13-letter words containing h, u
- blue whistler — blue norther.
- boardinghouse — a private house in which accommodation and meals are provided for paying guests
- bolt up right — a movable bar or rod that when slid into a socket fastens a door, gate, etc.
- 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
- bounced flash — a flash bounced off a reflective surface, as a ceiling or wall, to illuminate a subject indirectly.
- bound up with — closely or inextricably linked with
- 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
- boutros-ghali — ˈBoutros (ˈbutroʊs ) ; bo̅oˈtrōs) 1922- ; Egypt. diplomat: secretary-general of the United Nations (1992-96)
- brachiosaurus — a dinosaur of the genus Brachiosaurus, up to 30 metres long: the largest land animal ever known
- brachypterous — having very short or incompletely developed wings
- 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.
- 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
- brigham young — Andrew (Jackson, Jr.) born 1932, U.S. clergyman, civil-rights leader, politician, and diplomat: mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, 1981–89.
- bristle brush — a brush made with animal bristles
- broiler house — a building in which broiler chickens are reared in confined conditions
- bûche de noël — a French Christmas cake made from a thin layer of spongecake that is rolled up and frosted so as to resemble a decorative Yule log
- budget speech — the speech in which the Chancellor presents his budget to parliament
- buenas noches — good night
- buff-tip moth — a large European moth, Phalera bucephala, having violet-brown buff-tipped forewings held at rest around the body so that it resembles a snapped-off twig
- buffalo chips — the dried dung of buffalo used as fuel, especially by early settlers on the western plains.
- buffalo cloth — a heavyweight woolen fabric constructed in twill weave and having a shaggy pile.
- buffing wheel — a wheel covered with a soft material, such as lamb's wool or leather, used for shining and polishing
- bulbourethral — of or relating to the rounded mass of tissue surrounding the urethra at the root of the penis.
- bulkhead deck — the uppermost continuous deck in the hull of a vessel, forming watertight compartments with the main transverse bulkheads.
- bull elephant — an adult male elephant
- bullet-headed — with a head shaped like a bullet
- bullhead rail — a rail having a cross section with a bulbous top and bottom, the top being larger
- bumblebeefish — any of several gobies of the genus Brachygobius, inhabiting waters of the Malay Archipelago and having brown and yellow bands on the body that resemble the markings of a bumblebee.
- bundle of his — atrioventricular bundle.
- bundle sheath — a layer of cells in plant leaves and stems that surrounds a vascular bundle.
- buprenorphine — an opiate used medicinally as a powerful analgesic
- burgess shale — a bed of Cambrian sedimentary rock in the Rocky Mountains in British Columbia containing many unique invertebrate fossils
- burnham scale — the salary scale for teachers in English state schools, which is revised periodically
- burt standish — Burt L. pseudonym of Gilbert Patten.
- bush sickness — an animal disease caused by a cobalt deficiency in old bush country
- busheled iron — heterogeneous iron made from scrap iron and steel.
- butch haircut — a short haircut for men, similar to a crew cut.
- 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 knife — a large, very sharp knife for cutting or trimming meat.
- butcher linen — a strong, heavy fabric made of rayon or rayon and cotton with a linen finish, constructed in plain weave.
- butcher paper — heavy, moisture-resistant paper, as used for wrapping meat.
- butcher's boy — a boy doing deliveries for a butcher and perhaps also learning the butchery trade, esp in the past
- butcher's saw — a type of hacksaw used especially by butchers for cutting through meat and bones.
- butterflyfish — any small tropical marine percoid fish of the genera Chaetodon, Chelmon, etc, that has a deep flattened brightly coloured or strikingly marked body and brushlike teeth: family Chaetodontidae
- butyl alcohol — any of four isomeric alcohols, C4H9OH, obtained from petroleum products: used as solvents and in organic synthesis
- butyraldehyde — a colourless flammable pungent liquid used in the manufacture of resins. Formula: CH3(CH2)2CHO
- butyrophenone — a drug used to treat psychiatric disorders