13-letter words containing h, a, b
- draughtsboard — The board on which draughts is played, resembling a chessboard but (depending on the game variation) often having a side length of ten squares rather than eight.
- drop the ball — a spherical or approximately spherical body or shape; sphere: He rolled the piece of paper into a ball.
- dzibilchaltun — a large, ancient Mayan ceremonial and commercial center near Mérida, Mexico, founded perhaps as early as 3000 b.c. and in continuous use until the 16th century.
- east by north — a point on the compass 11°15′ north of east. Abbreviation: EbN.
- east by south — a point on the compass 11°15prime; south of east. Abbreviation: EbS.
- eating habits — the way a person or group eats, considered in terms of what types of food are eaten, in what quantities, and when
- elasmobranchs — Plural form of elasmobranch.
- elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
- embranchments — Plural form of embranchment.
- endobronchial — (anatomy) Pertaining to the lining of the bronchi.
- erin go bragh — Ireland forever
- erythroblasts — Plural form of erythroblast.
- erythrophobia — Abnormal and persistent fear of blushing.
- establishable — Able to be established.
- establishment — The action of establishing something or being established.
- ethnobotanist — A scholar or researcher in the field of ethnobotany.
- false bulrush — a tall reedlike marsh plant, Typha latifolia, with straplike leaves and flowers in long brown sausage-shaped spikes: family Typhaceae
- featherbedded — Simple past tense and past participle of featherbed.
- featherbrains — Plural form of featherbrain.
- fibre channel — (storage, networking, communications) An ANSI standard originally intended for high-speed SANs connecting servers, disc arrays, and backup devices, also later adapted to form the physical layer of Gigabit Ethernet. Development work on Fibre channel started in 1988 and it was approved by the ANSI standards committee in 1994, running at 100Mb/s. More recent innovations have seen the speed of Fibre Channel SANs increase to 10Gb/s. Several topologies are possible with Fibre Channel, the most popular being a number of devices attached to one (or two, for redundancy) central Fibre Channel switches, creating a reliable infrastructure that allows servers to share storage arrays or tape libraries. One common use of Fibre Channel SANs is for high availability databaseq clusters where two servers are connected to one highly reliable RAID array. Should one server fail, the other server can mount the array itself and continue operations with minimal downtime and loss of data. Other advanced features include the ability to have servers and hard drives seperated by hundreds of miles or to rapidly mirror data between servers and hard drives, perhaps in seperate geographic locations.
- finback whale — rorqual
- fingerbreadth — the breadth of a finger: approximately 3/4 inch (2 cm).
- first chamber — the parliament of the Netherlands, consisting of an upper chamber (First Chamber) and a lower chamber (Second Chamber)
- fishing banks — a place where fish are abundant, as off Newfoundland
- float chamber — Automotive. the bowl-shaped section of a carburetor in which a reserve of fuel is maintained, the fuel level being regulated by a float.
- frobisher bay — an inlet of the Atlantic in NE Canada, in the SE coast of Baffin Island
- fulbright act — an act of Congress (1946) by which funds derived chiefly from the sale of U.S. surplus property abroad are made available to U.S. citizens for study, research, and teaching in foreign countries as well as to foreigners to engage in similar activities in the U.S.
- gabrilowitsch — Ossip [aw-syip] /ˈɔ syɪp/ (Show IPA), 1878–1936, Russian pianist and conductor, in America.
- garbage chute — sloped channel for rubbish disposal
- gerontophobia — a fear of old people.
- ghettoblaster — Alternative form of ghetto blaster.
- give sb heart — If something gives you heart, it makes you feel more confident or happy about something.
- global search — a word-processing operation in which a complete computer file or set of files is searched for every occurrence of a particular word or other sequence of characters
- globe theatre — a theater on the south bank of the Thames in London, 1599–1613: many of Shakespeare's plays were first produced here.
- go to the bad — to become wicked, shiftless, etc.; degenerate
- good behavior — satisfactory, proper, or polite conduct.
- graphitizable — (chemistry, of carbon) Able to be converted to graphite.
- gynaecophobia — (psychology) An irrational fear of women.
- habeas corpus — a writ requiring a person to be brought before a judge or court, especially for investigation of a restraint of the person's liberty, used as a protection against illegal imprisonment.
- haber process — a process for synthesizing ammonia from gaseous nitrogen and hydrogen under high pressure and temperature in the presence of a catalyst.
- haberdasher's — a shop that sells small articles for sewing, such as buttons, zips, and ribbons
- habit of mind — If someone has a particular habit of mind, they usually think in that particular way.
- habit-forming — tending to cause or encourage addiction, especially through physiological dependence: habit-forming drugs.
- hail columbia — hell (used as a euphemism): He caught Hail Columbia for coming home late.
- 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.
- harbor master — an official who supervises operations in a harbor area and administers its rules.
- harbourmaster — (British, Canada, nautical) An official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port.
- hardenability — The quality or degree of being hardenable.