10-letter words containing h, e, r, b, l
- harborless — Alternative spelling of harbourless.
- hardballer — (informal) One who exhibits hardball (tough or ruthless) behaviour.
- hardboiled — Alternative spelling of hard-boiled.
- hardenable — to make hard or harder: to harden steel.
- heidelberg — a city in NW Baden-Württemberg, in SW Germany: university, founded 1386.
- hellbender — a large salamander, Cryptobranchus alleganiensis, of rivers and streams in eastern North America, having a flat, stout body and broad head.
- hellebores — Plural form of hellebore.
- helleborin — a colorless, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous solid, C 28 H 36 O 6 , obtained from the rhizome and root of certain hellebores, and used in medicine chiefly as a purgative.
- herbal tea — drink: plant infusion
- herbalists — Plural form of herbalist.
- herbicidal — Of, or relating to herbicides.
- heriotable — liable for the payment of a heriot
- heronsbill — any of a genus (Erodium) of plants of the geranium family, with fine leaves and yellow, white, or reddish flowers
- hibernacle — a protective case or covering, especially for winter, as of an animal or a plant bud.
- hildebrand — Saint (Hildebrand) c1020–85, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1073–85.
- holy bread — bread used in a Eucharistic service, both before and after consecration.
- honourable — (British spelling) Alternative form of honorable.
- hornblende — a dark-green to black mineral of the amphibole group, calcium magnesium iron and hydroxyl aluminosilicate.
- hornblower — One who, or that which, blows a horn.
- horse balm — a lemon-scented plant, Collinsonia canadensis, of eastern North America, having small yellow flowers.
- humblebrag — a statement intended as a boast or brag but disguised by a humble apology, complaint, etc.
- hyperbolas — Plural form of hyperbola.
- hyperboles — Plural form of hyperbole.
- hyperbolic — having the nature of hyperbole; exaggerated.
- jobholders — Plural form of jobholder.
- kohlrabies — Plural form of kohlrabi.
- lethbridge — a city in S Alberta, in SW Canada.
- lévy-bruhl — Lucien (lysjɛ̃). 1857–1939, French anthropologist and philosopher, noted for his study of the psychology of primitive peoples
- light beer — beer with a lower alcohol content than average
- lightsaber — a type of sword, as depicted in the fictional Star Wars universe, with a blade made of laser energy that can both cut and burn: The Jedi knight drew his lightsaber and prepared to defend himself.
- lightsabre — Alternative spelling of lightsaber.
- live birth — the birth of a living child
- lunchbreak — A period of rest from work for the purpose of eating lunch.
- marblehead — a resort in NE Massachusetts: yachting.
- muhlenberg — Frederick Augustus Conrad, 1750–1801, U.S. clergyman and statesman: first Speaker of the House 1789–91, 1793–95.
- neighborly — having or showing qualities befitting a neighbor; friendly.
- ombrophile — a plant which survives well or flourishes in rainy conditions
- overbleach — (transitive) To bleach too much.
- perishable — subject to decay, ruin, or destruction: perishable fruits and vegetables.
- phlebogram — venogram.
- prepublish — to publish in advance of a scheduled date.
- publishers — a publishing company
- relishable — liking or enjoyment of the taste of something.
- rhumb line — a curve on the surface of a sphere that cuts all meridians at the same angle. It is the path taken by a vessel or aircraft that maintains a constant compass direction.
- searchable — to go or look through (a place, area, etc.) carefully in order to find something missing or lost: They searched the woods for the missing child. I searched the desk for the letter.
- shark bell — a bell sounded to warn swimmers of the presence of sharks
- sloth bear — a coarse-haired, long-snouted bear, Ursus ursinus, of India and Indochina: now rare.
- tetherball — a game for two persons, in which each player, standing on each side of a post from the top of which a ball is suspended by a cord, hits the ball with the hand or a paddle in a direction opposite to that in which the other player hits it, the object being to coil the cord completely around the post.
- the rabble — the common people
- thimblerig — a sleight-of-hand swindling game in which the operator palms a pellet or pea while appearing to cover it with one of three thimblelike cups, and then, moving the cups about, offers to bet that no one can tell under which cup the pellet or pea lies.