11-letter words containing a, t, h
- backdraught — a reverse movement of air, gas, or liquid
- backlighted — Simple past tense and past participle of backlight.
- backscratch — a favour done for someone in return for another
- backstretch — the part of a racetrack farthest from the grandstand and opposite and parallel to the homestretch
- badmouthing — Slang. to speak critically and often disloyally of; disparage: Why do you bad-mouth your family so much?
- ballet shoe — a flexible, lightweight shoe designed for ballet dancing; typically made of leather or silk, and often fastened with ribbons
- baluchistan — a mountainous region of SW Asia, in SW Pakistan and SE Iran
- band theory — a theory of the electrical properties of metals, semiconductors, and insulators based on energy bands
- bar mitzvah — A bar mitzvah is a ceremony that takes place on the thirteenth birthday of a Jewish boy, after which he is regarded as an adult.
- baresthesia — the sense or perception of pressure.
- barthianism — the theological doctrines and principles of Karl Barth and his followers, especially in reference to neoorthodoxy.
- bartholomew — one of the twelve apostles (Matthew 10:3). Feast day: Aug 24 or June 11
- bas mitzvah — bat mitzvah
- basehearted — having a low, mean, or contemptible nature or character; meanspirited.
- basil thyme — a plant, Acinos thymoides, of the mint family, having egg-shaped leaves and purplish flowers.
- basil-thyme — a European plant, Acinos arvensis, having clusters of small violet-and-white flowers: family Lamiaceae
- basket fish — basket star.
- basket hilt — a hilt fitted to a broadsword, with a generally padded basket-shaped guard to protect the hand
- basset horn — an obsolete woodwind instrument of the clarinet family
- bat mitzvah — (of a Jewish girl) having attained religious majority at the age of twelve
- batch plant — a manufacturing plant where concrete is mixed before being transported to a construction site ready to be poured.
- bath oliver — a kind of unsweetened biscuit
- bath pearls — dissolvable granules added to bath water to impart scent or other qualities
- bath sponge — any of various common sponges, of the family Spongiidae, that have a skeletal network composed of fibers of spongin: collected in the Gulf of Mexico, the Mediterranean, and the Caribbean for their commercial value.
- bath tissue — toilet paper.
- bathing cap — a tight rubber cap worn by a swimmer to keep the hair dry
- bathing hut — a small waterside building where swimmers can change their clothes
- batholithic — Containing or relating to batholith.
- bathometers — Plural form of bathometer.
- bathophobia — the fear of depths of any kind, whether a fear of deep water or of falling from a great height
- bathtub gin — homemade gin, especially gin made illegally during Prohibition.
- bathygraphy — The scientific description of the depth of the ocean.
- bathymetric — Of, pertaining to, or derived from bathymetry.
- bathyscaphe — a navigable, submersible vessel for exploring the depths of the ocean, having a separate, overhead chamber filled with gasoline for buoyancy and iron or steel weights for ballast.
- bathysphere — a strong steel deep-sea diving sphere, lowered by cable
- batrachians — Plural form of batrachian.
- batsmanship — (cricket) A skilled or courteous display of skill as a batsman.
- battery hen — a hen kept in a battery
- battleships — Plural form of battleship.
- be all that — to be exceptionally good, talented, or attractive
- 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 aster — a seaside plant, Erigeron glaucus, of the temperate western coast of North America, having solitary, violet- or lilac-colored flowers.
- 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 party — a party held on a beach
- beach towel — a large towel used on the beach
- beachmaster — a bull fur seal having its own territory in the breeding grounds.
- beanshooter — peashooter
- beat hollow — having a space or cavity inside; not solid; empty: a hollow sphere.
- beauty bush — a hardy shrub (Kolkwitzia amabilis) of the honeysuckle family, having tubular pink flowers with white bristly hairs on the ovary