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13-letter words containing h, e, a, r, n

  • apprehensibly — In an apprehensive manner; cautiously.
  • apprehensions — Plural form of apprehension.
  • arabian horse — one of a breed of horses, raised originally in Arabia and adjacent countries, noted for intelligence, grace, and speed.
  • arachnephobia — Misspelling of arachnophobia.
  • archaeobotany — the analysis and interpretation of plant remains found at archaeological sites
  • archaeologian — (archaic) An archaeologist.
  • archie bunker — a poorly educated blue-collar worker, holding ultraconservative, racist, and male-chauvinist opinions.
  • archimandrite — the head of a monastery or a group of monasteries
  • architectonic — denoting, relating to, or having architectural qualities
  • arena theater — a theater having a central stage without a proscenium, surrounded by seats
  • arias sanchez — Oscar. born 1940, Costa Rican statesman; president (1986–90, 2006–2010); Nobel peace prize 1987
  • aristolochene — (organic compound) A bicyclic sesquiterpene produced by certain fungi.
  • arithmetician — a person skilled in arithmetic
  • aschaffenburg — a city in Germany, on the River Main in Bavaria: seat of the Imperial Diet (1447); ceded to Bavaria in 1814. Pop: 68 607 (2003 est)
  • ashlar veneer — a thin dressed stone with straight edges, used to face a wall
  • asthenosphere — a thin semifluid layer of the earth (100–200 km thick), below the outer rigid lithosphere, forming part of the mantle and thought to be able to flow vertically and horizontally, enabling sections of lithosphere to subside, rise, and undergo lateral movement
  • athenagoras i — (Aristocles Spyrou) 1886–1972, Archbishop Ecumenical of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church 1948–72.
  • atherogenesis — (medicine) The formation of atheromas, especially on the walls of the arteries.
  • authenticator — a person or thing that authenticates.
  • baby snatcher — a person who steals a baby from its pram
  • balneotherapy — the treatment of disease by bathing, esp to improve limb mobility in arthritic and neuromuscular disorders
  • band together — If people band together, they meet and act as a group in order to try and achieve something.
  • be hard going — If you say that something is hard going, you mean it is difficult and requires a lot of effort.
  • 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
  • bench warrant — a warrant issued by a judge or court directing that an offender be apprehended
  • benton harbor — a city in SW Michigan, on Lake Michigan.
  • berchtesgaden — a town in Germany, in SE Bavaria: site of the fortified mountain retreat of Adolf Hitler. Pop: 7667 (2003 est)
  • bethnal green — a former borough of London, England, N of the Thames.
  • binary search — (algorithm)   A search algorithm which repeatedly divides an ordered search space in half according to how the required (key) value compares with the middle element. The following pseudo-C routine performs a binary search return the index of the element of vector "thing[first..last]" equal to "target": if (target < thing[first] || target > thing[last]) return NOT_FOUND; while (first < last) { mid = (first+last)/2; /* truncate to integer */ if (target == thing[mid]) return mid; if (target < thing[mid]) last = mid-1; else first = mid+1; } if (target == thing[last]) return last; return NOT_FOUND; (2003-01-14)
  • birth parents — a child's biological parents, regardless of whether they subsequently bring up the child
  • black panther — (in the US) a member of a militant Black political party (1965–82) founded to end the political dominance of White people
  • 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
  • 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.
  • brahminy kite — a common kite, Haliastur indus, of southern Asia and the southwest Pacific islands, having reddish-brown plumage with a white head and breast.
  • branch office — the local branch of a bank, shop, or other business
  • branch rickey — (Wesley) Branch, 1881–1965, U.S. baseball executive.
  • breathe again — to feel relief
  • breechloading — loaded at the breech.
  • brokenhearted — Someone who is brokenhearted is very sad and upset because they have had a serious disappointment.
  • bronze whaler — a shark, Carcharhinus brachyurus, of southern Australian waters, having a bronze-coloured back
  • burnham scale — the salary scale for teachers in English state schools, which is revised periodically
  • call the turn — to predict successfully
  • cancerophobia — a morbid dread of being afflicted by cancer
  • candleholders — Plural form of candleholder.
  • candlelighter — a person whose task it is to light candles
  • cardiganshire — a former county of W Wales: became part of Dyfed in 1974; reinstated as Ceredigion in 1996
  • carnegie hall — a famous concert hall in New York (opened 1891); endowed by Andrew Carnegie
  • carpet knight — a soldier who spends his life away from battle; idler
  • carpetmuncher — Alternative form of carpet muncher.
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