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10-letter words containing h, e, b

  • subtrahend — a number that is subtracted from another.
  • superbitch — an exceptionally spiteful woman, a very bitchy person
  • switchable — a slender, flexible shoot, rod, etc., used especially in whipping or disciplining.
  • tablecloth — a cloth for covering the top of a table, especially during a meal.
  • tete-beche — of or relating to a pair of stamps that have been printed with one stamp inverted.
  • tetherball — a game for two persons, in which each player, standing on each side of a post from the top of which a ball is suspended by a cord, hits the ball with the hand or a paddle in a direction opposite to that in which the other player hits it, the object being to coil the cord completely around the post.
  • tetrabrach — a metrical foot or word of four short syllables.
  • tetterbush — an evergreen shrub, Lyonia lucida, of the southeastern U.S., having leathery leaves and white to pink flowers.
  • the absurd — the conception of the world, esp in Existentialist thought, as neither designed nor predictable but irrational and meaningless
  • the better — something that is the more excellent, useful, etc, of two such things
  • the beyond — the unknown; the world outside the range of human perception, esp life after death in certain religious beliefs
  • the boards — the acting profession; the stage
  • the bottle — drinking of alcohol, esp to excess
  • the bounce — the start of play at the beginning of each quarter or after a goal
  • the bowery — a street in New York City noted for its cheap hotels and bars, frequented by vagrants and drunks
  • the breaks — to smash, split, or divide into parts violently; reduce to pieces or fragments: He broke a vase.
  • the buddha — ?563–483 bc, a title applied to Gautama Siddhartha, a nobleman and religious teacher working in N India, regarded by his followers as the most recent rediscoverer of the path to enlightenment: the founder of Buddhism
  • the budget — an estimate of British government expenditures and revenues and the financial plans for the ensuing fiscal year presented annually to the House of Commons by the Chancellor of the Exchequer
  • the burren — a limestone area on the North Clare coast in the Irish Republic, famous for its wild flowers, caves, and dolmens
  • the bushes — rural or small-town districts
  • the buskin — tragic drama
  • the rabbis — the early Jewish scholars whose teachings are recorded in the Talmud
  • the rabble — the common people
  • the tables — laws, as the Ten Commandments or ancient Roman codes, inscribed on flat stone slabs
  • theophobia — morbid fear or hatred of God
  • thereabout — about or near that place or time: last June or thereabout.
  • thigh bone — femur: bone of the upper leg
  • thimbleful — the amount that a thimble will hold.
  • thimblerig — a sleight-of-hand swindling game in which the operator palms a pellet or pea while appearing to cover it with one of three thimblelike cups, and then, moving the cups about, offers to bet that no one can tell under which cup the pellet or pea lies.
  • thimblewit — a silly or dimwitted person; dunce
  • third base — the third in counterclockwise order of the bases from home plate.
  • threadbare — having the nap worn off so as to lay bare the threads of the warp and woof, as a fabric, garment, etc.
  • thrombogen — prothrombin.
  • thrombosed — affected with a thrombus or blood clot
  • thumbpiece — a lever over the hinge on the lid of a tankard, pressed by the thumb to raise the lid.
  • thumbscrew — a screw, the head of which is so constructed that it may be turned easily with the thumb and a finger.
  • thumbwheel — a small, partially exposed wheel that can be turned with a thumb or finger and is found on various devices such as computers or instruments
  • thunbergia — any of various plants, vines, or shrubs belonging to the genus Thunbergia, of the acanthus family, native to Africa and southern Asia, having variously colored flowers and often cultivated as ornamentals in warm regions.
  • thunderbox — a portable boxlike lavatory seat that can be placed over a hole in the ground
  • timberhead — the top end of a timber, rising above the deck and serving for belaying ropes.
  • tithe barn — a large barn where, formerly, the agricultural tithe of a parish was stored
  • touch base — make contact
  • tube sheet — A tube sheet is a plate which is used to support the tubes in a shell-and-tube heat exchanger.
  • tumblehome — Nautical. an inward and upward slope of the middle body of a vessel.
  • turcophobe — a person who has a morbid fear of Turks.
  • turkophobe — a person who has a morbid fear of Turks.
  • ubermensch — superman (def 2).
  • umb scheme — A Scheme system including an editor and debugger by William Campbell <[email protected]>. Conforms to the R4RS.
  • umber moth — any of various brownish geometrid moths, esp the waved umber (Menophra abruptaria) and small waved umber (Horisme vitalbata), that are cryptically marked to merge with tree bark, and the mottled umber (Erannis defoliaria) whose looper larvae can strip branches and even trees
  • unbanished — to expel from or relegate to a country or place by authoritative decree; condemn to exile: He was banished to Devil's Island.
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