12-letter words containing h, e, r, b
- harbour seal — a common earless seal, Phoca vitulina, that is greyish-black with paler markings: found off the coasts of North America, N Europe, and NE Asia
- hard done by — If you feel hard done by, you feel that you have not been treated fairly.
- hardscrabble — providing or yielding meagerly in return for much effort; demanding or unrewarding: the hardscrabble existence of mountainside farmers.
- hare wallaby — a wallaby of the genus Lagorchestes
- hare-brained — giddy; reckless.
- haricot bean — Haricot beans are small white beans that are eaten as a vegetable. They are often sold dried rather than fresh.
- harmonizable — That can be harmonized.
- harquebusier — a soldier armed with a harquebus.
- hawk's beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
- hawk's-beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
- hearken back — to go back in thought or speech; revert; hark back
- heartbreaker — a person, event, or thing causing heartbreak.
- heartburning — rankling discontent, especially from envy or jealousy; grudge.
- heat barrier — thermal barrier.
- heavy bomber — a large plane capable of carrying heavy bomb loads for long distances, especially at high altitudes.
- hebephreniac — a person suffering from hebephrenia
- hedda gabler — a play (1890) by Henrik Ibsen.
- hedenbergite — a contact metamorphic mineral of the pyroxene family, calcium ferrous silicate, CaFe(SiO 3) 2 , that forms black prismatic crystals in crystalline limestone.
- helicobacter — Any member of the Helicobacter bacteria.
- helleborines — Plural form of helleborine.
- helping verb — auxiliary verb.
- herbicidally — from a herbicidal point of view
- herbivourous — Misspelling of herbivorous.
- hereinbefore — before in this document, statement, etc.
- heritability — capable of being inherited; inheritable; hereditary.
- heron's-bill — stork's-bill (def 1).
- herring boat — a fishing boat that specializes in catching herring
- herringboned — Simple past tense and past participle of herringbone.
- herringbones — Plural form of herringbone.
- heteroblasty — the morphological changes that occur in plants between juvenility and adulthood
- heterophobia — Fear or resentment of what is different.
- hexacarbonyl — (inorganic chemistry) Any compound having six carbonyl groups.
- hexobarbital — a barbiturate with hypnotic and sedative properties
- hibernaculum — a protective case or covering, especially for winter, as of an animal or a plant bud.
- hibernations — Plural form of hibernation.
- hobble skirt — a woman's skirt that is very narrow at the bottom, causing the wearer to walk with short, mincing steps.
- hobby farmer — a person who runs a farm as a hobby rather than a means of making a living
- homebuilders — Plural form of homebuilder.
- honey badger — ratel.
- hop hornbeam — any of several Eurasian and North American trees of the genus Ostrya, of the birch family, especially O. virginiana, bearing hoplike fruiting clusters.
- hopper barge — a barge for disposing of garbage, dredged material, etc., having hoppers in the bottom through which such cargo can be dumped.
- horn balance — an extension of an aircraft control surface that projects in front of the hinge providing aerodynamic assistance in moving the control
- horribleness — causing or tending to cause horror; shockingly dreadful: a horrible sight.
- horsebreaker — One who trains, or breaks in, horses.
- house number — the unique number given to each building on a street which forms part of that building's address
- house-broken — (of a pet) trained to avoid excreting inside the house or in improper places.
- housebreaker — a person who breaks into and enters a house with a felonious intent.
- housebuilder — One who builds houses, particularly one who does so professionally.
- hubertusburg — a castle in E Germany, E of Leipzig: treaty ending the Seven Years' War signed here 1763.
- hugh loebner — (person) Dr. Hugh Gene Loebner, the instigator of the Loebner Prize in artificial intelligence. E-mail address: Hugh Loebner <[email protected]>.