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12-letter words containing h, i

  • blind stitch — a type of stitch that is visible on one side of the material only
  • bloodthirsty — Bloodthirsty people are eager to use violence or display a strong interest in violent things. You can also use bloodthirsty to refer to very violent situations.
  • bloody shirt — something, as a political issue or historical event, that can be used to stir up outrage, partisan support, etc.
  • blue catfish — a large freshwater catfish, Ictalurus furcatus, that is a popular food fish in the states of the Mississippi River valley.
  • blue thistle — blueweed (def 1).
  • blue whiting — a fish of the cod family, Micromesistius poutassou
  • blue-thistle — Also called blue thistle. a bristly weed, Echium vulgare, of the borage family, having showy blue flowers, a native of Europe naturalized in the U.S.
  • boar-hunting — the practice of hunting wild boars
  • boatsmanship — seamanship as applied to boats, especially rowboats and motorboats.
  • body english — a follow-through motion of the body, as after bowling a ball, in a semi-involuntary or joking effort to control the ball's movement
  • boiled shirt — a dress shirt with a stiff front
  • boiler house — a building housing a boiler
  • bolshevikism — the doctrines, methods, or procedure of the Bolsheviks.
  • bolshevistic — of, relating to, or characteristic of Bolshevists or Bolshevism.
  • bolt upright — If someone is sitting or standing bolt upright, they are sitting or standing very straight.
  • bombay hills — a row of hills marking the southern boundary of greater Auckland on the North Island, New Zealand
  • bond washing — a series of deals in bonds made with the intention of avoiding taxation
  • border light — a striplight hung upstage of a border, for lighting the stage.
  • boucherville — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
  • bounce light — Also, bounce lighting. light that is bounced off a reflective surface onto the subject in order to achieve a softer lighting effect.
  • bourke-white — Margaret. 1906–71, US photographer, a pioneer of modern photojournalism: noted esp for her coverage of World War II
  • boxing match — a competition between two boxers
  • brachycranic — having a cranial index of 81.0–85.4.
  • brainwashing — the process of brainwashing.
  • branch point — Electricity. a point in an electric network at which three or more conductors meet.
  • 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.
  • brigham city — a city in N Utah.
  • bright spark — If you say that some bright spark had a particular idea or did something, you mean that their idea or action was clever, or that it seemed clever but was silly in some way.
  • 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
  • brinkmanship — Brinkmanship is a method of behaviour, especially in politics, in which you deliberately get into dangerous situations which could result in disaster but which could also bring success.
  • bristlemouth — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Gonostomatidae, having numerous sharp, slender teeth covering the jaws.
  • british list — a list, maintained by the British Ornithologists' Union, of birds accepted as occurring at least once in the British Isles
  • british rail — the organization that ran the British railway system from 1948 until privatization in the mid-1990s
  • british warm — an army officer's short thick overcoat
  • bromhidrosis — the secretion of foul-smelling sweat.
  • 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
  • brushability — the quality of being brushable
  • buccaneerish — of or relating to a buccaneer
  • buffalo fish — any of a genus (Ictiobus) of large, humpbacked, freshwater sucker fishes found in North America
  • bull thistle — a tall, spiny thistle, Cirsium vulgare, having heads of pink to purple flowers: a common weed in North America.
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