13-letter words containing h, i, p, b
- perching bird — any member of the avian order Passeriformes.
- perennibranch — any amphibian that retains its gills throughout its life
- perishability — subject to decay, ruin, or destruction: perishable fruits and vegetables.
- phenobarbital — a white, crystalline powder, C 1 2 H 1 2 N 2 O 3 , used as a sedative, a hypnotic, and as an antispasmodic in epilepsy.
- phlebographic — relating to phlebography or the X-ray imaging of a vein that has been injected with a dye that is visible on the image taken
- photo-biology — the study of the effects of light on biological systems.
- photocopiable — able or legally permitted to be photocopied
- pied-de-biche — a termination to a leg, consisting of a slight outward curve ending in the semblance of a cloven hoof.
- play hob with — to make trouble for; interfere with and make disordered
- polling booth — a booth in which voters cast their votes.
- potato blight — fungal disease affecting potatoes
- pre-establish — to establish, set up, set out, arrange or make secure in advance or previously
- privy chamber — a private apartment in a royal residence.
- prohibitively — serving or tending to prohibit or forbid something.
- psychobiology — the use of biological methods to study normal and abnormal emotional and cognitive processes, as the anatomical basis of memory or neurochemical abnormalities in schizophrenia.
- public charge — a person who is in economic distress and is supported at government expense: He assured the American consul that the prospective immigrant would not become a public charge.
- public health — health services to improve and protect community health, especially sanitation, immunization, and preventive medicine.
- public school — (in the U.S.) a school that is maintained at public expense for the education of the children of a community or district and that constitutes a part of a system of free public education commonly including primary and secondary schools.
- replenishable — able to be replenished
- reprehensible — deserving of reproof, rebuke, or censure; blameworthy.
- school phobia — a fear of going to or returning to school
- siphon bottle — a bottle for aerated water, fitted with a bent tube through the neck, the water being forced out, when a valve is opened, by the pressure on its surface of the gas accumulating within the bottle.
- snap-brim hat — a hat brim that can be turned up or down.
- social phobia — a type of anxiety disorder characterized by shyness and heightened self-consciousness in particular social situations
- spanish broom — a spiny, often leafless shrub, Genista hispanica, of the legume family, native to southern Europe, having clustered, golden-yellow flowers and hairy pods.
- sphenoid bone — the large butterfly-shaped compound bone at the base of the skull, containing a protective depression for the pituitary gland
- spine-bashing — to rest; loaf.
- subeditorship — the position or office of a subeditor
- subepithelial — any animal tissue that covers a surface, or lines a cavity or the like, and that, in addition, performs any of various secretory, transporting, or regulatory functions.
- syphilophobia — the excessive fear of syphilis
- thanatophobia — an abnormal fear of death.
- the big apple — New York City
- the-big-apple — New York City.
- thrombophilia — a condition marked by the tendency to develop blood clots or thrombosis
- timbrophilist — a person who loves stamps or who collects stamps
- unimpeachable — above suspicion; impossible to discredit; impeccable: unimpeachable motives.
- unimpeachably — above suspicion; impossible to discredit; impeccable: unimpeachable motives.
- unpublishable — not capable of being made available in print for distribution and sale
- up the boohai — thoroughly lost
- web publisher — a person or company that uploads, creates, or edits content on Web pages; one who maintains or manages a website.