11-letter words containing l, h, a
- bleak house — a novel (1852) by Charles Dickens.
- blepharitis — inflammation of the eyelids
- blubberhead — a stupid, inept person; blockhead.
- blunderhead — Informal. a blunderer; nincompoop.
- boldhearted — courageous or daring; intrepid.
- brachialgia — pain in the nerves of the upper arm.
- brahminical — Hinduism. Brahman1 (def 1).
- brain child — a product of one's creative work or thought.
- brake light — a red light attached to the rear of a motor vehicle that lights up when the brakes are applied, serving as a warning to following drivers
- brake wheel — (in a windmill) a bevel gearwheel rotating with the wind shaft.
- branch line — A branch line is a railway line that goes to small towns rather than one that goes between large cities.
- branch wilt — a disease of walnut trees, characterized by sudden wilting of the leaves, and cankers and discoloration of the bark and branches, caused by a fungus, Hendersonula toruloidea.
- breadthless — the measure of the second largest dimension of a plane or solid figure; width.
- breathalyse — to apply a Breathalyser test to (someone)
- breathalyze — If the driver of a car is breathalyzed by the police, they ask him or her to breathe into a special bag or device in order to test whether he or she has drunk too much alcohol.
- bridal shop — a shop that specializes in selling bridal wear
- bridewealth — (in some nonindustrial societies) the money or goods given to the family of a bride by the bridegroom or his family.
- bridle hand — (of a horseback rider) the hand, usually the left hand, that holds both reins or both pairs of reins, leaving the other hand free to manage a whip, crop, lariat, or the like.
- bridle path — A bridle path is a path intended for people riding horses.
- bright coal — coal consisting of alternating layers of clarain and vitrain.
- brith milah — the rite of circumcision on the eighth day after birth
- bubble bath — Bubble bath is a liquid that smells nice and makes a lot of bubbles when you add it to your bath water.
- buffalofish — any of several freshwater North American hump-backed cyprinoid fishes of the genus Ictiobus: family Catostomidae (suckers)
- bulkheading — the construction of bulkheads; bulkheads in general.
- bull header — Also called bullnose header. a brick having one of the edges across its width rounded for laying as a header in a sill or the like.
- bull-headed — blindly obstinate; stubborn, headstrong, or stupid
- bullwhacker — (especially in the early 19th century) the driver of a team of oxen.
- bundelkhand — a region of central India: formerly native states, now mainly part of Madhya Pradesh
- burnt shale — carbonaceous shale formed by destructive distillation of oil shale or by spontaneous combustion of shale after it has been some years in a tip: sometimes used in road making
- bush ballad — an old Australian bush poem in a ballad metre dealing with aspects of life and characters in the bush
- bush lawyer — any of several prickly trailing plants of the genus Rubus
- bush league — In baseball, a bush league is the same as a minor league.
- bush parole — an escape from prison.
- bush-league — inferior or amateurish; mediocre: a bush-league theatrical performance.
- bushelwoman — a woman who alters clothes
- bushwalking — an expedition on foot in the bush
- butorphanol — a narcotic analgesic, C 21 H 29 NO 2 , administered by injection to treat moderate to severe pain.
- cache block — cache line
- cachectical — cachetic
- cadet cloth — a heavy woolen cloth of double-cloth construction and bluish-gray color, used especially for uniforms at military schools.
- calathiform — cup-shaped; concave.
- calf-length — Calf-length skirts, dresses, and coats come to halfway between your knees and ankles.
- calico bush — mountain laurel
- calisthenic — Of, or relating to calisthenics.
- call a halt — to put an end (to something); stop
- calligraphy — Calligraphy is the art of producing beautiful handwriting using a brush or a special pen.
- callimachus — late 5th century bc, Greek sculptor, reputed to have invented the Corinthian capital
- calochortus — any plant of the genus Calochortus, of the lily family, as the mariposa lily and the sego lily.
- calycanthus — any of several shrubs of the genus Calycanthus, found in North America
- camphor oil — a colorless liquid obtained from the wood of the camphor tree by distillation and separation from the solid camphor, used in varnish, soaps, and shoe polish, and in medicine chiefly as a rubefacient.