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13-letter words containing e, b, i

  • girl's blouse — used to refer to a man who is not behaving in a very strong or masculine way
  • 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.
  • glacier table — a stone slab supported over the surface of a mountain glacier by a column or columns of ice.
  • glibenclamide — (medicine) An oral anti-diabetes medication.
  • globe thistle — any of various Old World, thistlelike, composite plants of the genus Echinops, having dense heads of tubular blue or white flowers.
  • globetrotting — to travel throughout the world, especially regularly or frequently.
  • globuliferous — containing or producing globules.
  • going begging — If you say that something is going begging, you mean that it is available but no one is using it or accepting it.
  • good behavior — satisfactory, proper, or polite conduct.
  • good-neighbor — characterized by friendly political relations and mutual aid between countries.
  • googlebombing — an effort to move a website to the top of search-engine results for a particular word or phrase, by creating a large number of links that contain this search text.
  • governability — to rule over by right of authority: to govern a nation.
  • gram-variable — of or relating to bacteria that stain irregularly with Gram's stain, being neither Gram-positive nor Gram-negative.
  • graphitizable — (chemistry, of carbon) Able to be converted to graphite.
  • grave-robbing — a person who steals valuables from graves and tombs: Graverobbers had emptied the Mayan tomb before archaeologists could examine its contents.
  • great basinet — a basinet having a beaver permanently attached.
  • great britain — an island of NW Europe, separated from the mainland by the English Channel and the North Sea: since 1707 the name has applied politically to England, Scotland, and Wales. 88,139 sq. mi. (228,280 sq. km).
  • great grimsby — seaport in Humberside, NE England, at the mouth of the Humber estuary: county district pop. 91,000
  • great lobelia — a North American plant, Lobelia siphilitica, having long, showy clusters of blue flowers.
  • gubernatorial — of or relating to a state governor or the office of state governor.
  • guinea-bissau — a republic on the W coast of Africa, between Guinea and Senegal: formerly a Portuguese overseas province; gained independence in 1974. 13,948 sq. mi. (36,125 sq. km). Capital: Bissau.
  • gynaecophobia — (psychology) An irrational fear of women.
  • 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.
  • halobacterium — Any of various extremophiles, of genus Halobacterium, found in water saturated or nearly saturated with salt.
  • handleability — a part of a thing made specifically to be grasped or held by the hand.
  • hardenability — The quality or degree of being hardenable.
  • harlequin bug — a black stink bug, Murgantia histrionica, having red and yellow markings, that feeds on cabbages and other cruciferous plants.
  • heartbreaking — causing intense anguish or sorrow.
  • heaven forbid — You say 'Heaven forbid!' to emphasize that you very much hope that something will not happen.
  • heavily built — with a big heavy body
  • heli-boarding — the sport of snowboarding on mountains or glaciers accessible only by helicopter or skiplane
  • helianthine b — methyl orange.
  • hemimetabolic — (zoology) Having an incomplete metamorphosis, the larvae differing from the adults chiefly in lacking wings.
  • hepatobiliary — Of, pertaining to, or originating in the liver, bile ducts and gallbladder.
  • heptasyllabic — having seven syllables
  • herb patience — a European plant, Rumex patientia, of the buckwheat family, naturalized in North America, having long, wavy-margined, basal leaves used for salads.
  • herborization — the act or process of herborizing
  • 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
  • hiberno-saxon — having the characteristics of both the Irish and English; Anglo-Irish.
  • hilbert space — a complete infinite-dimensional vector space on which an inner product is defined.
  • hill of beans — something of trifling value; virtually nothing at all: The problem didn't amount to a hill of beans.
  • hit the books — to deal a blow or stroke to: Hit the nail with the hammer.
  • holometabolic — Of, pertaining to, or undergoing holometabolism.
  • housebreaking — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
  • housebuilding — The trade or activity of building houses.
  • huckleberries — Plural form of huckleberry.
  • husking (bee) — cornhusking (sense 2)
  • hyacinth bean — an Old World tropical vine, Dolichos lablab, of the legume family, having purple or white flowers and black or white seeds in a papery, beaked pod.
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