11-letter words containing h, o, r, t
- bartholomew — one of the twelve apostles (Matthew 10:3). Feast day: Aug 24 or June 11
- basset horn — an obsolete woodwind instrument of the clarinet family
- bath oliver — a kind of unsweetened biscuit
- bathometers — Plural form of bathometer.
- beanshooter — peashooter
- behaviorist — the theory or doctrine that human or animal psychology can be accurately studied only through the examination and analysis of objectively observable and quantifiable behavioral events, in contrast with subjective mental states.
- betrothment — the act or state of being betrothed; engagement.
- 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.
- blameworthy — deserving disapproval or censure
- bletcherous — /blech'*-r*s/ Disgusting in design or function; aesthetically unappealing. This word is seldom used of people. "This keyboard is bletcherous!" (Perhaps the keys don't work very well, or are misplaced.) The term bletcherous applies to the esthetics of the thing so described; similarly for cretinous. By contrast, something that is "losing" or "bagbiting" may be failing to meet objective criteria.
- boat anchor — 1. Like doorstop but more severe; implies that the offending hardware is irreversibly dead or useless. "That was a working motherboard once. One lightning strike later, instant boat anchor!" 2. A person who just takes up space. 3. Obsolete but still working hardware, especially when used of an old S100-bus hobbyist system; originally a term of annoyance, but became more and more affectionate as the hardware became more and more obsolete.
- body rhythm — biorhythm.
- bohr theory — a theory of atomic structure that explains the spectrum of hydrogen atoms. It assumes that the electron orbiting around the nucleus can exist only in certain energy states, a jump from one state to another being accompanied by the emission or absorption of a quantum of radiation
- boldhearted — courageous or daring; intrepid.
- book rights — the legal right to make use of the text of a printed book
- botheration — bother
- bottlebrush — a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft, used for cleaning bottles
- bournemouth — a resort in S England, in Bournemouth unitary authority, Dorset, on the English Channel. Pop: 167 527 (2001)
- brachiation — locomotion accomplished by swinging by the arms from one hold to another.
- brachyodont — (of mammals, such as humans) having teeth with short crowns
- breathe out — When you breathe out, you send air out of your lungs through your nose or mouth.
- breechcloth — a cloth worn about the loins; loincloth
- breechclout — a cloth worn about the breech and loins; loincloth.
- bright coal — coal consisting of alternating layers of clarain and vitrain.
- bright wool — the wool of sheep raised east of the Mississippi River.
- bring forth — to give birth to
- british lop — a breed of large white pig with large drooping ears, originating from Wales, Cumberland, and Ulster
- brochantite — a mineral, hydrous copper sulfate, Cu 4 (OH) 6 SO 4 , occurring in green fibrous masses and similar in physical properties to antlerite: formerly a major ore of copper.
- brood bitch — a female dog used for breeding.
- brood patch — a highly vascular, featherless area developed on the abdomen of certain brooding birds that is in direct contact with eggs during incubation and provides additional warmth.
- brotherhood — Brotherhood is the affection and loyalty that you feel for people who you have something in common with.
- brotherlike — like a brother
- brown earth — an intrazonal soil of temperate humid regions typically developed under deciduous forest into a dark rich layer (mull): characteristic of much of southern and central England
- brown heart — a brown discoloration of the flesh of stored apples, resulting from high concentrations of carbon dioxide.
- brown patch — a fungus disease of turf grass that results in circular areas of brown, dead grass.
- brown shirt — (in Nazi Germany) a storm trooper
- brunch coat — a knee-length housecoat.
- brushstroke — Brushstrokes are the marks made on a surface by a painter's brush.
- bumbershoot — an umbrella
- bush oyster — a bull's testicle when cooked and eaten
- butorphanol — a narcotic analgesic, C 21 H 29 NO 2 , administered by injection to treat moderate to severe pain.
- butterworth — George. 1885–1916, British composer, noted for his interest in folk song and his settings of Housman's poems
- buttonholer — a person who buttonholes
- cachinatory — Alternative form of cachinnatory.
- cachinnator — One who laughs loudly and immoderately.
- caecotrophy — (biology) In certain mammals, especially rabbits and other lagomorphs, the consumption of food pellets which are naturally produced by means of digestion, retention in the caecum, and expulsion through the anus.
- calathiform — cup-shaped; concave.
- calochortus — any plant of the genus Calochortus, of the lily family, as the mariposa lily and the sego lily.
- camphorated — impregnated or combined with camphor
- camphorates — Plural form of camphorate.