13-letter words containing h, e, r, b, l
- herbal remedy — a medical treatment made with herbs
- hercules-club — Also called Southern prickly ash. a prickly tree, Zanthoxylum clava-herculis, of the rue family, having a medicinal bark and berries.
- heteroblastic — (of a plant or plant part) showing a marked difference in form between the juvenile and the adult structures
- hilbert space — a complete infinite-dimensional vector space on which an inner product is defined.
- homework club — an after-school club where students can stay to do their homework
- honorableness — The property of being honorable.
- huckleberries — Plural form of huckleberry.
- hyperbolising — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- hyperboloidal — Having the shape or form of a hyperboloid.
- hyperflexible — capable of being bent, usually without breaking; easily bent: a flexible ruler.
- hypermobility — An excess amount of elasticity in a bodily joint.
- khapra beetle — a tiny cosmopolitan beetle, Trogoderma granarium, that is a pest of stored grain and other dried organic matter.
- lamellibranch — bivalve.
- laughter club — a group of people who meet regularly to take part in communal laughing for therapeutic effect
- letzeburgesch — a Germanic dialect that is the native language of most of the people of Luxembourg.
- liberty horse — (in a circus) a riderless horse that performs movements to verbal commands
- liebfraumilch — a white wine produced chiefly in the region of Hesse in Germany.
- lobster shift — Also called lobster trick. dogwatch (def 2).
- lower chamber — lower house.
- lubber's hole — (in a top on a mast) an open space through which a sailor may pass instead of climbing out on the futtock shrouds.
- luxembourgish — Also, Luxembourgish [luhk-suh m-bur-gish] /ˈlʌk səmˌbɜr gɪʃ/ (Show IPA). Letzeburgesch.
- marbled white — any butterfly of the satyrid genus Melanargia, with panelled black-and-white wings, but technically a brown butterfly; found in grassland
- mephobarbital — The drug methylphenobarbital.
- methocarbamol — a substance, C 1 1 H 1 5 NO 5 , used as a muscle relaxant in combination with other drugs in the treatment of acute, painful musculoskeletal conditions.
- methylparaben — a fine, white, needlelike substance, C 8 H 8 O 3 , used chiefly as a preservative in foods and pharmaceuticals.
- middleborough — a town in SE Massachusetts.
- middlesbrough — a seaport in NE England, on the Tees estuary.
- multibranched — Having more than one branch.
- nonperishable — not subject to rapid deterioration or decay: A supply of nonperishable food was kept for emergencies.
- nonshrinkable — incapable of being shrunk
- north belmont — a town in S North Carolina.
- northern blot — Biology, Medicine/Medical. a procedure for studying the activity of a specific gene, as in testing for a hereditary defect: RNA fragments in an extract of a cell population or a tissue are separated by gel electrophoresis, transferred to a filter, and then hybridized with labeled DNA or RNA derived from a laboratory-engineered copy of the gene in order to identify the size and abundance of the RNA expressed by that gene.
- overembellish — Make (something) too ornate or complicated.
- paraphrasable — a restatement of a text or passage giving the meaning in another form, as for clearness; rewording.
- pebble heater — a heat exchanger utilizing refractory pellets to store and give off heat.
- perishability — subject to decay, ruin, or destruction: perishable fruits and vegetables.
- phenobarbital — a white, crystalline powder, C 1 2 H 1 2 N 2 O 3 , used as a sedative, a hypnotic, and as an antispasmodic in epilepsy.
- phlebographic — relating to phlebography or the X-ray imaging of a vein that has been injected with a dye that is visible on the image taken
- pre-establish — to establish, set up, set out, arrange or make secure in advance or previously
- prohibitively — serving or tending to prohibit or forbid something.
- psychobabbler — a person who uses psychobabble
- public charge — a person who is in economic distress and is supported at government expense: He assured the American consul that the prospective immigrant would not become a public charge.
- reestablished — to found, institute, build, or bring into being on a firm or stable basis: to establish a university; to establish a medical practice.
- rehabilitated — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
- rehabilitator — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
- replenishable — able to be replenished
- reprehensible — deserving of reproof, rebuke, or censure; blameworthy.
- ring the bell — a hollow instrument of cast metal, typically cup-shaped with a flaring mouth, suspended from the vertex and rung by the strokes of a clapper, hammer, or the like.
- rule of thumb — a general or approximate principle, procedure, or rule based on experience or practice, as opposed to a specific, scientific calculation or estimate.
- rumbledethump — a Scottish dish of butter and mashed potatoes, sometimes mixed with cabbage or turnips