7-letter words containing h
- brachy- — indicating something short
- brahman — a member of the highest or priestly caste in the Hindu caste system
- brahmin — A Brahmin is a Hindu of the highest social rank.
- branagh — Sir Kenneth. born 1961, British actor and director, born in Northern Ireland. He founded the Renaissance Theatre Company in 1986. His films include Henry V (1989), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), Hamlet (1997), and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
- branch- — (in zoology) indicating gills
- brashly — impertinent; impudent; tactless: a brash young man.
- breadth — The breadth of something is the distance between its two sides.
- breathe — When people or animals breathe, they take air into their lungs and let it out again. When they breathe smoke or a particular kind of air, they take it into their lungs and let it out again as they breathe.
- breaths — the air inhaled and exhaled in respiration.
- breathy — If someone has a breathy voice, you can hear their breath when they speak or sing.
- brecham — a straw collar for a draught-horse or ox
- brenham — a town in central Texas.
- brigham — a male given name.
- brights — the high beam of the headlights of a motor vehicle
- brioche — Brioche is a kind of sweet bread.
- british — British means belonging or relating to the United Kingdom, or to its people or culture.
- brochan — a type of thin porridge
- broches — (in weaving tapestries) a device on which the filling yarn is wound, used as a shuttle in passing through the shed of the loom to deposit the yarn.
- bronch- — broncho-
- bronchi — bronchus
- broncho — bronco
- brothel — A brothel is a building where men can go to pay to have sex with prostitutes.
- brother — Your brother is a boy or a man who has the same parents as you.
- brought — Brought is the past tense and past participle of bring.
- bruchid — any of a genus of small, often parasitic, beetles
- brushed — Brushed cotton, nylon, or other fabric feels soft and furry.
- brusher — an implement consisting of bristles, hair, or the like, set in or attached to a handle, used for painting, cleaning, polishing, grooming, etc.
- brushup — the act or process of reviewing a subject, technique, or the like, for the purpose of renewing the memory, skill, etc.: He gave his Spanish a brushup before his trip to Mexico.
- brutish — If you describe a person or their behaviour as brutish, you think that they are brutal and uncivilised.
- brython — a Celt who speaks a Brythonic language
- buchman — Frank Nathan Daniel, 1878–1961, U.S. evangelist, founder of Moral Re-Armament movement.
- buchner — Eduard (ˈeːduart). 1860–1917, German chemist who demonstrated that alcoholic fermentation is due to enzymes in the yeast: Nobel prize for chemistry 1907
- buckish — dandyish; foppish
- bugshah — (formerly) an aluminum-copper coin and monetary unit of the Yemen Arab Republic, the 40th part of a riyal.
- bukhara — a city in S Uzbekistan. Pop: 299 000 (2005 est)
- bukshee — a paymaster-general in the Anglo-Indian army
- bullish — On the stock market, if there is a bullish mood, prices are expected to rise. Compare bearish.
- bulrush — a grasslike cyperaceous marsh plant, Scirpus lacustris, used for making mats, chair seats, etc
- bunched — a connected group; cluster: a bunch of grapes.
- bunches — a hairstyle in which hair is tied into two sections on either side of the head at the back
- burdash — a fringed sash worn over a coat
- burghal — (in Scotland) an incorporated town having its own charter and some degree of political independence from the surrounding area.
- burgher — The burghers of a town or city are the people who live there, especially the richer or more respectable people.
- burnham — Daniel Hudson, 1846–1912, U.S. architect and city planner.
- burnish — To burnish the image of someone or something means to improve their image.
- burrhel — a wild sheep, Pseudois nahoor, of Tibet and adjacent mountainous regions, having goatlike horns that curve backward.
- burthen — burden1
- bush it — to camp out in the bush
- bushers — bush leaguer (def 1).
- bushfly — any of various small black dipterous flies of Australia, esp Musca vetustissima, that breed in faeces and dung: family Calliphoridae