11-letter words containing a, d, h, e
- autographed — Simple past tense and past participle of autograph.
- bacchylides — flourished 5th century b.c, Greek poet.
- bachelordom — the state of being a bachelor; bachelorhood
- backchecked — Simple past tense and past participle of backcheck.
- backhanders — Plural form of backhander.
- backlighted — Simple past tense and past participle of backlight.
- backslashed — Simple past tense and past participle of backslash.
- ballhandler — a player particularly skilled at passing and dribbling
- band theory — a theory of the electrical properties of metals, semiconductors, and insulators based on energy bands
- bangladeshi — Bangladeshi means belonging to or relating to Bangladesh, or to its people or culture.
- barrelheads — Plural form of barrelhead.
- basehearted — having a low, mean, or contemptible nature or character; meanspirited.
- bawdy house — a brothel.
- bawdyhouses — Plural form of bawdyhouse.
- be death on — to deal with in a devastating manner
- be hard hit — To be hard hit by something means to be affected very severely by it.
- beach drift — the drifting of sediments, especially marine sediments, in patterns parallel to the contours of a beach, due to the action of waves and currents.
- beach ridge — a ridge just inland from a beach, consisting of sand and gravel built up by storm waves
- beachy head — a headland in East Sussex, on the English Channel, consisting of chalk cliffs 171 m (570 ft) high
- bear a hand — to give assistance
- bedchambers — Plural form of bedchamber.
- behind bars — If you say that someone is behind bars, you mean that they are in prison.
- bell-shaped — shaped like a bell
- ben yehudah — Eliezer [el-ee-ez-er] /ˌɛl iˈɛz ər/ (Show IPA), 1858–1922, Jewish scholar, born in Lithuania.
- big-hearted — If you describe someone as big-hearted, you think they are kind and generous, and always willing to help people.
- black death — a deadly disease, probably bubonic plague, which devastated Europe and Asia in the 14th cent.
- blackhander — a member of a Black Hand group
- blubberhead — a stupid, inept person; blockhead.
- blunderhead — Informal. a blunderer; nincompoop.
- board check — a body check in which the opponent is thrown against the wooden wall enclosing the rink. Compare check1 (def 37).
- boat-shaped — shaped like a boat
- body search — If a person is body searched, someone such as a police officer searches them while they remain clothed. Compare strip-search.
- body-search — to search all parts of the body of: Police ordered the suspects to strip and then body-searched them for hidden caches of narcotics.
- boldhearted — courageous or daring; intrepid.
- bondi beach — a beach in Sydney, Australia, popular with surfers
- braced arch — an arch of steel, timber, etc., having a trusslike framework maintaining rigidity under a variety of eccentric loads: a true arch because it is fixed or tied at both sides of the base.
- brain death — Brain death occurs when someone's brain stops functioning, even though their heart may be kept beating using a machine.
- breadthless — the measure of the second largest dimension of a plane or solid figure; width.
- breadthways — from side to side
- breadthwise — in the direction of the breadth
- brickshaped — resembling the shape of a brick
- bridewealth — (in some nonindustrial societies) the money or goods given to the family of a bride by the bridegroom or his family.
- bridle hand — (of a horseback rider) the hand, usually the left hand, that holds both reins or both pairs of reins, leaving the other hand free to manage a whip, crop, lariat, or the like.
- bridle path — A bridle path is a path intended for people riding horses.
- bright idea — suggestion: clever
- broad reach — an act or instance of reaching: to make a reach for a gun.
- brush aside — If you brush aside or brush away an idea, remark, or feeling, you refuse to consider it because you think it is not important or useful, even though it may be.
- bulkheading — the construction of bulkheads; bulkheads in general.
- bull header — Also called bullnose header. a brick having one of the edges across its width rounded for laying as a header in a sill or the like.
- bull-headed — blindly obstinate; stubborn, headstrong, or stupid