12-letter words containing h, e, b
- subthreshold — (of a stimulus) too weak to produce a response.
- swashbuckler — a swaggering swordsman, soldier, or adventurer; daredevil.
- table d'hote — a meal of preselected courses served at a fixed time and price to the guests at a hotel or restaurant.
- tablet chair — a chair with one arm extending and expanding into a writing surface.
- teachability — capable of being instructed, as a person; docile.
- teacher bird — the ovenbird, Seiurus aurocapillus, a songbird that builds a nest shaped like a dome.
- teaching job — a position as a teacher
- technobabble — incomprehensible technical language or jargon.
- technobandit — a person who steals technological secrets, as from the government or a place of employment, and sells them to agents of foreign governments or to competing firms.
- technophobia — abnormal fear of or anxiety about the effects of advanced technology.
- teratophobia — fear of giving birth to a monster
- terebinthine — terebinthinate.
- the absolute — ultimate reality regarded as uncaused, unmodified, unified and complete, timeless, etc.
- the barbican — a building complex in the City of London: includes residential developments and the Barbican Arts Centre (completed 1982) housing concert and exhibition halls, theatres, cinemas, etc
- the bastille — a state prison in Paris that was stormed and destroyed (1789) in the French Revolution: its destruction is commemorated on Bastille Day, July 14
- the bereaved — the survivors of a person who has died recently
- the big city — a city viewed as a place of opportunity compared to small towns or the country
- the big four — a small powerful group, as of banks, companies, etc, esp the four largest banks in Britain (Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds TSB, and NatWest)
- the big time — great success or fame
- the blue boy — a famous portrait by Gainsborough of a boy wearing a blue outfit
- the bollocks — something excellent
- the bosporus — a strait between European and Asian Turkey, linking the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara
- the brownies — (in the US) the junior division of the Girl Scouts, usually for girls six to eight years old
- the bushveld — an area of low altitude in N South Africa, having scrub vegetation
- the business — If you say that someone or something is the business, you mean that they are the best of their kind.
- the cambrian — the Cambrian period or rock system
- the crucible — a Sheffield theatre, venue of the annual world professional snooker championship
- the dingbats — delirium tremens
- the disabled — those who are physically or mentally disabled; the handicapped
- the hebrides — a group of over 500 islands off the W coast of Scotland: separated by the North Minch, Little Minch, and the Sea of the Hebrides: the chief islands are Skye, Raasay, Rum, Eigg, Coll, Tiree, Mull, Jura, Colonsay, and Islay (Inner Hebrides), and Lewis with Harris, North Uist, Benbecula, South Uist, and Barra (Outer Hebrides)
- the old bill — policemen collectively or in general
- the sorbonne — a part of the University of Paris containing the faculties of science and literature: founded in 1253 by Robert de Sorbon as a theological college; given to the university in 1808
- the troubles — political unrest or public disturbances
- the-bell-jar — a novel (1963) by Sylvia Plath.
- the-firebird — a ballet (1910) with music by Stravinsky.
- thermolabile — subject to destruction or loss of characteristic properties by the action of moderate heat, as certain toxins and enzymes (opposed to thermostable).
- thermostable — capable of being subjected to a moderate degree of heat without loss of characteristic properties, as certain toxins and enzymes (opposed to thermolabile).
- thimbleberry — any of several American raspberries bearing a thimble-shaped fruit, especially the black raspberry, Rubus occidentalis.
- thiobacteria — bacteria found esp. in stagnant water and at the bottom of the sea, that oxidize or reduce sulfur compounds, as hydrogen sulfide
- thistle tube — a glass funnel consisting of a long narrow tube with a thistle-shaped head.
- thoroughbred — of pure or unmixed breed, stock, or lineage, as a horse or other animal; bred from the purest and best blood.
- three-bagger — triple (def 7).
- thrombectomy — surgical removal of a blood clot from a blood vessel.
- throttleable — capable of having the thrust varied.
- thumb-sucker — a person who habitually sucks a thumb.
- ticket booth — kiosk: sells tickets
- timber hitch — a knot used for tying a rope round a spar, log, etc, for haulage
- timber right — ownership of standing timber with no rights to the land.
- timber-hitch — to fasten by means of a timber hitch.
- to be honest — in truth