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13-letter words containing e, l, b

  • go to blazes! — go to hell!
  • gobar numeral — any of a set of ancient numerals derived from Hindu numerals
  • golden number — a number between 1 and 19, used to indicate the position of any year in the Metonic cycle, calculated as the remainder when 1 is added to the given year and the sum is divided by 19. If the remainder is zero the number is 19
  • 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.
  • gottlob frege — (person, history, philosophy, mathematics, logic, theory)   (1848-1925) A mathematician who put mathematics on a new and more solid foundation. He purged mathematics of mistaken, sloppy reasoning and the influence of Pythagoras. Mathematics was shown to be a subdivision of formal logic.
  • 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.
  • great lobelia — a North American plant, Lobelia siphilitica, having long, showy clusters of blue flowers.
  • ground beetle — any of numerous nocturnal, terrestrial beetles of the family Carabidae that feed chiefly on other insects.
  • gubernatorial — of or relating to a state governor or the office of state governor.
  • gulf of gabès — an inlet of the Mediterranean on the E coast of Tunisia
  • 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.
  • heart problem — a defect or disease of the heart
  • heart trouble — cardiac condition
  • heartbrokenly — In a heartbroken manner.
  • heavenly body — celestial object: star, planet, etc.
  • 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.
  • hemocytoblast — a primordial cell capable of developing into any type of blood cell.
  • hepatobiliary — Of, pertaining to, or originating in the liver, bile ducts and gallbladder.
  • heptasyllabic — having seven syllables
  • heptasyllable — a word or line of verse of seven syllables.
  • herbal remedy — a medical treatment made with herbs
  • hercules-club — Also called Southern prickly ash. a prickly tree, Zanthoxylum clava-herculis, of the rue family, having a medicinal bark and berries.
  • heteroblastic — (of a plant or plant part) showing a marked difference in form between the juvenile and the adult structures
  • 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.
  • hollywood bed — a bed consisting of a metal frame, box spring, mattress, and headboard, but lacking a footboard.
  • holometabolic — Of, pertaining to, or undergoing holometabolism.
  • home assembly — assembly at home of something supplied in pieces
  • homework club — an after-school club where students can stay to do their homework
  • honorableness — The property of being honorable.
  • 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.
  • housebuilding — The trade or activity of building houses.
  • hubble effect — redshift
  • hubble-bubble — a simple form of the hookah, in which the smoke passes through water, causing a bubbling sound.
  • huckleberries — Plural form of huckleberry.
  • humboldt peak — a mountain in S Colorado, in the Sangre de Cristo range. 14,064 feet (4290 meters).
  • hummle bonnet — a cap formerly worn by Scottish soldiers
  • hyperbolising — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
  • hyperboloidal — Having the shape or form of a hyperboloid.
  • hyperflexible — capable of being bent, usually without breaking; easily bent: a flexible ruler.
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