12-letter words containing i, h, r
- biographical — Biographical facts, notes, or details are concerned with the events in someone's life.
- biohazardous — a pathogen, especially one used in or produced by biological research.
- biorhythmics — the study of biorhythms
- birch family — the plant family Betulaceae, characterized by deciduous trees having simple serrate leaves, male flowers in drooping catkins, female flowers in short clusters, and one-seeded nuts, and including the alder, birch, hazel, and hornbeam.
- bird watcher — a person who identifies and observes birds in their natural habitat as a recreation.
- bird's mouth — a right-angled notch cut in the underside of a rafter for fitting over a longitudinal member, as a wall plate.
- bird-watcher — A bird-watcher is a person whose hobby is watching and studying wild birds in their natural surroundings.
- birth defect — an inherited disease or condition that a baby is born with
- birth family — one's biological parents and siblings, as contrasted with one's adoptive family.
- birth father — a biological mother (birth mother) or biological father (birth father) a biological parent.
- birth mother — the woman who gives birth to a child, regardless of whether she is the genetic mother or subsequently brings up the child
- birth parent — a biological mother (birth mother) or biological father (birth father) a biological parent.
- birth trauma — an emotional shock caused by being born.
- birth weight — the amount a baby weighs when first born
- birthday boy — the boy or man whose birthday is being celebrated
- black heroin — a very potent and addictive form of heroin that is dark-colored.
- blatherskite — a talkative silly person
- bletheration — nonsense!
- bloodthirsty — Bloodthirsty people are eager to use violence or display a strong interest in violent things. You can also use bloodthirsty to refer to very violent situations.
- bloody shirt — something, as a political issue or historical event, that can be used to stir up outrage, partisan support, etc.
- boar-hunting — the practice of hunting wild boars
- boiled shirt — a dress shirt with a stiff front
- boiler house — a building housing a boiler
- bolt upright — If someone is sitting or standing bolt upright, they are sitting or standing very straight.
- border light — a striplight hung upstage of a border, for lighting the stage.
- boucherville — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
- bourke-white — Margaret. 1906–71, US photographer, a pioneer of modern photojournalism: noted esp for her coverage of World War II
- brachycranic — having a cranial index of 81.0–85.4.
- brainwashing — the process of brainwashing.
- branch point — Electricity. a point in an electric network at which three or more conductors meet.
- braunschweig — Brunswick
- breathtaking — If you say that something is breathtaking, you are emphasizing that it is extremely beautiful or amazing.
- breech birth — birth of a baby with the feet or buttocks appearing first
- breed's hill — a hill in E Massachusetts, adjoining Bunker Hill: the true site of the Battle of Bunker Hill (1775)
- breuer chair — a chair with a frame of continuous chrome tubing, no back legs, and cane seat and back
- brick cheese — a ripened, semisoft American cheese shaped like a brick and containing many small holes
- bridge chair — a lightweight folding chair, often part of a set of matching chairs and bridge table.
- bridge cloth — a tablecloth for a bridge table.
- bridge house — a deckhouse including a bridge or bridges for navigation.
- brigham city — a city in N Utah.
- bright spark — If you say that some bright spark had a particular idea or did something, you mean that their idea or action was clever, or that it seemed clever but was silly in some way.
- bright-field — of or relating to the illuminated region about the object of a microscope.
- brine shrimp — any of a genus (Artemia) of small fairy shrimp found in salt lakes and marshes and used as living, frozen, or dried food in aquariums
- brinkmanship — Brinkmanship is a method of behaviour, especially in politics, in which you deliberately get into dangerous situations which could result in disaster but which could also bring success.
- bristlemouth — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Gonostomatidae, having numerous sharp, slender teeth covering the jaws.
- british list — a list, maintained by the British Ornithologists' Union, of birds accepted as occurring at least once in the British Isles
- british rail — the organization that ran the British railway system from 1948 until privatization in the mid-1990s
- british warm — an army officer's short thick overcoat
- bromhidrosis — the secretion of foul-smelling sweat.
- bronchogenic — bronchial in origin