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13-letter words containing h, o, b, e

  • debt of honor — a gambling debt: not legally enforceable
  • demothballing — to remove (naval or military equipment) from storage or reserve, usually for active duty; reactivate.
  • dishonourable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
  • double whammy — twofold misfortune
  • double-clutch — (of a bird) to produce a second clutch of eggs after the first has been removed, usually for hatching in an incubator.
  • double-header — Sports. two games, as of baseball, between the same teams on the same day in immediate succession. two games, as of basketball, between two different pairs of teams on the same day in immediate succession.
  • down the tube — a hollow, usually cylindrical body of metal, glass, rubber, or other material, used especially for conveying or containing liquids or gases.
  • drop the ball — a spherical or approximately spherical body or shape; sphere: He rolled the piece of paper into a ball.
  • east by north — a point on the compass 11°15′ north of east. Abbreviation: EbN.
  • east by south — a point on the compass 11°15prime; south of east. Abbreviation: EbS.
  • elasmobranchs — Plural form of elasmobranch.
  • endobronchial — (anatomy) Pertaining to the lining of the bronchi.
  • erin go bragh — Ireland forever
  • erythroblasts — Plural form of erythroblast.
  • erythrophobia — Abnormal and persistent fear of blushing.
  • ethnobotanist — A scholar or researcher in the field of ethnobotany.
  • exhibitioners — Plural form of exhibitioner.
  • exhibitionism — Extravagant behavior that is intended to attract attention to oneself.
  • exhibitionist — A person who behaves in an extravagant way in order to attract attention.
  • fishbone fern — a common Australian fern, Nephrolepsis cordifolia, having fronds with many pinnae
  • float chamber — Automotive. the bowl-shaped section of a carburetor in which a reserve of fuel is maintained, the fuel level being regulated by a float.
  • foot the bill — pay the costs
  • for the birds — any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
  • frobisher bay — an inlet of the Atlantic in NE Canada, in the SE coast of Baffin Island
  • george w bush — Barbara (Barbara Pierce) born 1925, U.S. First Lady 1989–93 (wife of George H. W. Bush).
  • gerontophobia — a fear of old people.
  • ghettoblaster — Alternative form of ghetto blaster.
  • give birth to — an act or instance of being born: the day of his birth.
  • global search — a word-processing operation in which a complete computer file or set of files is searched for every occurrence of a particular word or other sequence of characters
  • globe theatre — a theater on the south bank of the Thames in London, 1599–1613: many of Shakespeare's plays were first produced here.
  • globe thistle — any of various Old World, thistlelike, composite plants of the genus Echinops, having dense heads of tubular blue or white flowers.
  • go to the bad — to become wicked, shiftless, etc.; degenerate
  • good behavior — satisfactory, proper, or polite conduct.
  • good-neighbor — characterized by friendly political relations and mutual aid between countries.
  • gynaecophobia — (psychology) An irrational fear of women.
  • habeas corpus — a writ requiring a person to be brought before a judge or court, especially for investigation of a restraint of the person's liberty, used as a protection against illegal imprisonment.
  • haber process — a process for synthesizing ammonia from gaseous nitrogen and hydrogen under high pressure and temperature in the presence of a catalyst.
  • halobacterium — Any of various extremophiles, of genus Halobacterium, found in water saturated or nearly saturated with salt.
  • harbor master — an official who supervises operations in a harbor area and administers its rules.
  • harbourmaster — (British, Canada, nautical) An official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port.
  • have a bun on — have a bun on, Slang. to be intoxicated: Everyone at the party seemed to have a bun on.
  • heart problem — a defect or disease of the heart
  • heart trouble — cardiac condition
  • heartbrokenly — In a heartbroken manner.
  • heaven forbid — You say 'Heaven forbid!' to emphasize that you very much hope that something will not happen.
  • heavenly body — celestial object: star, planet, etc.
  • heli-boarding — the sport of snowboarding on mountains or glaciers accessible only by helicopter or skiplane
  • hemimetabolic — (zoology) Having an incomplete metamorphosis, the larvae differing from the adults chiefly in lacking wings.
  • hemocytoblast — a primordial cell capable of developing into any type of blood cell.
  • hepatobiliary — Of, pertaining to, or originating in the liver, bile ducts and gallbladder.
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