13-letter words containing h, o, t, b, e
- bring home to — to convince of
- broad hatchet — a hatchet with a broad cutting edge.
- brokenhearted — Someone who is brokenhearted is very sad and upset because they have had a serious disappointment.
- brotherliness — of, like, or befitting a brother; affectionate and loyal; fraternal: brotherly love.
- bulbourethral — of or relating to the rounded mass of tissue surrounding the urethra at the root of the penis.
- butcher block — designating or of a thick slab made by gluing together strips of hardwood, as maple or oak, used for counter and table tops, etc.
- butcher's boy — a boy doing deliveries for a butcher and perhaps also learning the butchery trade, esp in the past
- butyrophenone — a drug used to treat psychiatric disorders
- carbohydrates — foods which contain carbohydrate
- carboxymethyl — (organic chemistry) The univalent radical -CH2-COOH derived from acetic acid.
- catcher's box — box1 (def 16d).
- chalcostibite — a mineral, antimony copper sulfide, CuSbS 2 , occurring in lead-gray crystals.
- charles abbot — Charles Greeley, 1872–1973, U.S. astrophysicist.
- chocolate bar — a block of chocolate
- chocolate-box — Chocolate-box places or images are very pretty but in a boring or conventional way.
- claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
- clothes brush — a brush used to remove dust, fluff, dirt, etc from clothes
- clothesbasket — a basket for holding and carrying laundry.
- club together — If people club together to do something, they all give money towards the cost of it.
- cocaine habit — an addiction to cocaine
- computerphobe — a person with a strong fear or dislike of computers
- copyrightable — the exclusive right to make copies, license, and otherwise exploit a literary, musical, or artistic work, whether printed, audio, video, etc.: works granted such right by law on or after January 1, 1978, are protected for the lifetime of the author or creator and for a period of 70 years after his or her death.
- counterphobic — seeking out a situation that one fears in an attempt to overcome the fear.
- creosote bush — a shrub, Larrea (or Covillea) tridentata of the western US and Mexico, that has resinous leaves with an odour resembling creosote, and can live for many thousands of years: family Zygophyllaceae
- cross the bar — to die
- date of birth — Your date of birth is the exact date on which you were born, including the year.
- daughterboard — a small circuit board that can be attached to the motherboard of a computer
- daytona beach — a city in NE Florida, on the Atlantic: a resort with a beach of hard white sand, used since 1903 for motor speed trials. Pop: 64 581 (2003 est)
- 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.
- double-clutch — (of a bird) to produce a second clutch of eggs after the first has been removed, usually for hatching in an incubator.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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