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11-letter words containing h, a, r

  • bachelorism — bachelorhood
  • back anchor — a small anchor for backing a larger one.
  • backbencher — A backbencher is a Member of Parliament who is not a minister and who does not hold an official position in their political party.
  • backdraught — a reverse movement of air, gas, or liquid
  • backhanders — Plural form of backhander.
  • backscratch — a favour done for someone in return for another
  • backstretch — the part of a racetrack farthest from the grandstand and opposite and parallel to the homestretch
  • bad homburg — a city in W central Germany on the S slope of the Taunus Mountains, near Frankfurt.
  • bahia grass — a grass, Paspalum notatum, of tropical America, grown in the southern United States for lawns and pasturage.
  • ballhandler — a player particularly skilled at passing and dribbling
  • band theory — a theory of the electrical properties of metals, semiconductors, and insulators based on energy bands
  • bar cochebaSimon, died a.d. 135, Hebrew leader of insurrection against the Romans a.d. 132–135.
  • bar mitzvah — A bar mitzvah is a ceremony that takes place on the thirteenth birthday of a Jewish boy, after which he is regarded as an adult.
  • bar-hopping — Informal. to go to a succession of bars or nightclubs, with a brief stay at each.
  • baranavichy — a city in W central Belarus, SW of Minsk.
  • baranovichi — a city in W central Belarus, SW of Minsk.
  • barber shop — A barber shop is a shop where a barber works.
  • barber-shop — Also called, especially British, barber's shop. the place of business of a barber.
  • barbershops — Plural form of barbershop.
  • baresthesia — the sense or perception of pressure.
  • barographic — Measured using a barograph.
  • baron-cohen — Sacha. born 1970, British television and film comedian, best known for his creation of the characters Ali G and Borat
  • barrelheads — Plural form of barrelhead.
  • barrelhouse — a cheap and disreputable drinking establishment
  • barthianism — the theological doctrines and principles of Karl Barth and his followers, especially in reference to neoorthodoxy.
  • bartholomew — one of the twelve apostles (Matthew 10:3). Feast day: Aug 24 or June 11
  • baryshnikov — Mikhail. born 1948, Soviet-born ballet dancer, who defected (1974) to the West while on tour with the Kirov Ballet: director (1980–90) of the American Ballet Theatre
  • basehearted — having a low, mean, or contemptible nature or character; meanspirited.
  • basset horn — an obsolete woodwind instrument of the clarinet family
  • bath oliver — a kind of unsweetened biscuit
  • bath pearls — dissolvable granules added to bath water to impart scent or other qualities
  • bathometers — Plural form of bathometer.
  • bathygraphy — The scientific description of the depth of the ocean.
  • bathymetric — Of, pertaining to, or derived from bathymetry.
  • bathysphere — a strong steel deep-sea diving sphere, lowered by cable
  • batrachians — Plural form of batrachian.
  • battery hen — a hen kept in a battery
  • be hard hit — To be hard hit by something means to be affected very severely by it.
  • beach aster — a seaside plant, Erigeron glaucus, of the temperate western coast of North America, having solitary, violet- or lilac-colored flowers.
  • 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 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
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