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11-letter words containing a, b, r, h, m

  • hammer beam — a short wooden beam projecting from an interior wall to support or tie together rafters or arched roof braces.
  • hammer blow — a blow from a hammer
  • hebdomadary — Roman Catholic Church. a member of a church or monastery appointed for one week to sing the chapter Mass and lead in the recitation of the breviary.
  • 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.
  • in chambers — in the privacy of a judge's chambers
  • 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.
  • lord cobham — title of Sir John Oldcastle
  • mach number — a number indicating the ratio of the speed of an object to the speed of sound in the medium through which the object is moving. Abbreviation: M.
  • mahabharata — an epic poem of India dealing mainly with the conflict between the Pandavas and the Kauravas, with many digressions: includes the Bhagavad-Gita.
  • malebranche — Nicolas de [nee-kaw-lah duh] /ni kɔˈlɑ də/ (Show IPA), 1638–1715, French philosopher.
  • march break — a school holiday, usually for a week, during March
  • march brown — an angler's name for the dun and spinner of various mayflies or an artificial fly imitating one of these
  • marlboroughJohn Churchill, 1st Duke of, Churchill, John, 1st Duke of Marlborough.
  • marsh buggy — swamp buggy.
  • maryborough — a seaport in E Australia.
  • master bath — a private bathroom adjoining a master bedroom.
  • matchboards — Plural form of matchboard.
  • metharbital — A barbiturate anticonvulsant used in the treatment of epilepsy.
  • misbehavior — improper, inappropriate, or bad behavior.
  • motherboard — a rigid, slotted board upon which other boards that contain the basic circuitry of a computer or of a computer component can be mounted. Compare board (def 14).
  • northumbria — an early English kingdom extending N from the Humber to the Firth of Forth.
  • perth amboy — a seaport in E New Jersey.
  • pulmobranch — a respiratory organ found in some invertebrates
  • red chamber — the Canadian Senate chamber.
  • rhabdomancy — divination by means of a rod or wand, especially in discovering ores, springs of water, etc.
  • rhabdomyoma — a benign tumor made up of striated muscular tissue.
  • rhythm band — a collection of simple percussion instruments used especially with piano accompaniment to teach musical rhythm.
  • subchairman — a subordinate or substitute chairman.
  • subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
  • thermobaric — (of an explosive device or explosion) detonated by means of an explosive substance reacting spontaneously with air
  • thromboxane — a compound, C 20 H 32 O 5 , formed in blood platelets, that constricts blood vessels and promotes clotting.
  • white bream — a similar cyprinid, Blicca bjoerkna
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