11-letter words containing h, o, t, b, e
- hostile bid — A hostile takeover bid is one that is opposed by the company that is being bid for.
- hot-blooded — excitable; impetuous.
- houseboater — One who lives in a houseboat.
- hybernation — Obsolete spelling of hibernation.
- hydroborate — (inorganic chemistry) Any of several anions containing hydrogen bound to boron, especially the simplest one BH4-; any salt or complex containing such an anion.
- hyperbolist — One who uses hyperbole; an exaggerator.
- in the book — in all that is known and practiced in connection with a particular activity
- ish-bosheth — a son and successor of Saul. II Sam. 2–4.
- kid brother — younger male sibling
- lay brother — a man who has taken religious vows and habit but is employed by his order chiefly in manual labor.
- leaf blotch — a symptom or phase of certain especially fungal diseases of plants, characterized by necrotic discoloration of the leaves.
- luckenbooth — a booth or shop capable of being locked up
- mesobenthos — flora and fauna living at the bottom of seas 182 to 914 metres deep
- miphiboseth — Mephibosheth.
- motherboard — a rigid, slotted board upon which other boards that contain the basic circuitry of a computer or of a computer component can be mounted. Compare board (def 14).
- northbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
- oathbreaker — Someone who breaks an oath.
- off the bat — straight away, from the very start
- off-the-job — done, received, or happening away from or while not at one's job: off-the-job research.
- on the ball — a spherical or approximately spherical body or shape; sphere: He rolled the piece of paper into a ball.
- on the beam — any of various relatively long pieces of metal, wood, stone, etc., manufactured or shaped especially for use as rigid members or parts of structures or machines.
- on the beat — A police officer on the beat is on duty, walking around the area for which he or she is responsible.
- on the bias — A dress or skirt that is cut on the bias or that is bias-cut has been cut diagonally across the material so that it hangs down in a particular way.
- on the club — away from work due to sickness, esp when receiving sickness benefit
- orthoborate — (inorganic chemistry) Any anion derived from orthoboric acid; any salt containing this anion.
- overburthen — to overburden
- oveta hobby — Oveta Culp [kuhlp] /kʌlp/ (Show IPA), 1905–1995, U.S. newspaper publisher and government official: first director of Women's Army Corps 1942–45; first Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare 1953–55.
- oxbow chest — a chest of drawers having a front convex at the sides and concave in the center without vertical divisions.
- perth amboy — a seaport in E New Jersey.
- phlebectomy — the surgical excision of a vein or part of a vein
- phlebotomic — of or noting phlebotomy.
- phone booth — A phone booth is a place in a station, hotel, or other public building where there is a public telephone.
- pinchbottle — a bottle with concave sides, as for containing liquor.
- prohibitive — serving or tending to prohibit or forbid something.
- rabbit hole — opening of a rabbit's burrow
- redhibition — the nullification of a sale because of a defect in the article sold of such nature as to make it totally or virtually unusable or as to have prevented the purchase if known to the buyer.
- redhibitory — the nullification of a sale because of a defect in the article sold of such nature as to make it totally or virtually unusable or as to have prevented the purchase if known to the buyer.
- rich object — In artificial intelligence, an object which cannot be completely described or represented but about which assertions can be made.
- sketch book — a collection of essays and stories (1819–20) by Washington Irving.
- southbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
- sponge bath — a bath in which the bather is cleaned by a wet sponge or washcloth dipped in water, without getting into a tub of water.
- stench bomb — a small bomb made to emit a foul smell on exploding.
- stenobathic — of or relating to marine or freshwater life that can tolerate only limited changes in depth (opposed to eurybathic).
- stepbrother — one's stepfather's son or stepmother's son by a previous marriage.
- szombathely — a city in W Hungary: founded a.d. 48.
- taphephobia — an abnormal fear of being buried alive.
- technophobe — abnormal fear of or anxiety about the effects of advanced technology.
- textbookish — suggesting a textbook, especially in literary style or composition.
- the borders — the area either side of the border between England and Scotland
- the cariboo — a region in the W foothills of the Cariboo Mountains, scene of a gold rush beginning in 1860