12-letter words containing h, i, b, e, r
- boucherville — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
- bourke-white — Margaret. 1906–71, US photographer, a pioneer of modern photojournalism: noted esp for her coverage of World War II
- braunschweig — Brunswick
- breathtaking — If you say that something is breathtaking, you are emphasizing that it is extremely beautiful or amazing.
- breech birth — birth of a baby with the feet or buttocks appearing first
- breed's hill — a hill in E Massachusetts, adjoining Bunker Hill: the true site of the Battle of Bunker Hill (1775)
- breuer chair — a chair with a frame of continuous chrome tubing, no back legs, and cane seat and back
- brick cheese — a ripened, semisoft American cheese shaped like a brick and containing many small holes
- bridge chair — a lightweight folding chair, often part of a set of matching chairs and bridge table.
- bridge cloth — a tablecloth for a bridge table.
- bridge house — a deckhouse including a bridge or bridges for navigation.
- bright-field — of or relating to the illuminated region about the object of a microscope.
- 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.
- bronchogenic — bronchial in origin
- 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
- buccaneerish — of or relating to a buccaneer
- by-a-whisker — whiskers, a beard.
- cancerphobia — an excessive fear of getting cancer
- carbocholine — carbachol.
- chamberlains — Plural form of chamberlain.
- chambermaids — Plural form of chambermaid.
- cherry birch — sweet birch.
- cherubically — In a cherubic way.
- child abuser — someone who abuses a child, esp someone convicted of this
- childbearing — Childbearing is the process of giving birth to babies.
- chiliburgers — Plural form of chiliburger.
- chimneyboard — a partition or a cover to shut off a fireplace
- chinaberries — Plural form of chinaberry.
- chinese burn — a minor torture inflicted by twisting the skin of a person's wrist or arm in two different directions simultaneously
- chokeberries — Plural form of chokeberry.
- club fighter — a mediocre boxer who fights mostly on programs at small sporting clubs
- coachbuilder — (historical) A builder of horse-drawn coaches.
- debaucheries — Plural form of debauchery.
- decipherable — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
- denbighshire — a county of N Wales: split between Clwyd and Gwynedd in 1974; reinstated with different boundaries in 1996: borders the Irish Sea, with the Cambrian Mountains in the south: chiefly agricultural. Administrative centre: Ruthin. Pop: 94 900 (2003 est). Area: 844 sq km (327 sq miles)
- dibranchiate — of, relating to, or belonging to the Dibranchiata, a group or former order of cephalopod molluscs, including the octopuses, squids, and cuttlefish, having two gills
- die horribly — (jargon) The software equivalent of crash and burn, and the preferred emphatic form of die. "The converter choked on an FF in its input and died horribly".
- disburthened — Simple past tense and past participle of disburthen.
- dishonorable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- e-thrombosis — a clot in the bloodstream caused by long periods spent being physically inactive at a computer
- early blight — a disease of plants characterized by leaf spotting, defoliation, and stunted growth, caused by any of several fungi, as Alternaria solani or Cercospora apii.
- elephantbird — Alternative form of elephant bird.
- exhibitioner — A student who has been awarded an exhibition (scholarship).
- featherbrain — a foolish or giddy person; scatterbrain.
- fines herbes — a mixture of finely chopped herbs, used to flavour omelettes, salads, etc
- firebreather — A performer who creates fireballs by breathing a fine mist of fuel over an open flame.
- franchisable — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- gaithersburg — a town in central Maryland.
- get the bird — to be fired or dismissed