13-letter words containing g, h
- bibliographic — a complete or selective list of works compiled upon some common principle, as authorship, subject, place of publication, or printer.
- bibliophagist — a person who devours books
- big enchilada — enchilada (def 2).
- big-heartedly — in a big-hearted manner
- bighorn-river — a river flowing from central Wyoming to the Yellowstone River in S Montana. 336 miles (540 km) long.
- 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.
- biogeographer — a person who is knowledgeable about biogeography
- biopsychology — a field of psychology that deals with the effects of biological factors on behavior.
- biotechnology — Biotechnology is the use of living parts such as cells or bacteria in industry and technology.
- bird-watching — Bird-watching is the activity of watching and studying wild birds in their natural surroundings.
- birthday girl — the girl or woman whose birthday is being celebrated
- birthing ball — a large soft rubber ball used by women during childbirth to give support and to aid pain relief
- birthing pool — a large bath in which a woman can give birth
- birthing room — a section of a hospital or an outpatient facility set aside and equipped for childbirth and usually simulating a home environment in which family members or friends may be present during the delivery.
- bishop's ring — a reddish-brown corona occasionally seen around the sun, caused by volcanic dust in the atmosphere.
- bitch goddess — worldly or material success personified as a goddess, especially one requiring sacrifice and being essentially destructive: He went to New York to worship the bitch goddess.
- black english — the group of related dialects of American English spoken variously by many black people in the U.S.
- blacksmithing — the work of a blacksmith.
- blinkenlights — /blink'*n-li:tz/ Front-panel diagnostic lights on a computer, especially a dinosaur. Derives from the last word of the famous blackletter-Gothic sign in mangled pseudo-German that once graced about half the computer rooms in the English-speaking world. One version ran in its entirety as follows: In an amusing example of turnabout-is-fair-play, German hackers have developed their own versions of the blinkenlights poster in fractured English, one of which is reproduced here: ATTENTION This room is fullfilled mit special electronische equippment. Fingergrabbing and pressing the cnoeppkes from the computers is allowed for die experts only! So all the "lefthanders" stay away and do not disturben the brainstorming von here working intelligencies. Otherwise you will be out thrown and kicked anderswhere! Also: please keep still and only watchen astaunished the blinkenlights. See also geef.
- blow sky-high — to destroy completely
- blow the gaff — to divulge a secret
- boardinghouse — a private house in which accommodation and meals are provided for paying guests
- body shopping — the purchasing of manpower from another country, usually one where wages are cheap
- bohr magneton — a unit that is used to indicate the magnetic moment of the electron structure in an atom, equal to 9.27 × 10 −21 erg/gauss.
- bolt up right — a movable bar or rod that when slid into a socket fastens a door, gate, etc.
- bolting cloth — a sturdy fabric, usually of fine silk or nylon mesh, used chiefly in serigraphy, embroidery, and as a foundation fabric for wigs.
- bone-chilling — extremely cold
- bone-crushing — powerful or constricting enough to crush one's bones: a bone-crushing handshake.
- bonfire night — Bonfire Night is the popular name for Guy Fawkes Night.
- bottomfishing — to fish with a weighted line for fish that feed close to the bottom.
- boutros-ghali — ˈBoutros (ˈbutroʊs ) ; bo̅oˈtrōs) 1922- ; Egypt. diplomat: secretary-general of the United Nations (1992-96)
- bowling match — a game of bowls
- 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.
- breathe again — to feel relief
- breechloading — loaded at the breech.
- bridging shot — a shot inserted in a film to indicate the passage of time between two scenes, as of a series of newspaper headlines or calendar pages being torn off.
- brigham young — Andrew (Jackson, Jr.) born 1932, U.S. clergyman, civil-rights leader, politician, and diplomat: mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, 1981–89.
- bright lights — If someone talks about the bright lights, they are referring to life in a big city where you can do a lot of enjoyable and exciting things and be successful.
- bring home to — to convince of
- bronchography — radiography of the bronchial tubes after the introduction of a radiopaque medium into the bronchi
- budget speech — the speech in which the Chancellor presents his budget to parliament
- buffing wheel — a wheel covered with a soft material, such as lamb's wool or leather, used for shining and polishing
- burgess shale — a bed of Cambrian sedimentary rock in the Rocky Mountains in British Columbia containing many unique invertebrate fossils
- cabbage aphid — a small, blue aphid, Brevicoryne brassicae, that feeds on cabbage and related plants.
- cabbage white — any large white butterfly of the genus Pieris, esp the Eurasian species P. brassicae, the larvae of which feed on the leaves of cabbages and related vegetables: family Pieridae
- cache storage — cache (def 3).
- cacographical — Synonym of cacographic.
- cage fighting — Cage fighting is a type of organized violent fighting that takes place in an enclosed space.