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11-letter words containing h, a, b, e, r

  • breathiness — (of the voice) characterized by audible or excessive emission of breath.
  • breech baby — a baby whose buttocks or feet are presented first during the birth process.
  • bremerhaven — a port in NW Germany: an outport for Bremen. Pop: 118 276 (2003 est)
  • brickshaped — resembling the shape of a brick
  • bridewealth — (in some nonindustrial societies) the money or goods given to the family of a bride by the bridegroom or his family.
  • bridle hand — (of a horseback rider) the hand, usually the left hand, that holds both reins or both pairs of reins, leaving the other hand free to manage a whip, crop, lariat, or the like.
  • bridle path — A bridle path is a path intended for people riding horses.
  • bright idea — suggestion: clever
  • broad reach — an act or instance of reaching: to make a reach for a gun.
  • brochantite — a mineral, hydrous copper sulfate, Cu 4 (OH) 6 SO 4 , occurring in green fibrous masses and similar in physical properties to antlerite: formerly a major ore of copper.
  • brown earth — an intrazonal soil of temperate humid regions typically developed under deciduous forest into a dark rich layer (mull): characteristic of much of southern and central England
  • brown heart — a brown discoloration of the flesh of stored apples, resulting from high concentrations of carbon dioxide.
  • brown hyena — a hyena, Hyaena brunnea, of southern Africa, having a blackish-gray coat: its dwindling population is now protected.
  • brush aside — If you brush aside or brush away an idea, remark, or feeling, you refuse to consider it because you think it is not important or useful, even though it may be.
  • brush maker — a manufacturer or crafter of brushes
  • bull header — Also called bullnose header. a brick having one of the edges across its width rounded for laying as a header in a sill or the like.
  • bullwhacker — (especially in the early 19th century) the driver of a team of oxen.
  • burnt shale — carbonaceous shale formed by destructive distillation of oil shale or by spontaneous combustion of shale after it has been some years in a tip: sometimes used in road making
  • bush lawyer — any of several prickly trailing plants of the genus Rubus
  • bush parole — an escape from prison.
  • bushwhacker — a person who travels around or lives in thinly populated woodlands
  • buzz phrase — a phrase that comes into vogue in the same way as a buzz word
  • canoe birch — paper birch.
  • ceramic hob — (on an electric cooker) a flat ceramic cooking surface having heating elements fitted on the underside, usually patterned to show the areas where heat is produced
  • chair table — an article of furniture, produced especially in colonial America, that can serve as either a table or a chair, having, as a chair, a large, usually circular, hinged back that can be pulled down and rested on the arms to form a tabletop.
  • chaleur bay — an inlet of the Gulf of St. Lawrence between NE New Brunswick and SE Quebec, in SE Canada: rich fishing ground. About 85 miles (135 km) long; 15–25 miles (24–40 km) wide.
  • chamber mug — a chamber pot.
  • chamber pop — pop music that incorporates orchestral arrangements
  • chamber pot — A chamber pot is a round container shaped like a very large cup. Chamber pots used to be kept in bedrooms so that people could urinate in them instead of having to leave their room during the night.
  • chamber-pot — a portable container, especially for urine, used in bedrooms.
  • chamberhand — a worker in the cold storage area of a slaughterhouse
  • chamberlain — A chamberlain is the person who is in charge of the household affairs of a king, queen, or person of high social rank.
  • chambermaid — A chambermaid is a woman who cleans and tidies the bedrooms in a hotel.
  • chamfer bit — a bit for beveling the edge of a hole.
  • charbroiled — Charbroiled meat or fish has been cooked so that it burns slightly and turns black.
  • charbroiler — a grill or other equipment used for charbroiling
  • chargebacks — Plural form of chargeback.
  • chartbuster — A popular singer or group that makes a best-selling recording.
  • chatterbots — Plural form of chatterbot.
  • checker cab — a taxi with a checked pattern as part of the trim
  • cheeseboard — A cheeseboard is a board from which cheese is served at a meal.
  • cherishable — to hold or treat as dear; feel love for: to cherish one's native land.
  • chess-board — the board, identical with a checkerboard, used for playing chess.
  • chessboards — Plural form of chessboard.
  • chief rabbi — the chief religious minister of a national Jewish community
  • cooch behar — a former state of NE India: part of West Bengal since 1950
  • corbel arch — a construction like an arch but composed of masonry courses corbeled until they meet.
  • cyberphobia — an irrational fear of computers
  • dear-bought — having been purchased at great expense
  • embryopathy — (pathology) Any developmental disorder of an embryo.
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