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12-letter words containing h, e, b, t

  • blue catfish — a large freshwater catfish, Ictalurus furcatus, that is a popular food fish in the states of the Mississippi River valley.
  • blue helmets — armed troops under the sponsorship of the United Nations, used for peacekeeping
  • blue norther — a cold north wind that brings rapidly falling temperatures.
  • blue thistle — blueweed (def 1).
  • blue whiting — a fish of the cod family, Micromesistius poutassou
  • blue-thistle — Also called blue thistle. a bristly weed, Echium vulgare, of the borage family, having showy blue flowers, a native of Europe naturalized in the U.S.
  • boehm system — a system of improved fingering and keying for the flute and clarinet, invented by the German musician Theobald Boehm (1794–1881).
  • boiled shirt — a dress shirt with a stiff front
  • bolshevistic — of, relating to, or characteristic of Bolshevists or Bolshevism.
  • bomb shelter — a shelter, usually underground, in which people take refuge from bomb attacks
  • booch method — (programming)   A widely used object-oriented analysis and object-oriented design method.
  • book matches — safety matches made of paper and fastened into a small cardboard folder
  • booster shot — an injection of a vaccine or other antigen some time after the initial series of injections, for maintaining immunity
  • border light — a striplight hung upstage of a border, for lighting the stage.
  • borscht belt — (sometimes initial capital letters) the hotels of the predominantly Jewish resort area in the Catskill Mountains, many of them offering nightclub or cabaret entertainment.
  • bottlewasher — a person or machine that washes bottles.
  • bottom house — the open space beneath a house built upon high pillars
  • bounce light — Also, bounce lighting. light that is bounced off a reflective surface onto the subject in order to achieve a softer lighting effect.
  • bourke-white — Margaret. 1906–71, US photographer, a pioneer of modern photojournalism: noted esp for her coverage of World War II
  • bow thruster — a propeller located in a ship's bow to provide added maneuverability, as when docking.
  • boxer shorts — Boxer shorts are loose-fitting men's underpants that are shaped like the shorts worn by boxers.
  • branch depot — one of a several depots receiving stock from the same central supplier
  • branch water — water from a stream, as opposed to mineral or soda water
  • breakthrough — A breakthrough is an important development or achievement.
  • breakweather — any makeshift shelter.
  • breast wheel — a waterwheel onto which the propelling water is fed at the height of a horizontal axle.
  • breastplough — a plough driven by the worker's breast, often used to pare turf
  • breath group — a sequence of sounds articulated in the course of a single exhalation; an utterance or part of an utterance produced between pauses for breath.
  • breathalyser — a device for estimating the amount of alcohol in the breath: used in testing people suspected of driving under the influence of alcohol
  • breathalyzer — A Breathalyzer is a bag or electronic device that the police use to test whether a driver has drunk too much alcohol.
  • breathe easy — to take air, oxygen, etc., into the lungs and expel it; inhale and exhale; respire.
  • breathlessly — without breath or breathing with difficulty; gasping; panting: We were breathless after the steep climb.
  • breathtaking — If you say that something is breathtaking, you are emphasizing that it is extremely beautiful or amazing.
  • breech birth — birth of a baby with the feet or buttocks appearing first
  • bridge cloth — a tablecloth for a bridge table.
  • bright-field — of or relating to the illuminated region about the object of a microscope.
  • bristlemouth — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Gonostomatidae, having numerous sharp, slender teeth covering the jaws.
  • broken heart — If you say that someone has a broken heart, you mean that they are very sad, for example because a love affair has ended unhappily.
  • bromomethane — methyl bromide.
  • brush turkey — any of several gallinaceous birds, esp Alectura lathami, of New Guinea and Australia, having a black plumage: family Megapodidae (megapodes)
  • bucket bench — a Pennsylvania Dutch dresser having a lower portion closed with doors for milk pails, an open shelf for water pails, and an upper section with shallow drawers.
  • buffet lunch — a lunch at which people stand up and help themselves from the table
  • bull thistle — a tall, spiny thistle, Cirsium vulgare, having heads of pink to purple flowers: a common weed in North America.
  • bush singlet — a black woollen singlet often worn by farm labourers
  • bushelbasket — a rounded basket with a capacity of one bushel
  • bushy-tailed — bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, fresh, alert, eager, and lively
  • busted flush — a poker hand with four cards of the same suit that fails to form a flush when the final card is dealt
  • butcher shop — a shop in which meat, poultry, and sometimes fish are sold.
  • butter cloth — a type of open, unsized muslin
  • butterscotch — Butterscotch is a hard yellowish-brown sweet made from butter and sugar boiled together.
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