10-letter words containing h, e, b, t
- breathless — If you are breathless, you have difficulty in breathing properly, for example because you have been running or because you are afraid or excited.
- brickearth — a clayey alluvium suitable for the making of bricks: specifically, such a deposit in southern England, yielding a fertile soil
- brightener — a person or thing that brightens.
- brightline — (of rules, standards, etc.) unambiguously clear: This muddies the waters of what should be a brightline rule.
- brightness — the condition of being bright
- brightsome — bright or luminous
- broadsheet — A broadsheet is a newspaper that is printed on large sheets of paper. Broadsheets are generally considered to be more serious than other newspapers. Compare tabloid.
- bruschetta — Bruschetta is a slice of toasted bread which is brushed with olive oil and usually covered with chopped tomatoes.
- bsp method — (programming) A CASE method from IBM.
- buck teeth — upper front teeth which stick out
- bug-hunter — a person who is interested in insects
- bullethead — a head considered similar in shape to a bullet, as that of a person with a high, domelike forehead and cranium and short hair.
- bushbeater — a person who conducts a thorough search to recruit talented people, as for an athletic team.
- bushmaster — a large greyish-brown highly venomous snake, Lachesis muta, inhabiting wooded regions of tropical America: family Crotalidae (pit vipers)
- bute house — a house in Charlotte Square, Edinburgh: official residence of the First Minister of Scotland
- butlership — the skills of a butler
- butt heads — an extremely stupid or inept person.
- butt hinge — a hinge made of two matching leaves, one recessed into a door and the other into the jamb so that they are in contact when the door is shut
- butterfish — an eel-like blennioid food fish, Pholis gunnellus, occurring in North Atlantic coastal regions: family Pholidae (gunnels). It has a slippery scaleless golden brown skin with a row of black spots along the base of the long dorsal fin
- buttonhole — A buttonhole is a hole that you push a button through in order to fasten a shirt, coat, or other piece of clothing.
- by the bye — incidentally; by the way: used as a sentence connector
- by the lee — so that the wind is blowing on the wrong side of the sail
- by the way — You say by the way when you add something to what you are saying, especially something that you have just thought of.
- cablephoto — a photographic image transmitted via cable, especially for use by newspapers or in police work.
- chalybeate — containing or impregnated with iron salts
- chamberpot — a vessel for urine, used in bedrooms
- chambertin — a dry red burgundy wine produced in Gevrey-Chambertin in E France
- charitable — A charitable organization or activity helps and supports people who are ill, very poor, or who have a disability.
- chatterbot — chatbot
- chatterbox — A chatterbox is someone who talks a lot.
- check stub — A check stub is the part of a check that is kept by the payee with information such as the check number, date, and amount.
- chelatable — having the capability to chelate
- chesterbed — a sofa or chesterfield that opens into a bed.
- cinch belt — a wide belt of elastic, leather, or fabric with a clasp or lacing in front, worn tightly to make the waist look smaller.
- cloth beam — a roller, located at the front of a loom, on which woven material is wound after it leaves the breast beam.
- club wheat — a wheat, Triticum compactum, characterized by compact, club-shaped spikes, used for making pastry flour and the like.
- cohabitate — cohabit.
- cohibitive — restrictive
- crib death — Crib death is the sudden death of a baby while it is asleep, although the baby had not previously been ill.
- crib sheet — a sheet containing notes, etc, on a particular subject, used as a study aid
- death bell — a bell tolled to announce a death
- death blow — If you say that an event or action deals a death blow to something such as a plan or hope, or is a death blow to something, you mean that it puts an end to it.
- deathblows — Plural form of deathblow.
- debtholder — (finance) An owner of a financial obligation of another party.
- demothball — to remove (naval or military equipment) from storage or reserve, usually for active duty; reactivate.
- detachable — If a part of an object is detachable, it has been made so that it can be removed from the object.
- detachably — in a detachable fashion
- disburthen — (obsolete) disburden.
- dust-bathe — (of a bird) to squat in dusty soil and fluff dust through the plumage: probably performed to combat ectoparasites.
- earthbound — headed for the earth: an earthbound meteorite.