13-letter words containing i, h, e, a
- auction house — a commercial company that specializes in selling items at auction
- authentically — not false or copied; genuine; real: an authentic antique.
- authenticated — Prove or show (something, esp. a claim or an artistic work) to be true or genuine.
- authenticates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of authenticate.
- authenticator — a person or thing that authenticates.
- authoritative — Someone or something that is authoritative gives an impression of power and importance and is likely to be obeyed.
- automechanism — an automatic mechanical system or component, especially a device that operates automatically under predetermined conditions.
- autoschediasm — anything done with little forethought or preparation
- autoschediaze — to do or act with little forethought or preparation
- azurmalachite — a blue-green ornamental stone consisting of a mixture of azurite and malachite.
- bachelor girl — a young unmarried woman, esp one who is self-supporting
- bacteriophage — a virus that is parasitic in a bacterium and multiplies within its host, which is destroyed when the new viruses are released
- bacteriophagy — the action of a bacteriophage
- baltic shield — the wide area of ancient rock in Scandinavia
- banking house — a more formal term for a bank
- bantamweights — Plural form of bantamweight.
- barber's itch — any of various fungal infections of the bearded portion of the neck and face
- barrier beach — a sand ridge that rises slightly above the surface of the sea and runs roughly parallel to the shore, from which it is separated by a lagoon.
- barristership — the office of a barrister
- bartholomew i — (Dimitrios Archontonis) born 1940, Archbishop of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church since 1991.
- base hospital — a hospital serving a large rural area
- basic english — a simplified form of English, proposed by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards, containing a vocabulary of approximately 850 of the commonest English words, intended as an international language
- bassenthwaite — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria near Keswick. Length: 6 km (4 miles)
- bathylimnetic — (of an organism) living in the depths of lakes and marshes
- be hard going — If you say that something is hard going, you mean it is difficult and requires a lot of effort.
- beanbag chair — a chair like a large beanbag covered with vinyl, fabric, etc. and filled with foam pellets, as of polystyrene, that shift about to fit one's body
- beehive state — Utah (used as a nickname).
- 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.
- behaviourally — from a behavioural point of view
- benefit match — a sports match organized to raise money for charity, or for a particular player
- benjamin-bush — Also called spice-wood. a yellow-flowered, North American shrub, Lindera benzoin, of the laurel family, whose bark and leaves have a spicy odor.
- benthopelagic — relating to species living at the bottom of the sea
- berbice chair — large armchair with long arms that can be folded inwards to act as leg rests
- bibliographer — an expert in bibliography
- bibliothecary — a librarian
- bibliotherapy — the use of reading as therapy
- bicycle chain — a chain that transmits power from the pedals to the driving wheel of a bicycle
- big enchilada — enchilada (def 2).
- big-heartedly — in a big-hearted manner
- binary search — (algorithm) A search algorithm which repeatedly divides an ordered search space in half according to how the required (key) value compares with the middle element. The following pseudo-C routine performs a binary search return the index of the element of vector "thing[first..last]" equal to "target": if (target < thing[first] || target > thing[last]) return NOT_FOUND; while (first < last) { mid = (first+last)/2; /* truncate to integer */ if (target == thing[mid]) return mid; if (target < thing[mid]) last = mid-1; else first = mid+1; } if (target == thing[last]) return last; return NOT_FOUND; (2003-01-14)
- biobehavioral — of or relating to the application of biological methods and ideas to the study of behavior in an attempt to understand emotions and reactions in terms of brain and physiological function.
- biochemically — the science dealing with the chemistry of living matter.
- biogeographer — a person who is knowledgeable about biogeography
- biomechanical — relating to biomechanics
- birth parents — a child's biological parents, regardless of whether they subsequently bring up the child
- birthday cake — a special cake eaten at a birthday party
- black english — the group of related dialects of American English spoken variously by many black people in the U.S.
- blanchisseuse — a washer-woman
- blandishments — Blandishments are pleasant things that someone says to another person in order to persuade them to do something.
- boardinghouse — a private house in which accommodation and meals are provided for paying guests