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11-letter words containing h, i, l, a

  • 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
  • blepharitis — inflammation of the eyelids
  • brachialgia — pain in the nerves of the upper arm.
  • brahminical — Hinduism. Brahman1 (def 1).
  • brain child — a product of one's creative work or thought.
  • 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.
  • branch wilt — a disease of walnut trees, characterized by sudden wilting of the leaves, and cankers and discoloration of the bark and branches, caused by a fungus, Hendersonula toruloidea.
  • bridal shop — a shop that specializes in selling bridal wear
  • bridewealth — (in some nonindustrial societies) the money or goods given to the family of a bride by the bridegroom or his family.
  • bridle hand — (of a horseback rider) the hand, usually the left hand, that holds both reins or both pairs of reins, leaving the other hand free to manage a whip, crop, lariat, or the like.
  • bridle path — A bridle path is a path intended for people riding horses.
  • bright coal — coal consisting of alternating layers of clarain and vitrain.
  • brith milah — the rite of circumcision on the eighth day after birth
  • buffalofish — any of several freshwater North American hump-backed cyprinoid fishes of the genus Ictiobus: family Catostomidae (suckers)
  • bulkheading — the construction of bulkheads; bulkheads in general.
  • bushwalking — an expedition on foot in the bush
  • cachectical — cachetic
  • calathiform — cup-shaped; concave.
  • calico bush — mountain laurel
  • calisthenic — Of, or relating to calisthenics.
  • calligraphy — Calligraphy is the art of producing beautiful handwriting using a brush or a special pen.
  • callimachus — late 5th century bc, Greek sculptor, reputed to have invented the Corinthian capital
  • camphor oil — a colorless liquid obtained from the wood of the camphor tree by distillation and separation from the solid camphor, used in varnish, soaps, and shoe polish, and in medicine chiefly as a rubefacient.
  • candlelight — Candlelight is the light that a candle produces.
  • canophilist — a person who loves dogs
  • cantharidal — relating to or made of cantharides
  • capiz shell — whitish, translucent shell of the Philippines, used in making lamp shades, decorative articles, etc.
  • carry light — a searchlight used to illuminate a target while it is tracked and fired upon.
  • cartophilic — relating to cartophily
  • cashability — money or an equivalent, as a check, paid at the time of making a purchase.
  • catch flies — any of various plants, especially of the genera Silene and Lychnis, having a viscid secretion on the stem and calyx in which small insects are sometimes caught.
  • catechismal — Of or pertaining to a catechism; having the form of questions and answers; catechical.
  • cathartical — Cathartic.
  • catholicate — the legal power of the leader of an Armenian church
  • catholicism — Catholicism is the traditions, the behaviour, and the set of Christian beliefs that are held by Catholics.
  • catholicity — a wide range of interests, tastes, etc; liberality
  • catholicize — to make or become catholic
  • cavalierish — like a cavalier
  • cephalalgia — headache (def 1).
  • cephalalgic — relating to or affected by headache
  • cephalothin — a cephalosporin antibiotic often used in the treatment of bacterial infections
  • chain coral — coral of the extinct genus Halysites, from the Ordovician and Silurian periods, consisting of oval, laterally compressed corallites united to form a chainlike structure.
  • chain plate — any of the metal plates secured to the hull of a sailing vessel or elsewhere to hold shrouds and backstays at their lower ends.
  • chain wheel — sprocket (def 1).
  • chainplates — Plural form of chainplate.
  • chair table — an article of furniture, produced especially in colonial America, that can serve as either a table or a chair, having, as a chair, a large, usually circular, hinged back that can be pulled down and rested on the arms to form a tabletop.
  • chairpeople — a person who presides over a meeting, committee, board, etc.
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