12-letter words containing h, a, b
- artzybasheff — Boris Mikhailovich [bawr-is mi-kahy-luh-vich,, bor-;; Russian buh-ryees myi-khahy-luh-vyich] /ˈbɔr ɪs mɪˈkaɪ lə vɪtʃ,, ˈbɒr-;; Russian bʌˈryis myɪˈxaɪ lə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1899–1965, U.S. illustrator and writer, born in Russia.
- aschoff body — any of the spindleshaped nodules found in heart tissue and associated with the myocarditis of rheumatic fever.
- ashurbanipal — died ?626 bc, king of Assyria (?668–?626): son of Esarhaddon. He built the magnificent palace and library at Nineveh
- astonishable — (obsolete) Astonishing.
- atholl brose — a mixture of whisky and honey left to ferment before consumption
- attenborough — Sir David. born 1926, British naturalist and broadcaster; noted esp for his TV series Life on Earth (1978), The Living Planet (1983), The Life of Birds (1998), The Life of Mammals (2002), and First Life (2010)
- atychiphobia — (rare) The fear of failure.
- authorizable — able to be authorized
- axel heiberg — the largest island belonging to the Sverdrup group in the Canadian Northwest Territories. 15,779 sq. mi. (40,868 sq. km).
- b'nai b'rith — a Jewish fraternal organization founded in New York in 1843, having moral, philanthropic, social, educational, and political aims
- baba au rhum — a light cake raised with yeast, containing raisins and dried fruits and soaked in a rum syrup
- baba ghanouj — a Middle Eastern dish, a puree of broiled eggplant usually with garlic, lemon juice, and tahini, eaten with pita as an appetizer
- baby brother — a younger brother
- bacchanalian — characterized by or involving drunken revelry
- bach trumpet — a modern small three-valved trumpet for playing clarino passages in Bach's music
- bachelor pad — a flat in which a bachelor lives
- bachelorette — A bachelorette is a woman who has never married.
- bachelorhood — the state of being a bachelor.
- bachelorship — the state of being a bachelor; bachelorhood
- back channel — an unofficial, often secret, means of communication
- back stretch — the straight part of a race track opposite the part leading to the finish line.
- back-kitchen — a room off a main kitchen, usually further towards the back of the house where washing-up or preparatory cooking work might be done; a scullery
- backbenchers — Plural form of backbencher.
- backhandedly — In a backhanded manner.
- backlighting — Movies, Television. a light source placed behind an actor, object, or scene to create a highlight that separates the subject from the background.
- backslashing — Present participle of backslash.
- backsplashes — Plural form of backsplash.
- backstitches — Plural form of backstitch.
- backup light — Backup lights are the white lights on the back of a vehicle that shine when the vehicle moves backward.
- bad hair day — People sometimes say they are having a bad hair day when they do not feel very happy or relaxed, especially because their hair does not look good.
- bag snatcher — a thief whose main tactic is to grab women's handbags and run off with them
- baggage hall — a large room at an airport, usually containing a number of carousels, where passengers go to collect their baggage after a flight
- bagworm moth — any moth of the family Psychidae
- baha'í faith — a religious system founded in 1863 by Baha'ullah, based on Babism and emphasizing the value of all religions and the spiritual unity of all mankind
- bahama grass — Bermuda grass.
- bahia blanca — a port in E Argentina. Pop: 276 000 (2005 est)
- bairnsfather — Bruce. 1888–1959, British cartoonist, born in India: best known for his cartoons of the war in the trenches during World War I
- baking sheet — A baking sheet is a flat piece of metal on which you bake foods such as biscuits or pies in an oven.
- baleen whale — any of an order (Mysticeta) of whales with toothless jaws, baleen in the mouth, and a symmetrical skull, consisting of the gray whale, the right whales, and rorquals
- ballhandling — skill in handling the ball
- baluchithere — a hornless rhinoceros of the extinct genus Baluchitherium that inhabited central Asia during the Oligocene and early Miocene epochs: the largest land mammal known.
- banach space — a vector space on which a norm is defined that is complete.
- banana shrub — a tall Chinese shrub, Michelia figo, of the magnolia family, having cream-yellow flowers with a reddish edge and a strong banana odor.
- band of hope — a society promoting lifelong abstention from alcohol among young people: founded in Britain in 1847
- bandersnatch — a fictional creature created by Lewis Carroll in his poem Jabberwocky, and appearing also in The Hunting of the Snark and Through the Looking-Glass
- bank charges — penalties charged by a bank to a customer, for example when the customer's account is overdrawn or if a cheque is not honoured
- bank holiday — A bank holiday is a public holiday.
- bantamweight — A bantamweight is a boxer who weighs between 51 and 53.5 kilograms, or a wrestler who weighs between 52 and 57 kilograms. A bantamweight is heavier than a flyweight but lighter than a featherweight.
- baraesthesia — the ability to sense pressure
- barber chair — a chair used by barbers, adjustable in height and having an adjustable headrest, back, and footrest.