11-letter words containing l, h
- basket hilt — a hilt fitted to a broadsword, with a generally padded basket-shaped guard to protect the hand
- batch plant — a manufacturing plant where concrete is mixed before being transported to a construction site ready to be poured.
- bath oliver — a kind of unsweetened biscuit
- bath pearls — dissolvable granules added to bath water to impart scent or other qualities
- batholithic — Containing or relating to batholith.
- battleships — Plural form of battleship.
- bbc english — Received Pronunciation.
- be all that — to be exceptionally good, talented, or attractive
- be laughing — to be in a favourable situation
- beach towel — a large towel used on the beach
- beat hollow — having a space or cavity inside; not solid; empty: a hollow sphere.
- bedclothing — bedclothes; bedding.
- behavioural — Behavioural means relating to the behaviour of a person or animal, or to the study of their behaviour.
- behind line — the line over which the ball must be kicked to score a behind
- bell-shaped — shaped like a bell
- bellerophon — a hero of Corinth who performed many deeds with the help of the winged horse Pegasus, notably the killing of the monster Chimera
- bellmouthed — having a flaring mouth or opening like that of a bell
- belly laugh — A belly laugh is a very loud, deep laugh.
- belly-helve — a triphammer in which the cams act at a point along the helve, partway between the fulcrum and the head.
- bellyaching — constant complaining
- bench lathe — a lathe mounted on a workbench
- bench table — a course of masonry forming a bench at the foot of a wall.
- beth hillel — the school of Jewish legal thought and hermeneutics founded in Jerusalem in the 1st century b.c. by the Jewish spiritual leader Hillel and characterized by its systematic use of interpretive principles and a certain flexibility in interpreting the oral and written law.
- bethanechol — a substance, C 7 H 17 ClN 2 O 2 , used to treat urinary retention, especially postoperatively.
- bethel park — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
- better half — one's spouse
- bevel wheel — a toothed wheel, set at an oblique angle to the axis
- bibliograph — to put in a bibliography.
- bibliophage — an ardent reader; a bookworm.
- bibliophile — a person who collects or is fond of books
- bibliophily — the love of books
- bibliophobe — a person who hates, fears, or distrusts books.
- bibliotheca — a library or collection of books
- bicephalous — having two heads
- biochemical — Biochemical changes, reactions, and mechanisms relate to the chemical processes that happen in living things.
- biophysical — the branch of biology that applies the methods of physics to the study of biological structures and processes.
- birth canal — the passageway down which the fetus passes during birth
- birtwhistle — Harrison, born 1934, English composer.
- black birch — sweet birch.
- black chaff — a disease of wheat, characterized by dark, elongated stripes on the chaff, caused by a bacterium, Xanthomonas translucens undulosum.
- black death — a deadly disease, probably bubonic plague, which devastated Europe and Asia in the 14th cent.
- black hills — a group of mountains in W South Dakota and NE Wyoming: famous for the gigantic sculptures of US presidents on the side of Mount Rushmore. Highest peak: Harney Peak, 2207 m (7242 ft)
- black house — a type of thatched house, usually made of turf, formerly found in the highlands and islands of Scotland
- black humor — a form of humor that regards human suffering as absurd rather than pitiable, or that considers human existence as ironic and pointless but somehow comic.
- black light — the invisible electromagnetic radiation in the ultraviolet and infrared regions of the spectrum
- black perch — a livebearing surfperch, Embiotoca jacksoni, occurring in abundance along the coast of California, having brownish-black scales often tinged with blue or yellow and a thick, reddish mouth.
- black shank — a disease of tobacco, characterized by wilting and by decayed, blackened roots and stems, caused by a fungus, Phytophthora parasitica nicotianae.
- black sheep — If you describe someone as the black sheep of their family or of a group that they are a member of, you mean that they are considered bad or worthless by other people in that family or group.
- black shirt — a member of any fascist organization (specif., the former Italian Fascist party) with a black-shirted uniform
- black watch — a regiment of Scottish infantry in the British army (so called from the dark colors in their tartan).