11-letter words containing h, a, t, b
- halo blight — a disease of plants, characterized by small, necrotic leaf or fruit lesions surrounded by a yellowish, halolike band, caused by any of several bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas.
- halterbreak — to get (an animal) used to wearing a halter
- hamate bone — a wedgelike bone on the side of the wrist connecting the wrist with the fourth and fifth metacarpals, which connect to the ring and little fingers
- hand-basket — a small basket with a handle for carrying by hand.
- handbaskets — Plural form of handbasket.
- handbreadth — a unit of linear measure from 2½ to 4 inches (6.4 to 10 cm).
- hangability — the ability to be hanged
- haptoglobin — A protein present in blood serum that binds to and removes free hemoglobin from the bloodstream.
- hard by sth — If one thing is hard by another, it is very close to it.
- hard-bitten — tough; stubborn.
- hartebeests — Plural form of hartebeest.
- harvestable — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- hash bucket — hash coding
- hatchet job — a maliciously destructive critique or act: The special committee has done a hatchet job on the new proposal.
- hattiesburg — a city in SE Mississippi.
- have it bad — suffer disadvantage
- headbutting — Present participle of headbutt.
- health club — a usually private club that offers its members facilities for exercising and physical conditioning.
- heart block — a defect in the electrical impulses of the heart resulting in any of various arrhythmias or irregularities in the heartbeat.
- heart-throb — a rapid beat or pulsation of the heart.
- heartbreaks — Plural form of heartbreak.
- heartbroken — crushed with sorrow or grief.
- heartthrobs — Plural form of heartthrob.
- hedge about — If you say that something such as an offer is hedged about or is hedged around with rules or conditions, you mean that there are a lot of rules or conditions.
- heel breast — the forward side of the heel, adjoining the shank of a shoe.
- hematoblast — an immature blood cell, especially a red blood cell.
- hepatitis b — a form of hepatitis caused by a DNA virus (hepatitis B virus, or HBV) that persists in the blood, characterized by a long incubation period: usually transmitted by sexual contact or by injection or ingestion of infected blood or other bodily fluids.
- hereditable — heritable.
- hermit crab — any of numerous crabs, especially of the genera Pagurus and Eupagurus, that protect their soft uncovered abdomen by occupying the castoff shell of a univalve mollusk.
- hibernating — Present participle of hibernate.
- hibernation — Zoology. to spend the winter in close quarters in a dormant condition, as bears and certain other animals. Compare estivate.
- hibernators — Plural form of hibernator.
- hit batsman — a batter who, having been struck by a pitch, is awarded first base.
- holoblastic — (of certain eggs) undergoing total cleavage, resulting in equal blastomeres.
- homoblastic — (of a plant or plant part) showing no difference in form between the juvenile and the adult structures
- honesty bar — an unattended area in a hotel, resort, etc, where patrons may serve themselves drinks and are expected to leave money to pay for them
- houseboater — One who lives in a houseboat.
- hudibrastic — of, relating to, or resembling the style of Samuel Butler's Hudibras (published 1663–78), a mock-heroic poem written in tetrameter couplets.
- hybernating — Present participle of hybernate.
- hybernation — Obsolete spelling of hibernation.
- hydroborate — (inorganic chemistry) Any of several anions containing hydrogen bound to boron, especially the simplest one BH4-; any salt or complex containing such an anion.
- hypoblastic — Of, or relating to the hypoblast.
- inhabitable — to live or dwell in (a place), as people or animals: Small animals inhabited the woods.
- inhabitance — place of residence; habitation.
- inhabitancy — place of residence; habitation.
- inhabitants — a person or animal that inhabits a place, especially as a permanent resident.
- inhabitress — a female inhabitant
- inheritable — capable of being inherited.
- inheritably — capable of being inherited.
- interbranch — a division or subdivision of the stem or axis of a tree, shrub, or other plant.