8-letter words containing b, e, h
- beshiver — to shatter
- beshroud — to cover with a shroud
- besmirch — If you besmirch someone or their reputation, you say that they are a bad person or that they have done something wrong, usually when this is not true.
- besmooth — to smooth
- besoothe — to soothe
- besought — beseech
- beth din — a rabbinical court, consisting of at least three dayanim, and having authority over such matters as divorce and conversion and other communal ecclesiastical matters such as Kashruth. It may also try civil disputes with the consent of both parties
- bethesda — a pool in Jerusalem reputed to have healing powers, where a paralysed man was healed by Jesus (John 5:2)
- bethpage — a city on S Long Island, in SE New York.
- bethrall — to make a slave of
- bethwack — to strike hard with a flat object
- beyrouth — Beirut.
- bhc code — Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem Code
- bhelpuri — an Indian dish of puffed rice and vegetables
- bichrome — having two colours
- bien hoa — a town in S Vietnam: a former capital of Cambodia. Pop: 520 000 (2005 est)
- big head — If you describe someone as a big head, you disapprove of them because they think they are very clever and know everything.
- billhead — a printed form for making out bills
- biphenyl — a white or colourless crystalline solid used as a heat-transfer agent, as a fungicide, as an antifungal food preservative (E230) on the skins of citrus fruit, and in the manufacture of dyes, etc. Formula: C6H5C6H5
- bitchery — spiteful talk
- blanched — to force back or to one side; head off, as a deer or other quarry.
- blancher — someone who blanches
- bleached — made lighter in colour
- bleacher — Usually, bleachers. a typically roofless section of inexpensive and unreserved seats in tiers, especially at an open-air athletic stadium.
- bleakish — quite pale
- blencher — someone employed to scare or obstruct
- blenheim — a village in SW Germany, site of a victory of Anglo-Austrian forces under the Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugène of Savoy that saved Vienna from the French and Bavarians (1704) during the War of the Spanish Succession
- blighted — Plant Pathology. the rapid and extensive discoloration, wilting, and death of plant tissues. a disease so characterized.
- blighter — You can refer to someone you do not like as a blighter.
- blithely — joyous, merry, or happy in disposition; glad; cheerful: Everyone loved her for her blithe spirit.
- blokeish — denoting or exhibiting the characteristics believed typical of an ordinary man
- blotched — Something that is blotched has blotches on it.
- blowhole — the nostril, paired or single, of whales, situated far back on the skull
- bluchers — a strong, leather half boot.
- bluebush — any of various blue-grey herbaceous Australian shrubs of the genus Maireana
- bluefish — a predatory bluish marine percoid food and game fish, Pomatomus saltatrix, related to the horse mackerel: family Pomatomidae
- bluehead — either of two fish of the wrasse family, Thalassoma amblycephalum or Thalassoma bifasciatum
- bobwhite — a brown North American quail, Colinus virginianus, the male of which has white markings on the head: a popular game bird
- boehm b. — Proposed the COCOMO technique for evaluating the cost of a software project.
- boehmian — of or relating to Boehmenism.
- boehmite — a grey, red, or brown mineral that consists of alumina in rhombic crystalline form and occurs in bauxite. Formula: AlO(OH)
- boethian — Anicius Manlius Severinus [uh-nish-ee-uh s man-lee-uh s sev-uh-rahy-nuh s] /əˈnɪʃ i əs ˈmæn li əs ˌsɛv əˈraɪ nəs/ (Show IPA), a.d. 475?–525? Roman philosopher and statesman.
- boethius — Anicius Manlius Severinus (əˈnɪsɪəs ˈmænlɪəs ˌsɛvəˈraɪnəs). ?480–?524 ad, Roman philosopher and statesman, noted particularly for his work De Consolatione Philosophiae. He was accused of treason and executed by Theodoric
- bog hole — a land-surface depression occupied by waterlogged soil and spongy vegetative material that cannot bear the weight of large animals.
- bohemian — Bohemian means belonging or relating to Bohemia or its people.
- bolthead — the head of a bolt
- bolthole — a place of escape from danger
- bone ash — the residue obtained when bones are burned in air, consisting mainly of calcium phosphate. It is used as a fertilizer and in the manufacture of bone china
- bonefish — a silvery marine clupeoid game fish, Albula vulpes, occurring in warm shallow waters: family Albulidae
- bonehead — a stupid or obstinate person