11-letter words containing d, a, b
- 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.
- guttae band — regula.
- haberdasher — a retail dealer in men's furnishings, as shirts, ties, gloves, socks, and hats.
- habilitated — Simple past tense and past participle of habilitate.
- hairbrained — giddy; reckless.
- hairbreadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
- halberdiers — Plural form of halberdier.
- halberstadt — a town in central Germany, in Saxony-Anhalt: industrial centre noted for its historic buildings. Pop: 40 014 (2003 est)
- half-boiled — drunk.
- half-buried — to put in the ground and cover with earth: The pirates buried the chest on the island.
- hand-basket — a small basket with a handle for carrying by hand.
- handbagging — an assault with a handbag
- handbarrows — Plural form of handbarrow.
- handbaskets — Plural form of handbasket.
- handbreadth — a unit of linear measure from 2½ to 4 inches (6.4 to 10 cm).
- hang behind — to remain in a place after others have left; linger
- harbingered — Simple past tense and past participle of harbinger.
- harbourside — An area (especially a residential area) near a harbour (often in the form of converted warehouses etc).
- hard by sth — If one thing is hard by another, it is very close to it.
- hard labour — Hard labour is hard physical work which people have to do as punishment for a crime.
- hard rubber — rubber vulcanized with a large amount of sulfur, usually 25–35 percent, to render it stiff and comparatively inflexible.
- hard-bitten — tough; stubborn.
- hard-bodied — a person who is muscular and physically fit.
- hard-boiled — Cookery. (of an egg) boiled in the shell long enough for the yolk and white to solidify.
- harebrained — giddy; reckless.
- have it bad — suffer disadvantage
- hawser bend — a knot uniting the ends of two lines.
- head-banger — metalhead.
- headbangers — Plural form of headbanger.
- headbanging — rhythmical moving of the head up and down in dancing to heavy metal
- headborough — the official in charge of a tithing
- headbutting — Present participle of headbutt.
- header bond — a brickwork bond composed entirely of overlapping headers.
- hebdomadary — Roman Catholic Church. a member of a church or monastery appointed for one week to sing the chapter Mass and lead in the recitation of the breviary.
- hedge about — If you say that something such as an offer is hedged about or is hedged around with rules or conditions, you mean that there are a lot of rules or conditions.
- herb garden — where herbs are grown
- hereditable — heritable.
- holiday job — a temporary job taken by a person during their holidays from school, college or university
- house brand — a brand name used by a retailer for a product or product line made specifically for or by the retailer.
- hoverboards — Plural form of hoverboard.
- hudibrastic — of, relating to, or resembling the style of Samuel Butler's Hudibras (published 1663–78), a mock-heroic poem written in tetrameter couplets.
- hunchbacked — humpbacked.
- husbandable — Capable of being husbanded, or managed with economy.
- husbandland — the holding once held by a husband or tenant farmer or the quantity of land held by him, approximately 32 acres
- husbandless — Without a husband.
- husbandlike — resembling a husband
- hydroborate — (inorganic chemistry) Any of several anions containing hydrogen bound to boron, especially the simplest one BH4-; any salt or complex containing such an anion.
- hydrocarbon — any of a class of compounds containing only hydrogen and carbon, as an alkane, methane, CH 4 , an alkene, ethylene, C 2 H 4 , an alkyne, acetylene, C 2 H 2 , or an aromatic compound, benzene, C 6 H 6 .