11-letter words containing b, g, h
- misbehaving — to behave badly or improperly: The children misbehaved during our visit.
- mothballing — Present participle of mothball.
- negrophobia — strong fear or dislike of black people.
- neighboring — situated or living near another: one of our neighbor nations.
- neighbourly — (British, Canada) Showing the qualities of a friendly and helpful neighbour.
- night table — a small table, chest, etc., for use next to a bed.
- night-blind — a condition of the eyes in which vision is normal in daylight but abnormally poor at night or in a dim light; nyctalopia.
- northbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
- nothing but — no thing; not anything; naught: to say nothing.
- phagophobia — an abnormal dread or terror of swallowing or eating
- phlebograph — an instrument for recording the venous pulse.
- plattsburgh — a city in NE New York, on Lake Champlain: battle, 1814.
- plough back — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- plunge bath — a bath large enough to immerse the whole body or to dive into
- publishings — the activities or business of a publisher, especially of books or periodicals: He plans to go into publishing after college.
- reichenberg — German name of Liberec.
- right about — the position assumed by turning about to the right so as to face in the opposite direction.
- right brace — (character) "}". ASCII character 125. Common names: close brace; right brace; right squiggly; right squiggly bracket/brace; right curly bracket/brace; ITU-T: closing brace. Rare: unbrace; uncurly; rytit ("" = leftit); right squirrelly; {INTERCAL: bracelet ("" = embrace). Paired with {left brace
- right brain — the right cerebral hemisphere of the human brain, which includes areas associated with abstraction, artistic ability, and emotional response
- royal burgh — (in Scotland) a burgh that was established by a royal charter granted directly by the sovereign
- rubbish bag — a plastic bag for the disposal of household rubbish
- rugby shirt — a knitted pullover sport shirt usually in bold horizontal stripes and having a white collar and neckline placket, styled after the shirts traditionally worn by the members of Rugby teams.
- scarborough — a seaport in North Yorkshire, in NE England.
- schrödinbug — (jargon, programming) /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
- sea bathing — the activity of swimming in the sea
- shabbas goy — a gentile who performs tasks for Jews in the home or synagogue on the Sabbath or on a holy day that are forbidden Jews on such occasions, as turning on the lights or heat.
- shogun bond — a bond sold on the Japanese market by a foreign institution and denominated in a foreign currency
- shutter-bug — an amateur photographer, especially one who is greatly devoted to the hobby.
- sleigh bell — any of several kinds of small bells, as a jingle bell, attached to a sleigh or to the harness of the animal drawing the sleigh.
- snobography — an account or description of snobs
- southbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
- sponge bath — a bath in which the bather is cleaned by a wet sponge or washcloth dipped in water, without getting into a tub of water.
- spur blight — a disease of raspberries, characterized by reddish-brown spots on the stems, caused by a fungus, Didymella applanata.
- staggerbush — an ericaceous deciduous shrub, Lyonia mariana, of E North America, having white or pinkish flowers: it is poisonous to livestock
- sub-heading — a title or heading of a subdivision, as in a chapter, essay, or newspaper article.
- superbright — exceptionally bright
- terbrugghen — Hendrik. 1588–1629, Dutch painter of the Utrecht school, who specialized in religious subjects, for example the Incredulity of St Thomas and the Calling of St Matthew
- tharborough — a type of constable in William Shakespeare's 'Love's Labours Lost'
- the big ten — a group of ten US universities which have a tradition of excellence in baseball, basketball, and American football.
- the gorbals — a district of Glasgow, formerly known for its slums
- thigh boots — boots that cover the thighs
- thingamabob — thingamajig.
- thingumabob — thingamajig.
- thumb glass — a drinking glass having external indentations to allow it to be firmly grasped.
- toghril beg — ?990–1063 ad, Sultan of Turkey (1055–63), who founded the Seljuq dynasty and conquered Baghdad (1055)
- touch rugby — a limited-contact version of rugby in which players seek to evade being touched (rather than tackled) while in possession of the ball
- tubthumping — to promote something or express opinions vociferously.
- turbocharge — to equip (an internal-combustion engine) with a turbocharger.
- twig blight — blight affecting the twigs of a plant.
- unbenighted — not overtaken by darkness or night