13-letter words containing h, o, b, e
- bibliographer — an expert in bibliography
- bibliothecary — a librarian
- bibliotherapy — the use of reading as therapy
- bighorn-river — a river flowing from central Wyoming to the Yellowstone River in S Montana. 336 miles (540 km) long.
- biobehavioral — of or relating to the application of biological methods and ideas to the study of behavior in an attempt to understand emotions and reactions in terms of brain and physiological function.
- biochemically — the science dealing with the chemistry of living matter.
- biogeographer — a person who is knowledgeable about biogeography
- biomechanical — relating to biomechanics
- biotechnology — Biotechnology is the use of living parts such as cells or bacteria in industry and technology.
- bishop sleeve — a full sleeve gathered at the wrist
- bishop violet — a reddish purple.
- 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.
- bitch session — a discussion in which people complain or gripe, usually about a shared experience: Their first date turned into a four-hour bitch session about their ex-spouses' lawyers.
- blasphemously — uttering, containing, or exhibiting blasphemy; irreverent; profane.
- blepharoplast — a cylindrical cytoplasmic body in protozoa
- blepharospasm — spasm of the muscle of the eyelids, causing the eyes to shut tightly, either as a response to painful stimuli or occurring as a form of dystonia
- blood brother — A man's blood brother is a man he has sworn to treat as a brother, often in a ceremony which involves mixing a small amount of their blood.
- blow the gaff — to divulge a secret
- blue rockfish — a bluish-black rockfish, Sebastodes mystinus, inhabiting Pacific coastal waters of North America.
- boardinghouse — a private house in which accommodation and meals are provided for paying guests
- body snatcher — (formerly) a person who robbed graves and sold the corpses for dissection
- 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.
- bois de vache — dried buffalo dung, used as fuel by Canadian and U.S. fur trappers in the 18th and 19th centuries.
- 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.
- boron hydride — borane.
- bosch process — an industrial process for manufacturing hydrogen by the catalytic reduction of steam with carbon monoxide
- bottle-washer — a menial or factotum
- bounced flash — a flash bounced off a reflective surface, as a ceiling or wall, to illuminate a subject indirectly.
- bounty hunter — A bounty hunter is someone who tries to find or kill someone in order to get the reward that has been offered.
- boustrophedon — having alternate lines written from right to left and from left to right
- box jellyfish — any of various highly venomous jellyfishes of the order Cubomedusae, esp Chironex fleckeri, of Australian tropical waters, having a cuboidal body with tentacles hanging from each of the lower corners
- box stretcher — a heavy rectangular stretcher connecting successive legs of a table, chair, etc.
- boynton beach — a city in SE Florida.
- brachypterous — having very short or incompletely developed wings
- branch office — the local branch of a bank, shop, or other business
- 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.
- breech-loader — a firearm that is loaded at the breech
- breeches buoy — a ring-shaped life buoy with a support in the form of a pair of short breeches, in which a person is suspended for safe transfer from a ship
- 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
- bring home to — to convince of
- broad hatchet — a hatchet with a broad cutting edge.
- broiler house — a building in which broiler chickens are reared in confined conditions
- brokenhearted — Someone who is brokenhearted is very sad and upset because they have had a serious disappointment.