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11-letter words containing b, h, i

  • prohibitory — prohibitive.
  • prothrombin — a plasma protein involved in blood coagulation that on activation by factors in the plasma is converted to thrombin.
  • psychic bid — a bid designed to mislead one's opponents that is not based on the strength of one's hand or of the suit named but rather on one's feeling that not bidding would be more costly.
  • psychobilly — loud frantic rockabilly music
  • publishable — to issue (printed or otherwise reproduced textual or graphic material, computer software, etc.) for sale or distribution to the public.
  • publishings — the activities or business of a publisher, especially of books or periodicals: He plans to go into publishing after college.
  • publishment — publication.
  • pukka sahib — (in British India) a term of respectful address used to British colonial authorities.
  • quail-brush — a salt-tolerant, silvery gray shrub, Atriplex lentiformis breweri, of the amaranth family, native to southern California.
  • rabbit hole — opening of a rabbit's burrow
  • rabbitbrush — any of several composite shrubs of the genus Chrysothamnus, of the western U.S. and Mexico, having whitish, hairy branches and yellow flowers.
  • redhibition — the nullification of a sale because of a defect in the article sold of such nature as to make it totally or virtually unusable or as to have prevented the purchase if known to the buyer.
  • redhibitory — the nullification of a sale because of a defect in the article sold of such nature as to make it totally or virtually unusable or as to have prevented the purchase if known to the buyer.
  • reestablish — to found, institute, build, or bring into being on a firm or stable basis: to establish a university; to establish a medical practice.
  • refurbisher — a person who refurbishes
  • reichenberg — German name of Liberec.
  • republisher — a person who republishes
  • rhabdovirus — any of various RNA-containing viruses of the family Rhabdoviridae, including the rabies virus.
  • rhomboideus — either of two back muscles that function to move the scapula.
  • rich object — In artificial intelligence, an object which cannot be completely described or represented but about which assertions can be made.
  • 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
  • ritual bath — a mikvah.
  • river birch — a tree, Betula nigra, of the eastern U.S., having papery, reddish-brown bark that peels away.
  • rubbish bag — a plastic bag for the disposal of household rubbish
  • rubbish bin — trash can
  • rubbish tip — dump for refuse
  • 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.
  • russophobia — an intense and often irrational hatred for Russia, or esp the former Soviet Union, its political system, etc
  • sash ribbon — a strip of steel or aluminum alloy for connecting a vertically sliding window sash with a counterweight.
  • schiff base — the product of the chemical association of an aldehyde with a primary amine
  • 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.
  • scopophobia — the fear of being observed
  • scotophobin — a peptide isolated from the brains of rats conditioned to avoid darkness, alleged to induce a dark-avoidance response in untrained rats, mice, and other animals.
  • sea bathing — the activity of swimming in the sea
  • semishrubby — somewhat resembling a shrub; shrubby in some respects; having characteristics somewhat like those of a shrub; partly covered in shrubs
  • sennacherib — died 681 b.c, king of Assyria 705–681.
  • shabby chic — Shabby Chic is a style of decorating the inside of a house in which the furniture and house look slightly used or old in a way that is attractive.
  • shelbyville — a city in central Indiana.
  • ship's boat — a boat for communication between ship and shore
  • ship-broker — a person who acts for a shipowner by getting cargo and passengers for his ships and also handling insurance and other matters
  • shipbuilder — a person whose occupation is the designing or constructing of ship.
  • shish kebab — meat on skewer
  • shish-kebab — to broil or roast food on a skewer.
  • shrubberied — having a shrubbery
  • 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.
  • sonofabitch — an abusive term of address or of description
  • southbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
  • spur blight — a disease of raspberries, characterized by reddish-brown spots on the stems, caused by a fungus, Didymella applanata.
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