11-letter words containing h, e, b, r
- hairbrained — giddy; reckless.
- hairbreadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
- hairbrushes — Plural form of hairbrush.
- halberdiers — Plural form of halberdier.
- halberstadt — a town in central Germany, in Saxony-Anhalt: industrial centre noted for its historic buildings. Pop: 40 014 (2003 est)
- half-broken — past participle of break.
- half-buried — to put in the ground and cover with earth: The pirates buried the chest on the island.
- halfbrother — Alternative spelling of half brother.
- halterbreak — to get (an animal) used to wearing a halter
- hammer beam — a short wooden beam projecting from an interior wall to support or tie together rafters or arched roof braces.
- hammer blow — a blow from a hammer
- handbreadth — a unit of linear measure from 2½ to 4 inches (6.4 to 10 cm).
- harbingered — Simple past tense and past participle of harbinger.
- harbor seal — a small, spotted seal, Phoca vitulina, of the Atlantic coasts of North America and Europe and the Pacific coast of northern North America.
- harbourless — Without a harbour.
- harbourside — An area (especially a residential area) near a harbour (often in the form of converted warehouses etc).
- hard rubber — rubber vulcanized with a large amount of sulfur, usually 25–35 percent, to render it stiff and comparatively inflexible.
- hard-bitten — tough; stubborn.
- hard-bodied — a person who is muscular and physically fit.
- hard-boiled — Cookery. (of an egg) boiled in the shell long enough for the yolk and white to solidify.
- harebrained — giddy; reckless.
- harken back — hearken back (see phrase under hearken)
- harquebuses — Plural form of harquebus.
- hartebeests — Plural form of hartebeest.
- harvestable — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- hattiesburg — a city in SE Mississippi.
- hawser bend — a knot uniting the ends of two lines.
- head-banger — metalhead.
- headbangers — Plural form of headbanger.
- headborough — the official in charge of a tithing
- header bond — a brickwork bond composed entirely of overlapping headers.
- 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.
- heaven-born — of or as of heavenly origin: the heaven-born gods.
- hebdomadary — Roman Catholic Church. a member of a church or monastery appointed for one week to sing the chapter Mass and lead in the recitation of the breviary.
- hebephrenia — a type of schizophrenia characterized by emotionless, incongruous, or silly behavior, intellectual deterioration, and hallucinations, frequently beginning insidiously during adolescence.
- hebephrenic — Pertaining to, or characteristic of, hebephrenia.
- heel breast — the forward side of the heel, adjoining the shank of a shoe.
- hell-bender — a large salamander, Cryptobranchus alleganiensis, of rivers and streams in eastern North America, having a flat, stout body and broad head.
- hellbenders — Plural form of hellbender.
- helleborein — a yellow, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous solid, C 37 H 56 O 18 , obtained from the rhizome and root of certain hellebores, and used in medicine chiefly as a heart stimulant.
- helleborine — A mainly woodland orchid occurring chiefly in north temperate regions.
- helsingborg — a port in SW Sweden, on the Sound opposite Helsingør, Denmark: changed hands several times between Denmark and Sweden, finally becoming Swedish in 1710; shipbuilding. Pop: 121 097 (2004 est)
- herb bennet — a European plant, Geum urbanum, of the rose family, having yellow flowers and an aromatic, astringent root.
- herb doctor — a person who practices healing by the use of herbs.
- herb garden — where herbs are grown
- herb robert — a wild geranium, Geranium robertianum, having fernlike, scented leaves and reddish-purple flowers.