11-letter words containing b, h
- prudhoe bay — an inlet of the Beaufort Sea, N of Alaska: large oil and gas fields.
- psychic bid — a bid designed to mislead one's opponents that is not based on the strength of one's hand or of the suit named but rather on one's feeling that not bidding would be more costly.
- psychobilly — loud frantic rockabilly music
- publishable — to issue (printed or otherwise reproduced textual or graphic material, computer software, etc.) for sale or distribution to the public.
- publishings — the activities or business of a publisher, especially of books or periodicals: He plans to go into publishing after college.
- publishment — publication.
- pukka sahib — (in British India) a term of respectful address used to British colonial authorities.
- pulmobranch — a respiratory organ found in some invertebrates
- purchasable — capable of being bought.
- push-button — operated by or as if by push buttons: push-button tuning.
- quail-brush — a salt-tolerant, silvery gray shrub, Atriplex lentiformis breweri, of the amaranth family, native to southern California.
- rabbit hole — opening of a rabbit's burrow
- rabbitbrush — any of several composite shrubs of the genus Chrysothamnus, of the western U.S. and Mexico, having whitish, hairy branches and yellow flowers.
- rajya sabha — the upper house of parliament in India.
- rattle-bush — blue false indigo.
- red chamber — the Canadian Senate chamber.
- redhibition — the nullification of a sale because of a defect in the article sold of such nature as to make it totally or virtually unusable or as to have prevented the purchase if known to the buyer.
- redhibitory — the nullification of a sale because of a defect in the article sold of such nature as to make it totally or virtually unusable or as to have prevented the purchase if known to the buyer.
- reestablish — to found, institute, build, or bring into being on a firm or stable basis: to establish a university; to establish a medical practice.
- refurbisher — a person who refurbishes
- reichenberg — German name of Liberec.
- republisher — a person who republishes
- rhabdocoele — any member of the turbellarian flatworm order Neorhabdocoela, comprising both freshwater and marine species, having a simple saclike digestive system.
- rhabdomancy — divination by means of a rod or wand, especially in discovering ores, springs of water, etc.
- rhabdomyoma — a benign tumor made up of striated muscular tissue.
- rhabdovirus — any of various RNA-containing viruses of the family Rhabdoviridae, including the rabies virus.
- rhesus baby — a baby suffering from haemolytic disease at birth as its red blood cells (which are Rh positive) have been attacked in the womb by antibodies from its Rh negative mother
- rhomboideus — either of two back muscles that function to move the scapula.
- rhythm band — a collection of simple percussion instruments used especially with piano accompaniment to teach musical rhythm.
- rich object — In artificial intelligence, an object which cannot be completely described or represented but about which assertions can be made.
- right about — the position assumed by turning about to the right so as to face in the opposite direction.
- right brace — (character) "}". ASCII character 125. Common names: close brace; right brace; right squiggly; right squiggly bracket/brace; right curly bracket/brace; ITU-T: closing brace. Rare: unbrace; uncurly; rytit ("" = leftit); right squirrelly; {INTERCAL: bracelet ("" = embrace). Paired with {left brace
- right brain — the right cerebral hemisphere of the human brain, which includes areas associated with abstraction, artistic ability, and emotional response
- ritual bath — a mikvah.
- river birch — a tree, Betula nigra, of the eastern U.S., having papery, reddish-brown bark that peels away.
- royal burgh — (in Scotland) a burgh that was established by a royal charter granted directly by the sovereign
- rubbish bag — a plastic bag for the disposal of household rubbish
- rubbish bin — trash can
- rubbish tip — dump for refuse
- rugby shirt — a knitted pullover sport shirt usually in bold horizontal stripes and having a white collar and neckline placket, styled after the shirts traditionally worn by the members of Rugby teams.
- russophobia — an intense and often irrational hatred for Russia, or esp the former Soviet Union, its political system, etc
- safe harbor — a harbor considered safe for a ship, as in wartime or during a storm at sea.
- sash ribbon — a strip of steel or aluminum alloy for connecting a vertically sliding window sash with a counterweight.
- scarborough — a seaport in North Yorkshire, in NE England.
- schiff base — the product of the chemical association of an aldehyde with a primary amine
- school book — School books are books giving information about a particular subject, which children use at school.
- school-book — a book for study in schools.
- schrödinbug — (jargon, programming) /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
- scopophobia — the fear of being observed
- scotophobin — a peptide isolated from the brains of rats conditioned to avoid darkness, alleged to induce a dark-avoidance response in untrained rats, mice, and other animals.