10-letter words containing l, h, e, b
- fathomable — a unit of length equal to six feet (1.8 meters): used chiefly in nautical measurements. Abbreviation: fath.
- finishable — That can be finished; completable.
- flash tube — a gaseous discharge tube designed to emit extremely short bursts of very intense light
- flue brush — a brush used for cleaning soot from chimneys
- ghibelline — a member of the aristocratic party in medieval Italy and Germany that supported the claims of the German emperors against the papacy: politically opposed to the Guelphs.
- habiliment — Usually, habiliments. clothes or clothing. clothes as worn in a particular profession, way of life, etc.
- habilitate — to clothe or dress.
- habilities — Plural form of hability.
- hackleback — shovelnose sturgeon.
- halberdier — a soldier, guard, or attendant armed with a halberd.
- halberstam — David, 1934–2007, U.S. writer.
- half-baked — insufficiently cooked.
- half-breed — a contemptuous term used to refer to the offspring of parents of different racial origin, especially the offspring of an American Indian and a white person of European descent.
- handballer — A handball player.
- handleable — a part of a thing made specifically to be grasped or held by the hand.
- handlebars — Usually, handlebars. the curved steering bar of a bicycle, motorcycle, etc., placed in front of the rider and gripped by the hands. handlebar moustache.
- harborless — Alternative spelling of harbourless.
- hardballer — (informal) One who exhibits hardball (tough or ruthless) behaviour.
- hardboiled — Alternative spelling of hard-boiled.
- hardenable — to make hard or harder: to harden steel.
- hash table — hash coding
- head table — the principal table, as at a banquet or conference, often at the head of a row of tables or raised on a dais, where the presiding officer, chief speaker, guests of honor, etc., are seated.
- hebdomadal — taking place, coming together, or published once every seven days; weekly: hebdomadal meetings; hebdomadal groups; hebdomadal journals.
- heidelberg — a city in NW Baden-Württemberg, in SW Germany: university, founded 1386.
- hellbender — a large salamander, Cryptobranchus alleganiensis, of rivers and streams in eastern North America, having a flat, stout body and broad head.
- hellebores — Plural form of hellebore.
- helleborin — a colorless, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous solid, C 28 H 36 O 6 , obtained from the rhizome and root of certain hellebores, and used in medicine chiefly as a purgative.
- hemiglobin — methemoglobin.
- hemoglobin — the oxygen-carrying pigment of red blood cells that gives them their red color and serves to convey oxygen to the tissues: occurs in reduced form (deoxyhemoglobin) in venous blood and in combination with oxygen (oxyhemoglobin) in arterial blood. Symbol: Hb.
- herbal tea — drink: plant infusion
- herbalists — Plural form of herbalist.
- herbicidal — Of, or relating to herbicides.
- heriotable — liable for the payment of a heriot
- heronsbill — any of a genus (Erodium) of plants of the geranium family, with fine leaves and yellow, white, or reddish flowers
- hibernacle — a protective case or covering, especially for winter, as of an animal or a plant bud.
- high table — the table in the dining hall of a college, reserved for senior members of the college and distinguished guests.
- highballed — Simple past tense and past participle of highball.
- hildebrand — Saint (Hildebrand) c1020–85, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1073–85.
- hobblebush — a North American shrub, Viburnum alnifolium, of the honeysuckle family, having flat-topped clusters of white flowers and red-to-black berrylike fruit.
- holy bible — Bible (def 1).
- holy bread — bread used in a Eucharistic service, both before and after consecration.
- home-built — built at home
- honourable — (British spelling) Alternative form of honorable.
- hoplophobe — (rare) Someone suffering from hoplophobia.
- hornblende — a dark-green to black mineral of the amphibole group, calcium magnesium iron and hydroxyl aluminosilicate.
- hornblower — One who, or that which, blows a horn.
- horse balm — a lemon-scented plant, Collinsonia canadensis, of eastern North America, having small yellow flowers.
- hospitable — receiving or treating guests or strangers warmly and generously: a hospitable family.
- hotblooded — Spirited, rash, reckless.
- hucklebone — hipbone.