12-letter words containing a, l, h, b
- bog asphodel — either of two liliaceous plants, Narthecium ossifragum of Europe or N. americanum of North America, that grow in boggy places and have small yellow flowers and grasslike leaves
- boghead coal — compact bituminous coal that burns brightly and yields large quantities of tar and oil upon distillation.
- bombay hills — a row of hills marking the southern boundary of greater Auckland on the North Island, New Zealand
- borough hall — a building housing the administrative offices of a borough.
- bothy ballad — a folk song, esp one from the farming community of NE Scotland
- bottlewasher — a person or machine that washes bottles.
- bounce flash — a flash lamp designed to produce a bounced flash.
- brachycephal — a person with a brachycephalic head
- branch plant — a plant or factory in Canada belonging to a company whose headquarters are in another country
- breast wheel — a waterwheel onto which the propelling water is fed at the height of a horizontal axle.
- breastplough — a plough driven by the worker's breast, often used to pare turf
- breathalyser — a device for estimating the amount of alcohol in the breath: used in testing people suspected of driving under the influence of alcohol
- breathalyzer — A Breathalyzer is a bag or electronic device that the police use to test whether a driver has drunk too much alcohol.
- breathlessly — without breath or breathing with difficulty; gasping; panting: We were breathless after the steep climb.
- breechloader — any gun loaded at the breech
- british rail — the organization that ran the British railway system from 1948 until privatization in the mid-1990s
- brown hackle — an artificial fly having a peacock herl body, golden tag and tail, and brown hackle.
- brushability — the quality of being brushable
- buffalo fish — any of a genus (Ictiobus) of large, humpbacked, freshwater sucker fishes found in North America
- bumbleheaded — clumsy, plodding, or foolish: He stumbled through the talk in his bumbleheaded way.
- burj khalifa — a slender tapering skyscraper in Dubai; completed in 2009; the world's tallest man-made structure, standing at 828m (2716 ft)
- bush leaguer — Also called busher. Baseball. a player in a minor league. an incompetent player, as one who behaves or plays as if he or she belonged in a minor league.
- bush-leaguer — (in baseball) someone who plays in a minor league
- bushelbasket — a rounded basket with a capacity of one bushel
- bushy-tailed — bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, fresh, alert, eager, and lively
- by the balls — so as to be rendered powerless
- by wholesale — at wholesale
- cable length — a unit of length in nautical use that has various values, including 100 fathoms (600 feet)
- cable stitch — a pattern or series of knitting stitches producing a design like a twisted rope
- cable-stitch — a series of stitches used in knitting to produce a cable effect.
- camphor ball — mothball
- carbocholine — carbachol.
- cebocephalic — Exhibiting or relating to cebocephaly.
- chamberlains — Plural form of chamberlain.
- channel back — an upholstered chair or sofa back having deep vertical grooves.
- channel bass — red drum.
- charbroiling — Present participle of charbroil.
- charlesbourg — city in S Quebec, Canada: pop. 71,000
- chenin blanc — a white grape grown in the Loire region of France and in South Africa, California, New Zealand, and elsewhere, used for making wine
- cherubically — In a cherubic way.
- child abuser — someone who abuses a child, esp someone convicted of this
- child labour — the full-time employment of children below a minimum age laid down by statute
- childbearing — Childbearing is the process of giving birth to babies.
- chlorambucil — an alkylating drug derived from nitrogen mustard, administered orally in the treatment of leukaemia and other malignant diseases. Formula: C14H19Cl2NO2
- chlorocarbon — a chemical compound containing carbon and chlorine, as carbon tetrachloride, or containing carbon, chlorine, and hydrogen, as chloroform.
- chondroblast — a type of cell that develops into a chondrocyte or cartilage cell
- coachability — a large, horse-drawn, four-wheeled carriage, usually enclosed.
- coachbuilder — (historical) A builder of horse-drawn coaches.
- coulrophobia — an abnormal fear of clowns.
- crushability — to press or squeeze with a force that destroys or deforms.