13-letter words containing h, b, e
- baggage check — a receipt for baggage left in a checkroom
- bahr el jebel — a river in S Sudan: a segment of the White Nile river. 594 miles (956 km) long.
- balance shaft — a shaft in a vehicle engine that is designed to reduce the amount of vibration from other moving parts as it rotates
- balance sheet — A balance sheet is a written statement of the amount of money and property that a company or person has, including amounts of money that are owed or are owing. Balance sheet is also used to refer to the general financial state of a company.
- balance wheel — a wheel oscillating against the hairspring of a timepiece, thereby regulating its beat
- ball the jack — a spherical or approximately spherical body or shape; sphere: He rolled the piece of paper into a ball.
- ballet school — a school where professional ballet dancers are trained
- balloon shade — a window shade that when raised is gathered into a series of puffy festoons created by inverted pleats in the fabric.
- balneotherapy — the treatment of disease by bathing, esp to improve limb mobility in arthritic and neuromuscular disorders
- 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.
- bang goes sth — If you say bang goes something, you mean that it is now obvious that it cannot succeed or be achieved.
- banking house — a more formal term for a bank
- bantamweights — Plural form of bantamweight.
- barbary sheep — aoudad
- barber's itch — any of various fungal infections of the bearded portion of the neck and face
- barbershopper — a member of a barbershop singing group.
- barrel-shaped — having the shape of a barrel
- barrier beach — a sand ridge that rises slightly above the surface of the sea and runs roughly parallel to the shore, from which it is separated by a lagoon.
- barristership — the office of a barrister
- bartholomew i — (Dimitrios Archontonis) born 1940, Archbishop of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church since 1991.
- base exchange — a nonprofit general store at a military base, for the sale of merchandise for personal use, refreshments, etc.
- base hospital — a hospital serving a large rural area
- basic english — a simplified form of English, proposed by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards, containing a vocabulary of approximately 850 of the commonest English words, intended as an international language
- bassenthwaite — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria near Keswick. Length: 6 km (4 miles)
- batch-process — to perform batch processing on (files)
- bathtub curve — Common term for the curve (resembling an end-to-end section of one of those claw-footed antique bathtubs) that describes the expected failure rate of electronics with time: initially high, dropping to near 0 for most of the system's lifetime, then rising again as it "tires out". See also burn-in period, infant mortality.
- bathylimnetic — (of an organism) living in the depths of lakes and marshes
- be hard going — If you say that something is hard going, you mean it is difficult and requires a lot of effort.
- be nothing to — not to concern or be significant to (someone)
- beached whale — large sea mammal stranded on shore
- beacon school — a notably successful school whose methods and practices are brought to the attention of the education service as a whole in order that they may be adopted by other schools
- beanbag chair — a chair like a large beanbag covered with vinyl, fabric, etc. and filled with foam pellets, as of polystyrene, that shift about to fit one's body
- bear the palm — to be the winner; take the prize
- bear's-breech — a widely cultivated S European acanthus plant, Acanthus mollis, having whitish purple-veined flowers
- bearer cheque — a cheque payable to the person who has it
- 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.
- beehive house — a prehistoric circular building found in various parts of Europe, usually of stone and having a dome-shaped roof
- beehive round — an artillery shell that ejects thousands of naillike metal projectiles on exploding.
- beehive state — Utah (used as a nickname).
- beetle-headed — a stupid person; blockhead.
- behavioristic — the theory or doctrine that human or animal psychology can be accurately studied only through the examination and analysis of objectively observable and quantifiable behavioral events, in contrast with subjective mental states.
- behaviourally — from a behavioural point of view
- bell purchase — a tackle consisting of two standing single blocks, two running single blocks, a fall, and a runner, so arranged that it gives a mechanical advantage of six, neglecting friction.
- bench warrant — a warrant issued by a judge or court directing that an offender be apprehended
- benching iron — a triangular, pronged plate driven into the ground to provide a temporary bench mark or turning point.
- bend the knee — to kneel or submit
- benefit match — a sports match organized to raise money for charity, or for a particular player
- benightedness — intellectually or morally ignorant; unenlightened: benighted ages of barbarism and superstition.