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11-letter words containing r, h, i, n

  • birth canal — the passageway down which the fetus passes during birth
  • birthparent — a person's parent related biologically rather than by adoption
  • boorishness — of or like a boor; unmannered; crude; insensitive.
  • botheration — bother
  • brachiating — Botany. having widely spreading branches in alternate pairs.
  • brachiation — locomotion accomplished by swinging by the arms from one hold to another.
  • brahminical — Hinduism. Brahman1 (def 1).
  • brain child — a product of one's creative work or thought.
  • brain death — Brain death occurs when someone's brain stops functioning, even though their heart may be kept beating using a machine.
  • 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.
  • branchiform — shaped like a gill.
  • branchiopod — any crustacean of the mainly freshwater subclass Branchiopoda, having flattened limblike appendages for swimming, feeding, and respiration. The group includes the water fleas
  • brattishing — decorative work along the coping or on the cornice of a building
  • breatharian — a person who believes that it is possible to subsist healthily on air alone
  • breathiness — (of the voice) characterized by audible or excessive emission of breath.
  • breconshire — (until 1974) a county of SE Wales, now mainly in Powys: over half its area forms the Brecon Beacons National Park
  • 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.
  • bright-line — (of rules, standards, etc.) unambiguously clear: This muddies the waters of what should be a brightline rule.
  • bring forth — to give birth to
  • brochantite — a mineral, hydrous copper sulfate, Cu 4 (OH) 6 SO 4 , occurring in green fibrous masses and similar in physical properties to antlerite: formerly a major ore of copper.
  • broken hill — a town in SE Australia, in W New South Wales: mining centre for lead, silver, and zinc. Pop: 19 834 (2001)
  • brown shirt — (in Nazi Germany) a storm trooper
  • bunker hill — the first battle of the American Revolution, actually fought on Breed's Hill, next to Bunker Hill, near Boston, on June 17, 1775. Though defeated, the colonists proved that they could stand against British regular soldiers
  • burnishment — the act or process of burnishing
  • burns night — (in Scotland) 25 January, the traditional date for holding a celebratory meal (Burns supper) in honour of Robert Burns
  • bushranging — the life of a bushranger
  • cachinatory — Alternative form of cachinnatory.
  • cachinnator — One who laughs loudly and immoderately.
  • caipirinhas — Plural form of caipirinha.
  • canoe birch — paper birch.
  • cantharidal — relating to or made of cantharides
  • cantharides — a diuretic and urogenital stimulant or irritant prepared from the dried bodies of Spanish fly (family Meloidae, not Cantharidae), once thought to be an aphrodisiac
  • cantharidic — cantharidal
  • cantharidin — the compound C10H12O4, which is the active ingredient in cantharides and is secreted by many species of blister beetle
  • carpathians — a mountain range in central Europe, extending from N Slovakia to central Romania. Highest peak, Gerlachovka, 8737 feet (2663 meters).
  • cashierment — the action of rejecting or dismissing
  • catarrhines — Plural form of catarrhine.
  • catherine i — ?1684–1727, second wife of Peter the Great, whom she succeeded as empress of Russia (1725–27)
  • centrarchid — (zoology) Any member of the Centrarchidae.
  • chain coral — coral of the extinct genus Halysites, from the Ordovician and Silurian periods, consisting of oval, laterally compressed corallites united to form a chainlike structure.
  • chain drive — a chain of links passing over sprockets that transmits rotation from one shaft to another
  • chain grate — a type of mechanical stoker for a furnace, in which the grate consists of an endless chain that draws the solid fuel into the furnace as it rotates
  • chain store — A chain store is one of several similar shops that are owned by the same person or company, especially one that sells a variety of things.
  • chain-react — to undergo a chain reaction
  • chairperson — The chairperson of a meeting, committee, or organization is the person in charge of it.
  • chamberlain — A chamberlain is the person who is in charge of the household affairs of a king, queen, or person of high social rank.
  • chandeliers — Plural form of chandelier.
  • chandleries — Plural form of chandlery.
  • chandlering — the work of a chandler
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