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13-letter words containing i, n, b, e, h

  • queer-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked verbal or physical assaults upon homosexuals or supposed homosexuals
  • refurbishment — to furbish again; renovate; brighten: to refurbish the lobby.
  • replenishable — able to be replenished
  • reprehensible — deserving of reproof, rebuke, or censure; blameworthy.
  • right-brained — having the right brain dominant, therefore being more adept at spatial and nonverbal concepts and being more creative and emotional than logical and analytical.
  • ring the bell — a hollow instrument of cast metal, typically cup-shaped with a flaring mouth, suspended from the vertex and rung by the strokes of a clapper, hammer, or the like.
  • rushed behind — a situation when the ball passes through the goalposts but was last touched by a defending player, causing the attacking team to win a point
  • ruth benedict — Ruth (Fulton) 1887–1948, U.S. writer and anthropologist.
  • sandwich beam — flitch beam.
  • sensible heat — Sensible heat is heat which is exchanged in an energy generation system, and which only affects the temperature of one or more substances.
  • shingle beach — a beach made of a mass of small pieces of rough stone
  • shoeshine boy — a man or boy who cleans shoes
  • show business — the entertainment industry, as theater, motion pictures, television, radio, carnival, and circus.
  • shub-internet — /shuhb in't*r-net/ (MUD, from H. P. Lovecraft's evil fictional deity "Shub-Niggurath", the Black Goat with a Thousand Young) The harsh personification of the Internet, Beast of a Thousand Processes, Eater of Characters, Avatar of Line Noise, and Imp of Call Waiting; the hideous multi-tendriled entity formed of all the manifold connections of the net. A sect of MUDders worships Shub-Internet, sacrificing objects and praying for good connections. To no avail - its purpose is malign and evil, and is the cause of all network slowdown. Often heard as in "Freela casts a tac nuke at Shub-Internet for slowing her down." (A forged response often follows along the lines of: "Shub-Internet gulps down the tac nuke and burps happily.") Also cursed by users of FTP and telnet when the system slows down. The dread name of Shub-Internet is seldom spoken aloud, as it is said that repeating it three times will cause the being to wake, deep within its lair beneath the Pentagon.
  • siberian high — the prevailing high pressure system over Asia in winter.
  • siphon bottle — a bottle for aerated water, fitted with a bent tube through the neck, the water being forced out, when a valve is opened, by the pressure on its surface of the gas accumulating within the bottle.
  • sphenoid bone — the large butterfly-shaped compound bone at the base of the skull, containing a protective depression for the pituitary gland
  • spine-bashing — to rest; loaf.
  • stamen blight — a disease of blackberries, characterized by a gray, powdery mass of spores covering the anthers, caused by a fungus, Hapalosphaeria deformans.
  • sub-franchise — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
  • testing bench — a piece of equipment for testing if a machine or device is working properly
  • the caribbean — the states and islands of the Caribbean Sea, including the West Indies, when considered as a geopolitical region
  • the invisible — God
  • thereinbefore — before that
  • thiabendazole — a drug used as an antifungal treatment and as an anthelmintic
  • thinkableness — the state or quality of being conceivable or thinkable
  • third baseman — the player whose position is third base.
  • thrombokinase — Biochemistry. a lipoprotein in the blood that converts prothrombin to thrombin.
  • to begin with — You use to begin with when you are talking about the first stage of a situation, event, or process.
  • touchline ban — an official prohibition of a manager or coach from being present on or near the field during a match
  • tubing hanger — A tubing hanger is a device which is attached to the top tubing joint and supports the tubing.
  • unchastisable — not deserving to be chastised; beyond reproach
  • unembellished — to beautify by or as if by ornamentation; ornament; adorn.
  • unestablished — not established.
  • unfashionable — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
  • unimpeachable — above suspicion; impossible to discredit; impeccable: unimpeachable motives.
  • unimpeachably — above suspicion; impossible to discredit; impeccable: unimpeachable motives.
  • uninhabitable — to live or dwell in (a place), as people or animals: Small animals inhabited the woods.
  • uninhibitedly — in an uninhibited manner
  • unneighboured — having no neighbour or neighbours
  • unneighbourly — unfriendly and unhelpful
  • unpublishable — not capable of being made available in print for distribution and sale
  • untarnishable — to dull the luster of (a metallic surface), especially by oxidation; discolor.
  • unwhistleable — incapable of being whistled
  • weights bench — a piece of equipment for use by someone who is weight-training
  • windsor bench — a bench similar in construction to a Windsor chair.
  • wishbone boom — a boom on a sailboard having two arms that are joined at the mast and at the foot of the sail. The windsurfer holds onto it for support and to steer the sailboard
  • with bells on — a hollow instrument of cast metal, typically cup-shaped with a flaring mouth, suspended from the vertex and rung by the strokes of a clapper, hammer, or the like.
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