11-letter words containing t, h, b
- big-hearted — If you describe someone as big-hearted, you think they are kind and generous, and always willing to help people.
- bindheimite — a mineral, hydrous antimonate of lead, resulting from the alteration of lead antimony ores.
- binge-watch — to watch a large number of television programmes (especially all the shows from one series) in succession
- bioethicist — a field of study concerned with the ethics and philosophical implications of certain biological and medical procedures, technologies, and treatments, as organ transplants, genetic engineering, and care of the terminally ill.
- birth canal — the passageway down which the fetus passes during birth
- birthparent — a person's parent related biologically rather than by adoption
- birthweight — the weight of an infant at birth.
- birtwhistle — Harrison, born 1934, English composer.
- bit bashing — (Also "bit diddling" or bit twiddling). Any of several kinds of low-level programming characterised by manipulation of bit, flag, nibble, and other smaller-than-character-sized pieces of data. These include low-level device control, encryption algorithms, checksum and error-correcting codes, hash functions, some flavours of graphics programming (see bitblt), and assembler/compiler code generation. May connote either tedium or a real technical challenge (more usually the former). "The command decoding for the new tape driver looks pretty solid but the bit-bashing for the control registers still has bugs." See also bit bang, mode bit.
- bitter herb — an Old World herb, Centaurium erythraea, used dried in medicine as a tonic.
- bitterbrush — a flowering plant of the genus Purshia, native to North America
- black death — a deadly disease, probably bubonic plague, which devastated Europe and Asia in the 14th cent.
- black light — the invisible electromagnetic radiation in the ultraviolet and infrared regions of the spectrum
- 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).
- black witch — any of several large noctuid moths of the genus Erebus, especially the blackish E. odora (black witch) of Central and North America.
- blameworthy — deserving disapproval or censure
- blastochyle — the fluid in a blastocoel
- bleacherite — someone who sits in the bleachers at a sports stadium
- bleed white — to deprive slowly of resources
- blemishment — a flaw or blemish
- blepharitis — inflammation of the eyelids
- bletcherous — /blech'*-r*s/ Disgusting in design or function; aesthetically unappealing. This word is seldom used of people. "This keyboard is bletcherous!" (Perhaps the keys don't work very well, or are misplaced.) The term bletcherous applies to the esthetics of the thing so described; similarly for cretinous. By contrast, something that is "losing" or "bagbiting" may be failing to meet objective criteria.
- blightingly — in a blighting manner
- blue helmet — a member of a United Nations military force, usually deployed on peacekeeping missions, and recognizable by a helmet or beret of a distinctive light blue colour
- blue schist — a metamorphic rock formed under conditions of high pressure and relatively low temperature
- blytheville — a city in NE Arkansas.
- boat anchor — 1. Like doorstop but more severe; implies that the offending hardware is irreversibly dead or useless. "That was a working motherboard once. One lightning strike later, instant boat anchor!" 2. A person who just takes up space. 3. Obsolete but still working hardware, especially when used of an old S100-bus hobbyist system; originally a term of annoyance, but became more and more affectionate as the hardware became more and more obsolete.
- boat-shaped — shaped like a boat
- boatmanship — boatsmanship.
- bodhisattva — (in Mahayana Buddhism) a divine being worthy of nirvana who remains on the human plane to help men to salvation
- body rhythm — biorhythm.
- bohr theory — a theory of atomic structure that explains the spectrum of hydrogen atoms. It assumes that the electron orbiting around the nucleus can exist only in certain energy states, a jump from one state to another being accompanied by the emission or absorption of a quantum of radiation
- boldhearted — courageous or daring; intrepid.
- booby hatch — a hoodlike covering for a hatchway on a ship
- book rights — the legal right to make use of the text of a printed book
- boost phase — the portion of the flight of a ballistic missile or spacecraft during which the booster and sustainer engines operate to bring it near or to peak velocity.
- boot polish — a resistant polish specially formulated to protect boots of various kinds
- botheration — bother
- bottle shop — A bottle shop is a shop which sells wine, beer, and other alcoholic drinks.
- bottlebrush — a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft, used for cleaning bottles
- bottom fish — any fish that feeds or lives near the bottom of a body of water, as a flounder or catfish
- bottom heat — heat artificially applied to a container in which plants are grown in order to induce their germination, rooting, or growth.
- bottom-fish — to fish with a weighted line for fish that feed close to the bottom.
- bournemouth — a resort in S England, in Bournemouth unitary authority, Dorset, on the English Channel. Pop: 167 527 (2001)
- brachiating — Botany. having widely spreading branches in alternate pairs.
- brachiation — locomotion accomplished by swinging by the arms from one hold to another.
- brachyodont — (of mammals, such as humans) having teeth with short crowns
- brahmaputra — a river in S Asia, rising in SW Tibet as the Tsangpo and flowing through the Himalayas and NE India to join the Ganges at its delta in Bangladesh. Length: about 2900 km (1800 miles)
- brain death — Brain death occurs when someone's brain stops functioning, even though their heart may be kept beating using a machine.