11-letter words containing h, i, b, e
- bequeathing — to dispose of (personal property, especially money) by last will: She bequeathed her half of the company to her niece.
- beth hillel — the school of Jewish legal thought and hermeneutics founded in Jerusalem in the 1st century b.c. by the Jewish spiritual leader Hillel and characterized by its systematic use of interpretive principles and a certain flexibility in interpreting the oral and written law.
- bewhiskered — having whiskers on the cheeks
- bewitchment — the state of being bewitched
- bibliophage — an ardent reader; a bookworm.
- bibliophile — a person who collects or is fond of books
- bibliophobe — a person who hates, fears, or distrusts books.
- bibliotheca — a library or collection of books
- bicephalous — having two heads
- big brother — People sometimes use Big Brother to refer to a person, government, or organization when they think it has complete control over people and is always checking what they do.
- big-hearted — If you describe someone as big-hearted, you think they are kind and generous, and always willing to help people.
- bimorphemic — pertaining to two morphemes
- bindheimite — a mineral, hydrous antimonate of lead, resulting from the alteration of lead antimony ores.
- bing cherry — a dark-red variety of sweet cherry
- binge-watch — to watch a large number of television programmes (especially all the shows from one series) in succession
- biochemical — Biochemical changes, reactions, and mechanisms relate to the chemical processes that happen in living things.
- bioethicist — a field of study concerned with the ethics and philosophical implications of certain biological and medical procedures, technologies, and treatments, as organ transplants, genetic engineering, and care of the terminally ill.
- biographize — to write a biography of (someone)
- bioresearch — the investigation of the nature of living organisms; biological research.
- bird cherry — a small Eurasian rosaceous tree, Prunus padus, with clusters of white flowers and small black fruits
- birthparent — a person's parent related biologically rather than by adoption
- birthweight — the weight of an infant at birth.
- birtwhistle — Harrison, born 1934, English composer.
- bitter herb — an Old World herb, Centaurium erythraea, used dried in medicine as a tonic.
- bitterbrush — a flowering plant of the genus Purshia, native to North America
- blasphemies — impious utterance or action concerning God or sacred things.
- blaspheming — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
- bleacherite — someone who sits in the bleachers at a sports stadium
- bleed white — to deprive slowly of resources
- blemishment — a flaw or blemish
- blepharitis — inflammation of the eyelids
- blue schist — a metamorphic rock formed under conditions of high pressure and relatively low temperature
- blue shield — Blue Cross and Blue Shield.
- blytheville — a city in NE Arkansas.
- body shield — a small bulletproof shield attached to the arm for fending off projectiles, especially in a riot situation.
- bohemianism — unconventional behaviour or appearance, esp of an artist
- bondi beach — a beach in Sydney, Australia, popular with surfers
- bonefishing — the activity of fishing for bonefish
- boorishness — of or like a boor; unmannered; crude; insensitive.
- borohydride — any compound, such as sodium borohydride, which contains the radical BH4
- botheration — bother
- brain death — Brain death occurs when someone's brain stops functioning, even though their heart may be kept beating using a machine.
- brake light — a red light attached to the rear of a motor vehicle that lights up when the brakes are applied, serving as a warning to following drivers
- branch line — A branch line is a railway line that goes to small towns rather than one that goes between large cities.
- breadthwise — in the direction of the breadth
- breatharian — a person who believes that it is possible to subsist healthily on air alone
- breathiness — (of the voice) characterized by audible or excessive emission of breath.
- breconshire — (until 1974) a county of SE Wales, now mainly in Powys: over half its area forms the Brecon Beacons National Park
- brickshaped — resembling the shape of a brick
- bridewealth — (in some nonindustrial societies) the money or goods given to the family of a bride by the bridegroom or his family.