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

  • beehive round — an artillery shell that ejects thousands of naillike metal projectiles on exploding.
  • benching iron — a triangular, pronged plate driven into the ground to provide a temporary bench mark or turning point.
  • bighorn-river — a river flowing from central Wyoming to the Yellowstone River in S Montana. 336 miles (540 km) long.
  • 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
  • bits per inch — (unit)   (BPI) A measure of the recording density of a magnetic tape or disk.
  • boardinghouse — a private house in which accommodation and meals are provided for paying guests
  • bone-crushing — powerful or constricting enough to crush one's bones: a bone-crushing handshake.
  • bonfire night — Bonfire Night is the popular name for Guy Fawkes Night.
  • boron hydride — borane.
  • 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.
  • bring home to — to convince of
  • brotherliness — of, like, or befitting a brother; affectionate and loyal; fraternal: brotherly love.
  • buprenorphine — an opiate used medicinally as a powerful analgesic
  • busheled iron — heterogeneous iron made from scrap iron and steel.
  • butcher knife — a large, very sharp knife for cutting or trimming meat.
  • butcher linen — a strong, heavy fabric made of rayon or rayon and cotton with a linen finish, constructed in plain weave.
  • cancerophobia — a morbid dread of being afflicted by cancer
  • 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
  • carve a niche — If you carve a niche for yourself, you organize your work to create a secure position.
  • casehardening — Present participle of caseharden.
  • casing hanger — A casing hanger is the part of a wellhead that supports the casing string.
  • catheterizing — Present participle of catheterize.
  • cephaloridine — a cephalosporin antibiotic often used in the treatment of bacterial infections
  • cephalosporin — any of a group of broad-spectrum antibiotics obtained from fungi of the genus Cephalosporium
  • chain measure — measurement of distance using a chain 66 feet (20 meters) long, of which one link equals 7.9 inches (20.1 cm).
  • chain printer — a line printer in which the type is on a continuous chain, used to print computer output
  • chain reactor — reactor (def 4).
  • chancelleries — Plural form of chancellery.
  • chaperoneship — State or position of chaperone.
  • charlatanries — Plural form of charlatanry.
  • charter train — a train that has been chartered
  • chateaubriand — François René (frɑ̃swa rəne), Vicomte de Chateaubriand. 1768–1848, French writer and statesman: a precursor of the romantic movement in France; his works include Le Génie du Christianisme (1802) and Mémoires d'outre-tombe (1849–50)
  • cheiromantist — A chiromancer.
  • chemin de fer — a gambling game, a variation of baccarat
  • chemisorption — an adsorption process in which an adsorbate is held on the surface of an adsorbent by chemical bonds
  • chicken adder — milk snake.
  • chicken liver — the liver of chicken, considered as food
  • chicken-fried — (of meats, esp steak) coated in seasoned flour and pan-fried
  • chickenburger — A hot sandwich made of a patty of chicken in a bun, often with other ingredients.
  • child rearing — the activity of rearing children
  • child version — (system management)   In change management, a configuration item derived by altering another item (its parent version).
  • child-bearing — the act or process of carrying and giving birth to a child
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