11-letter words containing h, a, b, o, r
- 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 .
- hydrophobia — rabies.
- hyperboreal — Hyperborean.
- hyperborean — Classical Mythology. one of a people supposed to live in a land of perpetual sunshine and abundance beyond the north wind.
- 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.
- job sharing — to share the responsibility and duties of a single full-time job with one or more other employees.
- katabothron — an underground channel created by water erosion
- lay brother — a man who has taken religious vows and habit but is employed by his order chiefly in manual labor.
- lochaber ax — a Scottish battle-ax of the 16th century, having a tall, cleaverlike blade with a hook at its upper end.
- long branch — a city in E New Jersey: seaside resort.
- lophobranch — belonging or pertaining to the Lophobranchii, the group of fishes comprising the pipefishes, sea horses, snipefishes, trumpetfishes, etc.
- lord cobham — title of Sir John Oldcastle
- march brown — an angler's name for the dun and spinner of various mayflies or an artificial fly imitating one of these
- marlborough — John Churchill, 1st Duke of, Churchill, John, 1st Duke of Marlborough.
- maryborough — a seaport in E Australia.
- matchboards — Plural form of matchboard.
- misbehavior — improper, inappropriate, or bad behavior.
- motherboard — a rigid, slotted board upon which other boards that contain the basic circuitry of a computer or of a computer component can be mounted. Compare board (def 14).
- necrophobia — an abnormal fear of death; thanatophobia.
- negrophobia — strong fear or dislike of black people.
- neo-hebraic — Hebrew as spoken and written since the Diaspora
- northumbria — an early English kingdom extending N from the Humber to the Firth of Forth.
- nourishable — able to be nourished; benefiting from nourishment
- oathbreaker — Someone who breaks an oath.
- orthoborate — (inorganic chemistry) Any anion derived from orthoboric acid; any salt containing this anion.
- perth amboy — a seaport in E New Jersey.
- phlebograph — an instrument for recording the venous pulse.
- phrase book — a small book containing everyday phrases and sentences and their equivalents in a foreign language, written especially for travelers.
- prosobranch — a gastropod mollusc of the subclass Prosobranchia, which includes conches, limpets, abalones, and numerous aquatic and terrestrial snails
- prudhoe bay — an inlet of the Beaufort Sea, N of Alaska: large oil and gas fields.
- pulmobranch — a respiratory organ found in some invertebrates
- rabbit hole — opening of a rabbit's burrow
- rhabdocoele — any member of the turbellarian flatworm order Neorhabdocoela, comprising both freshwater and marine species, having a simple saclike digestive system.
- rhabdomancy — divination by means of a rod or wand, especially in discovering ores, springs of water, etc.
- rhabdomyoma — a benign tumor made up of striated muscular tissue.
- rhabdovirus — any of various RNA-containing viruses of the family Rhabdoviridae, including the rabies virus.
- right about — the position assumed by turning about to the right so as to face in the opposite direction.
- royal burgh — (in Scotland) a burgh that was established by a royal charter granted directly by the sovereign
- russophobia — an intense and often irrational hatred for Russia, or esp the former Soviet Union, its political system, etc
- safe harbor — a harbor considered safe for a ship, as in wartime or during a storm at sea.
- sash ribbon — a strip of steel or aluminum alloy for connecting a vertically sliding window sash with a counterweight.
- scarborough — a seaport in North Yorkshire, in NE England.
- shcherbakov — a former name (1946–57) of Andropov.
- shopbreaker — a robber who breaks into a shop
- shovelboard — the game of shuffleboard.
- snobography — an account or description of snobs
- splashboard — a board, guard, or screen to protect from splashing, as a dashboard of a vehicle or a guard placed over a wheel to intercept water, dirt, etc.
- subchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
- subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
- switchboard — a structural unit on which are mounted switches and instruments necessary to complete telephone circuits manually.