11-letter words containing t, h, i, o, b
- haptoglobin — A protein present in blood serum that binds to and removes free hemoglobin from the bloodstream.
- herbologist — the study or collecting of herbs, especially as a hobby.
- 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.
- holobenthic — (of an animal) completing its life cycle in the ocean depths
- holoblastic — (of certain eggs) undergoing total cleavage, resulting in equal blastomeres.
- homoblastic — (of a plant or plant part) showing no difference in form between the juvenile and the adult structures
- horn timber — a timber, often one of several, rising from the sternpost of a wooden vessel to support the overhang of the stern.
- hostile bid — A hostile takeover bid is one that is opposed by the company that is being bid for.
- hot-tubbing — a wooden tub, usually large enough to accommodate several persons, that is filled with hot aerated water and often equipped with a thermostat and whirlpool: used for recreation or physical therapy and often placed out of doors, as on a porch.
- hybernation — Obsolete spelling of hibernation.
- hyperbolist — One who uses hyperbole; an exaggerator.
- hypoblastic — Of, or relating to the hypoblast.
- in the book — in all that is known and practiced in connection with a particular activity
- inhibitions — the act of inhibiting.
- ish-bosheth — a son and successor of Saul. II Sam. 2–4.
- job hunting — the activity of searching for employment
- kid brother — younger male sibling
- miphiboseth — Mephibosheth.
- mothballing — Present participle of mothball.
- noctiphobia — Fear of night; nyctophobia.
- northbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
- northumbria — an early English kingdom extending N from the Humber to the Firth of Forth.
- nothing but — no thing; not anything; naught: to say nothing.
- nyctophobia — an abnormal fear of night or darkness.
- old british — Brythonic as used before a.d. 800.
- on the bias — A dress or skirt that is cut on the bias or that is bias-cut has been cut diagonally across the material so that it hangs down in a particular way.
- pathophobia — an irrational fear of disease
- phlebotomic — of or noting phlebotomy.
- photobiotic — living or thriving only in the presence of light.
- photophobia — an abnormal sensitivity to or intolerance of light, as in iritis.
- photophobic — of or relating to an organism that avoids light.
- pinchbottle — a bottle with concave sides, as for containing liquor.
- pro-british — of or relating to Great Britain or its inhabitants.
- prohibition — the act of prohibiting.
- prohibitive — serving or tending to prohibit or forbid something.
- prohibitory — prohibitive.
- prothrombin — a plasma protein involved in blood coagulation that on activation by factors in the plasma is converted to thrombin.
- rabbit hole — opening of a rabbit's burrow
- redhibition — the nullification of a sale because of a defect in the article sold of such nature as to make it totally or virtually unusable or as to have prevented the purchase if known to the buyer.
- redhibitory — the nullification of a sale because of a defect in the article sold of such nature as to make it totally or virtually unusable or as to have prevented the purchase if known to the buyer.
- rich object — In artificial intelligence, an object which cannot be completely described or represented but about which assertions can be made.
- right about — the position assumed by turning about to the right so as to face in the opposite direction.
- scotophobin — a peptide isolated from the brains of rats conditioned to avoid darkness, alleged to induce a dark-avoidance response in untrained rats, mice, and other animals.
- ship's boat — a boat for communication between ship and shore
- sonofabitch — an abusive term of address or of description
- southbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
- stenobathic — of or relating to marine or freshwater life that can tolerate only limited changes in depth (opposed to eurybathic).
- switchboard — a structural unit on which are mounted switches and instruments necessary to complete telephone circuits manually.
- taphephobia — an abnormal fear of being buried alive.