11-letter words containing b, h, m
- dumb sheave — a block having no sheave or other part rolling with the movement of a line.
- echo boomer — a member of Generation Y, born in the 1980s or 1990s; a Millennial.
- embellished — Simple past tense and past participle of embellish.
- embellisher — A person who embellishes.
- embellishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of embellish.
- embouchures — Plural form of embouchure.
- embryopathy — (pathology) Any developmental disorder of an embryo.
- embryophyte — any of a subkingdom of plants, Embryophyta, that encompasses most land plants, such as trees, flowers and mosses
- emetophobia — Fear of vomiting.
- emetophobic — Pertaining to, or afflicted with, emetophobia, a morbid fear of vomiting.
- flitch beam — a beam composed of planks bolted together side by side and often reinforced with a plate of iron or steel.
- gas chamber — an enclosure used for the execution of prisoners by means of a poisonous gas.
- germaphobia — Pathological fear of germs.
- germaphobic — Alternative form of germophobic.
- germophobic — Morbidly afraid of germs.
- green thumb — an exceptional aptitude for gardening or for growing plants successfully: Houseplants provide much pleasure for the city dweller with a green thumb.
- gymnophobia — An inordinate fear or hatred of being naked, and possibly nudity or nudists and naturists.
- habiliments — Plural form of habiliment.
- haemoglobin — (protein) alternative spelling of hemoglobin.
- haemophobia — Alternative spelling of hemophobia.
- hamate bone — a wedgelike bone on the side of the wrist connecting the wrist with the fourth and fifth metacarpals, which connect to the ring and little fingers
- hamba kahle — goodbye, farewell (esp to the dead)
- hammer beam — a short wooden beam projecting from an interior wall to support or tie together rafters or arched roof braces.
- hammer blow — a blow from a hammer
- hebdomadary — Roman Catholic Church. a member of a church or monastery appointed for one week to sing the chapter Mass and lead in the recitation of the breviary.
- hematoblast — an immature blood cell, especially a red blood cell.
- hermit crab — any of numerous crabs, especially of the genera Pagurus and Eupagurus, that protect their soft uncovered abdomen by occupying the castoff shell of a univalve mollusk.
- hibernicism — an idiom or characteristic peculiar to Irish English or to the Irish.
- highbrowism — Highbrow attitudes and policies generally.
- hit batsman — a batter who, having been struck by a pitch, is awarded first base.
- home baking — such things as bread, cakes and biscuits that are baked at home
- home-buying — the purchase of a house or flat
- homebuilder — a person whose occupation is homebuilding.
- homoblastic — (of a plant or plant part) showing no difference in form between the juvenile and the adult structures
- honeycombed — Having a perforated structure, resembling a honeycomb.
- horn timber — a timber, often one of several, rising from the sternpost of a wooden vessel to support the overhang of the stern.
- host number — (networking) The host part of an Internet address. The rest is the network number.
- human being — any individual of the genus Homo, especially a member of the species Homo sapiens.
- humbuggable — capable of being humbugged
- hummingbird — a very small nectar-sipping New World bird of the family Trochilidae, characterized by the brilliant, iridescent plumage of the male, a slender bill, and narrow wings, the extremely rapid beating of which produces a humming sound: noted for their ability to hover and to fly upward, downward, and backward in a horizontal position.
- hydrobromic — of or derived from hydrobromic acid.
- hyperbolism — the use of hyperbole.
- impeachable — making one subject to impeachment, as misconduct in office.
- in chambers — in the privacy of a judge's chambers
- ion chamber — an apparatus for detecting and analyzing ionizing radiation, consisting of a vessel filled with a gas at normal or lower than normal pressure and fitted with two electrodes such that the current between the electrodes is a function of the amount of ionization of the gas.
- kirby-smith — Edmund, 1824–93, Confederate general in the American Civil War.
- limber hole — any of a series of holes pierced through a frame or floor to allow the passage of accumulated moisture.
- lord cobham — title of Sir John Oldcastle
- lumber with — If you are lumbered with someone or something, you have to deal with them or take care of them even though you do not want to and this annoys you.
- lymphoblast — a large, metabolically active lymphocyte shortly before it enters into mitosis.