11-letter words containing i, n, c, h, b
- hibernicism — an idiom or characteristic peculiar to Irish English or to the Irish.
- hibernicize — to make Irish in character.
- holobenthic — (of an animal) completing its life cycle in the ocean depths
- hornblendic — Of or pertaining to hornblende.
- hybrid corn — a crossbred corn, especially the grain of corn developed by hybridization of repeatedly self-pollinated, and therefore genetically pure, varieties.
- in chambers — in the privacy of a judge's chambers
- in the club — pregnant
- inhabitance — place of residence; habitation.
- inhabitancy — place of residence; habitation.
- interbranch — a division or subdivision of the stem or axis of a tree, shrub, or other plant.
- ion chamber — an apparatus for detecting and analyzing ionizing radiation, consisting of a vessel filled with a gas at normal or lower than normal pressure and fitted with two electrodes such that the current between the electrodes is a function of the amount of ionization of the gas.
- labyrinthic — of, relating to, or resembling a labyrinth.
- machineable — Alternative form of machinable.
- necrophobia — an abnormal fear of death; thanatophobia.
- neo-hebraic — Hebrew as spoken and written since the Diaspora
- noctiphobia — Fear of night; nyctophobia.
- nudibranchs — Plural form of nudibranch.
- nyctophobia — an abnormal fear of night or darkness.
- pinchbottle — a bottle with concave sides, as for containing liquor.
- pitchblende — a massive variety of uraninite, occurring in black pitchlike masses: a major ore of uranium and radium.
- reichenberg — German name of Liberec.
- schrödinbug — (jargon, programming) /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
- scotophobin — a peptide isolated from the brains of rats conditioned to avoid darkness, alleged to induce a dark-avoidance response in untrained rats, mice, and other animals.
- sennacherib — died 681 b.c, king of Assyria 705–681.
- sonofabitch — an abusive term of address or of description
- stenobathic — of or relating to marine or freshwater life that can tolerate only limited changes in depth (opposed to eurybathic).
- sub-chronic — constant; habitual; inveterate: a chronic liar.
- subchairman — a subordinate or substitute chairman.
- subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
- tectibranch — a mollusc of the suborder Tectibranchia (or Tectibranchiata) (order: Opisthobranchia) which includes the sea slugs and sea hares
- tocharian b — the western dialect of Tocharian
- unblenching — not blenching or turning aside; unflinching
- white bacon — bacon (def 2).
- xenophobiac — (rare) A xenophobe; one who is xenophobic.
- zebra finch — a small Australian waxbill, Poephila guttata, that has black-and-white barred plumage and a chestnut ear patch: popular as a cage bird.