11-letter words containing h, e, b
- big-hearted — If you describe someone as big-hearted, you think they are kind and generous, and always willing to help people.
- bimorphemic — pertaining to two morphemes
- bindheimite — a mineral, hydrous antimonate of lead, resulting from the alteration of lead antimony ores.
- bing cherry — a dark-red variety of sweet cherry
- binge-watch — to watch a large number of television programmes (especially all the shows from one series) in succession
- biochemical — Biochemical changes, reactions, and mechanisms relate to the chemical processes that happen in living things.
- bioethicist — a field of study concerned with the ethics and philosophical implications of certain biological and medical procedures, technologies, and treatments, as organ transplants, genetic engineering, and care of the terminally ill.
- biographize — to write a biography of (someone)
- bioresearch — the investigation of the nature of living organisms; biological research.
- bird cherry — a small Eurasian rosaceous tree, Prunus padus, with clusters of white flowers and small black fruits
- birthparent — a person's parent related biologically rather than by adoption
- birthweight — the weight of an infant at birth.
- birtwhistle — Harrison, born 1934, English composer.
- bitter herb — an Old World herb, Centaurium erythraea, used dried in medicine as a tonic.
- bitterbrush — a flowering plant of the genus Purshia, native to North America
- black death — a deadly disease, probably bubonic plague, which devastated Europe and Asia in the 14th cent.
- black house — a type of thatched house, usually made of turf, formerly found in the highlands and islands of Scotland
- black perch — a livebearing surfperch, Embiotoca jacksoni, occurring in abundance along the coast of California, having brownish-black scales often tinged with blue or yellow and a thick, reddish mouth.
- black sheep — If you describe someone as the black sheep of their family or of a group that they are a member of, you mean that they are considered bad or worthless by other people in that family or group.
- black whale — a black, dolphinlike whale, Globicephala melaena, of the North Atlantic.
- blackhander — a member of a Black Hand group
- blameworthy — deserving disapproval or censure
- blank check — If someone is given a blank check, they are given the authority to spend as much money as they need or want.
- blank shell — a shotgun shell containing powder but no shot.
- blasphemers — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
- blasphemies — impious utterance or action concerning God or sacred things.
- blaspheming — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
- blasphemous — You can describe someone who shows disrespect for God or a religion as blasphemous. You can also describe what they are saying or doing as blasphemous.
- blastochyle — the fluid in a blastocoel
- bleacherite — someone who sits in the bleachers at a sports stadium
- bleak house — a novel (1852) by Charles Dickens.
- bleed white — to deprive slowly of resources
- blemishment — a flaw or blemish
- blepharitis — inflammation of the eyelids
- bletcherous — /blech'*-r*s/ Disgusting in design or function; aesthetically unappealing. This word is seldom used of people. "This keyboard is bletcherous!" (Perhaps the keys don't work very well, or are misplaced.) The term bletcherous applies to the esthetics of the thing so described; similarly for cretinous. By contrast, something that is "losing" or "bagbiting" may be failing to meet objective criteria.
- bleu cheese — blue cheese
- block house — Stock Exchange. a firm that specializes in block trades.
- blogosphere — In computer technology, the blogosphere or the blogsphere is all the weblogs on the Internet, considered collectively.
- blubberhead — a stupid, inept person; blockhead.
- blue cheese — cheese containing a blue mould, esp Stilton, Roquefort, or Danish blue
- blue cohosh — either of two unrelated plants of the eastern U.S., Cimicifuga racemosa (black cohosh) of the buttercup family, or Caulophyllum thalictroides (blue cohosh) of the barberry family, both used medicinally.
- blue heeler — a cattle dog that controls cattle by biting their heels
- blue helmet — a member of a United Nations military force, usually deployed on peacekeeping missions, and recognizable by a helmet or beret of a distinctive light blue colour
- blue schist — a metamorphic rock formed under conditions of high pressure and relatively low temperature
- blue shield — Blue Cross and Blue Shield.
- blunderhead — Informal. a blunderer; nincompoop.
- blushlessly — in a manner without blushing, shamelessly
- blytheville — a city in NE Arkansas.
- board check — a body check in which the opponent is thrown against the wooden wall enclosing the rink. Compare check1 (def 37).
- boat-shaped — shaped like a boat