0%

12-letter words containing a, b, i, h

  • phantom limb — a phenomenon characterized by the experience of pain, discomfort, or other sensation in the area of a missing limb or other body part, as a breast.
  • phengophobia — an abnormal dread or terror of natural light
  • pidyon haben — the rite of relieving the first male child born to parents not descended from Aaron or Levi of certain religious obligations by redeeming him from a member of the priestly class, celebrated 30 days after the child's birth.
  • postbrachial — belonging to the arm, foreleg, wing, pectoral fin, or other forelimb of a vertebrate.
  • preestablish — to establish beforehand.
  • punching bag — an inflated or stuffed bag, usually suspended, punched with the fists as an exercise.
  • rabbit hutch — a cage, usually of wood and wire mesh, for keeping domestic or pet rabbits in
  • rabbit punch — a short, sharp blow to the nape of the neck or the lower part of the skull.
  • rabbitfishes — Plural form of rabbitfish.
  • rainbow fish — guppy.
  • raised beach — a wave-cut platform raised above the shoreline by a relative fall in the water level
  • re-establish — to found, institute, build, or bring into being on a firm or stable basis: to establish a university; to establish a medical practice.
  • reachability — to get to or get as far as in moving, going, traveling, etc.: The boat reached the shore.
  • reaching jib — genoa.
  • red bandfish — a fish, Cepola haastii, found on the inner continental shelf around New Zealand: family Cepolidae
  • rehabilitant — a person who is undergoing rehabilitation, especially for a physical disability.
  • rehabilitate — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
  • ride a hobby — to be excessively devoted to one's favorite pastime or subject
  • riding habit — habit1 (def 11).
  • saint hubert — a borough in S Quebec, Canada, just E of Montreal.
  • saint-hubert — town in S Quebec, Canada: part of metropolitan Montreal: pop. 77,000
  • sandwich bar — a place where sandwiches are sold
  • sandy blight — trachoma.
  • satanophobia — a morbid fear of the devil or Satan
  • scabbardfish — any of several marine fishes having a long, compressed, silvery body, especially a cutlassfish, Trichiurus lepturus, of the western Atlantic.
  • scratchbuild — to build a scale model of something from scratch, that is, from raw materials like wood, clay or paper
  • scratchbuilt — describing something which has been constructed by scratchbuilding
  • shareability — the state or property of being able to be shared
  • shopbreaking — the act of breaking into a shop
  • shopping bag — a strong, usually paper or plastic, bag with handles, used to carry purchases or belongings.
  • slab dashing — the act or process of covering an exterior wall with roughcast.
  • slipper bath — a bath in the shape of a slipper, with a covered end
  • south arabia — Protectorate of, a former protectorate of Great Britain in S Arabia, now part of the Republic of Yemen.
  • spinach beet — chard, a plant cultivated for its edible leaves
  • spud-bashing — the task of peeling potatoes, given as a punishment
  • stabilograph — an instrument for measuring body sway.
  • straight bat — a bat held vertically
  • straightbred — (of animals) purebred; having parents of the same breed
  • subarachnoid — of, relating to, or situated below the arachnoid membrane.
  • subhastation — a public auction or sale
  • tablet chair — a chair with one arm extending and expanding into a writing surface.
  • teachability — capable of being instructed, as a person; docile.
  • teacher bird — the ovenbird, Seiurus aurocapillus, a songbird that builds a nest shaped like a dome.
  • teaching job — a position as a teacher
  • technobandit — a person who steals technological secrets, as from the government or a place of employment, and sells them to agents of foreign governments or to competing firms.
  • technophobia — abnormal fear of or anxiety about the effects of advanced technology.
  • teratophobia — fear of giving birth to a monster
  • the barbican — a building complex in the City of London: includes residential developments and the Barbican Arts Centre (completed 1982) housing concert and exhibition halls, theatres, cinemas, etc
  • the bastille — a state prison in Paris that was stormed and destroyed (1789) in the French Revolution: its destruction is commemorated on Bastille Day, July 14
  • the cambrian — the Cambrian period or rock system
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?