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11-letter words containing t, h, e, o, b

  • bullet hole — hole made by a bullet
  • bumbershoot — an umbrella
  • bush oyster — a bull's testicle when cooked and eaten
  • butterworth — George. 1885–1916, British composer, noted for his interest in folk song and his settings of Housman's poems
  • button-hole — the hole, slit, or loop through which a button is passed and by which it is secured.
  • buttonholer — a person who buttonholes
  • by the book — according to the rules; in the prescribed or usual way
  • chamber pot — A chamber pot is a round container shaped like a very large cup. Chamber pots used to be kept in bedrooms so that people could urinate in them instead of having to leave their room during the night.
  • chamber-pot — a portable container, especially for urine, used in bedrooms.
  • chatterbots — Plural form of chatterbot.
  • cohabitated — cohabit.
  • cohabitates — cohabit.
  • dear-bought — having been purchased at great expense
  • debouchment — the act or an instance of debouching
  • doublethink — the acceptance of two contradictory ideas or beliefs at the same time.
  • embryopathy — (pathology) Any developmental disorder of an embryo.
  • embryophyte — any of a subkingdom of plants, Embryophyta, that encompasses most land plants, such as trees, flowers and mosses
  • emetophobia — Fear of vomiting.
  • emetophobic — Pertaining to, or afflicted with, emetophobia, a morbid fear of vomiting.
  • erotophobia — an abnormal fear of sexuality
  • erythorbate — erythorbic acid; a food additive used as an antioxidant
  • ethnobotany — The scientific study of the traditional knowledge and customs of a people concerning plants and their medical, religious, and other uses.
  • exhibitions — Plural form of exhibition.
  • exhorbitant — Misspelling of exorbitant.
  • featherbone — a substitute for whalebone, made from the quills of domestic fowls.
  • footbreadth — a measurement equalling a breadth of a foot
  • front bench — (used with a singular verb) (in the House of Commons) either of two seats near the Speaker, on which the leaders of the major parties sit.
  • ghostbuster — A person who claims to be able to banish ghosts and poltergeists.
  • half-bottle — a bottle half the size of a standard bottle of wine, spirits, etc
  • halfbrother — Alternative spelling of half brother.
  • hamate bone — a wedgelike bone on the side of the wrist connecting the wrist with the fourth and fifth metacarpals, which connect to the ring and little fingers
  • hatchet job — a maliciously destructive critique or act: The special committee has done a hatchet job on the new proposal.
  • heart block — a defect in the electrical impulses of the heart resulting in any of various arrhythmias or irregularities in the heartbeat.
  • heart-throb — a rapid beat or pulsation of the heart.
  • heartbroken — crushed with sorrow or grief.
  • heartthrobs — Plural form of heartthrob.
  • hedge about — If you say that something such as an offer is hedged about or is hedged around with rules or conditions, you mean that there are a lot of rules or conditions.
  • hematoblast — an immature blood cell, especially a red blood cell.
  • herb doctor — a person who practices healing by the use of herbs.
  • herb robert — a wild geranium, Geranium robertianum, having fernlike, scented leaves and reddish-purple flowers.
  • herbologist — the study or collecting of herbs, especially as a hobby.
  • heterophobe — Someone who suffers from heterophobia.
  • hibernation — Zoology. to spend the winter in close quarters in a dormant condition, as bears and certain other animals. Compare estivate.
  • hibernators — Plural form of hibernator.
  • hobbletehoy — Archaic form of hobbledehoy.
  • holobenthic — (of an animal) completing its life cycle in the ocean depths
  • honesty bar — an unattended area in a hotel, resort, etc, where patrons may serve themselves drinks and are expected to leave money to pay for them
  • honesty box — a container into which members of the public are trusted to place payments when there is no attendant to collect them
  • horn timber — a timber, often one of several, rising from the sternpost of a wooden vessel to support the overhang of the stern.
  • host number — (networking)   The host part of an Internet address. The rest is the network number.
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