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11-letter words containing b, a, r, h

  • russophobia — an intense and often irrational hatred for Russia, or esp the former Soviet Union, its political system, etc
  • safe harbor — a harbor considered safe for a ship, as in wartime or during a storm at sea.
  • sash ribbon — a strip of steel or aluminum alloy for connecting a vertically sliding window sash with a counterweight.
  • scarborough — a seaport in North Yorkshire, in NE England.
  • scratchback — an implement for scratching the back
  • sennacherib — died 681 b.c, king of Assyria 705–681.
  • shaftesburyAnthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of, 1621–83, English statesman.
  • sharpbender — an organization that has been underperforming its competitors but suddenly becomes more successful, often as a result of new management or changes in its business strategy
  • shcherbakov — a former name (1946–57) of Andropov.
  • shea butter — a solid, greenish, yellowish, or whitish fat derived from the seeds of the shea tree, used for food and in the manufacture of soaps and candles.
  • shopbreaker — a robber who breaks into a shop
  • shovelboard — the game of shuffleboard.
  • snobography — an account or description of snobs
  • splashboard — a board, guard, or screen to protect from splashing, as a dashboard of a vehicle or a guard placed over a wheel to intercept water, dirt, etc.
  • staggerbush — an ericaceous deciduous shrub, Lyonia mariana, of E North America, having white or pinkish flowers: it is poisonous to livestock
  • sub-charter — a document, issued by a sovereign or state, outlining the conditions under which a corporation, colony, city, or other corporate body is organized, and defining its rights and privileges.
  • sub-saharan — of, relating to, or in Africa south of the Sahara Desert: a sub-Saharan country; sub-Saharan peoples.
  • subchairman — a subordinate or substitute chairman.
  • subchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
  • subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
  • svarabhakti — the process of inserting vowel sounds into a consonant cluster, as in a loanword to make it conform to the pattern of the speaker's language and, hence, more easily pronounceable, as in the Italian pronunciation [lahn-tsee-ke-nek-kaw] /ˌlɑn tsi kɛˈnɛk kɔ/ (Show IPA) for German Landsknecht [lahnts-knekht] /ˈlɑntsˌknɛxt/ (Show IPA).
  • switchboard — a structural unit on which are mounted switches and instruments necessary to complete telephone circuits manually.
  • tectibranch — a mollusc of the suborder Tectibranchia (or Tectibranchiata) (order: Opisthobranchia) which includes the sea slugs and sea hares
  • tharborough — a type of constable in William Shakespeare's 'Love's Labours Lost'
  • the battery — a park in New York City, at the S tip of Manhattan: 21 acres
  • the cariboo — a region in the W foothills of the Cariboo Mountains, scene of a gold rush beginning in 1860
  • the gorbals — a district of Glasgow, formerly known for its slums
  • thereabouts — about or near that place or time: last June or thereabout.
  • thermobaric — (of an explosive device or explosion) detonated by means of an explosive substance reacting spontaneously with air
  • thrasybulus — died c389 b.c, Athenian patriot and general.
  • thromboxane — a compound, C 20 H 32 O 5 , formed in blood platelets, that constricts blood vessels and promotes clotting.
  • throw about — to spend (one's money) in a reckless and flaunting manner
  • thunder bay — a port in W Ontario, in S Canada, on Lake Superior: created in 1970 by the merger of twin cities (Fort William and Port Arthur) and two adjoining townships.
  • tocharian b — the western dialect of Tocharian
  • torchbearer — a person who carries a torch.
  • transphobia — unreasoning hostility, aversion, etc., toward transgender people.
  • trophoblast — the layer of extraembryonic ectoderm that chiefly nourishes the embryo or develops into fetal membranes with nutritive functions.
  • truth table — a table that gives the truth-values of a compound sentence formed from component sentences by means of logical connectives, as AND, NOT, or OR, for every possible combination of truth-values of the component sentences.
  • tudorbethan — (of a contemporary building) imitative of Tudor and Elizabethan architecture
  • turbocharge — to equip (an internal-combustion engine) with a turbocharger.
  • tycho brahe — Tycho [tee-koh;; Danish ty-koh] /ˈti koʊ;; Danish ˈtü koʊ/ (Show IPA), 1546–1601, Danish astronomer.
  • unbreathing — not breathing; holding the breath
  • uncrushable — to press or squeeze with a force that destroys or deforms.
  • underbreath — a whisper
  • unreachable — to get to or get as far as in moving, going, traveling, etc.: The boat reached the shore.
  • unrightable — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
  • unshareable — the full or proper portion or part allotted or belonging to or contributed or owed by an individual or group.
  • vapour bath — the act of bathing in vapour, formerly believed to have medicinal benefits
  • verb phrase — a group of words including a verb and its complements, objects, or other modifiers that functions syntactically as a verb. In English a verb phrase combines with a noun or noun phrase acting as subject to form a simple sentence.
  • water brash — heartburn (def 1).
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