11-letter words containing h, e, r, b, o
- breechblock — a metal block in breech-loading firearms that is withdrawn to insert the cartridge and replaced to close the breech before firing
- breechcloth — a cloth worn about the loins; loincloth
- breechclout — a cloth worn about the breech and loins; loincloth.
- breshkovsky — Catherine, 1844–1934, Russian revolutionary of noble birth: called “the little grandmother of the Russian Revolution.”.
- broad reach — an act or instance of reaching: to make a reach for a gun.
- 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.
- brotherhood — Brotherhood is the affection and loyalty that you feel for people who you have something in common with.
- brotherlike — like a brother
- 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.
- brushpopper — a cowboy, especially one who works in the brush.
- brushstroke — Brushstrokes are the marks made on a surface by a painter's brush.
- bumbershoot — an umbrella
- 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
- bush clover — any of several plants or shrubs belonging to the genus Lespedeza, of the legume family, having pinnately trifoliate leaves and heads of pink, purple, cream, or white flowers.
- bush oyster — a bull's testicle when cooked and eaten
- bush parole — an escape from prison.
- butterworth — George. 1885–1916, British composer, noted for his interest in folk song and his settings of Housman's poems
- buttonholer — a person who buttonholes
- canoe birch — paper birch.
- ceramic hob — (on an electric cooker) a flat ceramic cooking surface having heating elements fitted on the underside, usually patterned to show the areas where heat is produced
- chamber pop — pop music that incorporates orchestral arrangements
- chamber pot — A chamber pot is a round container shaped like a very large cup. Chamber pots used to be kept in bedrooms so that people could urinate in them instead of having to leave their room during the night.
- chamber-pot — a portable container, especially for urine, used in bedrooms.
- charbroiled — Charbroiled meat or fish has been cooked so that it burns slightly and turns black.
- charbroiler — a grill or other equipment used for charbroiling
- chatterbots — Plural form of chatterbot.
- cheeseboard — A cheeseboard is a board from which cheese is served at a meal.
- chemisorbed — Simple past tense and past participle of chemisorb.
- cherry bomb — a powerful firecracker that is shaped like a cherry
- chess-board — the board, identical with a checkerboard, used for playing chess.
- chessboards — Plural form of chessboard.
- chifforobes — Plural form of chifforobe.
- chromophobe — a cell that does not take a stain easily
- chrysoberyl — a rare very hard greenish-yellow mineral consisting of beryllium aluminate in orthorhombic crystalline form and occurring in coarse granite: used as a gemstone in the form of cat's eye and alexandrite. Formula: BeAl2O4
- cooch behar — a former state of NE India: part of West Bengal since 1950
- copublisher — a publisher that publishes a work in conjunction with another publisher
- corbel arch — a construction like an arch but composed of masonry courses corbeled until they meet.
- cross-bench — a seat in Parliament occupied by a neutral or independent member
- cyberphobia — an irrational fear of computers
- dear-bought — having been purchased at great expense
- drop behind — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- echo boomer — a member of Generation Y, born in the 1980s or 1990s; a Millennial.
- embouchures — Plural form of embouchure.
- embryopathy — (pathology) Any developmental disorder of an embryo.