13-letter words containing h, g, e
- 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.
- base exchange — a nonprofit general store at a military base, for the sale of merchandise for personal use, refreshments, etc.
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- benching iron — a triangular, pronged plate driven into the ground to provide a temporary bench mark or turning point.
- benightedness — intellectually or morally ignorant; unenlightened: benighted ages of barbarism and superstition.
- benthopelagic — relating to species living at the bottom of the sea
- 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.
- bibliographer — an expert in bibliography
- big enchilada — enchilada (def 2).
- big-heartedly — in a big-hearted manner
- bighorn-river — a river flowing from central Wyoming to the Yellowstone River in S Montana. 336 miles (540 km) long.
- biogeographer — a person who is knowledgeable about biogeography
- biotechnology — Biotechnology is the use of living parts such as cells or bacteria in industry and technology.
- bitch goddess — worldly or material success personified as a goddess, especially one requiring sacrifice and being essentially destructive: He went to New York to worship the bitch goddess.
- black english — the group of related dialects of American English spoken variously by many black people in the U.S.
- blinkenlights — /blink'*n-li:tz/ Front-panel diagnostic lights on a computer, especially a dinosaur. Derives from the last word of the famous blackletter-Gothic sign in mangled pseudo-German that once graced about half the computer rooms in the English-speaking world. One version ran in its entirety as follows: In an amusing example of turnabout-is-fair-play, German hackers have developed their own versions of the blinkenlights poster in fractured English, one of which is reproduced here: ATTENTION This room is fullfilled mit special electronische equippment. Fingergrabbing and pressing the cnoeppkes from the computers is allowed for die experts only! So all the "lefthanders" stay away and do not disturben the brainstorming von here working intelligencies. Otherwise you will be out thrown and kicked anderswhere! Also: please keep still and only watchen astaunished the blinkenlights. See also geef.
- blow the gaff — to divulge a secret
- boardinghouse — a private house in which accommodation and meals are provided for paying guests
- 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.
- bone-chilling — extremely cold
- 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.
- break through — If you break through a barrier, you succeed in forcing your way through it.
- breakthroughs — a military movement or advance all the way through and beyond an enemy's front-line defense.
- breathe again — to feel relief
- breechloading — loaded at the breech.
- bring home to — to convince of
- budget speech — the speech in which the Chancellor presents his budget to parliament
- buffing wheel — a wheel covered with a soft material, such as lamb's wool or leather, used for shining and polishing
- burgess shale — a bed of Cambrian sedimentary rock in the Rocky Mountains in British Columbia containing many unique invertebrate fossils
- cabbage aphid — a small, blue aphid, Brevicoryne brassicae, that feeds on cabbage and related plants.
- cabbage white — any large white butterfly of the genus Pieris, esp the Eurasian species P. brassicae, the larvae of which feed on the leaves of cabbages and related vegetables: family Pieridae
- cache storage — cache (def 3).
- cage fighting — Cage fighting is a type of organized violent fighting that takes place in an enclosed space.
- 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
- cartographers — Plural form of cartographer.
- casehardening — Present participle of caseharden.
- cash dealings — transactions that are carried out using cash
- cash register — A cash register is a machine in a shop, pub, or restaurant that is used to add up and record how much money people pay, and in which the money is kept.
- casing hanger — A casing hanger is the part of a wellhead that supports the casing string.
- casting wheel — a wheel having on its circumference molds for receiving molten metal.