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11-letter words containing h, a, t, b

  • bath sponge — any of various common sponges, of the family Spongiidae, that have a skeletal network composed of fibers of spongin: collected in the Gulf of Mexico, the Mediterranean, and the Caribbean for their commercial value.
  • bath tissue — toilet paper.
  • bathing cap — a tight rubber cap worn by a swimmer to keep the hair dry
  • bathing hut — a small waterside building where swimmers can change their clothes
  • batholithic — Containing or relating to batholith.
  • bathometers — Plural form of bathometer.
  • bathophobia — the fear of depths of any kind, whether a fear of deep water or of falling from a great height
  • bathtub gin — homemade gin, especially gin made illegally during Prohibition.
  • bathygraphy — The scientific description of the depth of the ocean.
  • bathymetric — Of, pertaining to, or derived from bathymetry.
  • bathyscaphe — a navigable, submersible vessel for exploring the depths of the ocean, having a separate, overhead chamber filled with gasoline for buoyancy and iron or steel weights for ballast.
  • bathysphere — a strong steel deep-sea diving sphere, lowered by cable
  • batrachians — Plural form of batrachian.
  • batsmanship — (cricket) A skilled or courteous display of skill as a batsman.
  • battery hen — a hen kept in a battery
  • battleships — Plural form of battleship.
  • be all that — to be exceptionally good, talented, or attractive
  • be death on — to deal with in a devastating manner
  • 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 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 party — a party held on a beach
  • beach towel — a large towel used on the beach
  • beachmaster — a bull fur seal having its own territory in the breeding grounds.
  • beanshooter — peashooter
  • beat hollow — having a space or cavity inside; not solid; empty: a hollow sphere.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • bench lathe — a lathe mounted on a workbench
  • bench table — a course of masonry forming a bench at the foot of a wall.
  • 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.
  • bibliotheca — a library or collection of books
  • 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
  • birth canal — the passageway down which the fetus passes during birth
  • birthparent — a person's parent related biologically rather than by adoption
  • bit bashing — (Also "bit diddling" or bit twiddling). Any of several kinds of low-level programming characterised by manipulation of bit, flag, nibble, and other smaller-than-character-sized pieces of data. These include low-level device control, encryption algorithms, checksum and error-correcting codes, hash functions, some flavours of graphics programming (see bitblt), and assembler/compiler code generation. May connote either tedium or a real technical challenge (more usually the former). "The command decoding for the new tape driver looks pretty solid but the bit-bashing for the control registers still has bugs." See also bit bang, mode bit.
  • black death — a deadly disease, probably bubonic plague, which devastated Europe and Asia in the 14th cent.
  • black light — the invisible electromagnetic radiation in the ultraviolet and infrared regions of the spectrum
  • black shirt — a member of any fascist organization (specif., the former Italian Fascist party) with a black-shirted uniform
  • black watch — a regiment of Scottish infantry in the British army (so called from the dark colors in their tartan).
  • black witch — any of several large noctuid moths of the genus Erebus, especially the blackish E. odora (black witch) of Central and North America.
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