10-letter words containing b, a, c, h
- eurybathic — (of an aquatic organism) able to live at different depths
- fight back — retaliate
- flash back — If your mind flashes back to something in the past, you remember it or think of it briefly or suddenly.
- flashbacks — Plural form of flashback.
- free beach — a beach that permits nude bathing.
- ghost crab — a whitish crab, Ocypode albicans, of sandy beaches from the eastern coast of the U.S. to Brazil.
- gray birch — a small, bushy birch, Betula populifolia, of stony or sandy areas of the eastern U.S., having grayish-white bark and triangular leaves.
- habitaunce — a place where a person or an animal lives or resides
- hack board — Falconry. a board or platform at which hawks being flown at hack are fed.
- hackleback — shovelnose sturgeon.
- halobiotic — relating to habitation in the sea
- halocarbon — any of a class of compounds containing carbon, one or more halogens, and sometimes hydrogen.
- hardbacked — (of a book) Having a solid binding; hardback.
- hatch boat — a small fishing vessel having covered wells for holding the catch.
- hatchbacks — Plural form of hatchback.
- heart back — a chair back having a form resembling that of a somewhat heart-shaped medieval shield.
- hebraistic — of or relating to Hebraists or characterized by Hebraism or Hebraisms.
- herbaceous — of, relating to, or characteristic of an herb; herblike.
- herbicidal — Of, or relating to herbicides.
- hibernacle — a protective case or covering, especially for winter, as of an animal or a plant bud.
- hog-backed — cambered, as the ridge of a roof, a hill, etc.
- humpbacked — having a hump on the back.
- hunchbacks — Plural form of hunchback.
- hybrid car — vehicle with combined power source
- hyperbaric — (of an anesthetic) having a specific gravity greater than that of cerebrospinal fluid. Compare hypobaric.
- hyperbatic — relating to a hyperbaton
- jacobethan — noting or pertaining to the architecture of England at the beginning of the 17th century.
- john cabot — John (Giovanni Caboto) c1450–98? Italian navigator in the service of England: discoverer of North American mainland 1497.
- jonah crab — a large, red, deepwater crab, Cancer borealis, of the east coast of North America.
- knob latch — a latch having a spring bolt controlled by a knob on one or both sides.
- long beach — a city in SW California, S of Los Angeles: a seaside resort.
- lunchbreak — A period of rest from work for the purpose of eating lunch.
- machinable — (of a material) capable of being cut or shaped with machine tools. Compare free-machining.
- mainbocher — (Main Rousseau Bocher) 1891–1976, U.S. fashion designer.
- matchboard — a board having a tongue formed on one edge and a groove of the same dimensions cut into the other, used with similar boards to compose floors, dados, etc.
- matchbooks — Plural form of matchbook.
- matchboxes — Plural form of matchbox.
- methiocarb — a crystalline compound, C 1 1 H 1 5 NO 2 S, used as a nonsystemic insecticide and miticide.
- moucharaby — a projecting second-storey window or balcony enclosed with latticework
- non-breach — the act or a result of breaking; break or rupture.
- notch baby — a person who was born in the U.S. between 1917 and 1921 and as a retiree received lower cost-of-living increases in Social Security than others after Congress readjusted Social Security benefits in 1977.
- notchbacks — Plural form of notchback.
- nudibranch — a shell-less, marine snail of the suborder Nudibranchia, having external, often branched respiratory appendages on the back and sides.
- overbleach — (transitive) To bleach too much.
- palm beach — a town in SE Florida: seaside winter resort.
- park bench — a long seat made of wood or metal that two or more people can sit on, placed in a public place or open space in a town
- patchboard — a device with a large number of sockets into which electrical plugs can be inserted to form many different temporary circuits: used in telephone exchanges, computer systems, etc
- peach-blow — a delicate purplish pink.
- ph balance — a method of expressing the degree of acidity or alkalinity of a solution
- prechamber — A prechamber in an engine is a small area, usually in the cylinder head, in which combustion is started before fuel enters into the main combustion chamber.