10-letter words containing h, e, r, i
- blithering — talking foolishly; jabbering
- boccherini — Luigi (luˈidʒi). 1743–1805, Italian composer and cellist
- bodhi tree — the sacred peepul at Buddh Gaya under which Gautama Siddhartha attained enlightenment and became the Buddha
- boosterish — designed to boost business; optimistic
- bounderish — having the qualities of a bounder
- branchiate — having gills.
- brandished — to shake or wave, as a weapon; flourish: Brandishing his sword, he rode into battle.
- break with — to end a relationship or association with (someone or an organization or social group)
- breathe in — When you breathe in, you take some air into your lungs.
- brickearth — a clayey alluvium suitable for the making of bricks: specifically, such a deposit in southern England, yielding a fertile soil
- bridgehead — A bridgehead is a good position which an army has taken in the enemy's territory and from which it can advance or attack.
- brightener — a person or thing that brightens.
- brightline — (of rules, standards, etc.) unambiguously clear: This muddies the waters of what should be a brightline rule.
- brightness — the condition of being bright
- brightsome — bright or luminous
- bring home — introduce to parents
- brokership — an agent who buys or sells for a principal on a commission basis without having title to the property.
- bronchiole — any of the smallest bronchial tubes, usually ending in alveoli
- brunnhilde — the heroine of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelungs. Compare Siegfried.
- brush fire — a fire in brushwood
- brush-fire — limited in scope, area, or importance, as some labor disputes or local skirmishes.
- burchfield — Charles Ephraim, 1893–1967, U.S. painter.
- butlership — the skills of a butler
- butterfish — an eel-like blennioid food fish, Pholis gunnellus, occurring in North Atlantic coastal regions: family Pholidae (gunnels). It has a slippery scaleless golden brown skin with a row of black spots along the base of the long dorsal fin
- caerphilly — a market town in SE Wales, in Caerphilly county borough: site of the largest castle in Wales (13th–14th centuries). Pop: 31 060 (2001)
- camel hair — the hair of the camel, used especially for cloth, painters' brushes, and Oriental rugs.
- camel-hair — A camel-hair coat is made of a kind of soft, thick woollen cloth, usually creamy-brown in colour.
- camelshair — (attributive) The hair of a camel, used for paintbrushes etc.
- campership — financial aid given to a needy youngster to attend summer camp.
- cane chair — a chair, the back and seat of which are made of interlaced strips of cane.
- carchemish — an ancient city in Syria on the Euphrates, lying on major trade routes; site of a victory of the Babylonians over the Egyptians (605 bc)
- careership — An approach to career-related decision-making, combining rationality, interactions with others, and responses to sometimes unpredictable events.
- carmichael — Hoaglund Howard (ˈhəʊɡlənd), known as Hoagy. 1899–1981, US pianist, singer, and composer of such standards as "Star Dust" (1929)
- carthamine — a yellow or red dye obtained from safflower
- cartophile — a cartophilist
- cash price — discount
- cash prize — a prize in a competition that takes the form of money
- cashiering — to dismiss (a military officer) from service, especially with disgrace.
- catarrhine — (of apes and Old World monkeys) having the nostrils set close together and opening to the front of the face
- catch fire — to ignite
- catechizer — One who catechizes.
- catwhisker — a sharply pointed, flexible wire used to make contact with a specific point on a semiconductor or a crystal detector
- censorship — Censorship is the censoring of books, plays, films, or reports, especially by government officials, because they are considered immoral or secret in some way.
- chaffering — Present participle of chaffer.
- chagrinned — a feeling of vexation, marked by disappointment or humiliation.
- chain fern — any of several ferns of the genus Woodwardia, having a chainlike row of sori on either side of the midrib of each fertile leaflet.
- chain gear — a gear assembly in which motion is transmitted by means of a chain.
- chain rule — a theorem that may be used in the differentiation of the function of a function. It states that du/dx = (du/dy)(dy/dx), where y is a function of x and u a function of y
- chainbrake — a device for cutting off the power to a chainsaw if the saw kicks back
- chairborne — having an administrative or desk job rather than a more active one