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13-letter words containing h, i, g, e

  • 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.
  • boardinghouse — a private house in which accommodation and meals are provided for paying guests
  • 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.
  • breathe again — to feel relief
  • breechloading — loaded at the breech.
  • bring home to — to convince of
  • buffing wheel — a wheel covered with a soft material, such as lamb's wool or leather, used for shining and polishing
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • catheterizing — Present participle of catheterize.
  • cervicography — a method of cervical screening in which the neck of the uterus is photographed to facilitate the early detection of cancer
  • chaise longue — A chaise longue is a kind of sofa with only one arm and usually a back along half its length.
  • chaise lounge — A chaise lounge is the same as a chaise longue.
  • challengingly — in a way that challenges or defies someone
  • changeability — liable to change or to be changed; variable.
  • changing tone — cambiata.
  • changing-note — cambiata.
  • chargeability — that may or should be charged: chargeable duty.
  • checkout girl — a female employee who works on a supermarket checkout
  • checkpointing — Present participle of checkpoint.
  • checkweighman — a representative elected by coal miners to check the findings of the mine owner's weighman where miners are paid by the weight of coal mined.
  • chemosurgical — of or relating to chemosurgery
  • chewing louse — See under louse (def 2).
  • chicago ridge — a town in NE Illinois.
  • chicago steak — a strip steak or, sometimes, a shell steak.
  • chicago style — a style of jazz flourishing in Chicago especially in the early 1920s, constituting a direct offshoot of New Orleans style, and differing from its predecessor chiefly in the diminished influence of native folk sources, the greater tension of its group improvisation, the increased emphasis on solos, and the regular use of the tenor saxophone as part of the ensemble.
  • 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-bearing — the act or process of carrying and giving birth to a child
  • chilean guava — a tropical shrub or small tree, Ugni molinae, of the myrtle family, having leathery, oval leaves, rose-pink flowers, and blue-black, edible fruit.
  • chlorargyrite — a mineral, the naturally occurring form of silver chloride, formed in the oxidation process of silver
  • choreographic — Choreographic means relating to or connected with choreography.
  • chronologized — to arrange in chronological order.
  • cigar lighter — a small, portable implement containing fuel which produces a flame with which to light a cigarette
  • cigarette ash — the ash created by smoking a cigarette
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