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12-letter words containing h, e

  • brine shrimp — any of a genus (Artemia) of small fairy shrimp found in salt lakes and marshes and used as living, frozen, or dried food in aquariums
  • bristlemouth — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Gonostomatidae, having numerous sharp, slender teeth covering the jaws.
  • brochureware — (jargon, business)   A planned, but non-existent, product, like vaporware but with the added implication that marketing is actively selling and promoting it (they've printed brochures). Brochureware is often deployed to con customers into not committing to a competing existing product. The term is now especially applicable to new websites, website revisions, and ancillary services such as customer support and product return. Owing to the explosion of database-driven, cookie-using dot-coms (of the sort that can now deduce that you are, in fact, a dog), the term is now also used to describe sites made up of static HTML pages that contain not much more than contact info and mission statements. The term suggests that the company is small, irrelevant to the web, local in scope, clueless, broke, just starting out, or some combination thereof. Many new companies without product, funding, or even staff, post brochureware with investor info and press releases to help publicise their ventures. As of December 1999, examples include pop.com and cdradio.com. Small-timers that really have no business on the web such as lawncare companies and divorce laywers inexplicably have brochureware made that stays unchanged for years.
  • broken chord — a chord played as an arpeggio
  • broken heart — If you say that someone has a broken heart, you mean that they are very sad, for example because a love affair has ended unhappily.
  • broken-check — a check pattern in which the rectangular shapes are slightly irregular.
  • bromomethane — methyl bromide.
  • bronchogenic — bronchial in origin
  • bronchoscope — an instrument for examining and providing access to the interior of the bronchial tubes
  • brown hackle — an artificial fly having a peacock herl body, golden tag and tail, and brown hackle.
  • brunelleschi — Filippo (fiˈlippo). 1377–1446, Italian architect, whose works in Florence include the dome of the cathedral, the Pazzi chapel of Santa Croce, and the church of San Lorenzo
  • brush border — a layer of tightly packed minute finger-like protuberances on cells that line absorptive surfaces, such as those of the intestine and kidney
  • brush flower — a flower or inflorescence with numerous long stamens, usually pollinated by birds or bats
  • brush turkey — any of several gallinaceous birds, esp Alectura lathami, of New Guinea and Australia, having a black plumage: family Megapodidae (megapodes)
  • buccaneerish — of or relating to a buccaneer
  • bucket bench — a Pennsylvania Dutch dresser having a lower portion closed with doors for milk pails, an open shelf for water pails, and an upper section with shallow drawers.
  • buffet lunch — a lunch at which people stand up and help themselves from the table
  • bull thistle — a tall, spiny thistle, Cirsium vulgare, having heads of pink to purple flowers: a common weed in North America.
  • bumbleheaded — clumsy, plodding, or foolish: He stumbled through the talk in his bumbleheaded way.
  • burner phone — a disposable cell phone with prepaid service, often used with the intent to temporarily obscure the true identity or contact information of the user: Members of the cartel used burner phones to evade federal surveillance. I always give out the number from my burner phone when I’m going on a blind date.
  • bush leaguer — Also called busher. Baseball. a player in a minor league. an incompetent player, as one who behaves or plays as if he or she belonged in a minor league.
  • bush singlet — a black woollen singlet often worn by farm labourers
  • bush-leaguer — (in baseball) someone who plays in a minor league
  • bushelbasket — a rounded basket with a capacity of one bushel
  • bushy-tailed — bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, fresh, alert, eager, and lively
  • busted flush — a poker hand with four cards of the same suit that fails to form a flush when the final card is dealt
  • butcher shop — a shop in which meat, poultry, and sometimes fish are sold.
  • butter cloth — a type of open, unsized muslin
  • butterscotch — Butterscotch is a hard yellowish-brown sweet made from butter and sugar boiled together.
  • buy the farm — a tract of land, usually with a house, barn, silo, etc., on which crops and often livestock are raised for livelihood.
  • by the balls — so as to be rendered powerless
  • by the dozen — in large quantities
  • by the score — If things happen or exist by the score, they happen or exist in large numbers.
  • by wholesale — at wholesale
  • by-a-whisker — whiskers, a beard.
  • cabbage moth — a common brownish noctuid moth, Mamestra brassicae, the larva of which is destructive of cabbages and other plants
  • cable length — a unit of length in nautical use that has various values, including 100 fathoms (600 feet)
  • cable stitch — a pattern or series of knitting stitches producing a design like a twisted rope
  • cable-stitch — a series of stitches used in knitting to produce a cable effect.
  • cache memory — a small area of memory in a computer that can be accessed very quickly
  • cadent house — any of the four houses that precede the angles: the third, sixth, ninth, and twelfth houses, which correspond, respectively, to neighborhood and relatives, work and health, philosophy and foreign travel, and secret matters and service to others.
  • cadet branch — the family or family branch of a younger son
  • cadet school — a training establishment for cadets in the army
  • calisthenics — Calisthenics are simple exercises that you can do to keep fit and healthy.
  • calligraphed — Simple past tense and past participle of calligraph.
  • calligrapher — A calligrapher is a person skilled in the art of calligraphy.
  • callisthenes — c360–327 b.c, Greek philosopher: chronicled Alexander the Great's conquests.
  • callisthenic — Alternative spelling of calisthenic.
  • calycanthemy — the abnormal development of the calyx of a flower into a structure resembling a corolla
  • camel's hair — the hair of the camel
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