11-letter words containing b, h
- hard-boiled — Cookery. (of an egg) boiled in the shell long enough for the yolk and white to solidify.
- harebrained — giddy; reckless.
- harken back — hearken back (see phrase under hearken)
- harquebuses — Plural form of harquebus.
- hartebeests — Plural form of hartebeest.
- harvestable — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- hash browns — fried potato cake
- hash bucket — hash coding
- hatchet job — a maliciously destructive critique or act: The special committee has done a hatchet job on the new proposal.
- hattiesburg — a city in SE Mississippi.
- haunch bone — the ilium or hipbone.
- haunch-bone — the ilium or hipbone.
- have a ball — enjoy oneself immensely
- have a bash — to make an attempt
- have it bad — suffer disadvantage
- hawser bend — a knot uniting the ends of two lines.
- head-banger — metalhead.
- headbangers — Plural form of headbanger.
- headbanging — rhythmical moving of the head up and down in dancing to heavy metal
- headborough — the official in charge of a tithing
- headbutting — Present participle of headbutt.
- header bond — a brickwork bond composed entirely of overlapping headers.
- health club — a usually private club that offers its members facilities for exercising and physical conditioning.
- heart block — a defect in the electrical impulses of the heart resulting in any of various arrhythmias or irregularities in the heartbeat.
- heart-throb — a rapid beat or pulsation of the heart.
- heartbreaks — Plural form of heartbreak.
- heartbroken — crushed with sorrow or grief.
- heartthrobs — Plural form of heartthrob.
- heaven-born — of or as of heavenly origin: the heaven-born gods.
- 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.
- 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.
- hedge about — If you say that something such as an offer is hedged about or is hedged around with rules or conditions, you mean that there are a lot of rules or conditions.
- heel breast — the forward side of the heel, adjoining the shank of a shoe.
- heliophobia — Fear of sunlight.
- heliophobic — fearing or unable to withstand sunlight
- hell-bender — a large salamander, Cryptobranchus alleganiensis, of rivers and streams in eastern North America, having a flat, stout body and broad head.
- hellbenders — Plural form of hellbender.
- 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)
- hematoblast — an immature blood cell, especially a red blood cell.
- 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.
- herb bennet — a European plant, Geum urbanum, of the rose family, having yellow flowers and an aromatic, astringent root.
- herb doctor — a person who practices healing by the use of herbs.
- herb garden — where herbs are grown
- herb robert — a wild geranium, Geranium robertianum, having fernlike, scented leaves and reddish-purple flowers.
- herbivorous — feeding on plants.
- herbologist — the study or collecting of herbs, especially as a hobby.
- hereditable — heritable.