8-letter words containing h, e, b, t
- bolthead — the head of a bolt
- bolthole — a place of escape from danger
- bootheel — an area of SE Missouri where the Missouri-Arkansas border dips southward forming a rectangular-shaped extension of the state.
- boothose — a protective stocking or boot liner fashionable in the 17th century
- botchery — an instance of botched workmanship
- bothered — worried or concerned
- bothwell — Earl of, title of James Hepburn. 1535–78, Scottish nobleman; third husband of Mary Queen of Scots. He is generally considered to have instigated the murder of Darnley (1567)
- botteghe — the studio of a master artist, in which lesser artists, apprentices, or students learn by participating in the work.
- boughten — bought at a store and not homemade
- bratchet — a brach or brachet hound
- breathed — relating to or denoting a speech sound for whose articulation the vocal cords are not made to vibrate
- breather — If you take a breather, you stop what you are doing for a short time and have a rest.
- breathes — to take air, oxygen, etc., into the lungs and expel it; inhale and exhale; respire.
- brethren — You can refer to the members of a particular organization or group, especially a religious group, as brethren.
- brighten — If someone brightens or their face brightens, they suddenly look happier.
- brighter — radiating or reflecting light; luminous; shining: The bright coins shone in the gloom.
- britches — breeches (sense 2)
- bush tea — a leguminous shrub of the genus Cyclopia, of southern Africa
- bushmeat — meat taken from any animal native to African forests, including species that may be endangered or not usually eaten outside Africa
- but then — You use but then before a remark which suggests that what you have just said should not be regarded as surprising.
- butchery — You can refer to the cruel killing of a lot of people as butchery when you want to express your horror and disgust at this.
- butchest — butch haircut.
- butthead — a stupid person
- butthole — anus.
- by heart — If you know something such as a poem by heart, you have learned it so well that you can remember it without having to read it.
- chimbote — a port in N central Peru: contains Peru's first steelworks (1958), using hydroelectric power from the Santa River. Pop: 328 000 (2005 est)
- chubster — An overweight person.
- cohobate — to redistil (a distillate), esp by allowing it to mingle with the remaining matter
- cuthbert — Saint. ?635–87 ad, English monk; bishop of Lindisfarne. Feast day: March 20
- deathbed — If someone is on their deathbed, they are in a bed and about to die.
- eberhart — Richard, 1904–2005, U.S. poet.
- eurybath — an aquatic organism that can live at different depths
- exhibits — Plural form of exhibit.
- ghiberti — Lorenzo [law-ren-tsaw] /lɔˈrɛn tsɔ/ (Show IPA), 1378–1455, Florentine sculptor, goldsmith, and painter.
- gobshite — a mean and contemptible person, especially a braggart.
- habitude — customary condition or character: a healthy mental habitude.
- habitues — Plural form of habitu\u00e9.
- had best — should, would be wise to
- hatboxes — Plural form of hatbox.
- hateable — meriting hatred or loathing.
- headbutt — A sharp blow delivered by driving the head into the opponent, generally by lowering the head and charging forward or by rapidly tilting the head backward and then forward.
- heatable — Capable of being heated.
- hebetant — causing dullness
- hebetate — to make dull or blunt.
- hebetude — the state of being dull; lethargy.
- hebraist — a person versed in the Hebrew language.
- hecatomb — (in ancient Greece and Rome) a public sacrifice of 100 oxen to the gods.
- hellbent — stubbornly or recklessly determined.
- herb tea — a tea made of dried herbs and spices and usually containing no caffeine.
- hittable — (of a ball or pitch) capable of being hit