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13-letter words containing t, o, e, h

  • batch-process — to perform batch processing on (files)
  • be nothing to — not to concern or be significant to (someone)
  • 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.
  • benthopelagic — relating to species living at the bottom of the sea
  • benton harbor — a city in SW Michigan, on Lake Michigan.
  • bessel method — a method of ascertaining position by the use of a map showing prominent features of the terrain and enabling one to sight through them to obtain a fix.
  • beta-naphthol — either of two isomeric hydroxyl derivatives, C 1 0 H 7 OH, of naphthalene (alpha-naphthol or 1-naphthol and beta-naphthol or 2-naphthol) white or yellowish crystals, with a phenolic odor, that darken on exposure to light: used chiefly in dyes, drugs, perfumes, and insecticides.
  • betamethasone — a synthetic analogue of a glucocorticoid, C 22 H 29 FO 5 , used in various forms in the treatment of inflammation, allergies, and tumors, and for replacement therapy in adrenal insufficiency.
  • bibliothecary — a librarian
  • bibliotherapy — the use of reading as therapy
  • biotechnology — Biotechnology is the use of living parts such as cells or bacteria in industry and technology.
  • bishop violet — a reddish purple.
  • bitch goddess — worldly or material success personified as a goddess, especially one requiring sacrifice and being essentially destructive: He went to New York to worship the bitch goddess.
  • bitch session — a discussion in which people complain or gripe, usually about a shared experience: Their first date turned into a four-hour bitch session about their ex-spouses' lawyers.
  • blepharoplast — a cylindrical cytoplasmic body in protozoa
  • blood brother — A man's blood brother is a man he has sworn to treat as a brother, often in a ceremony which involves mixing a small amount of their blood.
  • blow the gaff — to divulge a secret
  • body snatcher — (formerly) a person who robbed graves and sold the corpses for dissection
  • bohr magneton — a unit that is used to indicate the magnetic moment of the electron structure in an atom, equal to 9.27 × 10 −21 erg/gauss.
  • bonfire night — Bonfire Night is the popular name for Guy Fawkes Night.
  • bottle-washer — a menial or factotum
  • 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
  • box stretcher — a heavy rectangular stretcher connecting successive legs of a table, chair, etc.
  • boynton beach — a city in SE Florida.
  • 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.
  • bring home to — to convince of
  • broad hatchet — a hatchet with a broad cutting edge.
  • brokenhearted — Someone who is brokenhearted is very sad and upset because they have had a serious disappointment.
  • brotherliness — of, like, or befitting a brother; affectionate and loyal; fraternal: brotherly love.
  • bulbourethral — of or relating to the rounded mass of tissue surrounding the urethra at the root of the penis.
  • 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's boy — a boy doing deliveries for a butcher and perhaps also learning the butchery trade, esp in the past
  • butyrophenone — a drug used to treat psychiatric disorders
  • cache storage — cache (def 3).
  • carbohydrates — foods which contain carbohydrate
  • carboxymethyl — (organic chemistry) The univalent radical -CH2-COOH derived from acetic acid.
  • cardiopathies — Plural form of cardiopathy.
  • cartographers — Plural form of cartographer.
  • cash customer — a purchaser who pays cash rather than by check, credit card, or charge account.
  • castle howard — a mansion near York in Yorkshire: designed in 1700 by Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor; the grounds include the Temple of the Four Winds and a mausoleum
  • catastrophise — Alt form catastrophize.
  • catastrophize — (obsolete) To end a comedy.
  • catch oneself — to hold oneself back abruptly from saying or doing something
  • catcher's box — box1 (def 16d).
  • catechization — The act of catechizing.
  • catecholamine — any of a group of hormones that are catechol derivatives, esp adrenaline and noradrenaline
  • cecropia moth — a large North American saturniid moth, Hyalophora (or Samia) cecropia, with brightly coloured wings and feathery antennae
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