13-letter words containing h, a, e, d
- balloon shade — a window shade that when raised is gathered into a series of puffy festoons created by inverted pleats in the fabric.
- baltic shield — the wide area of ancient rock in Scandinavia
- band together — If people band together, they meet and act as a group in order to try and achieve something.
- barrel-shaped — having the shape of a barrel
- be hard going — If you say that something is hard going, you mean it is difficult and requires a lot of effort.
- beached whale — large sea mammal stranded on shore
- beat the band — a company of persons or, sometimes, animals or things, joined, acting, or functioning together; aggregation; party; troop: a band of protesters.
- beat the drum — a musical percussion instrument consisting of a hollow, usually cylindrical, body covered at one or both ends with a tightly stretched membrane, or head, which is struck with the hand, a stick, or a pair of sticks, and typically produces a booming, tapping, or hollow sound.
- beetle-headed — a stupid person; blockhead.
- berchtesgaden — a town in Germany, in SE Bavaria: site of the fortified mountain retreat of Adolf Hitler. Pop: 7667 (2003 est)
- big enchilada — enchilada (def 2).
- big-heartedly — in a big-hearted manner
- birthday cake — a special cake eaten at a birthday party
- black-hearted — evil, malicious, or wicked
- blandishments — Blandishments are pleasant things that someone says to another person in order to persuade them to do something.
- boardinghouse — a private house in which accommodation and meals are provided for paying guests
- body snatcher — (formerly) a person who robbed graves and sold the corpses for dissection
- bois de vache — dried buffalo dung, used as fuel by Canadian and U.S. fur trappers in the 18th and 19th centuries.
- bounced flash — a flash bounced off a reflective surface, as a ceiling or wall, to illuminate a subject indirectly.
- breech-loader — a firearm that is loaded at the breech
- breechloading — loaded at the breech.
- breidha fjord — an inlet of Denmark Strait on the NW coast of Iceland.
- bridal shower — a party, held for a woman before her wedding, to which her friends bring gifts
- bridal wreath — any of several N temperate rosaceous shrubs of the genus Spiraea, esp S. prunifolia, cultivated for their sprays of small white flowers
- broad hatchet — a hatchet with a broad cutting edge.
- brokenhearted — Someone who is brokenhearted is very sad and upset because they have had a serious disappointment.
- bulkhead deck — the uppermost continuous deck in the hull of a vessel, forming watertight compartments with the main transverse bulkheads.
- bullet-headed — with a head shaped like a bullet
- bullhead rail — a rail having a cross section with a bulbous top and bottom, the top being larger
- bundle sheath — a layer of cells in plant leaves and stems that surrounds a vascular bundle.
- butyraldehyde — a colourless flammable pungent liquid used in the manufacture of resins. Formula: CH3(CH2)2CHO
- cabbage aphid — a small, blue aphid, Brevicoryne brassicae, that feeds on cabbage and related plants.
- candidateship — candidature
- candleholders — Plural form of candleholder.
- candlelighter — a person whose task it is to light candles
- carbohydrates — foods which contain carbohydrate
- cardiganshire — a former county of W Wales: became part of Dyfed in 1974; reinstated as Ceredigion in 1996
- cardiopathies — Plural form of cardiopathy.
- carry the day — to win a contest or competition; succeed
- casehardening — Present participle of caseharden.
- cash dealings — transactions that are carried out using cash
- cash-strapped — If a person or organization is cash-strapped, they do not have enough money to buy or pay for the things they want or need.
- castle howard — a mansion near York in Yorkshire: designed in 1700 by Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor; the grounds include the Temple of the Four Winds and a mausoleum
- cephalopodous — of, belonging to or relating to a cephalopod
- cephaloridine — a cephalosporin antibiotic often used in the treatment of bacterial infections
- chance-medley — a sudden quarrel in which one party kills another; unintentional but not blameless killing
- chandernagore — a port in E India, in S West Bengal on the Hooghly River: a former French settlement (1686–1950). Pop: 162 166 (2001)
- chandrasekhar — Subrahmanyan (ˌsʊbrəˈmænjən). 1910–95, US astronomer born in Lahore, India (now Pakistan). His work on stellar evolution led to an understanding of white dwarfs: shared the Nobel prize for physics 1983
- chapel de fer — a medieval open helmet, often having a broad brim for deflecting blows from above.
- characterised — to mark or distinguish as a characteristic; be a characteristic of: Rich metaphors characterize his poetry.