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11-letter words containing b, o, n, h, e

  • ethnobotany — The scientific study of the traditional knowledge and customs of a people concerning plants and their medical, religious, and other uses.
  • exhibitions — Plural form of exhibition.
  • exhorbitant — Misspelling of exorbitant.
  • fashionable — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
  • featherbone — a substitute for whalebone, made from the quills of domestic fowls.
  • fine bouche — a refined taste; educated palate.
  • francophobe — Also, Francophobic. fearing or hating France, the French people, and French culture, products, etc.
  • front bench — (used with a singular verb) (in the House of Commons) either of two seats near the Speaker, on which the leaders of the major parties sit.
  • haemoglobin — (protein) alternative spelling of hemoglobin.
  • half-broken — past participle of break.
  • hamate bone — a wedgelike bone on the side of the wrist connecting the wrist with the fourth and fifth metacarpals, which connect to the ring and little fingers
  • haunch bone — the ilium or hipbone.
  • haunch-bone — the ilium or hipbone.
  • header bond — a brickwork bond composed entirely of overlapping headers.
  • heartbroken — crushed with sorrow or grief.
  • heaven-born — of or as of heavenly origin: the heaven-born gods.
  • helleborein — a yellow, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous solid, C 37 H 56 O 18 , obtained from the rhizome and root of certain hellebores, and used in medicine chiefly as a heart stimulant.
  • helleborine — A mainly woodland orchid occurring chiefly in north temperate regions.
  • helsingborg — a port in SW Sweden, on the Sound opposite Helsingør, Denmark: changed hands several times between Denmark and Sweden, finally becoming Swedish in 1710; shipbuilding. Pop: 121 097 (2004 est)
  • hereinabove — before in this document, statement, etc.
  • hereinbelow — afterward in this document, statement, etc.
  • herringbone — a pattern consisting of adjoining vertical rows of slanting lines, any two contiguous lines forming either a V or an inverted V , used in masonry, textiles, embroidery, etc.
  • hibernation — Zoology. to spend the winter in close quarters in a dormant condition, as bears and certain other animals. Compare estivate.
  • hibernators — Plural form of hibernator.
  • holobenthic — (of an animal) completing its life cycle in the ocean depths
  • home baking — such things as bread, cakes and biscuits that are baked at home
  • home-buying — the purchase of a house or flat
  • honesty bar — an unattended area in a hotel, resort, etc, where patrons may serve themselves drinks and are expected to leave money to pay for them
  • honesty box — a container into which members of the public are trusted to place payments when there is no attendant to collect them
  • honeycombed — Having a perforated structure, resembling a honeycomb.
  • horn timber — a timber, often one of several, rising from the sternpost of a wooden vessel to support the overhang of the stern.
  • hornblendic — Of or pertaining to hornblende.
  • host number — (networking)   The host part of an Internet address. The rest is the network number.
  • house brand — a brand name used by a retailer for a product or product line made specifically for or by the retailer.
  • housebroken — (of a pet) trained to avoid excreting inside the house or in improper places.
  • hybernation — Obsolete spelling of hibernation.
  • hyperborean — Classical Mythology. one of a people supposed to live in a land of perpetual sunshine and abundance beyond the north wind.
  • in the book — in all that is known and practiced in connection with a particular activity
  • ion chamber — an apparatus for detecting and analyzing ionizing radiation, consisting of a vessel filled with a gas at normal or lower than normal pressure and fitted with two electrodes such that the current between the electrodes is a function of the amount of ionization of the gas.
  • luckenbooth — a booth or shop capable of being locked up
  • melon shrub — pepino (def 2).
  • mesobenthos — flora and fauna living at the bottom of seas 182 to 914 metres deep
  • necrophobia — an abnormal fear of death; thanatophobia.
  • negrophobia — strong fear or dislike of black people.
  • neighboring — situated or living near another: one of our neighbor nations.
  • neighbourly — (British, Canada) Showing the qualities of a friendly and helpful neighbour.
  • neo-hebraic — Hebrew as spoken and written since the Diaspora
  • nonwashable — Not washable.
  • northbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
  • nourishable — able to be nourished; benefiting from nourishment
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