11-letter words containing b, h, m
- blaspheming — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
- blasphemous — You can describe someone who shows disrespect for God or a religion as blasphemous. You can also describe what they are saying or doing as blasphemous.
- blemishment — a flaw or blemish
- blue helmet — a member of a United Nations military force, usually deployed on peacekeeping missions, and recognizable by a helmet or beret of a distinctive light blue colour
- boatmanship — boatsmanship.
- bodhidharma — 6th century ad, Indian Buddhist monk, who taught in China (from 520): considered to be the founder of Zen Buddhism
- body rhythm — biorhythm.
- bohemianism — unconventional behaviour or appearance, esp of an artist
- bondmanship — the state of being a bondman; serfdom
- bottom fish — any fish that feeds or lives near the bottom of a body of water, as a flounder or catfish
- bottom heat — heat artificially applied to a container in which plants are grown in order to induce their germination, rooting, or growth.
- bottom-fish — to fish with a weighted line for fish that feed close to the bottom.
- bournemouth — a resort in S England, in Bournemouth unitary authority, Dorset, on the English Channel. Pop: 167 527 (2001)
- brachyprism — the four faces parallel to the brachyaxis in a crystal
- brahmachari — a student of the Vedas, especially one committed to brahmacharya.
- brahmajnana — jnana.
- brahmaputra — a river in S Asia, rising in SW Tibet as the Tsangpo and flowing through the Himalayas and NE India to join the Ganges at its delta in Bangladesh. Length: about 2900 km (1800 miles)
- brahminical — Hinduism. Brahman1 (def 1).
- branchiform — shaped like a gill.
- bremerhaven — a port in NW Germany: an outport for Bremen. Pop: 118 276 (2003 est)
- brith milah — the rite of circumcision on the eighth day after birth
- british gum — dextrin.
- broken home — a family in which one parent is absent, usually due to divorce or desertion: children from broken homes.
- brush broom — Northeastern U.S. a whisk broom.
- brush maker — a manufacturer or crafter of brushes
- bryophyllum — a genus of plants of the family Crassulaceae with the ability to produce plantlets on their leaves or floral stems
- bumbershoot — an umbrella
- burnishment — the act or process of burnishing
- bushelwoman — a woman who alters clothes
- bushmanship — the skills necessary for survival in the bush; bushcraft
- ceramic hob — (on an electric cooker) a flat ceramic cooking surface having heating elements fitted on the underside, usually patterned to show the areas where heat is produced
- chamber mug — a chamber pot.
- chamber pop — pop music that incorporates orchestral arrangements
- chamber pot — A chamber pot is a round container shaped like a very large cup. Chamber pots used to be kept in bedrooms so that people could urinate in them instead of having to leave their room during the night.
- chamber-pot — a portable container, especially for urine, used in bedrooms.
- chamberhand — a worker in the cold storage area of a slaughterhouse
- chamberlain — A chamberlain is the person who is in charge of the household affairs of a king, queen, or person of high social rank.
- chambermaid — A chambermaid is a woman who cleans and tidies the bedrooms in a hotel.
- chamfer bit — a bit for beveling the edge of a hole.
- chemisorbed — Simple past tense and past participle of chemisorb.
- cherry bomb — a powerful firecracker that is shaped like a cherry
- chibougamau — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- chromophobe — a cell that does not take a stain easily
- clubmanship — the status of belonging to an active club
- debauchment — The act of debauching or corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty.
- debouchment — the act or an instance of debouching
- demob-happy — feeling elated in anticipation of demobilization from the armed forces
- dissembleth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dissemble.
- dithyrambic — of, relating to, or of the nature of a dithyramb, or an impassioned oration.
- dromophobia — an irrational fear of crossing roads