11-letter words containing b, h
- gopherberry — bush huckleberry.
- grab handle — A grab handle is a handle on the side of an object such as a bathtub that you hold in order to help you get in and out.
- 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.
- haberdasher — a retail dealer in men's furnishings, as shirts, ties, gloves, socks, and hats.
- 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.
- halberstadt — a town in central Germany, in Saxony-Anhalt: industrial centre noted for its historic buildings. Pop: 40 014 (2003 est)
- half-boiled — drunk.
- half-bottle — a bottle half the size of a standard bottle of wine, spirits, etc
- half-broken — past participle of break.
- half-buried — to put in the ground and cover with earth: The pirates buried the chest on the island.
- half-bushel — a unit of dry measure equal to 2 pecks (17.6 liters).
- halfbrother — Alternative spelling of half brother.
- 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.
- halocarbons — Plural form of halocarbon.
- halsingborg — a seaport in SW Sweden, opposite Helsingör.
- halterbreak — to get (an animal) used to wearing a halter
- 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
- hand-basket — a small basket with a handle for carrying by hand.
- handbagging — an assault with a handbag
- handbarrows — Plural form of handbarrow.
- handbaskets — Plural form of handbasket.
- handbreadth — a unit of linear measure from 2½ to 4 inches (6.4 to 10 cm).
- 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.
- harbor seal — a small, spotted seal, Phoca vitulina, of the Atlantic coasts of North America and Europe and the Pacific coast of northern North America.
- harbourless — Without a harbour.
- harbourside — An area (especially a residential area) near a harbour (often in the form of converted warehouses etc).
- hard by sth — If one thing is hard by another, it is very close to it.
- hard labour — Hard labour is hard physical work which people have to do as punishment for a crime.
- hard rubber — rubber vulcanized with a large amount of sulfur, usually 25–35 percent, to render it stiff and comparatively inflexible.
- hard-bitten — tough; stubborn.
- hard-bodied — a person who is muscular and physically fit.