11-letter words containing b, h
- bondi beach — a beach in Sydney, Australia, popular with surfers
- bondmanship — the state of being a bondman; serfdom
- bone shaker — an early-model bicycle, especially one with hard rubber tires.
- bone-shaker — an early-model bicycle, especially one with hard rubber tires.
- bonefishing — the activity of fishing for bonefish
- bonus share — a share from stock given by a company to existing shareholders
- booby hatch — a hoodlike covering for a hatchway on a ship
- book rights — the legal right to make use of the text of a printed book
- boorishness — of or like a boor; unmannered; crude; insensitive.
- boost phase — the portion of the flight of a ballistic missile or spacecraft during which the booster and sustainer engines operate to bring it near or to peak velocity.
- boot polish — a resistant polish specially formulated to protect boots of various kinds
- borohydride — any compound, such as sodium borohydride, which contains the radical BH4
- botheration — bother
- bottle shop — A bottle shop is a shop which sells wine, beer, and other alcoholic drinks.
- bottlebrush — a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft, used for cleaning bottles
- 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)
- braced arch — an arch of steel, timber, etc., having a trusslike framework maintaining rigidity under a variety of eccentric loads: a true arch because it is fixed or tied at both sides of the base.
- brachialgia — pain in the nerves of the upper arm.
- brachiating — Botany. having widely spreading branches in alternate pairs.
- brachiation — locomotion accomplished by swinging by the arms from one hold to another.
- brachiosaur — any of a genus (Brachiosaurus) of huge Jurassic sauropods having longer forelegs than hind legs and nostrils high on the forehead
- brachyodont — (of mammals, such as humans) having teeth with short crowns
- brachyprism — the four faces parallel to the brachyaxis in a crystal
- brachyurous — shorttailed, as a crab (opposed to macrurous).
- 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).
- brain child — a product of one's creative work or thought.
- brain death — Brain death occurs when someone's brain stops functioning, even though their heart may be kept beating using a machine.
- brake light — a red light attached to the rear of a motor vehicle that lights up when the brakes are applied, serving as a warning to following drivers
- brake wheel — (in a windmill) a bevel gearwheel rotating with the wind shaft.
- branch line — A branch line is a railway line that goes to small towns rather than one that goes between large cities.
- branch wilt — a disease of walnut trees, characterized by sudden wilting of the leaves, and cankers and discoloration of the bark and branches, caused by a fungus, Hendersonula toruloidea.
- branchiform — shaped like a gill.
- branchiopod — any crustacean of the mainly freshwater subclass Branchiopoda, having flattened limblike appendages for swimming, feeding, and respiration. The group includes the water fleas
- brattishing — decorative work along the coping or on the cornice of a building
- breadthless — the measure of the second largest dimension of a plane or solid figure; width.
- breadthways — from side to side
- breadthwise — in the direction of the breadth
- breath test — A breath test is a test carried out by police in which a driver blows into a piece of equipment to show how much alcohol he or she has drunk.
- breathalyse — to apply a Breathalyser test to (someone)
- breathalyze — If the driver of a car is breathalyzed by the police, they ask him or her to breathe into a special bag or device in order to test whether he or she has drunk too much alcohol.
- breatharian — a person who believes that it is possible to subsist healthily on air alone
- breathe out — When you breathe out, you send air out of your lungs through your nose or mouth.
- breathiness — (of the voice) characterized by audible or excessive emission of breath.
- breconshire — (until 1974) a county of SE Wales, now mainly in Powys: over half its area forms the Brecon Beacons National Park