10-letter words containing t, h, e, b, l
- death blow — If you say that an event or action deals a death blow to something such as a plan or hope, or is a death blow to something, you mean that it puts an end to it.
- deathblows — Plural form of deathblow.
- debtholder — (finance) An owner of a financial obligation of another party.
- demothball — to remove (naval or military equipment) from storage or reserve, usually for active duty; reactivate.
- detachable — If a part of an object is detachable, it has been made so that it can be removed from the object.
- detachably — in a detachable fashion
- eight ball — a black ball with the number eight on it
- ethambutol — a compound used in the treatment of tuberculosis
- fathomable — a unit of length equal to six feet (1.8 meters): used chiefly in nautical measurements. Abbreviation: fath.
- flash tube — a gaseous discharge tube designed to emit extremely short bursts of very intense light
- 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.
- halberstam — David, 1934–2007, U.S. writer.
- 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.
- herbal tea — drink: plant infusion
- herbalists — Plural form of herbalist.
- heriotable — liable for the payment of a heriot
- high table — the table in the dining hall of a college, reserved for senior members of the college and distinguished guests.
- home-built — built at home
- hospitable — receiving or treating guests or strangers warmly and generously: a hospitable family.
- hotblooded — Spirited, rash, reckless.
- lethbridge — a city in S Alberta, in SW Canada.
- liebknecht — Karl [kahrl] /kɑrl/ (Show IPA), 1871–1919, German socialist leader.
- light beer — beer with a lower alcohol content than average
- lightsaber — a type of sword, as depicted in the fictional Star Wars universe, with a blade made of laser energy that can both cut and burn: The Jedi knight drew his lightsaber and prepared to defend himself.
- lightsabre — Alternative spelling of lightsaber.
- live birth — the birth of a living child
- mothballed — a small ball of naphthalene or sometimes of camphor for placing in closets or other storage areas to repel moths from clothing, blankets, etc.
- net blotch — a disease of barley, characterized by a brown, netlike discoloration of the leaves, caused by fungi of the genus Helminthosporium.
- phlebolite — a small mass or solid deposit of calcium that forms in a vein
- phlebolith — valueless rock or mineral matter occurring in a vein; gangue.
- phlebotome — a cutting instrument used for phlebotomy.
- phlebotomy — the act or practice of opening a vein for letting or drawing blood as a therapeutic or diagnostic measure; venesection; bleeding.
- sheathbill — either of two white sea birds, Chionis alba or C. minor, of the colder parts of the Southern Hemisphere: so called from the horny sheath covering the base of the upper bill.
- shibboleth — a peculiarity of pronunciation, behavior, mode of dress, etc., that distinguishes a particular class or set of persons.
- sketchable — suitable for being sketched.
- sloth bear — a coarse-haired, long-snouted bear, Ursus ursinus, of India and Indochina: now rare.
- stablished — establish.
- subchelate — having a claw with one pincer longer than the other
- switchable — a slender, flexible shoot, rod, etc., used especially in whipping or disciplining.
- tablecloth — a cloth for covering the top of a table, especially during a meal.
- tetherball — a game for two persons, in which each player, standing on each side of a post from the top of which a ball is suspended by a cord, hits the ball with the hand or a paddle in a direction opposite to that in which the other player hits it, the object being to coil the cord completely around the post.
- the bottle — drinking of alcohol, esp to excess
- the rabble — the common people
- the tables — laws, as the Ten Commandments or ancient Roman codes, inscribed on flat stone slabs
- thimbleful — the amount that a thimble will hold.
- thimblerig — a sleight-of-hand swindling game in which the operator palms a pellet or pea while appearing to cover it with one of three thimblelike cups, and then, moving the cups about, offers to bet that no one can tell under which cup the pellet or pea lies.
- thimblewit — a silly or dimwitted person; dunce