11-letter words containing h, y, b
- hobbyhorses — Plural form of hobbyhorse.
- hobgoblinry — the behaviour or activities of hobgoblins
- holiday job — a temporary job taken by a person during their holidays from school, college or university
- holly berry — a bitter, slightly poisonous berry that grows on holly trees or shrubs
- home-buying — the purchase of a house or flat
- honesty bar — an unattended area in a hotel, resort, etc, where patrons may serve themselves drinks and are expected to leave money to pay for them
- honesty box — a container into which members of the public are trusted to place payments when there is no attendant to collect them
- honeycombed — Having a perforated structure, resembling a honeycomb.
- huckleberry — the dark-blue or black edible berry of any of various shrubs belonging to the genus Gaylussacia of the heath family.
- hurly-burly — noisy disorder and confusion; commotion; uproar; tumult.
- hurtleberry — whortleberry.
- hybernating — Present participle of hybernate.
- hybernation — Obsolete spelling of hibernation.
- hybrid bill — (in Parliament) a public bill to which the standing orders for private business apply; a bill having a general application as well as affecting certain private interests
- hybrid chip — an integrated circuit that comprises both diffused active devices and thin-film components.
- hybrid corn — a crossbred corn, especially the grain of corn developed by hybridization of repeatedly self-pollinated, and therefore genetically pure, varieties.
- hybrid rock — an igneous rock formed by molten magma incorporating pre-existing rock through which it passes
- hybridizing — Present participle of hybridize.
- 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.
- hydrobromic — of or derived from hydrobromic acid.
- hydrocarbon — any of a class of compounds containing only hydrogen and carbon, as an alkane, methane, CH 4 , an alkene, ethylene, C 2 H 4 , an alkyne, acetylene, C 2 H 2 , or an aromatic compound, benzene, C 6 H 6 .
- hydrophobia — rabies.
- hydrophobic — of or relating to hydrophobia.
- hyperbolise — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- hyperbolism — the use of hyperbole.
- hyperbolist — One who uses hyperbole; an exaggerator.
- hyperbolize — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- hyperboloid — a quadric surface having a finite center and some of its plane sections hyperbolas. Equation: x 2 / a 2 + y 2 / b 2 − z 2 / c 2 = 1.
- hyperboreal — Hyperborean.
- hyperborean — Classical Mythology. one of a people supposed to live in a land of perpetual sunshine and abundance beyond the north wind.
- hypercarbia — (medicine) the condition of having an abnormally high concentration of carbon dioxide in the blood.
- hypnophobia — An abnormal fear of falling asleep.
- hypoblastic — Of, or relating to the hypoblast.
- hypsophobia — an extreme or abnormal fear of heights
- inhabitancy — place of residence; habitation.
- inheritably — capable of being inherited.
- khyber pass — the chief mountain pass between Pakistan and Afghanistan, W of Peshawar. 33 miles (53 km) long; 6825 feet (2080 meters) high.
- kirby-smith — Edmund, 1824–93, Confederate general in the American Civil War.
- labyrinthal — Like a maze or labyrinth, intricate or convoluted. labyrinthine.
- labyrinthic — of, relating to, or resembling a labyrinth.
- lay brother — a man who has taken religious vows and habit but is employed by his order chiefly in manual labor.
- lobachevsky — Nikolai Ivanovich [nyi-kuh-lahy ee-vah-nuh-vyich] /nyɪ kʌˈlaɪ iˈvɑ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1793–1856, Russian mathematician.
- lymphoblast — a large, metabolically active lymphocyte shortly before it enters into mitosis.
- lyssophobia — a pathological fear of going insane.
- marsh buggy — swamp buggy.
- maryborough — a seaport in E Australia.
- monohybrids — Plural form of monohybrid.
- neighbourly — (British, Canada) Showing the qualities of a friendly and helpful neighbour.
- nyctophobia — an abnormal fear of night or darkness.
- 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.