12-letter words containing b, e, h
- clothesbrush — A brush for the clothes.
- club fighter — a mediocre boxer who fights mostly on programs at small sporting clubs
- coachbuilder — (historical) A builder of horse-drawn coaches.
- cohesibility — the nature of being cohesible
- copper beech — A copper beech is a type of tree with reddish-brown leaves.
- crossbencher — A member of the British parliament, or a similar assembly, who does not vote regularly with either the government or the main opposition party.
- cyberathlete — a professional player of computer games
- cymbocephaly — scaphocephaly.
- dasher block — a block at the end of a yard or gaff for supporting a signal or ensign halyard.
- debaucheries — Plural form of debauchery.
- debaucherous — tending toward or involving debauchery, or excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures: a night of debaucherous fun.
- decipherable — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
- delray beach — a city in SE Florida.
- denbighshire — a county of N Wales: split between Clwyd and Gwynedd in 1974; reinstated with different boundaries in 1996: borders the Irish Sea, with the Cambrian Mountains in the south: chiefly agricultural. Administrative centre: Ruthin. Pop: 94 900 (2003 est). Area: 844 sq km (327 sq miles)
- dibranchiate — of, relating to, or belonging to the Dibranchiata, a group or former order of cephalopod molluscs, including the octopuses, squids, and cuttlefish, having two gills
- die horribly — (jargon) The software equivalent of crash and burn, and the preferred emphatic form of die. "The converter choked on an FF in its input and died horribly".
- diminishable — That may be diminished.
- disburthened — Simple past tense and past participle of disburthen.
- disembellish — (transitive) To deprive of embellishment; to disadorn.
- disestablish — to deprive of the character of being established; cancel; abolish.
- dishabituate — to cause to be no longer habituated or accustomed.
- dishonorable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- disinhibited — Simple past tense and past participle of disinhibit.
- dispatchable — Capable of being dispatched.
- double cloth — a cloth used in overcoating, blankets, brocade, etc., made by interweaving two physically discrete fabrics at various points in the pattern by bringing warp and fill yarns from each through the other to be worked on the opposite face of the compound fabric.
- double dutch — a form of the game of jump rope in which two persons, holding the respective ends of two long jump ropes, swing them in a synchronized fashion, usually directed inward so the ropes are going in opposite directions, for one or two others to jump over.
- double helix — the spiral arrangement of the two complementary strands of DNA.
- double hitch — a Blackwall hitch with an extra upper loop passed around the hook.
- double rhyme — a rhyme either of two syllables of which the second is unstressed (double rhyme) as in motion, notion, or of three syllables of which the second and third are unstressed (triple rhyme) as in fortunate, importunate.
- double sharp — a symbol (× or ) that raises by two semitones the pitch of the following note.
- double-check — a simultaneous check by two pieces in which the moving of one piece to give check also results in discovering a check by another piece.
- double-think — illogical or deliberately perverse thinking in terms that distort or reverse the truth to make it more acceptable
- double-width — twice the usual width: double-wide mobile homes consisting of two sections bolted together.
- doubleheader — Sports. two games, as of baseball, between the same teams on the same day in immediate succession. two games, as of basketball, between two different pairs of teams on the same day in immediate succession.
- draught beer — beer which is stored in bulk, esp in a cask, as opposed to being bottled
- duchesse bed — a bed having a suspended, full-length tester.
- dutch belted — one of a breed of black dairy cattle, raised originally in the Netherlands, having a broad white band encircling the body.
- dutch borneo — the former name of the southern and larger part of the island of Borneo: now part of Indonesia.
- e-thrombosis — a clot in the bloodstream caused by long periods spent being physically inactive at a computer
- early blight — a disease of plants characterized by leaf spotting, defoliation, and stunted growth, caused by any of several fungi, as Alternaria solani or Cercospora apii.
- early hebrew — noting or pertaining to the alphabetical script used for the writing of Hebrew mainly from the 11th to the 6th centuries b.c.
- echo chamber — a room or studio with resonant walls for broadcasting or recording echoes or hollow sound effects.
- edwin hubble — Edwin Powell, 1889–1953, U.S. astronomer: pioneer in extragalactic research.
- elasmobranch — A cartilaginous fish of a group that comprises the sharks, rays, and skates.
- elephantbird — Alternative form of elephant bird.
- elizabeth ii — born 1926, queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 1952; daughter of George VI
- ellenborough — Earl of, title of Edward Law. 1780–1871, British colonial administrator: governor general of India (1742–44)
- embellishing — Present participle of embellish.
- embranchment — A branching forth, as of trees for example.
- en brochette — (esp of meat) roasted or grilled on a skewer