12-letter words containing a, r, b, e
- hardscrabble — providing or yielding meagerly in return for much effort; demanding or unrewarding: the hardscrabble existence of mountainside farmers.
- hare wallaby — a wallaby of the genus Lagorchestes
- hare-brained — giddy; reckless.
- haricot bean — Haricot beans are small white beans that are eaten as a vegetable. They are often sold dried rather than fresh.
- harmonizable — That can be harmonized.
- harquebusier — a soldier armed with a harquebus.
- hawk's beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
- hawk's-beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
- hearken back — to go back in thought or speech; revert; hark back
- heartbreaker — a person, event, or thing causing heartbreak.
- heartburning — rankling discontent, especially from envy or jealousy; grudge.
- heat barrier — thermal barrier.
- heavy bomber — a large plane capable of carrying heavy bomb loads for long distances, especially at high altitudes.
- hebephreniac — a person suffering from hebephrenia
- hedda gabler — a play (1890) by Henrik Ibsen.
- helicobacter — Any member of the Helicobacter bacteria.
- herbicidally — from a herbicidal point of view
- heritability — capable of being inherited; inheritable; hereditary.
- herring boat — a fishing boat that specializes in catching herring
- heteroblasty — the morphological changes that occur in plants between juvenility and adulthood
- heterophobia — Fear or resentment of what is different.
- hexacarbonyl — (inorganic chemistry) Any compound having six carbonyl groups.
- hexobarbital — a barbiturate with hypnotic and sedative properties
- hibernaculum — a protective case or covering, especially for winter, as of an animal or a plant bud.
- hibernations — Plural form of hibernation.
- hobby farmer — a person who runs a farm as a hobby rather than a means of making a living
- honey badger — ratel.
- hop hornbeam — any of several Eurasian and North American trees of the genus Ostrya, of the birch family, especially O. virginiana, bearing hoplike fruiting clusters.
- hopper barge — a barge for disposing of garbage, dredged material, etc., having hoppers in the bottom through which such cargo can be dumped.
- horn balance — an extension of an aircraft control surface that projects in front of the hinge providing aerodynamic assistance in moving the control
- horsebreaker — One who trains, or breaks in, horses.
- housebreaker — a person who breaks into and enters a house with a felonious intent.
- hydrobromate — (chemistry) hydrobromide.
- hydrolysable — Alternative spelling of hydrolyzable.
- hydrolyzable — Able to be hydrolyzed.
- hyperbolical — having the nature of hyperbole; exaggerated.
- hypermutable — Of or in a state in which mutation is abnormally frequent.
- iambographer — a person who writes iambs
- ibota privet — a Japanese spreading shrub, Ligustrum obtusifolium, of the olive family, having hairy leaves and nodding white flower clusters.
- icbm address — (networking, humour) (Or "missile address") The form used to register a site with the Usenet mapping project includes a space for longitude and latitude, preferably to seconds-of-arc accuracy. This is actually used for generating geographically-correct maps of Usenet links on a plotter; however, it has become traditional to refer to this as one's "ICBM address" or "missile address", and many people include it in their sig block with that name. (A real missile address would include target altitude.)
- illiberalise — to render illiberal
- illiberalism — narrowminded; bigoted.
- illiberality — narrowminded; bigoted.
- illiberalize — to render illiberal
- immeasurable — incapable of being measured; limitless: the immeasurable vastness of the universe.
- immeasurably — incapable of being measured; limitless: the immeasurable vastness of the universe.
- immensurable — immeasurable.
- impardonable — (obsolete) unpardonable.
- impenetrable — not penetrable; that cannot be penetrated, pierced, entered, etc.
- impenetrably — not penetrable; that cannot be penetrated, pierced, entered, etc.