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13-letter words containing h, i, d

  • big enchilada — enchilada (def 2).
  • big-heartedly — in a big-hearted manner
  • billy the kid — nickname of William H. Bonney. 1859–81, US outlaw
  • bird-watching — Bird-watching is the activity of watching and studying wild birds in their natural surroundings.
  • birthday bash — a birthday party
  • birthday cake — a special cake eaten at a birthday party
  • birthday card — a greeting card sent on someone's birthday
  • birthday girl — the girl or woman whose birthday is being celebrated
  • birthday suit — If you are in your birthday suit, you are not wearing any clothes.
  • bishop's weed — goutweed.
  • bishop's-weed — goutweed.
  • 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.
  • bite the dust — to fail completely or cease to exist
  • blandishments — Blandishments are pleasant things that someone says to another person in order to persuade them to do something.
  • boardinghouse — a private house in which accommodation and meals are provided for paying guests
  • body shopping — the purchasing of manpower from another country, usually one where wages are cheap
  • bois de vache — dried buffalo dung, used as fuel by Canadian and U.S. fur trappers in the 18th and 19th centuries.
  • boron hydride — borane.
  • bound up with — closely or inextricably linked with
  • breechloading — loaded at the breech.
  • breidha fjord — an inlet of Denmark Strait on the NW coast of Iceland.
  • bridal shower — a party, held for a woman before her wedding, to which her friends bring gifts
  • bridal wreath — any of several N temperate rosaceous shrubs of the genus Spiraea, esp S. prunifolia, cultivated for their sprays of small white flowers
  • bridging shot — a shot inserted in a film to indicate the passage of time between two scenes, as of a series of newspaper headlines or calendar pages being torn off.
  • british india — the 17 provinces of India formerly governed by the British under the British sovereign: ceased to exist in 1947 when the independent states of India and Pakistan were created
  • bullhead rail — a rail having a cross section with a bulbous top and bottom, the top being larger
  • bundle of his — atrioventricular bundle.
  • burt standishBurt L. pseudonym of Gilbert Patten.
  • busheled iron — heterogeneous iron made from scrap iron and steel.
  • cabbage aphid — a small, blue aphid, Brevicoryne brassicae, that feeds on cabbage and related plants.
  • cactus dahlia — a double-flowered variety of dahlia
  • candidateship — candidature
  • candlelighter — a person whose task it is to light candles
  • card clothing — a very sturdy fabric with a leather or rubber fillet imbedded with wire teeth for disentangling and cleaning textile fibers, used to cover the rollers or flats of a carding machine.
  • cardiganshire — a former county of W Wales: became part of Dyfed in 1974; reinstated as Ceredigion in 1996
  • cardinal fish — a small brightly coloured fish found in shallow tropical seas, of the family Apogonidae, the male of which often broods eggs in its mouth
  • cardiographic — (physiology) Of or pertaining to, or produced by, a cardiograph.
  • cardiopathies — Plural form of cardiopathy.
  • casehardening — Present participle of caseharden.
  • cash dealings — transactions that are carried out using cash
  • cash discount — a discount granted to a purchaser who pays before a stipulated date
  • cash holdings — the assets that you hold in ready cash, as opposed to property, shares, bonds, etc
  • cephaloridine — a cephalosporin antibiotic often used in the treatment of bacterial infections
  • characterised — to mark or distinguish as a characteristic; be a characteristic of: Rich metaphors characterize his poetry.
  • characterized — to mark or distinguish as a characteristic; be a characteristic of: Rich metaphors characterize his poetry.
  • 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)
  • chemical bond — a mutual attraction between two atoms resulting from a redistribution of their outer electrons
  • chemin de fer — a gambling game, a variation of baccarat
  • chesterfields — Plural form of chesterfield.
  • chicago ridge — a town in NE Illinois.
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