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13-letter words containing h, o, s

  • autoschediasm — anything done with little forethought or preparation
  • autoschediaze — to do or act with little forethought or preparation
  • baal shem tov — original name Israel ben Eliezer ?1700–60, Jewish religious leader, teacher, and healer in Poland: founder of modern Hasidism
  • baal-shem-tov — (Israel ben Eliezer"Besht") c1700–60, Ukrainian teacher and religious leader: founder of the Hasidic movement of Judaism.
  • baba ghanoush — a thick purée of aubergines, tahini, olive oil, lemon juice, and garlic, originating in North Africa and the Mediterranean
  • bachelor seal — a young male seal, esp a fur seal, that has not yet mated
  • bachelorettes — Plural form of bachelorette.
  • ballet school — a school where professional ballet dancers are trained
  • balloon shade — a window shade that when raised is gathered into a series of puffy festoons created by inverted pleats in the fabric.
  • bamboo shoots — the shoots of the bamboo plant, often used as food in Asian dishes
  • bang goes sth — If you say bang goes something, you mean that it is now obvious that it cannot succeed or be achieved.
  • banking hours — the hours during which a bank is open for business
  • banking house — a more formal term for a bank
  • barbershopper — a member of a barbershop singing group.
  • bartholinitis — Inflammation of Bartholin's cyst.
  • base hospital — a hospital serving a large rural area
  • batch-process — to perform batch processing on (files)
  • beacon school — a notably successful school whose methods and practices are brought to the attention of the education service as a whole in order that they may be adopted by other schools
  • beehive house — a prehistoric circular building found in various parts of Europe, usually of stone and having a dome-shaped roof
  • behavioristic — the theory or doctrine that human or animal psychology can be accurately studied only through the examination and analysis of objectively observable and quantifiable behavioral events, in contrast with subjective mental states.
  • bessel method — a method of ascertaining position by the use of a map showing prominent features of the terrain and enabling one to sight through them to obtain a fix.
  • betamethasone — a synthetic analogue of a glucocorticoid, C 22 H 29 FO 5 , used in various forms in the treatment of inflammation, allergies, and tumors, and for replacement therapy in adrenal insufficiency.
  • bibliophagist — a person who devours books
  • biopsychology — a field of psychology that deals with the effects of biological factors on behavior.
  • bishop sleeve — a full sleeve gathered at the wrist
  • bishop violet — a reddish purple.
  • bishop's ring — a reddish-brown corona occasionally seen around the sun, caused by volcanic dust in the atmosphere.
  • 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
  • blow sky-high — to destroy completely
  • 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 shopping — the purchasing of manpower from another country, usually one where wages are cheap
  • body snatcher — (formerly) a person who robbed graves and sold the corpses for dissection
  • bois de vache — dried buffalo dung, used as fuel by Canadian and U.S. fur trappers in the 18th and 19th centuries.
  • bone-crushing — powerful or constricting enough to crush one's bones: a bone-crushing handshake.
  • book of hours — a book used esp in monasteries during the Middle Ages that contained the prayers and offices of the canonical hours
  • bosch process — an industrial process for manufacturing hydrogen by the catalytic reduction of steam with carbon monoxide
  • bottle-washer — a menial or factotum
  • bottomfishing — to fish with a weighted line for fish that feed close to the bottom.
  • bounced flash — a flash bounced off a reflective surface, as a ceiling or wall, to illuminate a subject indirectly.
  • boustrophedon — having alternate lines written from right to left and from left to right
  • boutros-ghali — ˈBoutros (ˈbutroʊs ) ; bo̅oˈtrōs) 1922- ; Egypt. diplomat: secretary-general of the United Nations (1992-96)
  • 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.
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