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11-letter words containing a, b, r, e, t, h

  • bridewealth — (in some nonindustrial societies) the money or goods given to the family of a bride by the bridegroom or his family.
  • bridle path — A bridle path is a path intended for people riding horses.
  • bright idea — suggestion: clever
  • brochantite — a mineral, hydrous copper sulfate, Cu 4 (OH) 6 SO 4 , occurring in green fibrous masses and similar in physical properties to antlerite: formerly a major ore of copper.
  • brown earth — an intrazonal soil of temperate humid regions typically developed under deciduous forest into a dark rich layer (mull): characteristic of much of southern and central England
  • brown heart — a brown discoloration of the flesh of stored apples, resulting from high concentrations of carbon dioxide.
  • burnt shale — carbonaceous shale formed by destructive distillation of oil shale or by spontaneous combustion of shale after it has been some years in a tip: sometimes used in road making
  • chair table — an article of furniture, produced especially in colonial America, that can serve as either a table or a chair, having, as a chair, a large, usually circular, hinged back that can be pulled down and rested on the arms to form a tabletop.
  • chamber pot — A chamber pot is a round container shaped like a very large cup. Chamber pots used to be kept in bedrooms so that people could urinate in them instead of having to leave their room during the night.
  • chamber-pot — a portable container, especially for urine, used in bedrooms.
  • chamfer bit — a bit for beveling the edge of a hole.
  • chartbuster — A popular singer or group that makes a best-selling recording.
  • chatterbots — Plural form of chatterbot.
  • dear-bought — having been purchased at great expense
  • embryopathy — (pathology) Any developmental disorder of an embryo.
  • erotophobia — an abnormal fear of sexuality
  • erythorbate — erythorbic acid; a food additive used as an antioxidant
  • establisher — A person who establishes something.
  • exhorbitant — Misspelling of exorbitant.
  • feather bed — a mattress or a bed cover, as a quilt, stuffed with soft feathers.
  • feather-bed — a mattress or a bed cover, as a quilt, stuffed with soft feathers.
  • featherback — any freshwater fish of the family Notopteridae, of Asia and western Africa, having a small, feathery dorsal fin and a very long anal fin extending from close behind the head to the tip of the tail.
  • featherbeds — Plural form of featherbed.
  • featherbone — a substitute for whalebone, made from the quills of domestic fowls.
  • footbreadth — a measurement equalling a breadth of a foot
  • hairbreadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
  • halberstadt — a town in central Germany, in Saxony-Anhalt: industrial centre noted for its historic buildings. Pop: 40 014 (2003 est)
  • halfbrother — Alternative spelling of half brother.
  • halterbreak — to get (an animal) used to wearing a halter
  • handbreadth — a unit of linear measure from 2½ to 4 inches (6.4 to 10 cm).
  • hard-bitten — tough; stubborn.
  • hartebeests — Plural form of hartebeest.
  • harvestable — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
  • hattiesburg — a city in SE Mississippi.
  • heart block — a defect in the electrical impulses of the heart resulting in any of various arrhythmias or irregularities in the heartbeat.
  • heart-throb — a rapid beat or pulsation of the heart.
  • heartbreaks — Plural form of heartbreak.
  • heartbroken — crushed with sorrow or grief.
  • heartthrobs — Plural form of heartthrob.
  • heel breast — the forward side of the heel, adjoining the shank of a shoe.
  • hereditable — heritable.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • honesty bar — an unattended area in a hotel, resort, etc, where patrons may serve themselves drinks and are expected to leave money to pay for them
  • houseboater — One who lives in a houseboat.
  • hybernating — Present participle of hybernate.
  • hybernation — Obsolete spelling of hibernation.
  • hydroborate — (inorganic chemistry) Any of several anions containing hydrogen bound to boron, especially the simplest one BH4-; any salt or complex containing such an anion.
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