12-letter words containing b, e, h
- english bond — a bond used in brickwork that has a course of headers alternating with a course of stretchers
- entomophobia — Abnormal fear of insects or similar arthropods.
- ephebophilia — the condition of being sexually attracted to adolescents
- erev shabbat — the day before the Sabbath, i.e. Friday
- erythroblast — An immature erythrocyte containing a nucleus.
- establishing — Present participle of establish.
- ethnobiology — the branch of biology involving the study of the uses of plants and animals in various human societies
- ethylbenzene — A colorless, flammable liquid hydrocarbon, used in the manufacture of styrene.
- exchangeable — Able to be exchanged.
- exhibitioner — A student who has been awarded an exhibition (scholarship).
- featherbacks — Plural form of featherback.
- featherbrain — a foolish or giddy person; scatterbrain.
- fines herbes — a mixture of finely chopped herbs, used to flavour omelettes, salads, etc
- firebreather — A performer who creates fireballs by breathing a fine mist of fuel over an open flame.
- fish-bellied — (of a beam or rail) having a convex underside.
- fit the bill — If you say that someone or something fits the bill or fills the bill, you mean that they are suitable for a particular job or purpose.
- flabberghast — (archaic) Alternative form of flabbergast.
- flemish bond — a brickwork bond having alternate stretchers and headers in each course, each header being centered above and below a stretcher.
- for the best — of the highest quality, excellence, or standing: the best work; the best students.
- franchisable — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- 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.
- fresh breeze — a wind of 19–24 miles per hour (9–11 m/sec). Compare breeze1 (def 2).
- frontbencher — (politics) one who sits on the front bench in a parliament. Typically the spokesmen for those who sit further back.
- gaithersburg — a town in central Maryland.
- germanophobe — a person who hates or fears Germany, Germans, or German culture.
- gerontophobe — a person who fears or hates old people or the idea of growing old
- get the bird — to be fired or dismissed
- ghostbusters — Plural form of ghostbuster.
- give sb hell — If you say that something is giving you hell, you are emphasizing that it is causing you a lot of trouble or pain.
- 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.
- god-botherer — an over-zealous Christian
- golden bough — a branch of mistletoe, sacred to Proserpina, that served Aeneas as a pass to the underworld.
- haberdashers — Plural form of haberdasher.
- haberdashery — a haberdasher's shop.
- habilimented — Clothed.
- habilitative — to clothe or dress.
- habitualness — The characteristic of being habitual.
- haematoblast — any of the undifferentiated cells in the bone marrow that develop into blood cells
- hairpin bend — A hairpin bend or a hairpin is a very sharp bend in a road, where the road turns back in the opposite direction.
- hairsbreadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
- half brother — brother (def 2).
- half-blooded — having parents of two different breeds, species, or the like.
- half-brother — brother (def 2).
- hall bedroom — a small bedroom off a corridor, esp. a small bedroom formed by partitioning off the end of an upstairs corridor
- halobacteria — Plural form of halobacterium.
- hambletonian — one of a superior strain of American trotting horses descended from the stallion Hambletonian.
- hand baggage — the suitcases, bags, etc, that you take with you onto an aeroplane when you travel, as opposed to those bags that are put in the aeroplane's hold
- handbreadths — Plural form of handbreadth.
- handicapable — (politically correct) disabled or handicapped.