10-letter words containing b, i, l, h
- habilitate — to clothe or dress.
- habilities — Plural form of hability.
- habitually — of the nature of a habit; fixed by or resulting from habit: habitual courtesy.
- hairy ball — (topology) A result in topology stating that a continuous vector field on a sphere is always zero somewhere. The name comes from the fact that you can't flatten all the hair on a hairy ball, like a tennis ball, there will always be a tuft somewhere (where the tangential projection of the hair is zero). An immediate corollary to this theorem is that for any continuous map f of the sphere into itself there is a point x such that f(x)=x or f(x) is the antipode of x. Another corollary is that at any moment somewhere on the Earth there is no wind.
- halberdier — a soldier, guard, or attendant armed with a halberd.
- half-blind — unable to see; lacking the sense of sight; sightless: a blind man.
- halobionts — Plural form of halobiont.
- halobiotic — relating to habitation in the sea
- haplobiont — an organism, esp a plant, that exists in either the diploid form or the haploid form (but never alternates between these forms) during its life cycle
- hardboiled — Alternative spelling of hard-boiled.
- hawksbills — Plural form of hawksbill.
- heidelberg — a city in NW Baden-Württemberg, in SW Germany: university, founded 1386.
- helleborin — a colorless, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous solid, C 28 H 36 O 6 , obtained from the rhizome and root of certain hellebores, and used in medicine chiefly as a purgative.
- hemiglobin — methemoglobin.
- hemoglobin — the oxygen-carrying pigment of red blood cells that gives them their red color and serves to convey oxygen to the tissues: occurs in reduced form (deoxyhemoglobin) in venous blood and in combination with oxygen (oxyhemoglobin) in arterial blood. Symbol: Hb.
- herbalists — Plural form of herbalist.
- herbicidal — Of, or relating to herbicides.
- heriotable — liable for the payment of a heriot
- heronsbill — any of a genus (Erodium) of plants of the geranium family, with fine leaves and yellow, white, or reddish flowers
- hibernacle — a protective case or covering, especially for winter, as of an animal or a plant bud.
- high table — the table in the dining hall of a college, reserved for senior members of the college and distinguished guests.
- highballed — Simple past tense and past participle of highball.
- hildebrand — Saint (Hildebrand) c1020–85, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1073–85.
- hill climb — a racing event for motorcycles or automobiles in which competitors drive up a hilly course one at a time, the winner having the fastest time.
- hirability — able to be hired; fit for hiring.
- histoblast — a cell or group of cells capable of forming tissue.
- hobblingly — in a hobbling manner
- hobgoblins — Plural form of hobgoblin.
- holy bible — Bible (def 1).
- home-built — built at home
- hospitable — receiving or treating guests or strangers warmly and generously: a hospitable family.
- hospitably — receiving or treating guests or strangers warmly and generously: a hospitable family.
- humble pie — humility forced upon someone, often under embarrassing conditions; humiliation.
- humblingly — not proud or arrogant; modest: to be humble although successful.
- hyperbolic — having the nature of hyperbole; exaggerated.
- ibn hanbal — Ahmad [ah-muh d] /ˈɑ məd/ (Show IPA), a.d. 780–855, Islamic legist and traditionist, founder of the Hanbali school of law, one of four such schools in Islam.
- inhability — (obsolete) unsuitableness; inability.
- irish bull — a paradoxical statement that appears at first to make sense. Example: He's the kind of guy who looks you right in the eye as he stabs you in the back.
- kohlrabies — Plural form of kohlrabi.
- labyrinths — Plural form of labyrinth.
- lamb shift — the small difference in energy between two states of the hydrogen atom detected by Willis Eugene Lamb (1913–2008), the US physicist
- lethbridge — a city in S Alberta, in SW Canada.
- lie behind — If you refer to what lies behind a situation or event, you are referring to the reason the situation exists or the event happened.
- liebknecht — Karl [kahrl] /kɑrl/ (Show IPA), 1871–1919, German socialist leader.
- light beer — beer with a lower alcohol content than average
- light bulb — an electric light.
- lightboard — switchboard (def 2).
- lightbulbs — Plural form of lightbulb.
- lightsaber — a type of sword, as depicted in the fictional Star Wars universe, with a blade made of laser energy that can both cut and burn: The Jedi knight drew his lightsaber and prepared to defend himself.
- lightsabre — Alternative spelling of lightsaber.