12-letter words containing h, o, b
- herringbones — Plural form of herringbone.
- hessian boot — a knee-high tasseled boot, fashionable in England in the early 19th century.
- heteroblasty — the morphological changes that occur in plants between juvenility and adulthood
- heterophobia — Fear or resentment of what is different.
- hexacarbonyl — (inorganic chemistry) Any compound having six carbonyl groups.
- hexobarbital — a barbiturate with hypnotic and sedative properties
- hibernations — Plural form of hibernation.
- higgs bugson — (humour) A hypothetical bug predicted to exist based on a small number of possibly related event log entries and vague anecdotal user reports. The Higgs Bugson is difficult to reproduce because you don't really know if it's there, and if it is there what is causing it. To find one you will need a Large Hadron Debugger.
- high wycombe — a town in S central England, in S Buckinghamshire: furniture industry. Pop: 77 178 (2001)
- hiking boots — stout, sturdy boots, suitable for hiking in
- hillsborough — a town in W California.
- hispanophobe — a person who dislikes Hispanic culture or the Spanish language.
- hkakabo razi — the highest peak in Myanmar, in Kachin state, in the N. 19,294 feet (5881 meters).
- hobble skirt — a woman's skirt that is very narrow at the bottom, causing the wearer to walk with short, mincing steps.
- hobblebushes — Plural form of hobblebush.
- hobbledehoys — Plural form of hobbledehoy.
- hobby farmer — a person who runs a farm as a hobby rather than a means of making a living
- hobgoblinism — a belief in hobgoblins
- hobnail boot — a boot with a hobnail in the sole
- home banking — a system whereby a person at home or in an office can use a computer with a modem to call up information from a bank or to transfer funds electronically
- homebuilders — Plural form of homebuilder.
- homebuilding — the designing or constructing of houses.
- homo habilis — an extinct species of upright East African hominid having some advanced humanlike characteristics, dated as being from about 1.5 million to more than 2 million years old and proposed as an early form of Homo leading to modern humans.
- homoflexible — Primarily homosexual, but willing to take part in a limited amount of heterosexual activity.
- honey badger — ratel.
- honey bucket — a container for excrement, as in an outdoor toilet.
- honeycombing — Present participle of honeycomb.
- honor bright — upon my honor; really and truly: I did sweep the floor, honor bright.
- honorability — (American spelling) Alternative form of honourability.
- honour-bound — morally obliged
- hop hornbeam — any of several Eurasian and North American trees of the genus Ostrya, of the birch family, especially O. virginiana, bearing hoplike fruiting clusters.
- hopper barge — a barge for disposing of garbage, dredged material, etc., having hoppers in the bottom through which such cargo can be dumped.
- horizon club — a division of Camp Fire, Inc., for members of high-school age.
- horn balance — an extension of an aircraft control surface that projects in front of the hinge providing aerodynamic assistance in moving the control
- horribleness — causing or tending to cause horror; shockingly dreadful: a horrible sight.
- horsebreaker — One who trains, or breaks in, horses.
- hosepipe ban — a ban, due to water shortage, on using hosepipes to water the garden or wash cars
- hospital bed — a bed having side rails that can be raised or lowered and a mattress base in three jointed sections so that the head, foot, or middle may be raised by a crank or motor, allowing a patient to lie in various positions, as a therapeutic aid or for comfort.
- hour by hour — each hour
- house number — the unique number given to each building on a street which forms part of that building's address
- house-broken — (of a pet) trained to avoid excreting inside the house or in improper places.
- housebreaker — a person who breaks into and enters a house with a felonious intent.
- housebuilder — One who builds houses, particularly one who does so professionally.
- househusband — a man whose spouse works and who stays home to manage their household.
- hugh loebner — (person) Dr. Hugh Gene Loebner, the instigator of the Loebner Prize in artificial intelligence. E-mail address: Hugh Loebner <[email protected]>.
- humboldt bay — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean in NW California.
- hybrid vigor — heterosis.
- hydrobiology — the study of aquatic organisms.
- hydrobromate — (chemistry) hydrobromide.
- hydrobromide — a salt formed by the direct union of hydrobromic acid and an organic base, especially an alkaloid, usually more soluble than the base.