11-letter words containing h, y, a
- battery hen — a hen kept in a battery
- bawdy house — a brothel.
- bawdyhouses — Plural form of bawdyhouse.
- beach buggy — a low car, often open and with balloon tyres, for driving on sand
- beach party — a party held on a beach
- beachy head — a headland in East Sussex, on the English Channel, consisting of chalk cliffs 171 m (570 ft) high
- beauty bush — a hardy shrub (Kolkwitzia amabilis) of the honeysuckle family, having tubular pink flowers with white bristly hairs on the ovary
- beauty shop — A beauty shop is the same as a beauty parlour.
- beauty-bush — a Chinese shrub, Kolkwitzia amabilis, of the honeysuckle family, having showy, pinkish flowers and grown as an ornamental.
- belly laugh — A belly laugh is a very loud, deep laugh.
- bellyaching — constant complaining
- ben yehudah — Eliezer [el-ee-ez-er] /ˌɛl iˈɛz ər/ (Show IPA), 1858–1922, Jewish scholar, born in Lithuania.
- beta rhythm — the normal electrical activity of the cerebral cortex, occurring at a frequency of 13 to 30 hertz and detectable with an electroencephalograph
- biophysical — the branch of biology that applies the methods of physics to the study of biological structures and processes.
- blameworthy — deserving disapproval or censure
- blastochyle — the fluid in a blastocoel
- body search — If a person is body searched, someone such as a police officer searches them while they remain clothed. Compare strip-search.
- body-search — to search all parts of the body of: Police ordered the suspects to strip and then body-searched them for hidden caches of narcotics.
- booby hatch — a hoodlike covering for a hatchway on a ship
- brachyodont — (of mammals, such as humans) having teeth with short crowns
- brachyprism — the four faces parallel to the brachyaxis in a crystal
- brachyurous — shorttailed, as a crab (opposed to macrurous).
- breadthways — from side to side
- breathalyse — to apply a Breathalyser test to (someone)
- breathalyze — If the driver of a car is breathalyzed by the police, they ask him or her to breathe into a special bag or device in order to test whether he or she has drunk too much alcohol.
- breech baby — a baby whose buttocks or feet are presented first during the birth process.
- brown hyena — a hyena, Hyaena brunnea, of southern Africa, having a blackish-gray coat: its dwindling population is now protected.
- bush lawyer — any of several prickly trailing plants of the genus Rubus
- by the head — with the bow deeper in the water than the stern
- cachinatory — Alternative form of cachinnatory.
- 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.
- calligraphy — Calligraphy is the art of producing beautiful handwriting using a brush or a special pen.
- calycanthus — any of several shrubs of the genus Calycanthus, found in North America
- cardiopathy — a heart disease or disorder
- carry light — a searchlight used to illuminate a target while it is tracked and fired upon.
- cartography — Cartography is the art or activity of drawing maps and geographical charts.
- cashability — money or an equivalent, as a check, paid at the time of making a purchase.
- catarrhally — in a manner relating to the inflammation of a mucous membrane
- catastrophy — Alternative form of catastrophe.
- cathode ray — a flow of electrons emanating from a cathode in a vacuum tube and focused into a narrow beam.
- catholicity — a wide range of interests, tastes, etc; liberality
- cebocephaly — A developmental anomaly of the head, characterized by a monkey-like head with a defective small, flattened nose with a single nostril or absent nose and closely set eyes.
- cephalotomy — the dissection of the head
- chalazogamy — (of plants) the process of fertilization whereby the pollen tube penetrates the embryosac through the chalaza rather than through the micropyle
- chalcedonyx — a variety of chalcedony characterized by alternate stripes of black and white
- chaleur bay — an inlet of the Gulf of St. Lawrence between NE New Brunswick and SE Quebec, in SE Canada: rich fishing ground. About 85 miles (135 km) long; 15–25 miles (24–40 km) wide.
- chamaephyte — a plant whose buds are close to the ground
- chancellery — A chancellery is the building where a chancellor has his offices.
- chancellory — Alternative spelling of chancellery.
- changefully — In a changeful manner.