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12-letter words containing b, h

  • breathalyser — a device for estimating the amount of alcohol in the breath: used in testing people suspected of driving under the influence of alcohol
  • breathalyzer — A Breathalyzer is a bag or electronic device that the police use to test whether a driver has drunk too much alcohol.
  • breathe easy — to take air, oxygen, etc., into the lungs and expel it; inhale and exhale; respire.
  • breathlessly — without breath or breathing with difficulty; gasping; panting: We were breathless after the steep climb.
  • breathtaking — If you say that something is breathtaking, you are emphasizing that it is extremely beautiful or amazing.
  • breech birth — birth of a baby with the feet or buttocks appearing first
  • breechloader — any gun loaded at the breech
  • breed's hill — a hill in E Massachusetts, adjoining Bunker Hill: the true site of the Battle of Bunker Hill (1775)
  • breuer chair — a chair with a frame of continuous chrome tubing, no back legs, and cane seat and back
  • brick cheese — a ripened, semisoft American cheese shaped like a brick and containing many small holes
  • bridge chair — a lightweight folding chair, often part of a set of matching chairs and bridge table.
  • bridge cloth — a tablecloth for a bridge table.
  • bridge house — a deckhouse including a bridge or bridges for navigation.
  • brigham city — a city in N Utah.
  • bright spark — If you say that some bright spark had a particular idea or did something, you mean that their idea or action was clever, or that it seemed clever but was silly in some way.
  • bright-field — of or relating to the illuminated region about the object of a microscope.
  • brine shrimp — any of a genus (Artemia) of small fairy shrimp found in salt lakes and marshes and used as living, frozen, or dried food in aquariums
  • brinkmanship — Brinkmanship is a method of behaviour, especially in politics, in which you deliberately get into dangerous situations which could result in disaster but which could also bring success.
  • bristlemouth — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Gonostomatidae, having numerous sharp, slender teeth covering the jaws.
  • british list — a list, maintained by the British Ornithologists' Union, of birds accepted as occurring at least once in the British Isles
  • british rail — the organization that ran the British railway system from 1948 until privatization in the mid-1990s
  • british warm — an army officer's short thick overcoat
  • broad church — You can refer to an organization, group, or area of activity as a broad church when it includes a wide range of opinions, beliefs, or styles.
  • brochureware — (jargon, business)   A planned, but non-existent, product, like vaporware but with the added implication that marketing is actively selling and promoting it (they've printed brochures). Brochureware is often deployed to con customers into not committing to a competing existing product. The term is now especially applicable to new websites, website revisions, and ancillary services such as customer support and product return. Owing to the explosion of database-driven, cookie-using dot-coms (of the sort that can now deduce that you are, in fact, a dog), the term is now also used to describe sites made up of static HTML pages that contain not much more than contact info and mission statements. The term suggests that the company is small, irrelevant to the web, local in scope, clueless, broke, just starting out, or some combination thereof. Many new companies without product, funding, or even staff, post brochureware with investor info and press releases to help publicise their ventures. As of December 1999, examples include pop.com and cdradio.com. Small-timers that really have no business on the web such as lawncare companies and divorce laywers inexplicably have brochureware made that stays unchanged for years.
  • broken chord — a chord played as an arpeggio
  • broken heart — If you say that someone has a broken heart, you mean that they are very sad, for example because a love affair has ended unhappily.
  • broken-check — a check pattern in which the rectangular shapes are slightly irregular.
  • bromhidrosis — the secretion of foul-smelling sweat.
  • bromomethane — methyl bromide.
  • bronchogenic — bronchial in origin
  • bronchoscope — an instrument for examining and providing access to the interior of the bronchial tubes
  • bronchoscopy — an examination by means of a bronchoscope.
  • bronchospasm — an abnormal contraction of the bronchi resulting in restriction of the airway
  • brown hackle — an artificial fly having a peacock herl body, golden tag and tail, and brown hackle.
  • brunelleschi — Filippo (fiˈlippo). 1377–1446, Italian architect, whose works in Florence include the dome of the cathedral, the Pazzi chapel of Santa Croce, and the church of San Lorenzo
  • brush border — a layer of tightly packed minute finger-like protuberances on cells that line absorptive surfaces, such as those of the intestine and kidney
  • brush flower — a flower or inflorescence with numerous long stamens, usually pollinated by birds or bats
  • brush turkey — any of several gallinaceous birds, esp Alectura lathami, of New Guinea and Australia, having a black plumage: family Megapodidae (megapodes)
  • brushability — the quality of being brushable
  • buccaneerish — of or relating to a buccaneer
  • bucket bench — a Pennsylvania Dutch dresser having a lower portion closed with doors for milk pails, an open shelf for water pails, and an upper section with shallow drawers.
  • buffalo fish — any of a genus (Ictiobus) of large, humpbacked, freshwater sucker fishes found in North America
  • buffet lunch — a lunch at which people stand up and help themselves from the table
  • bull thistle — a tall, spiny thistle, Cirsium vulgare, having heads of pink to purple flowers: a common weed in North America.
  • bullfighting — Bullfighting is the public entertainment in which people try to kill bulls in bullfights.
  • bumbleheaded — clumsy, plodding, or foolish: He stumbled through the talk in his bumbleheaded way.
  • burj khalifa — a slender tapering skyscraper in Dubai; completed in 2009; the world's tallest man-made structure, standing at 828m (2716 ft)
  • burner phone — a disposable cell phone with prepaid service, often used with the intent to temporarily obscure the true identity or contact information of the user: Members of the cartel used burner phones to evade federal surveillance. I always give out the number from my burner phone when I’m going on a blind date.
  • burning bush — a rutaceous shrub, Dictamnus fraxinella, of S Europe and Asia, whose glands release a volatile inflammable oil that can burn without harming the plant: identified as the bush from which God spoke to Moses (Exodus 3:2–4)
  • burning ghat — a platform at the top of a riverside ghat where Hindus cremate their dead.
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