11-letter words containing b, e, h, r, m
- hebdomadary — Roman Catholic Church. a member of a church or monastery appointed for one week to sing the chapter Mass and lead in the recitation of the breviary.
- hermit crab — any of numerous crabs, especially of the genera Pagurus and Eupagurus, that protect their soft uncovered abdomen by occupying the castoff shell of a univalve mollusk.
- hibernicism — an idiom or characteristic peculiar to Irish English or to the Irish.
- homebuilder — a person whose occupation is homebuilding.
- horn timber — a timber, often one of several, rising from the sternpost of a wooden vessel to support the overhang of the stern.
- host number — (networking) The host part of an Internet address. The rest is the network number.
- hyperbolism — the use of hyperbole.
- in chambers — in the privacy of a judge's chambers
- ion chamber — an apparatus for detecting and analyzing ionizing radiation, consisting of a vessel filled with a gas at normal or lower than normal pressure and fitted with two electrodes such that the current between the electrodes is a function of the amount of ionization of the gas.
- limber hole — any of a series of holes pierced through a frame or floor to allow the passage of accumulated moisture.
- lumber with — If you are lumbered with someone or something, you have to deal with them or take care of them even though you do not want to and this annoys you.
- mach number — a number indicating the ratio of the speed of an object to the speed of sound in the medium through which the object is moving. Abbreviation: M.
- malebranche — Nicolas de [nee-kaw-lah duh] /ni kɔˈlɑ də/ (Show IPA), 1638–1715, French philosopher.
- march break — a school holiday, usually for a week, during March
- master bath — a private bathroom adjoining a master bedroom.
- melon shrub — pepino (def 2).
- memberships — Plural form of membership.
- metharbital — A barbiturate anticonvulsant used in the treatment of epilepsy.
- misbehavior — improper, inappropriate, or bad behavior.
- motherboard — a rigid, slotted board upon which other boards that contain the basic circuitry of a computer or of a computer component can be mounted. Compare board (def 14).
- perth amboy — a seaport in E New Jersey.
- red chamber — the Canadian Senate chamber.
- rhomboideus — either of two back muscles that function to move the scapula.
- semishrubby — somewhat resembling a shrub; shrubby in some respects; having characteristics somewhat like those of a shrub; partly covered in shrubs
- the numbers — an illegal lottery in which small bets are placed on the order of certain numbers, usually the last three, in some tabulation of game scores or financial reports published in the daily newspapers
- theobromine — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous powder, C 7 H 8 N 4 O 2 , an isomer of theophylline and lower homologue of caffeine, occurring in tea and obtained from the cacao bean: used chiefly as a diuretic, myocardial stimulant, and vasodilator.
- thermobaric — (of an explosive device or explosion) detonated by means of an explosive substance reacting spontaneously with air
- thrombocyte — platelet.
- thromboxane — a compound, C 20 H 32 O 5 , formed in blood platelets, that constricts blood vessels and promotes clotting.
- thumb drive — Also called flash memory drive, thumb drive, USB drive. a very small, portable, solid-state hard drive that can be inserted into a USB port for storage and retrieval of data.
- thumbsucker — a person who habitually sucks a thumb.
- tub-thumper — a vociferous supporter or promoter, as of a cause.
- whimberries — Plural form of whimberry.
- white bream — a similar cyprinid, Blicca bjoerkna