewing, such as buttons, zips, and ribbons
  • half-timbered — (of a house or building) having the frame and principal supports of timber and the interstices filled in with masonry, plaster, or the like.
  • handleability — a part of a thing made specifically to be grasped or held by the hand.
  • hardenability — The quality or degree of being hardenable.
  • hawk-s--beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
  • heaven forbid — You say 'Heaven forbid!' to emphasize that you very much hope that something will not happen.
  • heavenly body — celestial object: star, planet, etc.
  • heavy-bearded — having a thick or dark beard.
  • heli-boarding — the sport of snowboarding on mountains or glaciers accessible only by helicopter or skiplane
  • herbal remedy — a medical treatment made with herbs
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • humboldt peak — a mountain in S Colorado, in the Sangre de Cristo range. 14,064 feet (4290 meters).
  • hydroaerobics — aerobic exercises performed in water, as in a swimming pool.
  • hyperboloidal — Having the shape or form of a hyperboloid.
  • lo and behold — Lo and behold or lo is used to emphasize a surprising event that is about to be mentioned, or to emphasize in a humorous way that something is not surprising at all.
  • marbled white — any butterfly of the satyrid genus Melanargia, with panelled black-and-white wings, but technically a brown butterfly; found in grassland
  • multibranched — Having more than one branch.
  • nondetachable — Not capable of being detached.
  • playback head — the part of a tape recorder that is used to pick up the magnetic pattern on tape in order to play back material previously recorded.
  • redondo beach — a city in SW California.
  • reestablished — to found, institute, build, or bring into being on a firm or stable basis: to establish a university; to establish a medical practice.
  • rehabilitated — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
  • right-brained — having the right brain dominant, therefore being more adept at spatial and nonverbal concepts and being more creative and emotional than logical and analytical.
  • saber-toothed — having long, saberlike upper canine teeth, sometimes extending below the margin of the lower jaw.
  • sandwich beam — flitch beam.
  • shield bearer — an attendant who carries the shield or arms of a warrior.
  • surbased arch — drop arch (def 2).
  • table--d-hote — a meal of preselected courses served at a fixed time and price to the guests at a hotel or restaurant.
  • team handball — a game, similar to soccer, played between two teams of seven players who catch, dribble, throw, or hit the ball with the hands.
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