11-letter words containing h, r, o
- branchiopod — any crustacean of the mainly freshwater subclass Branchiopoda, having flattened limblike appendages for swimming, feeding, and respiration. The group includes the water fleas
- breathe out — When you breathe out, you send air out of your lungs through your nose or mouth.
- breconshire — (until 1974) a county of SE Wales, now mainly in Powys: over half its area forms the Brecon Beacons National Park
- breechblock — a metal block in breech-loading firearms that is withdrawn to insert the cartridge and replaced to close the breech before firing
- breechcloth — a cloth worn about the loins; loincloth
- breechclout — a cloth worn about the breech and loins; loincloth.
- breshkovsky — Catherine, 1844–1934, Russian revolutionary of noble birth: called “the little grandmother of the Russian Revolution.”.
- bridal shop — a shop that specializes in selling bridal wear
- 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
- broad reach — an act or instance of reaching: to make a reach for a gun.
- broad-brush — A broad-brush approach, strategy, or solution deals with a problem in a general way rather than concentrating on details.
- 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.
- broken hill — a town in SE Australia, in W New South Wales: mining centre for lead, silver, and zinc. Pop: 19 834 (2001)
- broken home — a family in which one parent is absent, usually due to divorce or desertion: children from broken homes.
- bronchocele — dilatation of a bronchus.
- bronx cheer — A Bronx cheer is a sound that people make by vibrating their lips in order to express disapproval or contempt.
- 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.
- brood pouch — a pouch or cavity in certain animals, such as frogs and fishes, in which their eggs develop and hatch
- 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 hyena — a hyena, Hyaena brunnea, of southern Africa, having a blackish-gray coat: its dwindling population is now protected.
- 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.
- brush broom — Northeastern U.S. a whisk broom.
- brushpopper — a cowboy, especially one who works in the brush.
- brushstroke — Brushstrokes are the marks made on a surface by a painter's brush.
- bryophyllum — a genus of plants of the family Crassulaceae with the ability to produce plantlets on their leaves or floral stems
- bumbershoot — an umbrella
- bunchflower — a tall plant (Melanthium virginicum) of the lily family, growing in the E U.S. and having large clusters of white or greenish flowers
- bush clover — any of several plants or shrubs belonging to the genus Lespedeza, of the legume family, having pinnately trifoliate leaves and heads of pink, purple, cream, or white flowers.
- bush oyster — a bull's testicle when cooked and eaten
- bush parole — an escape from prison.
- 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.
- cacographic — Displaying the properties of bad spelling or bad handwriting or both.
- 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.
- cameraphone — a mobile phone incorporating a camera
- camphor ice — an ointment consisting of camphor, white wax, spermaceti, and castor oil, used to treat skin ailments, esp chapped skin