11-letter words containing h, o, b, l
- flashboards — Plural form of flashboard.
- four-h club — an organization sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, established chiefly to instruct young people, originally in rural areas, in modern farming methods and other useful skills, as carpentry and home economics.
- galeophobia — The fear of sharks.
- globefishes — Plural form of globefish.
- gopher ball — a pitched ball hit for a home run: leading the league in gopher balls.
- habilitator — to clothe or dress.
- haemoglobin — (protein) alternative spelling of hemoglobin.
- half-boiled — drunk.
- half-bottle — a bottle half the size of a standard bottle of wine, spirits, etc
- half-broken — past participle of break.
- halfbrother — Alternative spelling of half brother.
- halo blight — a disease of plants, characterized by small, necrotic leaf or fruit lesions surrounded by a yellowish, halolike band, caused by any of several bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas.
- halocarbons — Plural form of halocarbon.
- halsingborg — a seaport in SW Sweden, opposite Helsingör.
- hammer blow — a blow from a hammer
- haptoglobin — A protein present in blood serum that binds to and removes free hemoglobin from the bloodstream.
- harbor seal — a small, spotted seal, Phoca vitulina, of the Atlantic coasts of North America and Europe and the Pacific coast of northern North America.
- harbourless — Without a harbour.
- hard labour — Hard labour is hard physical work which people have to do as punishment for a crime.
- hard-boiled — Cookery. (of an egg) boiled in the shell long enough for the yolk and white to solidify.
- heart block — a defect in the electrical impulses of the heart resulting in any of various arrhythmias or irregularities in the heartbeat.
- heliophobia — Fear of sunlight.
- heliophobic — fearing or unable to withstand sunlight
- helleborein — a yellow, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous solid, C 37 H 56 O 18 , obtained from the rhizome and root of certain hellebores, and used in medicine chiefly as a heart stimulant.
- helleborine — A mainly woodland orchid occurring chiefly in north temperate regions.
- helsingborg — a port in SW Sweden, on the Sound opposite Helsingør, Denmark: changed hands several times between Denmark and Sweden, finally becoming Swedish in 1710; shipbuilding. Pop: 121 097 (2004 est)
- hematoblast — an immature blood cell, especially a red blood cell.
- herbologist — the study or collecting of herbs, especially as a hobby.
- hereinbelow — afterward in this document, statement, etc.
- high blower — a horse that produces a blowing sound when exhaling.
- highblooded — of high blood, family, or race
- hobbledehoy — an awkward, ungainly youth.
- hobbletehoy — Archaic form of hobbledehoy.
- hobgoblinry — the behaviour or activities of hobgoblins
- hold button — a button on a telephone that enables someone to interrupt an incoming call temporarily in order to answer another call.
- holiday job — a temporary job taken by a person during their holidays from school, college or university
- hollow back — a paper tube or roll, almost flattened, having one side glued to the back of a book and the other to the inside of the spine.
- hollow-back — a paper tube or roll, almost flattened, having one side glued to the back of a book and the other to the inside of the spine.
- holly berry — a bitter, slightly poisonous berry that grows on holly trees or shrubs
- holobenthic — (of an animal) completing its life cycle in the ocean depths
- holoblastic — (of certain eggs) undergoing total cleavage, resulting in equal blastomeres.
- holus-bolus — all at once; altogether.
- homebuilder — a person whose occupation is homebuilding.
- homoblastic — (of a plant or plant part) showing no difference in form between the juvenile and the adult structures
- hoplophobia — (pejorative, rare) The fear of guns.
- hornblendic — Of or pertaining to hornblende.
- horse block — a step or block of stone, wood, etc., for getting on or off a horse or in or out of a vehicle.
- hostile bid — A hostile takeover bid is one that is opposed by the company that is being bid for.
- hot-blooded — excitable; impetuous.
- hullaballoo — Alternative spelling of hullabaloo.