11-letter words containing b, h, i
- stenobathic — of or relating to marine or freshwater life that can tolerate only limited changes in depth (opposed to eurybathic).
- sub-chronic — constant; habitual; inveterate: a chronic liar.
- sub-heading — a title or heading of a subdivision, as in a chapter, essay, or newspaper article.
- subchairman — a subordinate or substitute chairman.
- subchloride — a chloride containing a relatively small proportion of chlorine, as mercurous chloride.
- subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
- subjectship — the state of being a subject or citizen
- superbright — exceptionally bright
- svarabhakti — the process of inserting vowel sounds into a consonant cluster, as in a loanword to make it conform to the pattern of the speaker's language and, hence, more easily pronounceable, as in the Italian pronunciation [lahn-tsee-ke-nek-kaw] /ˌlɑn tsi kɛˈnɛk kɔ/ (Show IPA) for German Landsknecht [lahnts-knekht] /ˈlɑntsˌknɛxt/ (Show IPA).
- sweet birch — a North American tree, Betula lenta, having smooth, blackish bark and twigs that are a source of methyl salicylate.
- switchblade — a pocketknife, the blade of which is held by a spring and can be released suddenly, as by pressing a button.
- switchboard — a structural unit on which are mounted switches and instruments necessary to complete telephone circuits manually.
- taphephobia — an abnormal fear of being buried alive.
- tectibranch — a mollusc of the suborder Tectibranchia (or Tectibranchiata) (order: Opisthobranchia) which includes the sea slugs and sea hares
- textbookish — suggesting a textbook, especially in literary style or composition.
- the baptist — John the Baptist
- the big ten — a group of ten US universities which have a tradition of excellence in baseball, basketball, and American football.
- the bitumen — any road with a bitumen surface
- the british — the people of Great Britain
- the cariboo — a region in the W foothills of the Cariboo Mountains, scene of a gold rush beginning in 1860
- the sublime — sublime quality; sublimity
- theobromine — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous powder, C 7 H 8 N 4 O 2 , an isomer of theophylline and lower homologue of caffeine, occurring in tea and obtained from the cacao bean: used chiefly as a diuretic, myocardial stimulant, and vasodilator.
- theophobist — a person who fears or despises God or religion
- therebeside — next to; beside that
- thermobaric — (of an explosive device or explosion) detonated by means of an explosive substance reacting spontaneously with air
- thigh boots — boots that cover the thighs
- thimbleweed — any of several plants having a thimble-shaped fruiting head, especially either of two white-flowered North American plants, Anemone riparia or A. virginiana.
- thingamabob — thingamajig.
- thingumabob — thingamajig.
- three-birds — nodding pogonia.
- thumb drive — Also called flash memory drive, thumb drive, USB drive. a very small, portable, solid-state hard drive that can be inserted into a USB port for storage and retrieval of data.
- thumb index — tabs on edge of a book's pages
- thumb piano — any of various African boxlike musical instruments, such as the kalimba or mbira, having tuned strips of metal or wood that vibrate when played with the thumbs.
- thumb-index — to provide (a book) with a thumb index.
- thunderbird — (in the mythology of some North American Indians) a huge, eaglelike bird capable of producing thunder, lightning, and rain.
- timbrophily — the love of stamps; stamp collecting
- tishah b'ab — a Jewish fast day commemorating the destruction of the Temple, observed on the 9th day of Ab
- tishah b'av — a Jewish fast day observed on the ninth day of the month of Av in memory of the destruction in Jerusalem of the First and Second Temples.
- tocharian b — the western dialect of Tocharian
- toghril beg — ?990–1063 ad, Sultan of Turkey (1055–63), who founded the Seljuq dynasty and conquered Baghdad (1055)
- toxiphobiac — a person who suffers from toxicophobia
- transphobia — unreasoning hostility, aversion, etc., toward transgender people.
- triphibious — employing or involving land, naval, and air forces in a combined operation.
- tu bishevat — the 15th day of the month of Shevat, observed as a new year for trees by planting trees and by eating fruits.
- tubthumping — to promote something or express opinions vociferously.
- twig blight — blight affecting the twigs of a plant.
- unabolished — not abolished or revoked
- unbenighted — not overtaken by darkness or night
- unblemished — to destroy or diminish the perfection of: The book is blemished by those long, ineffective descriptions.
- unblenching — not blenching or turning aside; unflinching