11-letter words containing l, a, h, b
- haptoglobin — A protein present in blood serum that binds to and removes free hemoglobin from the bloodstream.
- harbor seal — a small, spotted seal, Phoca vitulina, of the Atlantic coasts of North America and Europe and the Pacific coast of northern North America.
- harbourless — Without a harbour.
- hard labour — Hard labour is hard physical work which people have to do as punishment for a crime.
- hard-boiled — Cookery. (of an egg) boiled in the shell long enough for the yolk and white to solidify.
- harvestable — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- have a ball — enjoy oneself immensely
- health club — a usually private club that offers its members facilities for exercising and physical conditioning.
- heart block — a defect in the electrical impulses of the heart resulting in any of various arrhythmias or irregularities in the heartbeat.
- heel breast — the forward side of the heel, adjoining the shank of a shoe.
- heliophobia — Fear of sunlight.
- hematoblast — an immature blood cell, especially a red blood cell.
- hereditable — heritable.
- hibernacula — Plural form of hibernaculum.
- highballing — a drink of whiskey mixed with club soda or ginger ale and served with ice in a tall glass.
- holiday job — a temporary job taken by a person during their holidays from school, college or university
- hollow back — a paper tube or roll, almost flattened, having one side glued to the back of a book and the other to the inside of the spine.
- hollow-back — a paper tube or roll, almost flattened, having one side glued to the back of a book and the other to the inside of the spine.
- holoblastic — (of certain eggs) undergoing total cleavage, resulting in equal blastomeres.
- homoblastic — (of a plant or plant part) showing no difference in form between the juvenile and the adult structures
- hoplophobia — (pejorative, rare) The fear of guns.
- hullaballoo — Alternative spelling of hullabaloo.
- hullabaloos — Plural form of hullabaloo.
- humbuggable — capable of being humbugged
- husbandable — Capable of being husbanded, or managed with economy.
- husbandland — the holding once held by a husband or tenant farmer or the quantity of land held by him, approximately 32 acres
- husbandless — Without a husband.
- husbandlike — resembling a husband
- hyperboreal — Hyperborean.
- hypoblastic — Of, or relating to the hypoblast.
- ibn khaldun — Abd-al-Rahman [ahb-dahl-rah-mahn] /ɑb dɑlˈrɑ mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1332–1406, Arab historian and philosopher.
- ibn-khaldun — 1332–1406, Arab historian and philosopher. His Kitab al-`ibar (Book of Examples) is a history of Islam
- ill-behaved — 1. [numerical analysis] Said of an algorithm or computational method that tends to blow up because of accumulated roundoff error or poor convergence properties. 2. Software that bypasses the defined operating system interfaces to do things (like screen, keyboard, and disk I/O) itself, often in a way that depends on the hardware of the machine it is running on or which is nonportable or incompatible with other pieces of software. In the IBM PC/mess-dos world, there is a folk theorem (nearly true) to the effect that (owing to gross inadequacies and performance penalties in the OS interface) all interesting applications are ill-behaved. See also bare metal. Opposite: well-behaved, compare PC-ism.
- impeachable — making one subject to impeachment, as misconduct in office.
- inhabitable — to live or dwell in (a place), as people or animals: Small animals inhabited the woods.
- inheritable — capable of being inherited.
- inheritably — capable of being inherited.
- kublai khan — 1216–94, khan c1260–94: founder of the Mongol dynasty in China (grandson of Genghis Khan).
- labyrinthal — Like a maze or labyrinth, intricate or convoluted. labyrinthine.
- labyrinthic — of, relating to, or resembling a labyrinth.
- last breath — When someone takes their last breath, they die.
- late blight — a disease of plants, especially potatoes, celery, etc., characterized by spotting, blighting, and withering or decay of the entire plant, caused by any of several fungi, as Phytophthora infestans or Septoria apii.
- late hebrew — the Hebrew language as used from about a.d. 70 through the 13th century, including Mishnaic Hebrew and Medieval Hebrew.
- lay brother — a man who has taken religious vows and habit but is employed by his order chiefly in manual labor.
- leaf blight — a symptom or phase of many diseases of plants, characterized by necrotic spots or streaks on the leaves, accompanied by seed rot and seedling blight.
- leaf blotch — a symptom or phase of certain especially fungal diseases of plants, characterized by necrotic discoloration of the leaves.
- leather bar — a gay bar frequented by men who wear leather
- leatherback — a sea turtle, Dermochelys coriacea, having the shell embedded in a leathery skin, reaching a length of more than 7 feet (2.1 meter) and a weight of more than 1000 pounds (450 kg): the largest living sea turtle; an endangered species.
- light bread — white bread.
- light table — a table that has a translucent top illuminated from below and is used typically for making tracings or examining color transparencies.