12-letter words containing b, c, h
- featherbacks — Plural form of featherback.
- franchisable — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- francophobia — the phenomenon of hating French speakers, culture, or people
- french bread — a yeast-raised bread made of dough containing water and distinguished by its thick, well-browned crust, usually made in long, slender, tapered loaves. Compare baguette (def 3).
- french broad — a river in W North Carolina and E Tennessee, flowing N and NW to join the Holston River at Knoxville to form the Tennessee River. 210 miles (338 km) long.
- frontbencher — (politics) one who sits on the front bench in a parliament. Typically the spokesmen for those who sit further back.
- global reach — When people talk about the global reach of a company or industry, they mean its ability to have customers in many different parts of the world.
- hack to bits — to damage severely
- half-cup bra — a bra that covers three-quarters of the breasts rather than all of the breasts
- halobacteria — Plural form of halobacterium.
- handicapable — (politically correct) disabled or handicapped.
- hangchow bay — a bay of the East China Sea.
- hansom (cab) — a 19th-cent. two-wheeled covered carriage for two passengers, pulled by one horse: the driver's seat is above and behind the cab
- hardscrabble — providing or yielding meagerly in return for much effort; demanding or unrewarding: the hardscrabble existence of mountainside farmers.
- haricot bean — Haricot beans are small white beans that are eaten as a vegetable. They are often sold dried rather than fresh.
- hark back to — recall: earlier era
- hatchability — to bring forth (young) from the egg.
- head balance — headstand.
- hearken back — to go back in thought or speech; revert; hark back
- hebephreniac — a person suffering from hebephrenia
- helicobacter — Any member of the Helicobacter bacteria.
- herbicidally — from a herbicidal point of view
- hexacarbonyl — (inorganic chemistry) Any compound having six carbonyl groups.
- hibernaculum — a protective case or covering, especially for winter, as of an animal or a plant bud.
- high wycombe — a town in S central England, in S Buckinghamshire: furniture industry. Pop: 77 178 (2001)
- hillclimbing — (sports) A form of motorsport in which drivers compete against the clock on an uphill course.
- honey bucket — a container for excrement, as in an outdoor toilet.
- honeycombing — Present participle of honeycomb.
- horizon club — a division of Camp Fire, Inc., for members of high-school age.
- horn balance — an extension of an aircraft control surface that projects in front of the hinge providing aerodynamic assistance in moving the control
- hull balance — (of a sailing ship) the property of maintaining satisfactory trim and steering qualities when heeled at a normal angle.
- hydrocarbons — any of a class of compounds containing only hydrogen and carbon, as an alkane, methane, CH 4 , an alkene, ethylene, C 2 H 4 , an alkyne, acetylene, C 2 H 2 , or an aromatic compound, benzene, C 6 H 6 .
- hyperbolical — having the nature of hyperbole; exaggerated.
- in the black — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
- inch by inch — a unit of length, 1/12 (0.0833) foot, equivalent to 2.54 centimeters.
- incharitable — Obsolete form of uncharitable.
- inter-branch — a division or subdivision of the stem or axis of a tree, shrub, or other plant.
- john bircher — Bircher.
- king's bench — a court, originally the principal court for criminal cases, gradually acquiring a civil jurisdiction concurrent with that of the Court of Common Pleas, and also possessing appellate jurisdiction over the Court of Common Pleas: now a division of the High Court of Justice.
- laguna beach — a town in S California.
- leachability — to dissolve out soluble constituents from (ashes, soil, etc.) by percolation.
- leatherbacks — Plural form of leatherback.
- lunch-bucket — a small container, usually of metal or plastic and with a handle, for carrying one's lunch from home to school or work.
- machine bolt — a threaded fastener, used with a nut for connecting metal parts, having a thread diameter of about 1/4 inch (6.4 mm) or more and a square or hexagonal head for tightening by a wrench.
- mechanizable — Capable of being mechanized.
- merchantable — marketable: merchantable war-surplus goods.
- michel baron — Michel [mee-shel] /miˈʃɛl/ (Show IPA), (Michel Boyron) 1653–1729, French actor.
- microhabitat — an extremely localized, small-scale environment, as a tree stump or a dead animal.
- micropublish — to publish on microfilm or microfiche.
- much obliged — expressions used when one wants to indicate that one is very grateful for something