13-letter words containing h, i, p, b
- buprenorphine — an opiate used medicinally as a powerful analgesic
- cabbage aphid — a small, blue aphid, Brevicoryne brassicae, that feeds on cabbage and related plants.
- cainotophobia — Alternative form of cainophobia.
- cancerophobia — a morbid dread of being afflicted by cancer
- carcinophobia — Inordinate dread of contracting cancer.
- copyrightable — the exclusive right to make copies, license, and otherwise exploit a literary, musical, or artistic work, whether printed, audio, video, etc.: works granted such right by law on or after January 1, 1978, are protected for the lifetime of the author or creator and for a period of 70 years after his or her death.
- counterphobic — seeking out a situation that one fears in an attempt to overcome the fear.
- cybershopping — Shopping by means of computers or the Internet.
- cymbocephalic — scaphocephaly.
- dien bien phu — a town in NW Vietnam: site of defeat of French forces by Vietminh 1954, bringing to an end the French rule of Indochina.
- dispatch boat — a small, fast boat used for delivering dispatches.
- elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
- erythrophobia — Abnormal and persistent fear of blushing.
- gerontophobia — a fear of old people.
- graphitizable — (chemistry, of carbon) Able to be converted to graphite.
- gynaecophobia — (psychology) An irrational fear of women.
- hepatobiliary — Of, pertaining to, or originating in the liver, bile ducts and gallbladder.
- heptasyllabic — having seven syllables
- herb patience — a European plant, Rumex patientia, of the buckwheat family, naturalized in North America, having long, wavy-margined, basal leaves used for salads.
- hilbert space — a complete infinite-dimensional vector space on which an inner product is defined.
- hospitability — The quality of being hospitable.
- hospital bill — the bills incurred for receiving hospital treatment
- hyperbolising — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- hyperboloidal — Having the shape or form of a hyperboloid.
- hypercinnabar — (mineral) A form of cinnabar that forms hexagonal crystals.
- hyperflexible — capable of being bent, usually without breaking; easily bent: a flexible ruler.
- hypermobility — An excess amount of elasticity in a bodily joint.
- hyperurbanism — a pronunciation or grammatical form or usage produced by a speaker of one dialect according to an analogical rule formed by comparison of the speaker's own usage with that of another, more prestigious, dialect and often applied in an inappropriate context, especially in an effort to avoid sounding countrified, rural, or provincial, as in the pronunciation of the word two (to̅o̅) as (tyo̅o̅).
- hypnobirthing — the use of hypnotic techniques during labour by an expectant mother to reduce the pain and emotional stress of delivery
- hypobranchial — situated below the gills or beneath the branchial arches.
- hypometabolic — Relating to hypometabolism.
- ibrahim pasha — 1789–1848, Egyptian general: governor of Syria 1833–40 (son of Mehemet Ali).
- john q public — the average or typical U.S. citizen: an entertainment aimed at Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Public.
- librarianship — a profession concerned with acquiring and organizing collections of books and related materials in libraries and servicing readers and others with these resources.
- lymphoblastic — (US, cytology, immunology) Of or pertaining to a lymphoblast.
- mahabalipuram — a village in NE Tamil Nadu, in SE India: Hindu temples; early Dravidian architecture.
- mephobarbital — The drug methylphenobarbital.
- mock whipbird — an Australian bird, Pachycephala rufiventris, which is not of the whipbird family
- nonalphabetic — not employing alphabetic order
- nonmembership — the fact or condition of being a nonmember
- nonperishable — not subject to rapid deterioration or decay: A supply of nonperishable food was kept for emergencies.
- nonpunishable — Not punishable; of an act, for which no punishment has been authorized; of a person, beyond the reach of punishment.
- ombudsmanship — The position or office of an ombudsman.
- ophidiophobia — Ophiophobia.
- opisthobranch — any gastropod mollusk of the order Opisthobranchia, as the sea slugs, sea butterflies, and sea hares, characterized by a vestigial or absent mantle and shell and two pairs of tentacles.
- optical bench — an apparatus, as a special table or rigid beam, for the precise positioning of light sources, screens, and optical instruments used for optical and photometric studies, having a ruled bar to which these devices can be attached and along which they can be readily adjusted.
- ornithophobia — Fear of birds.
- path-breaking — very original; ground-breaking
- peccatophobia — an abnormal fear of sinning.
- pembrokeshire — a historic county in Dyfed, in SW Wales.