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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
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