0%

13-letter words containing s, t, h, b

  • letzeburgesch — a Germanic dialect that is the native language of most of the people of Luxembourg.
  • liberty horse — (in a circus) a riderless horse that performs movements to verbal commands
  • lobster shift — Also called lobster trick. dogwatch (def 2).
  • lymphoblastic — (US, cytology, immunology) Of or pertaining to a lymphoblast.
  • marx brothers — the. a US family of film comedians, esp Arthur Marx, known as Harpo (1888–1964), Herbert Marx, known as Zeppo (1901–79), Julius Marx, known as Groucho (1890–1977), and Leonard Marx, known as Chico (1886–1961). Their films include Animal Crackers (1930), Monkey Business (1931), Horsefeathers (1932), Duck Soup (1933), and A Day at the Races (1937)
  • microhabitats — Plural form of microhabitat.
  • miss the boat — a vessel for transport by water, constructed to provide buoyancy by excluding water and shaped to give stability and permit propulsion.
  • mother abbess — the female head of a religious house of nuns
  • north by east — a point on the compass 11°15′ east of north. Abbreviation: NbE.
  • north by west — a point on the compass 11°15′ west of north. Abbreviation: NbW.
  • off the books — of or relating to a book or books: the book department; a book salesman.
  • off-the-books — not recorded in account books or not reported as taxable income.
  • opisthobranch — any gastropod mollusk of the order Opisthobranchia, as the sea slugs, sea butterflies, and sea hares, characterized by a vestigial or absent mantle and shell and two pairs of tentacles.
  • pass the buck — Poker. any object in the pot that reminds the winner of some privilege or obligation when his or her turn to deal next comes.
  • perishability — subject to decay, ruin, or destruction: perishable fruits and vegetables.
  • pre-establish — to establish, set up, set out, arrange or make secure in advance or previously
  • reestablished — to found, institute, build, or bring into being on a firm or stable basis: to establish a university; to establish a medical practice.
  • refurbishment — to furbish again; renovate; brighten: to refurbish the lobby.
  • rosebud mouth — a mouth that resembles the unopened flower of a rose in shape
  • rubbish chute — an inclined channel or vertical passage down which rubbish may be dropped for disposal
  • saber-toothed — having long, saberlike upper canine teeth, sometimes extending below the margin of the lower jaw.
  • schreibersite — a mineral, iron-nickel phosphide, (Fe, Ni) 3 P, found only in meteorites.
  • scotch bonnet — a small, irregularly shaped, extremely hot chili pepper, the fruit of a variety of Capsicum chinense related to the habanero and ranging from yellow to red.
  • scythian lamb — a fern, Cibotium barometz, of southeastern Asia, having stalks covered with shaggy, brownish hair and large, feathery leaves, formerly believed to be a source of vegetable wool.
  • sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
  • 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.
  • shark biscuit — a bodyboard
  • shatt-al-arab — a river in SE Iraq, formed by the junction of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, flowing SE to the Persian Gulf. 123 miles (198 km) long.
  • short subject — a short film, as a documentary or travelogue, shown as part of a program with a feature-length film.
  • shot-blasting — the cleaning of metal, etc, by a stream of shot
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • sketchability — the suitability for being sketched
  • slaughterable — (of an animal) ready for slaughter
  • snap-brim hat — a hat brim that can be turned up or down.
  • south arabian — of or relating to the former South Arabia (now South Yemen) or its inhabitants
  • south by east — a point on the compass 11°15′ east of south. Abbreviation: SbE.
  • south by west — a point on the compass 11°15′ west of south. Abbreviation: SbW.
  • southern blot — a procedure for identifying and measuring the amount of a specific DNA sequence or gene in a mixed extract, as in testing for a mutation or a virus: DNA strands from the person or organism under study are cut with restriction enzymes, separated by gel electrophoresis, transferred to special filter paper, and hybridized with a labeled DNA probe.
  • stamen blight — a disease of blackberries, characterized by a gray, powdery mass of spores covering the anthers, caused by a fungus, Hapalosphaeria deformans.
  • state chamber — a room for public ceremonies and celebrations.
  • styling brush — a hairbrush used to style or neaten hair
  • subeditorship — the position or office of a subeditor
  • subepithelial — any animal tissue that covers a surface, or lines a cavity or the like, and that, in addition, performs any of various secretory, transporting, or regulatory functions.
  • subinhibitory — not completely inhibiting
  • swimming bath — swimming pool.
  • teachableness — the quality or condition of being teachable
  • testing bench — a piece of equipment for testing if a machine or device is working properly
  • that's better — You say 'That's better' in order to express your approval of what someone has said or done, or to praise or encourage them.
  • the best part — If you say that something happened for the best part or the better part of a period of time, you mean that it happened for most of that time.
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?