11-letter words containing h, a, b
- beach buggy — a low car, often open and with balloon tyres, for driving on sand
- beach chair — A beach chair is a simple chair with a folding frame, and a piece of canvas as the seat and back. Beach chairs are usually used on the beach, on a ship, or in the yard.
- beach drift — the drifting of sediments, especially marine sediments, in patterns parallel to the contours of a beach, due to the action of waves and currents.
- beach grass — any of a genus (Ammophila) of deeply rooted, tough, perennial grasses that grow on sandy beaches and are often planted to combat beach erosion
- beach house — a holiday house overlooking a beach
- beach party — a party held on a beach
- beach ridge — a ridge just inland from a beach, consisting of sand and gravel built up by storm waves
- beach scarp — a steep slope or miniature cliff, formed by wave action, fronting the berm on a beach.
- beach towel — a large towel used on the beach
- beachcomber — A beachcomber is someone who spends their time wandering along beaches looking for things they can use.
- beachmaster — a bull fur seal having its own territory in the breeding grounds.
- beachy head — a headland in East Sussex, on the English Channel, consisting of chalk cliffs 171 m (570 ft) high
- beam search — (algorithm) An optimisation of the best first search graph search algorithm where only a predetermined number of paths are kept as candidates. The number of paths is the "width of the beam". If more paths than this are generated, the worst paths are discarded. This reduces the space requirements of best first search.
- beanshooter — peashooter
- bear a hand — to give assistance
- bearishness — The characteristic of being bearish.
- beat hollow — having a space or cavity inside; not solid; empty: a hollow sphere.
- beauharnais — Alexandre (alɛksãdr), Vicomte de. 1760–94, French general, who served in the War of American Independence and the French Revolutionary wars; first husband of Empress Joséphine: guillotined
- beauty bush — a hardy shrub (Kolkwitzia amabilis) of the honeysuckle family, having tubular pink flowers with white bristly hairs on the ovary
- beauty shop — A beauty shop is the same as a beauty parlour.
- beauty-bush — a Chinese shrub, Kolkwitzia amabilis, of the honeysuckle family, having showy, pinkish flowers and grown as an ornamental.
- bedchambers — Plural form of bedchamber.
- behaviorism — Behaviorism is the belief held by some psychologists that the only valid method of studying the psychology of people or animals is to observe how they behave.
- behaviorist — the theory or doctrine that human or animal psychology can be accurately studied only through the examination and analysis of objectively observable and quantifiable behavioral events, in contrast with subjective mental states.
- behavioural — Behavioural means relating to the behaviour of a person or animal, or to the study of their behaviour.
- behind bars — If you say that someone is behind bars, you mean that they are in prison.
- bell-shaped — shaped like a bell
- belly laugh — A belly laugh is a very loud, deep laugh.
- bellyaching — constant complaining
- ben yehudah — Eliezer [el-ee-ez-er] /ˌɛl iˈɛz ər/ (Show IPA), 1858–1922, Jewish scholar, born in Lithuania.
- bench lathe — a lathe mounted on a workbench
- bench table — a course of masonry forming a bench at the foot of a wall.
- benchwarmer — a player who is usually on the bench; reserve
- bequeathing — to dispose of (personal property, especially money) by last will: She bequeathed her half of the company to her niece.
- beta rhythm — the normal electrical activity of the cerebral cortex, occurring at a frequency of 13 to 30 hertz and detectable with an electroencephalograph
- bethanechol — a substance, C 7 H 17 ClN 2 O 2 , used to treat urinary retention, especially postoperatively.
- bethel park — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
- better half — one's spouse
- better than — superior to
- bhartrihari — a.d. 570?–650? Indian grammarian and poet.
- bhubaneswar — an ancient city in E India, the capital of Odisha (formerly Orissa) state: many temples built between the 7th and 16th centuries. Pop: 647 302 (2001)
- bibliograph — to put in a bibliography.
- bibliophage — an ardent reader; a bookworm.
- bibliotheca — a library or collection of books
- bicephalous — having two heads
- big-hearted — If you describe someone as big-hearted, you think they are kind and generous, and always willing to help people.
- binge-watch — to watch a large number of television programmes (especially all the shows from one series) in succession
- biochemical — Biochemical changes, reactions, and mechanisms relate to the chemical processes that happen in living things.
- biographize — to write a biography of (someone)
- biophysical — the branch of biology that applies the methods of physics to the study of biological structures and processes.