11-letter words containing a, b, i, h
- heliophobia — Fear of sunlight.
- hepatitis b — a form of hepatitis caused by a DNA virus (hepatitis B virus, or HBV) that persists in the blood, characterized by a long incubation period: usually transmitted by sexual contact or by injection or ingestion of infected blood or other bodily fluids.
- hereditable — heritable.
- hereinabove — before in this document, statement, etc.
- hermit crab — any of numerous crabs, especially of the genera Pagurus and Eupagurus, that protect their soft uncovered abdomen by occupying the castoff shell of a univalve mollusk.
- hib vaccine — a vaccine against meningitis, pneumonia, and other illnesses caused by the bacterium Haemophilus influenzae type b: usually administered during infancy.
- hibernacula — Plural form of hibernaculum.
- hibernating — Present participle of hibernate.
- hibernation — Zoology. to spend the winter in close quarters in a dormant condition, as bears and certain other animals. Compare estivate.
- hibernators — Plural form of hibernator.
- hierophobia — an irrational fear of sacred objects or people
- highballing — a drink of whiskey mixed with club soda or ginger ale and served with ice in a tall glass.
- hippophobia — Fear or dislike of horses.
- hit batsman — a batter who, having been struck by a pitch, is awarded first base.
- holiday job — a temporary job taken by a person during their holidays from school, college or university
- holoblastic — (of certain eggs) undergoing total cleavage, resulting in equal blastomeres.
- home baking — such things as bread, cakes and biscuits that are baked at home
- homoblastic — (of a plant or plant part) showing no difference in form between the juvenile and the adult structures
- hoplophobia — (pejorative, rare) The fear of guns.
- hudibrastic — of, relating to, or resembling the style of Samuel Butler's Hudibras (published 1663–78), a mock-heroic poem written in tetrameter couplets.
- human being — any individual of the genus Homo, especially a member of the species Homo sapiens.
- husbandlike — resembling a husband
- hybernating — Present participle of hybernate.
- hybernation — Obsolete spelling of hibernation.
- hydrophobia — rabies.
- hypercarbia — (medicine) the condition of having an abnormally high concentration of carbon dioxide in the blood.
- hypnophobia — An abnormal fear of falling asleep.
- hypoblastic — Of, or relating to the hypoblast.
- hypsophobia — an extreme or abnormal fear of heights
- ibn khaldun — Abd-al-Rahman [ahb-dahl-rah-mahn] /ɑb dɑlˈrɑ mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1332–1406, Arab historian and philosopher.
- ibn-khaldun — 1332–1406, Arab historian and philosopher. His Kitab al-`ibar (Book of Examples) is a history of Islam
- ill-behaved — 1. [numerical analysis] Said of an algorithm or computational method that tends to blow up because of accumulated roundoff error or poor convergence properties. 2. Software that bypasses the defined operating system interfaces to do things (like screen, keyboard, and disk I/O) itself, often in a way that depends on the hardware of the machine it is running on or which is nonportable or incompatible with other pieces of software. In the IBM PC/mess-dos world, there is a folk theorem (nearly true) to the effect that (owing to gross inadequacies and performance penalties in the OS interface) all interesting applications are ill-behaved. See also bare metal. Opposite: well-behaved, compare PC-ism.
- impeachable — making one subject to impeachment, as misconduct in office.
- in chambers — in the privacy of a judge's chambers
- inhabitable — to live or dwell in (a place), as people or animals: Small animals inhabited the woods.
- inhabitance — place of residence; habitation.
- inhabitancy — place of residence; habitation.
- inhabitants — a person or animal that inhabits a place, especially as a permanent resident.
- inhabitress — a female inhabitant
- inheritable — capable of being inherited.
- inheritably — capable of being inherited.
- interbranch — a division or subdivision of the stem or axis of a tree, shrub, or other plant.
- ion chamber — an apparatus for detecting and analyzing ionizing radiation, consisting of a vessel filled with a gas at normal or lower than normal pressure and fitted with two electrodes such that the current between the electrodes is a function of the amount of ionization of the gas.
- job sharing — to share the responsibility and duties of a single full-time job with one or more other employees.
- judeophobia — Alternative case form of Judeophobia.
- kublai khan — 1216–94, khan c1260–94: founder of the Mongol dynasty in China (grandson of Genghis Khan).
- labyrinthal — Like a maze or labyrinth, intricate or convoluted. labyrinthine.
- labyrinthic — of, relating to, or resembling a labyrinth.
- late blight — a disease of plants, especially potatoes, celery, etc., characterized by spotting, blighting, and withering or decay of the entire plant, caused by any of several fungi, as Phytophthora infestans or Septoria apii.
- leaf blight — a symptom or phase of many diseases of plants, characterized by necrotic spots or streaks on the leaves, accompanied by seed rot and seedling blight.