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.