11-letter words containing b, h, i
- fixing bath — a solution containing one or more chemical compounds that is used, in fixing, to dissolve unexposed silver halides. It sometimes has an additive to stop the action of developer
- flitch beam — a beam composed of planks bolted together side by side and often reinforced with a plate of iron or steel.
- galeophobia — The fear of sharks.
- germaphobia — Pathological fear of germs.
- germaphobic — Alternative form of germophobic.
- germophobic — Morbidly afraid of germs.
- globefishes — Plural form of globefish.
- gymnophobia — An inordinate fear or hatred of being naked, and possibly nudity or nudists and naturists.
- habiliments — Plural form of habiliment.
- habilitated — Simple past tense and past participle of habilitate.
- habilitator — to clothe or dress.
- habitations — Plural form of habitation.
- habituating — Present participle of habituate.
- habituation — the act of habituating.
- hackberries — Plural form of hackberry.
- haemoglobin — (protein) alternative spelling of hemoglobin.
- haemophobia — Alternative spelling of hemophobia.
- hairbrained — giddy; reckless.
- hairbreadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
- hairbrushes — Plural form of hairbrush.
- halberdiers — Plural form of halberdier.
- half-boiled — drunk.
- half-buried — to put in the ground and cover with earth: The pirates buried the chest on the island.
- halo blight — a disease of plants, characterized by small, necrotic leaf or fruit lesions surrounded by a yellowish, halolike band, caused by any of several bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas.
- halsingborg — a seaport in SW Sweden, opposite Helsingör.
- handbagging — an assault with a handbag
- hang behind — to remain in a place after others have left; linger
- hangability — the ability to be hanged
- haptoglobin — A protein present in blood serum that binds to and removes free hemoglobin from the bloodstream.
- harbingered — Simple past tense and past participle of harbinger.
- harbourside — An area (especially a residential area) near a harbour (often in the form of converted warehouses etc).
- hard-bitten — tough; stubborn.
- hard-bodied — a person who is muscular and physically fit.
- hard-boiled — Cookery. (of an egg) boiled in the shell long enough for the yolk and white to solidify.
- harebrained — giddy; reckless.
- hattiesburg — a city in SE Mississippi.
- have it bad — suffer disadvantage
- headbanging — rhythmical moving of the head up and down in dancing to heavy metal
- headbutting — Present participle of headbutt.
- hebephrenia — a type of schizophrenia characterized by emotionless, incongruous, or silly behavior, intellectual deterioration, and hallucinations, frequently beginning insidiously during adolescence.
- hebephrenic — Pertaining to, or characteristic of, hebephrenia.
- heliophobia — Fear of sunlight.
- heliophobic — fearing or unable to withstand sunlight
- helleborein — a yellow, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous solid, C 37 H 56 O 18 , obtained from the rhizome and root of certain hellebores, and used in medicine chiefly as a heart stimulant.
- helleborine — A mainly woodland orchid occurring chiefly in north temperate regions.
- helsingborg — a port in SW Sweden, on the Sound opposite Helsingør, Denmark: changed hands several times between Denmark and Sweden, finally becoming Swedish in 1710; shipbuilding. Pop: 121 097 (2004 est)
- hepatitis b — a form of hepatitis caused by a DNA virus (hepatitis B virus, or HBV) that persists in the blood, characterized by a long incubation period: usually transmitted by sexual contact or by injection or ingestion of infected blood or other bodily fluids.
- herbivorous — feeding on plants.
- herbologist — the study or collecting of herbs, especially as a hobby.
- hereditable — heritable.