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12-letter words containing h, e, l, i, b

  • bolshevikism — the doctrines, methods, or procedure of the Bolsheviks.
  • bolshevistic — of, relating to, or characteristic of Bolshevists or Bolshevism.
  • border light — a striplight hung upstage of a border, for lighting the stage.
  • boucherville — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
  • bounce light — Also, bounce lighting. light that is bounced off a reflective surface onto the subject in order to achieve a softer lighting effect.
  • breed's hill — a hill in E Massachusetts, adjoining Bunker Hill: the true site of the Battle of Bunker Hill (1775)
  • bridge cloth — a tablecloth for a bridge table.
  • bright-field — of or relating to the illuminated region about the object of a microscope.
  • bristlemouth — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Gonostomatidae, having numerous sharp, slender teeth covering the jaws.
  • brunelleschi — Filippo (fiˈlippo). 1377–1446, Italian architect, whose works in Florence include the dome of the cathedral, the Pazzi chapel of Santa Croce, and the church of San Lorenzo
  • bull thistle — a tall, spiny thistle, Cirsium vulgare, having heads of pink to purple flowers: a common weed in North America.
  • bush singlet — a black woollen singlet often worn by farm labourers
  • bushy-tailed — bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, fresh, alert, eager, and lively
  • cable stitch — a pattern or series of knitting stitches producing a design like a twisted rope
  • cable-stitch — a series of stitches used in knitting to produce a cable effect.
  • carbocholine — carbachol.
  • cebocephalic — Exhibiting or relating to cebocephaly.
  • chamberlains — Plural form of chamberlain.
  • chenin blanc — a white grape grown in the Loire region of France and in South Africa, California, New Zealand, and elsewhere, used for making wine
  • cherubically — In a cherubic way.
  • child abuser — someone who abuses a child, esp someone convicted of this
  • childbearing — Childbearing is the process of giving birth to babies.
  • chiliburgers — Plural form of chiliburger.
  • club fighter — a mediocre boxer who fights mostly on programs at small sporting clubs
  • coachbuilder — (historical) A builder of horse-drawn coaches.
  • cohesibility — the nature of being cohesible
  • decipherable — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
  • die horribly — (jargon)   The software equivalent of crash and burn, and the preferred emphatic form of die. "The converter choked on an FF in its input and died horribly".
  • diminishable — That may be diminished.
  • disembellish — (transitive) To deprive of embellishment; to disadorn.
  • disestablish — to deprive of the character of being established; cancel; abolish.
  • dishonorable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
  • dispatchable — Capable of being dispatched.
  • double helix — the spiral arrangement of the two complementary strands of DNA.
  • double hitch — a Blackwall hitch with an extra upper loop passed around the hook.
  • double-think — illogical or deliberately perverse thinking in terms that distort or reverse the truth to make it more acceptable
  • double-width — twice the usual width: double-wide mobile homes consisting of two sections bolted together.
  • early blight — a disease of plants characterized by leaf spotting, defoliation, and stunted growth, caused by any of several fungi, as Alternaria solani or Cercospora apii.
  • edwin hubbleEdwin Powell, 1889–1953, U.S. astronomer: pioneer in extragalactic research.
  • elephantbird — Alternative form of elephant bird.
  • elizabeth ii — born 1926, queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 1952; daughter of George VI
  • embellishing — Present participle of embellish.
  • english bond — a bond used in brickwork that has a course of headers alternating with a course of stretchers
  • ephebophilia — the condition of being sexually attracted to adolescents
  • establishing — Present participle of establish.
  • ethnobiology — the branch of biology involving the study of the uses of plants and animals in various human societies
  • fish-bellied — (of a beam or rail) having a convex underside.
  • fit the bill — If you say that someone or something fits the bill or fills the bill, you mean that they are suitable for a particular job or purpose.
  • flemish bond — a brickwork bond having alternate stretchers and headers in each course, each header being centered above and below a stretcher.
  • franchisable — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
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