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

  • herb of grace — rue2 .
  • herb-of-grace — rue2 .
  • herborization — the act or process of herborizing
  • hermosa beach — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • hertogenbosch — 's Hertogenbosch.
  • hessian boots — a knee-high tasseled boot, fashionable in England in the early 19th century.
  • heteroblastic — (of a plant or plant part) showing a marked difference in form between the juvenile and the adult structures
  • hiberno-saxon — having the characteristics of both the Irish and English; Anglo-Irish.
  • hill of beans — something of trifling value; virtually nothing at all: The problem didn't amount to a hill of beans.
  • hit the books — to deal a blow or stroke to: Hit the nail with the hammer.
  • hollywood bed — a bed consisting of a metal frame, box spring, mattress, and headboard, but lacking a footboard.
  • holometabolic — Of, pertaining to, or undergoing holometabolism.
  • home assembly — assembly at home of something supplied in pieces
  • homeobox gene — any of a group of genes whose function is to divide the early embryo into bands of cells with the potential to become specific organs or tissues.
  • homework club — an after-school club where students can stay to do their homework
  • honest broker — a neutral person or organization that mediates disputes; an impartial mediator.
  • honey buzzard — a long-tailed Old World hawk, Pernis apivorus, that feeds on the larvae of bees as well as on small rodents, reptiles, and insects.
  • honorableness — The property of being honorable.
  • horse breeder — a person who breeds horses
  • horse-breaker — a person who breaks in a horse
  • horseshoe bat — any of numerous large-eared Old World insectivorous bats, mostly of the genus Rhinolophus, with a fleshy growth around the nostrils, used in echolocation: family Rhinolophidae
  • hot-swappable — (of devices, disks, etc) capable of being inserted or removed from a computer system that is running, without causing damage or affecting performance
  • hot-water bag — a bag, usually of rubber, for holding hot water to apply warmth to some part of the body, as the feet.
  • hothouse lamb — a lamb born in the fall or early winter, usually reared indoors, specially fed, and marketed when from 9 to 16 weeks of age.
  • housebreakers — Plural form of housebreaker.
  • housebreaking — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
  • housebuilding — The trade or activity of building houses.
  • househusbands — Plural form of househusband.
  • hub-and-spoke — of or designating a system of air transportation by which local flights carry passengers to one major regional airport where they can board long-distance or other local flights for their final destinations.
  • humboldt peak — a mountain in S Colorado, in the Sangre de Cristo range. 14,064 feet (4290 meters).
  • hummle bonnet — a cap formerly worn by Scottish soldiers
  • hunt saboteur — A hunt saboteur is someone who tries to stop a hunt from taking place or being successful because they believe it is cruel to the animal being hunted.
  • hunter's robe — pothos.
  • hydroaerobics — aerobic exercises performed in water, as in a swimming pool.
  • hydrogen bomb — a bomb, more powerful than an atomic bomb, that derives its explosive energy from the thermonuclear fusion reaction of hydrogen isotopes.
  • hydrogen bond — a type of chemical bond in which a hydrogen atom that has a covalent link with one of the electronegative atoms (F, N, O) forms an electrostatic link with another electronegative atom in the same or another molecule.
  • hyperbolising — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
  • hyperboloidal — Having the shape or form of a hyperboloid.
  • hypermobility — An excess amount of elasticity in a bodily joint.
  • hypometabolic — Relating to hypometabolism.
  • inner harbour — a part of a harbour which is further inland
  • into the blue — into the unknown or the far distance
  • isobathytherm — a line on a chart or diagram of a body of water, connecting depths having the same temperature.
  • isothermobath — a line drawn on a diagram of a vertical section of the ocean connecting all points having equal temperature.
  • john sobieski — John, John III (def 2).
  • know by heart — have memorized
  • leghemoglobin — a hemoglobinlike red pigment in the root nodules of leguminous plants, as soybean, that is essential for nitrogen fixation.
  • liberty horse — (in a circus) a riderless horse that performs movements to verbal commands
  • lo and behold — Lo and behold or lo is used to emphasize a surprising event that is about to be mentioned, or to emphasize in a humorous way that something is not surprising at all.
  • lobster shift — Also called lobster trick. dogwatch (def 2).
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