13-letter words containing i, s, h
- associateship — to connect or bring into relation, as thought, feeling, memory, etc.: Many people associate dark clouds with depression and gloom.
- asthmatically — In an asthmatic manner.
- astonishingly — causing astonishment or surprise; amazing: an astonishing victory; an astonishing remark.
- astonishments — Plural form of astonishment.
- astrophysical — Of or pertaining to astrophysics.
- at first hand — If you learn or experience something at first hand, you experience it yourself or learn it directly rather than being told about it by other people.
- at this point — at this moment in time
- at this stage — at this point: in a process
- atheistically — pertaining to or characteristic of atheists or atheism; containing, suggesting, or disseminating atheism: atheistic literature; atheistic people.
- athenagoras i — (Aristocles Spyrou) 1886–1972, Archbishop Ecumenical of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church 1948–72.
- atherogenesis — (medicine) The formation of atheromas, especially on the walls of the arteries.
- athletic shoe — a shoe designed to be worn for sports, exercising, or recreational activity, as racquetball, jogging, or aerobic dancing.
- atmospherical — pertaining to, existing in, or consisting of the atmosphere: atmospheric vapors.
- auction house — a commercial company that specializes in selling items at auction
- audiographics — audiographic teleconferencing
- aum shinrikyo — a syncretistic Japanese cult combining elements of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity, founded by Shoko Asahara in 1986; responsible for a number of murders and in particular a nerve-gas attack on the Tokyo underground in 1995
- authenticates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of authenticate.
- authorisation — Alternative spelling of authorization.
- autocatharsis — a therapeutic process designed to free unconscious disturbances by having the patient write about his or her experiences, impressions, etc.
- automechanism — an automatic mechanical system or component, especially a device that operates automatically under predetermined conditions.
- autorickshaws — Plural form of autorickshaw.
- autoschediasm — anything done with little forethought or preparation
- autoschediaze — to do or act with little forethought or preparation
- back straight — a straight part of a circuit, esp of an athletics track or a racecourse, furthest from the finishing point
- backstitching — Present participle of backstitch.
- bag-snatching — theft that involves snatching women's handbags
- balch springs — a town in NE Texas.
- baltic shield — the wide area of ancient rock in Scandinavia
- banking hours — the hours during which a bank is open for business
- 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
- barristership — the office of a barrister
- bartholinitis — Inflammation of Bartholin's cyst.
- 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
- basking shark — a very large plankton-eating shark, Cetorhinus maximus, often floating at the sea surface: family Cetorhinidae
- bassenthwaite — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria near Keswick. Length: 6 km (4 miles)
- beehive house — a prehistoric circular building found in various parts of Europe, usually of stone and having a dome-shaped roof
- 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.
- benightedness — intellectually or morally ignorant; unenlightened: benighted ages of barbarism and superstition.
- 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.
- betweenwhiles — betweentimes.
- beverly hills — a town in SW California, near Los Angeles: famous as the home of film stars. Pop: 34 941 (2003 est)
- bibliophagist — a person who devours books
- 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)
- biopsychology — a field of psychology that deals with the effects of biological factors on behavior.
- biphasic pill — a drug with two dosage levels over the period taken, as an oral contraceptive.
- birth parents — a child's biological parents, regardless of whether they subsequently bring up the child