12-letter words containing b, e, n, c, h
- buccaneerish — of or relating to a buccaneer
- bucket bench — a Pennsylvania Dutch dresser having a lower portion closed with doors for milk pails, an open shelf for water pails, and an upper section with shallow drawers.
- buffet lunch — a lunch at which people stand up and help themselves from the table
- cable length — a unit of length in nautical use that has various values, including 100 fathoms (600 feet)
- cadet branch — the family or family branch of a younger son
- cancerphobia — an excessive fear of getting cancer
- carbocholine — carbachol.
- chamberlains — Plural form of chamberlain.
- channel back — an upholstered chair or sofa back having deep vertical grooves.
- channel bass — red drum.
- chenin blanc — a white grape grown in the Loire region of France and in South Africa, California, New Zealand, and elsewhere, used for making wine
- childbearing — Childbearing is the process of giving birth to babies.
- chimneyboard — a partition or a cover to shut off a fireplace
- chinaberries — Plural form of chinaberry.
- chinese burn — a minor torture inflicted by twisting the skin of a person's wrist or arm in two different directions simultaneously
- 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.
- 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
- dutch borneo — the former name of the southern and larger part of the island of Borneo: now part of Indonesia.
- elasmobranch — A cartilaginous fish of a group that comprises the sharks, rays, and skates.
- embranchment — A branching forth, as of trees for example.
- en brochette — (esp of meat) roasted or grilled on a skewer
- exchangeable — Able to be exchanged.
- 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.
- frontbencher — (politics) one who sits on the front bench in a parliament. Typically the spokesmen for those who sit further back.
- handicapable — (politically correct) disabled or handicapped.
- haricot bean — Haricot beans are small white beans that are eaten as a vegetable. They are often sold dried rather than fresh.
- head balance — headstand.
- hearken back — to go back in thought or speech; revert; hark back
- hebephreniac — a person suffering from hebephrenia
- 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.
- honey bucket — a container for excrement, as in an outdoor toilet.
- honeycombing — Present participle of honeycomb.
- 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.
- in the black — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
- 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.
- 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.
- nightclubber — One who visits a nightclub.
- nonbreaching — the act or a result of breaking; break or rupture.