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11-letter words containing b, h

  • breech baby — a baby whose buttocks or feet are presented first during the birth process.
  • breechblock — a metal block in breech-loading firearms that is withdrawn to insert the cartridge and replaced to close the breech before firing
  • breechcloth — a cloth worn about the loins; loincloth
  • breechclout — a cloth worn about the breech and loins; loincloth.
  • bremerhaven — a port in NW Germany: an outport for Bremen. Pop: 118 276 (2003 est)
  • breshkovsky — Catherine, 1844–1934, Russian revolutionary of noble birth: called “the little grandmother of the Russian Revolution.”.
  • brickshaped — resembling the shape of a brick
  • bridal shop — a shop that specializes in selling bridal wear
  • bridewealth — (in some nonindustrial societies) the money or goods given to the family of a bride by the bridegroom or his family.
  • bridle hand — (of a horseback rider) the hand, usually the left hand, that holds both reins or both pairs of reins, leaving the other hand free to manage a whip, crop, lariat, or the like.
  • bridle path — A bridle path is a path intended for people riding horses.
  • bright coal — coal consisting of alternating layers of clarain and vitrain.
  • bright idea — suggestion: clever
  • bright wool — the wool of sheep raised east of the Mississippi River.
  • bright-eyed — eager; fresh and enthusiastic
  • bright-line — (of rules, standards, etc.) unambiguously clear: This muddies the waters of what should be a brightline rule.
  • bring forth — to give birth to
  • brith milah — the rite of circumcision on the eighth day after birth
  • british gum — dextrin.
  • british lop — a breed of large white pig with large drooping ears, originating from Wales, Cumberland, and Ulster
  • brittlebush — any of several composite plants of the genus Encelia, of desert regions of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having alternate leaves and yellow ray flowers with a yellow or purple center.
  • broad reach — an act or instance of reaching: to make a reach for a gun.
  • broad-brush — A broad-brush approach, strategy, or solution deals with a problem in a general way rather than concentrating on details.
  • brochantite — a mineral, hydrous copper sulfate, Cu 4 (OH) 6 SO 4 , occurring in green fibrous masses and similar in physical properties to antlerite: formerly a major ore of copper.
  • broken hill — a town in SE Australia, in W New South Wales: mining centre for lead, silver, and zinc. Pop: 19 834 (2001)
  • broken home — a family in which one parent is absent, usually due to divorce or desertion: children from broken homes.
  • bronchocele — dilatation of a bronchus.
  • bronx cheer — A Bronx cheer is a sound that people make by vibrating their lips in order to express disapproval or contempt.
  • brood bitch — a female dog used for breeding.
  • brood patch — a highly vascular, featherless area developed on the abdomen of certain brooding birds that is in direct contact with eggs during incubation and provides additional warmth.
  • brood pouch — a pouch or cavity in certain animals, such as frogs and fishes, in which their eggs develop and hatch
  • brotherhood — Brotherhood is the affection and loyalty that you feel for people who you have something in common with.
  • brotherlike — like a brother
  • brown earth — an intrazonal soil of temperate humid regions typically developed under deciduous forest into a dark rich layer (mull): characteristic of much of southern and central England
  • brown heart — a brown discoloration of the flesh of stored apples, resulting from high concentrations of carbon dioxide.
  • brown hyena — a hyena, Hyaena brunnea, of southern Africa, having a blackish-gray coat: its dwindling population is now protected.
  • brown patch — a fungus disease of turf grass that results in circular areas of brown, dead grass.
  • brown shirt — (in Nazi Germany) a storm trooper
  • brunch coat — a knee-length housecoat.
  • brush aside — If you brush aside or brush away an idea, remark, or feeling, you refuse to consider it because you think it is not important or useful, even though it may be.
  • brush broom — Northeastern U.S. a whisk broom.
  • brush maker — a manufacturer or crafter of brushes
  • brushpopper — a cowboy, especially one who works in the brush.
  • brushstroke — Brushstrokes are the marks made on a surface by a painter's brush.
  • bryophyllum — a genus of plants of the family Crassulaceae with the ability to produce plantlets on their leaves or floral stems
  • bubble bath — Bubble bath is a liquid that smells nice and makes a lot of bubbles when you add it to your bath water.
  • bucket shop — an unregistered firm of stockbrokers that engages in speculation with clients' funds
  • buffalofish — any of several freshwater North American hump-backed cyprinoid fishes of the genus Ictiobus: family Catostomidae (suckers)
  • bukhara rug — a kind of rug, typically having a black-and-white geometrical pattern on a reddish ground
  • bulkheading — the construction of bulkheads; bulkheads in general.
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