11-letter words containing b, r, e, c, h
- cyberphobia — an irrational fear of computers
- echo boomer — a member of Generation Y, born in the 1980s or 1990s; a Millennial.
- embouchures — Plural form of embouchure.
- featherback — any freshwater fish of the family Notopteridae, of Asia and western Africa, having a small, feathery dorsal fin and a very long anal fin extending from close behind the head to the tip of the tail.
- francophobe — Also, Francophobic. fearing or hating France, the French people, and French culture, products, etc.
- french bean — British. the pod of a green bean or wax bean, eaten as a vegetable.
- 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.
- gas chamber — an enclosure used for the execution of prisoners by means of a poisonous gas.
- germaphobic — Alternative form of germophobic.
- germophobic — Morbidly afraid of germs.
- hackberries — Plural form of hackberry.
- harken back — hearken back (see phrase under hearken)
- heart block — a defect in the electrical impulses of the heart resulting in any of various arrhythmias or irregularities in the heartbeat.
- hebephrenic — Pertaining to, or characteristic of, hebephrenia.
- herb doctor — a person who practices healing by the use of herbs.
- hermit crab — any of numerous crabs, especially of the genera Pagurus and Eupagurus, that protect their soft uncovered abdomen by occupying the castoff shell of a univalve mollusk.
- hibernacula — Plural form of hibernaculum.
- hibernicism — an idiom or characteristic peculiar to Irish English or to the Irish.
- hibernicize — to make Irish in character.
- hierophobic — a person who suffers from hierophobia
- hornblendic — Of or pertaining to hornblende.
- horse block — a step or block of stone, wood, etc., for getting on or off a horse or in or out of a vehicle.
- huckleberry — the dark-blue or black edible berry of any of various shrubs belonging to the genus Gaylussacia of the heath family.
- hypercarbia — (medicine) the condition of having an abnormally high concentration of carbon dioxide in the blood.
- in chambers — in the privacy of a judge's chambers
- interbranch — a division or subdivision of the stem or axis of a tree, shrub, or other plant.
- 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.
- leatherback — a sea turtle, Dermochelys coriacea, having the shell embedded in a leathery skin, reaching a length of more than 7 feet (2.1 meter) and a weight of more than 1000 pounds (450 kg): the largest living sea turtle; an endangered species.
- lochaber ax — a Scottish battle-ax of the 16th century, having a tall, cleaverlike blade with a hook at its upper end.
- lubavitcher — a member of a missionary Hasidic movement founded in the 1700s by Rabbi Shneour Zalman of Lyady.
- lucha libre — a form of freestyle wrestling originating in Mexico
- lunch break — pause for midday meal
- mach number — a number indicating the ratio of the speed of an object to the speed of sound in the medium through which the object is moving. Abbreviation: M.
- malebranche — Nicolas de [nee-kaw-lah duh] /ni kɔˈlɑ də/ (Show IPA), 1638–1715, French philosopher.
- march break — a school holiday, usually for a week, during March
- necrophobia — an abnormal fear of death; thanatophobia.
- neo-hebraic — Hebrew as spoken and written since the Diaspora
- paper birch — a North American birch, Betula papyrifera, having a tough bark and yielding a valuable wood: the state tree of New Hampshire.
- purchasable — capable of being bought.
- red chamber — the Canadian Senate chamber.
- reichenberg — German name of Liberec.
- rhabdocoele — any member of the turbellarian flatworm order Neorhabdocoela, comprising both freshwater and marine species, having a simple saclike digestive system.
- rich object — In artificial intelligence, an object which cannot be completely described or represented but about which assertions can be made.
- right brace — (character) "}". ASCII character 125. Common names: close brace; right brace; right squiggly; right squiggly bracket/brace; right curly bracket/brace; ITU-T: closing brace. Rare: unbrace; uncurly; rytit ("" = leftit); right squirrelly; {INTERCAL: bracelet ("" = embrace). Paired with {left brace
- river birch — a tree, Betula nigra, of the eastern U.S., having papery, reddish-brown bark that peels away.
- sennacherib — died 681 b.c, king of Assyria 705–681.
- shcherbakov — a former name (1946–57) of Andropov.
- sub-charter — a document, issued by a sovereign or state, outlining the conditions under which a corporation, colony, city, or other corporate body is organized, and defining its rights and privileges.
- subchloride — a chloride containing a relatively small proportion of chlorine, as mercurous chloride.
- sweet birch — a North American tree, Betula lenta, having smooth, blackish bark and twigs that are a source of methyl salicylate.