13-letter words containing be
- globe thistle — any of various Old World, thistlelike, composite plants of the genus Echinops, having dense heads of tubular blue or white flowers.
- globe-trotter — a person who travels widely about the world, esp. for pleasure
- globetrotters — Plural form of globetrotter.
- globetrotting — to travel throughout the world, especially regularly or frequently.
- go one better — of superior quality or excellence: a better coat; a better speech.
- going begging — If you say that something is going begging, you mean that it is available but no one is using it or accepting it.
- golden number — a number between 1 and 19, used to indicate the position of any year in the Metonic cycle, calculated as the remainder when 1 is added to the given year and the sum is divided by 19. If the remainder is zero the number is 19
- gombeen (man) — a shopkeeper who engages in usury on the side
- good behavior — satisfactory, proper, or polite conduct.
- great lobelia — a North American plant, Lobelia siphilitica, having long, showy clusters of blue flowers.
- ground beetle — any of numerous nocturnal, terrestrial beetles of the family Carabidae that feed chiefly on other insects.
- gubernatorial — of or relating to a state governor or the office of state governor.
- gulf of gabès — an inlet of the Mediterranean on the E coast of Tunisia
- habeas corpus — a writ requiring a person to be brought before a judge or court, especially for investigation of a restraint of the person's liberty, used as a protection against illegal imprisonment.
- haber process — a process for synthesizing ammonia from gaseous nitrogen and hydrogen under high pressure and temperature in the presence of a catalyst.
- haberdasher's — a shop that sells small articles for sewing, such as buttons, zips, and ribbons
- half-timbered — (of a house or building) having the frame and principal supports of timber and the interstices filled in with masonry, plaster, or the like.
- hawk-s--beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
- heavy-bearded — having a thick or dark beard.
- hermosa beach — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- hiberno-saxon — having the characteristics of both the Irish and English; Anglo-Irish.
- hilbert space — a complete infinite-dimensional vector space on which an inner product is defined.
- hill of beans — something of trifling value; virtually nothing at all: The problem didn't amount to a hill of beans.
- hollywood bed — a bed consisting of a metal frame, box spring, mattress, and headboard, but lacking a footboard.
- huckleberries — Plural form of huckleberry.
- hunter's robe — pothos.
- husking (bee) — cornhusking (sense 2)
- hyacinth bean — an Old World tropical vine, Dolichos lablab, of the legume family, having purple or white flowers and black or white seeds in a papery, beaked pod.
- i'll be bound — I am sure (something) is true
- illiberalness — The state of being illiberal; illiberality.
- immunosorbent — an insoluble surface to which a specific antibody is attached for the purpose of removing the corresponding antigen from a solution or suspension.
- inbetweener's — a person or thing that is between two extremes, two contrasting conditions, etc.: yeses, noes, and in-betweens; a tournament for professional, amateur, and in-between.
- inbetweenness — a person or thing that is between two extremes, two contrasting conditions, etc.: yeses, noes, and in-betweens; a tournament for professional, amateur, and in-between.
- irving berlin — Irving, 1888–1989, U.S. songwriter.
- jebel ed druz — a mountainous region in S Syria: inhabited by Druses. About 2700 sq. mi. (6995 sq. km).
- jebel toubkal — a mountain in SW Morocco: highest peak in the Atlas Mountains. 13,671 feet (4167 meters).
- jibber-jabber — foolish or worthless talk; nonsense
- juniper berry — the berrylike cone of a juniper.
- khapra beetle — a tiny cosmopolitan beetle, Trogoderma granarium, that is a pest of stored grain and other dried organic matter.
- king-size bed — extra-large bed
- lambeosaurine — Any crested hadrosaurid dinosaur of the subfamily Lambeosaurinae.
- lambert's law — the law that the luminous intensity of a perfectly diffusing surface in any direction is proportional to the cosine of the angle between that direction and the normal to the surface, for which reason the surface will appear equally bright from all directions.
- larder beetle — a black beetle, Dermestes lardarius, the larvae of which feed on dried meats, hides, furs, etc.
- leaden-limbed — sluggish; incapable of movement
- lemon verbena — a plant, Aloysia triphylla, having long, slender leaves with a lemonlike fragrance.
- lepton number — in a process involving elementary particles, the total number of leptons minus the total number of antileptons.
- libel tourism — the act of suing a writer for alleged defamation in a foreign jurisdiction where there are weak libel laws.
- libel tourist — someone who engages in libel tourism.
- liberal elite — the group of people in a society who are considered as having a high level of education and liberal ideas
- liberal party — a political party in Great Britain, formed about 1830 as a fusion of Whigs and Radicals and constituting one of the dominant British parties in the 19th and early part of the 20th centuries.