11-letter words containing b, r, n
- green thumb — an exceptional aptitude for gardening or for growing plants successfully: Houseplants provide much pleasure for the city dweller with a green thumb.
- greenbottle — any of several metallic-green blowflies, as Phaenicia sericata.
- greenbriers — Plural form of greenbrier.
- ground bait — chum2 (def 1).
- ground ball — a batted ball that rolls or bounces along the ground.
- ground bass — a short fundamental bass part continually repeated throughout a movement.
- ground beam — a reinforced concrete beam for supporting walls, joists, etc., at or near ground level, itself either resting directly upon the ground or supported at both ends by piers.
- ground beef — meat: minced beef
- groundburst — The explosion of a bomb dropped from the air when it hits the ground.
- grumblingly — While or as if grumbling.
- gubernation — the act of governing or ruling
- hairbrained — giddy; reckless.
- half-broken — past participle of break.
- halocarbons — Plural form of halocarbon.
- halsingborg — a seaport in SW Sweden, opposite Helsingör.
- handbarrows — Plural form of handbarrow.
- handbreadth — a unit of linear measure from 2½ to 4 inches (6.4 to 10 cm).
- harbingered — Simple past tense and past participle of harbinger.
- hard-bitten — tough; stubborn.
- harebrained — giddy; reckless.
- harken back — hearken back (see phrase under hearken)
- hash browns — fried potato cake
- hawser bend — a knot uniting the ends of two lines.
- head-banger — metalhead.
- headbangers — Plural form of headbanger.
- 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.
- hebephrenia — a type of schizophrenia characterized by emotionless, incongruous, or silly behavior, intellectual deterioration, and hallucinations, frequently beginning insidiously during adolescence.
- hebephrenic — Pertaining to, or characteristic of, hebephrenia.
- hell-bender — a large salamander, Cryptobranchus alleganiensis, of rivers and streams in eastern North America, having a flat, stout body and broad head.
- hellbenders — Plural form of hellbender.
- 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)
- herb bennet — a European plant, Geum urbanum, of the rose family, having yellow flowers and an aromatic, astringent root.
- herb garden — where herbs are grown
- 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.
- hibernacula — Plural form of hibernaculum.
- hibernating — Present participle of hibernate.
- 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.
- hibernicism — an idiom or characteristic peculiar to Irish English or to the Irish.
- hibernicize — to make Irish in character.
- highbinders — Plural form of highbinder.
- hobgoblinry — the behaviour or activities of hobgoblins
- 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
- honor bound — bound by or placed under the obligation of honor: She felt honor-bound to defend her friend.