11-letter words containing h, e, b
- fall behind — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
- fashionable — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
- feather bed — a mattress or a bed cover, as a quilt, stuffed with soft feathers.
- feather-bed — a mattress or a bed cover, as a quilt, stuffed with soft feathers.
- featherback — any freshwater fish of the family Notopteridae, of Asia and western Africa, having a small, feathery dorsal fin and a very long anal fin extending from close behind the head to the tip of the tail.
- featherbeds — Plural form of featherbed.
- featherbone — a substitute for whalebone, made from the quills of domestic fowls.
- fine bouche — a refined taste; educated palate.
- fire blight — a disease of pears, apples, quinces, etc., characterized by blossom, twig, and fruit blight and stem cankers, caused by a bacterium, Erwinia amylovora.
- flitch beam — a beam composed of planks bolted together side by side and often reinforced with a plate of iron or steel.
- footbreadth — a measurement equalling a breadth of a foot
- francophobe — Also, Francophobic. fearing or hating France, the French people, and French culture, products, etc.
- french bean — British. the pod of a green bean or wax bean, eaten as a vegetable.
- front bench — (used with a singular verb) (in the House of Commons) either of two seats near the Speaker, on which the leaders of the major parties sit.
- galeophobia — The fear of sharks.
- gas chamber — an enclosure used for the execution of prisoners by means of a poisonous gas.
- george bush — Barbara (Barbara Pierce) born 1925, U.S. First Lady 1989–93 (wife of George H. W. Bush).
- germaphobia — Pathological fear of germs.
- germaphobic — Alternative form of germophobic.
- germophobic — Morbidly afraid of germs.
- ghostbuster — A person who claims to be able to banish ghosts and poltergeists.
- globefishes — Plural form of globefish.
- gopher ball — a pitched ball hit for a home run: leading the league in gopher balls.
- gopherberry — bush huckleberry.
- grab handle — A grab handle is a handle on the side of an object such as a bathtub that you hold in order to help you get in and out.
- green thumb — an exceptional aptitude for gardening or for growing plants successfully: Houseplants provide much pleasure for the city dweller with a green thumb.
- haberdasher — a retail dealer in men's furnishings, as shirts, ties, gloves, socks, and hats.
- habiliments — Plural form of habiliment.
- habilitated — Simple past tense and past participle of habilitate.
- hackberries — Plural form of hackberry.
- haemoglobin — (protein) alternative spelling of hemoglobin.
- haemophobia — Alternative spelling of hemophobia.
- hairbrained — giddy; reckless.
- hairbreadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
- hairbrushes — Plural form of hairbrush.
- halberdiers — Plural form of halberdier.
- halberstadt — a town in central Germany, in Saxony-Anhalt: industrial centre noted for its historic buildings. Pop: 40 014 (2003 est)
- half-boiled — drunk.
- half-bottle — a bottle half the size of a standard bottle of wine, spirits, etc
- half-broken — past participle of break.
- half-buried — to put in the ground and cover with earth: The pirates buried the chest on the island.
- half-bushel — a unit of dry measure equal to 2 pecks (17.6 liters).
- halfbrother — Alternative spelling of half brother.
- halterbreak — to get (an animal) used to wearing a halter
- hamate bone — a wedgelike bone on the side of the wrist connecting the wrist with the fourth and fifth metacarpals, which connect to the ring and little fingers
- hamba kahle — goodbye, farewell (esp to the dead)
- hammer beam — a short wooden beam projecting from an interior wall to support or tie together rafters or arched roof braces.
- hammer blow — a blow from a hammer
- hand-basket — a small basket with a handle for carrying by hand.
- handbaskets — Plural form of handbasket.