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11-letter words containing h, e, n

  • bournemouth — a resort in S England, in Bournemouth unitary authority, Dorset, on the English Channel. Pop: 167 527 (2001)
  • brain death — Brain death occurs when someone's brain stops functioning, even though their heart may be kept beating using a machine.
  • branch line — A branch line is a railway line that goes to small towns rather than one that goes between large cities.
  • breatharian — a person who believes that it is possible to subsist healthily on air alone
  • breathiness — (of the voice) characterized by audible or excessive emission of breath.
  • breconshire — (until 1974) a county of SE Wales, now mainly in Powys: over half its area forms the Brecon Beacons National Park
  • bremerhaven — a port in NW Germany: an outport for Bremen. Pop: 118 276 (2003 est)
  • bridle hand — (of a horseback rider) the hand, usually the left hand, that holds both reins or both pairs of reins, leaving the other hand free to manage a whip, crop, lariat, or the like.
  • bright-line — (of rules, standards, etc.) unambiguously clear: This muddies the waters of what should be a brightline rule.
  • brochantite — a mineral, hydrous copper sulfate, Cu 4 (OH) 6 SO 4 , occurring in green fibrous masses and similar in physical properties to antlerite: formerly a major ore of copper.
  • broken hill — a town in SE Australia, in W New South Wales: mining centre for lead, silver, and zinc. Pop: 19 834 (2001)
  • broken home — a family in which one parent is absent, usually due to divorce or desertion: children from broken homes.
  • bronchocele — dilatation of a bronchus.
  • bronx cheer — A Bronx cheer is a sound that people make by vibrating their lips in order to express disapproval or contempt.
  • brown earth — an intrazonal soil of temperate humid regions typically developed under deciduous forest into a dark rich layer (mull): characteristic of much of southern and central England
  • brown heart — a brown discoloration of the flesh of stored apples, resulting from high concentrations of carbon dioxide.
  • brown hyena — a hyena, Hyaena brunnea, of southern Africa, having a blackish-gray coat: its dwindling population is now protected.
  • bulkheading — the construction of bulkheads; bulkheads in general.
  • bunchflower — a tall plant (Melanthium virginicum) of the lily family, growing in the E U.S. and having large clusters of white or greenish flowers
  • bundelkhand — a region of central India: formerly native states, now mainly part of Madhya Pradesh
  • bunker hill — the first battle of the American Revolution, actually fought on Breed's Hill, next to Bunker Hill, near Boston, on June 17, 1775. Though defeated, the colonists proved that they could stand against British regular soldiers
  • burnishment — the act or process of burnishing
  • burnt shale — carbonaceous shale formed by destructive distillation of oil shale or by spontaneous combustion of shale after it has been some years in a tip: sometimes used in road making
  • bushelwoman — a woman who alters clothes
  • button-hole — the hole, slit, or loop through which a button is passed and by which it is secured.
  • buttonholer — a person who buttonholes
  • by the neck — (of a bottle of beer) served unpoured
  • cack-handed — If you describe someone as cack-handed, you mean that they handle things in an awkward or clumsy way.
  • cacophonies — Plural form of cacophony.
  • caddishness — the state of being caddish
  • calf-length — Calf-length skirts, dresses, and coats come to halfway between your knees and ankles.
  • calisthenic — Of, or relating to calisthenics.
  • cameraphone — a mobile phone incorporating a camera
  • can crusher — a device which presses empty metal food containers in order to reduce their volume before they are disposed of
  • candlelight — Candlelight is the light that a candle produces.
  • canned heat — fuel packaged to be used in small cans for heating, as with chafing dishes or in portable stoves.
  • canoe birch — paper birch.
  • cantharides — a diuretic and urogenital stimulant or irritant prepared from the dried bodies of Spanish fly (family Meloidae, not Cantharidae), once thought to be an aphrodisiac
  • cap-haitien — a port in N Haiti: capital during the French colonial period. Pop: 134 000 (2005 est)
  • case-harden — to form a hard surface layer of high carbon content on (a steel component) by heating in a carburizing environment with subsequent quenching or heat treatment
  • casehardens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of caseharden.
  • cash income — income received in the form of cash during a specified period, esp that of rural and farming households
  • cashierment — the action of rejecting or dismissing
  • casing shoe — A casing shoe is the bottom of the casing string, including the cement around it.
  • catarrhines — Plural form of catarrhine.
  • catechising — Present participle of catechise.
  • catechizing — Present participle of catechize.
  • catechumens — Plural form of catechumen.
  • catherine i — ?1684–1727, second wife of Peter the Great, whom she succeeded as empress of Russia (1725–27)
  • cattishness — The property of being cattish.
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