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11-letter words containing t, h, i

  • automorphic — shaped and designed after oneself
  • autotheists — Plural form of autotheist.
  • autotrophic — (of organisms such as green plants) capable of manufacturing complex organic nutritive compounds from simple inorganic sources such as carbon dioxide, water, and nitrates, using energy from the sun
  • auxotrophic — designating or of a mutant organism requiring more nutritional substances than its prototrophic parent because it has lost the ability to make a certain enzyme
  • axanthopsia — a defect of vision in which the retina fails to respond to yellow.
  • azimuth bar — a device used in measuring azimuths, consisting of a bar with a sighting vane at each end,pivoted at its center, and rotating in a horizontal plane around the center of a compass.
  • azimuthally — Astronomy, Navigation. the arc of the horizon measured clockwise from the south point, in astronomy, or from the north point, in navigation, to the point where a vertical circle through a given heavenly body intersects the horizon.
  • back-stitch — stitching or a stitch in which the thread is doubled back on the preceding stitch.
  • backlighted — Simple past tense and past participle of backlight.
  • badmouthing — Slang. to speak critically and often disloyally of; disparage: Why do you bad-mouth your family so much?
  • baluchistan — a mountainous region of SW Asia, in SW Pakistan and SE Iran
  • bar mitzvah — A bar mitzvah is a ceremony that takes place on the thirteenth birthday of a Jewish boy, after which he is regarded as an adult.
  • baresthesia — the sense or perception of pressure.
  • barthianism — the theological doctrines and principles of Karl Barth and his followers, especially in reference to neoorthodoxy.
  • bas mitzvah — bat mitzvah
  • basil thyme — a plant, Acinos thymoides, of the mint family, having egg-shaped leaves and purplish flowers.
  • basil-thyme — a European plant, Acinos arvensis, having clusters of small violet-and-white flowers: family Lamiaceae
  • basket fish — basket star.
  • basket hilt — a hilt fitted to a broadsword, with a generally padded basket-shaped guard to protect the hand
  • bat mitzvah — (of a Jewish girl) having attained religious majority at the age of twelve
  • bath oliver — a kind of unsweetened biscuit
  • bath tissue — toilet paper.
  • bathing cap — a tight rubber cap worn by a swimmer to keep the hair dry
  • bathing hut — a small waterside building where swimmers can change their clothes
  • batholithic — Containing or relating to batholith.
  • bathophobia — the fear of depths of any kind, whether a fear of deep water or of falling from a great height
  • bathtub gin — homemade gin, especially gin made illegally during Prohibition.
  • bathymetric — Of, pertaining to, or derived from bathymetry.
  • batrachians — Plural form of batrachian.
  • batsmanship — (cricket) A skilled or courteous display of skill as a batsman.
  • battleships — Plural form of battleship.
  • be hard hit — To be hard hit by something means to be affected very severely by it.
  • beach drift — the drifting of sediments, especially marine sediments, in patterns parallel to the contours of a beach, due to the action of waves and currents.
  • bedclothing — bedclothes; bedding.
  • behaviorist — the theory or doctrine that human or animal psychology can be accurately studied only through the examination and analysis of objectively observable and quantifiable behavioral events, in contrast with subjective mental states.
  • behind post — one of the smaller outer posts inside which the ball must be kicked to score a behind
  • behind time — late
  • benightment — the state of being in physical, moral, or intellectual darkness
  • bequeathing — to dispose of (personal property, especially money) by last will: She bequeathed her half of the company to her niece.
  • beth hillel — the school of Jewish legal thought and hermeneutics founded in Jerusalem in the 1st century b.c. by the Jewish spiritual leader Hillel and characterized by its systematic use of interpretive principles and a certain flexibility in interpreting the oral and written law.
  • bewitchment — the state of being bewitched
  • bhartrihari — a.d. 570?–650? Indian grammarian and poet.
  • bibliotheca — a library or collection of books
  • big brother — People sometimes use Big Brother to refer to a person, government, or organization when they think it has complete control over people and is always checking what they do.
  • 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
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