11-letter words containing h, a, b, o, r
- blameworthy — deserving disapproval or censure
- board check — a body check in which the opponent is thrown against the wooden wall enclosing the rink. Compare check1 (def 37).
- boat anchor — 1. Like doorstop but more severe; implies that the offending hardware is irreversibly dead or useless. "That was a working motherboard once. One lightning strike later, instant boat anchor!" 2. A person who just takes up space. 3. Obsolete but still working hardware, especially when used of an old S100-bus hobbyist system; originally a term of annoyance, but became more and more affectionate as the hardware became more and more obsolete.
- bodhidharma — 6th century ad, Indian Buddhist monk, who taught in China (from 520): considered to be the founder of Zen Buddhism
- body search — If a person is body searched, someone such as a police officer searches them while they remain clothed. Compare strip-search.
- body-search — to search all parts of the body of: Police ordered the suspects to strip and then body-searched them for hidden caches of narcotics.
- bokhara rug — a Turkoman rug having a tan or red background and decorated with varied octagon patterns.
- boldhearted — courageous or daring; intrepid.
- bone shaker — an early-model bicycle, especially one with hard rubber tires.
- bone-shaker — an early-model bicycle, especially one with hard rubber tires.
- bonus share — a share from stock given by a company to existing shareholders
- botheration — bother
- brachiation — locomotion accomplished by swinging by the arms from one hold to another.
- brachiosaur — any of a genus (Brachiosaurus) of huge Jurassic sauropods having longer forelegs than hind legs and nostrils high on the forehead
- brachyodont — (of mammals, such as humans) having teeth with short crowns
- brachyurous — shorttailed, as a crab (opposed to macrurous).
- branchiform — shaped like a gill.
- branchiopod — any crustacean of the mainly freshwater subclass Branchiopoda, having flattened limblike appendages for swimming, feeding, and respiration. The group includes the water fleas
- breathe out — When you breathe out, you send air out of your lungs through your nose or mouth.
- bridal shop — a shop that specializes in selling bridal wear
- bright coal — coal consisting of alternating layers of clarain and vitrain.
- broad reach — an act or instance of reaching: to make a reach for a gun.
- broad-brush — A broad-brush approach, strategy, or solution deals with a problem in a general way rather than concentrating on details.
- 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.
- brood patch — a highly vascular, featherless area developed on the abdomen of certain brooding birds that is in direct contact with eggs during incubation and provides additional warmth.
- 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.
- brown patch — a fungus disease of turf grass that results in circular areas of brown, dead grass.
- brunch coat — a knee-length housecoat.
- bush parole — an escape from prison.
- butorphanol — a narcotic analgesic, C 21 H 29 NO 2 , administered by injection to treat moderate to severe pain.
- 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
- chalkboards — Plural form of chalkboard.
- 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.
- 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
- chatterbots — Plural form of chatterbot.
- cheeseboard — A cheeseboard is a board from which cheese is served at a meal.
- chess-board — the board, identical with a checkerboard, used for playing chess.
- chessboards — Plural form of chessboard.
- child labor — the regular, full-time employment of children under a legally defined age in factories, stores, offices, etc.: in the U.S., the minimum legal age under federal law is 16 (in hazardous occupations, 18)
- chrysarobin — a tasteless odourless powder containing anthraquinone derivatives of araroba, formerly used medicinally to treat chronic skin conditions
- cohabitator — One who cohabits.
- cold harbor — a locality in Virginia, NE of Richmond: Civil War battle in 1864.
- cooch behar — a former state of NE India: part of West Bengal since 1950
- coprophobia — an abnormal fear of feces.