16-letter words containing h, b, e
- have sb to thank — If you say that you have someone to thank for something, you mean that you are grateful to them because they caused it to happen.
- hawksbill turtle — a sea turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata, the shell of which is the source of tortoise shell: an endangered species.
- hayes-compatible — (communications) A description of a modem which understands the same set of commands as one made by Hayes.
- hebbian learning — (artificial intelligence) The most common way to train a neural network; a kind of unsupervised learning; named after canadian neuropsychologist, Donald O. Hebb. The algorithm is based on Hebb's Postulate, which states that where one cell's firing repeatedly contributes to the firing of another cell, the magnitude of this contribution will tend to increase gradually with time. This means that what may start as little more than a coincidental relationship between the firing of two nearby neurons becomes strongly causal. Despite limitations with Hebbian learning, e.g., the inability to learn certain patterns, variations such as Signal Hebbian Learning and Differential Hebbian Learning are still used.
- hedge one's bets — If you hedge your bets, you reduce the risk of losing a lot by supporting more than one person or thing in a situation where they are opposed to each other.
- hemangioblastoma — (medicine) Any of several benign neoplasm tumours of the brain.
- hendecasyllables — Plural form of hendecasyllable.
- herringbone bond — a brickwork bond in which the exposed brickwork is bonded to the heart of the wall by concealed courses of bricks laid diagonally to the faces of the wall in a herringbone pattern, with the end of each brick butting against the side of the adjoining brick; a form of raking bond.
- herringbone gear — a helical gear having teeth that lie on the pitch cylinder in a V -shaped form so that one half of each tooth is on a right-handed helix and the other half on a left-handed helix.
- heterometabolism — insect development in which the young hatch in a form very similar to the adult and then mature without a pupal stage
- heterometabolous — undergoing development in which the young are born adultlike in form, often maturing without a pupal stage.
- hexahydrobenzene — cyclohexane.
- hold a brief for — to argue for; champion
- honeymoon bridge — any of several varieties of bridge for two players.
- horseback riding — activity: riding a horse
- horsehead nebula — a dark nebula in the constellation Orion, composed of opaque cosmic dust and resembling the head of a horse.
- hot and bothered — having or giving off heat; having a high temperature: a hot fire; hot coffee.
- hot buttered rum — a drink made with rum, hot water, and sugar, served with a lump of butter in a mug.
- hot-cathode tube — thermionic tube.
- hot-water bottle — a bag, usually of rubber, for holding hot water to apply warmth to some part of the body, as the feet.
- houphouet-boigny — Félix [French fey-leeks] /French feɪˈliks/ (Show IPA), 1905–1993, Ivory Coast political leader: president 1960–93.
- hubble telescope — a telescope launched into orbit around the earth in 1990 to provide information about the universe in the visible, infrared, and ultraviolet ranges
- huckleberry finn — (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) a novel (1884) by Mark Twain.
- humanly possible — feasible, practical
- humboldt current — a cold Pacific Ocean current flowing N along the coasts of Chile and Peru.
- hunt the thimble — a children's game in which the players look for a hidden thimble
- huntington beach — a city in SW California, SE of Los Angeles.
- hyaloid membrane — the delicate, pellucid, and nearly structureless membrane enclosing the vitreous humor of the eye.
- hybrid perpetual — a type of cultivated rose bred from varieties having vigorous growth and more or less recurrent bloom.
- hydration number — the number of molecules of water with which an ion can combine in an aqueous solution of given concentration.
- hydrogen bromide — a colorless gas, HBr, having a pungent odor: the anhydride of hydrobromic acid.
- hyperflexibility — capable of being bent, usually without breaking; easily bent: a flexible ruler.
- hyperreal number — any of the set of numbers formed by the addition of infinite numbers and infinitesimal numbers to the set of real numbers
- hypersensibility — capacity for sensation or feeling; responsiveness or susceptibility to sensory stimuli.
- hypersusceptible — hypersensitive (def 2).
- hypervariability — apt or liable to vary or change; changeable: variable weather; variable moods.
- imperishableness — The characteristic or property of being imperishable.
- in the same boat — a vessel for transport by water, constructed to provide buoyancy by excluding water and shaped to give stability and permit propulsion.
- incomprehensible — impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
- incomprehensibly — impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
- inexhaustibility — not exhaustible; incapable of being depleted: an inexhaustible supply.
- inextinguishable — not extinguishable: an inextinguishable fire.
- inextinguishably — In a way that cannot be extinguished; immortally.
- inhospitableness — The quality of being inhospitable.
- intake of breath — When someone takes an intake of breath, they breathe in quickly and noisily, usually because they are shocked at something.
- interbehavioural — relating to or involving interbehaviour
- into the bargain — an advantageous purchase, especially one acquired at less than the usual cost: The sale offered bargains galore.
- invisible shadow — (in architectural shades and shadows) a three-dimensional space occupied by the shadow projected by a solid and within which a surface is in shadow.
- jacques bonhomme — the contemptuous title given by the nobles to the peasants in the revolt of the Jacquerie in 1358 and adopted by the peasants in subsequent revolts.
- john the baptist — the forerunner and baptizer of Jesus. Matt. 3.