12-letter words containing b, e, n, h, o
- chimneyboard — a partition or a cover to shut off a fireplace
- 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.
- dishonorable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- double-think — illogical or deliberately perverse thinking in terms that distort or reverse the truth to make it more acceptable
- 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.
- ellenborough — Earl of, title of Edward Law. 1780–1871, British colonial administrator: governor general of India (1742–44)
- en brochette — (esp of meat) roasted or grilled on a skewer
- 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.
- ethnobiology — the branch of biology involving the study of the uses of plants and animals in various human societies
- exhibitioner — A student who has been awarded an exhibition (scholarship).
- flemish bond — a brickwork bond having alternate stretchers and headers in each course, each header being centered above and below a stretcher.
- 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.
- 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
- golden bough — a branch of mistletoe, sacred to Proserpina, that served Aeneas as a pass to the underworld.
- hambletonian — one of a superior strain of American trotting horses descended from the stallion Hambletonian.
- hard done by — If you feel hard done by, you feel that you have not been treated fairly.
- haricot bean — Haricot beans are small white beans that are eaten as a vegetable. They are often sold dried rather than fresh.
- harmonizable — That can be harmonized.
- hebetudinous — the state of being dull; lethargy.
- helleborines — Plural form of helleborine.
- hereinbefore — before in this document, statement, etc.
- heron's-bill — stork's-bill (def 1).
- herring boat — a fishing boat that specializes in catching herring
- herringboned — Simple past tense and past participle of herringbone.
- herringbones — Plural form of herringbone.
- hessian boot — a knee-high tasseled boot, fashionable in England in the early 19th century.
- hexacarbonyl — (inorganic chemistry) Any compound having six carbonyl groups.
- hibernations — Plural form of hibernation.
- hispanophobe — a person who dislikes Hispanic culture or the Spanish language.
- home banking — a system whereby a person at home or in an office can use a computer with a modem to call up information from a bank or to transfer funds electronically
- homebuilding — the designing or constructing of houses.
- honey badger — ratel.
- honey bucket — a container for excrement, as in an outdoor toilet.
- honeycombing — Present participle of honeycomb.
- hop hornbeam — any of several Eurasian and North American trees of the genus Ostrya, of the birch family, especially O. virginiana, bearing hoplike fruiting clusters.
- horn balance — an extension of an aircraft control surface that projects in front of the hinge providing aerodynamic assistance in moving the control
- horribleness — causing or tending to cause horror; shockingly dreadful: a horrible sight.
- hosepipe ban — a ban, due to water shortage, on using hosepipes to water the garden or wash cars
- house number — the unique number given to each building on a street which forms part of that building's address
- house-broken — (of a pet) trained to avoid excreting inside the house or in improper places.
- househusband — a man whose spouse works and who stays home to manage their household.
- hugh loebner — (person) Dr. Hugh Gene Loebner, the instigator of the Loebner Prize in artificial intelligence. E-mail address: Hugh Loebner <[email protected]>.
- hypnotisable — Alternative spelling of hypnotizable.
- hypnotizable — One who is susceptible to hypnosis.
- in behalf of — in / on behalf of, as a representative of or a proxy for: On behalf of my colleagues, I address you tonight.
- ingleborough — a mountain in N England, in North Yorkshire: potholes. Height: 723 m (2373 ft)