11-letter words containing t, h, o, n, b
- 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.
- 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.
- hunt button — a button engraved with the insignia of one's hunt and worn on the coat and vest as part of the hunt uniform.
- hybernation — Obsolete spelling of hibernation.
- in the book — in all that is known and practiced in connection with a particular activity
- inhibitions — the act of inhibiting.
- job hunting — the activity of searching for employment
- katabothron — an underground channel created by water erosion
- luckenbooth — a booth or shop capable of being locked up
- mesobenthos — flora and fauna living at the bottom of seas 182 to 914 metres deep
- mothballing — Present participle of mothball.
- noctiphobia — Fear of night; nyctophobia.
- north-bound — going toward the north: northbound traffic.
- 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.
- on the ball — a spherical or approximately spherical body or shape; sphere: He rolled the piece of paper into a ball.
- on the beam — any of various relatively long pieces of metal, wood, stone, etc., manufactured or shaped especially for use as rigid members or parts of structures or machines.
- on the beat — A police officer on the beat is on duty, walking around the area for which he or she is responsible.
- 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.
- on the club — away from work due to sickness, esp when receiving sickness benefit
- overburthen — to overburden
- phone booth — A phone booth is a place in a station, hotel, or other public building where there is a public telephone.
- pinchbottle — a bottle with concave sides, as for containing liquor.
- prohibition — the act of prohibiting.
- prothrombin — a plasma protein involved in blood coagulation that on activation by factors in the plasma is converted to thrombin.
- push-button — operated by or as if by push buttons: push-button tuning.
- 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.
- 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.
- sonofabitch — an abusive term of address or of description
- sponge bath — a bath in which the bather is cleaned by a wet sponge or washcloth dipped in water, without getting into a tub of water.
- stench bomb — a small bomb made to emit a foul smell on exploding.
- stenobathic — of or relating to marine or freshwater life that can tolerate only limited changes in depth (opposed to eurybathic).
- technophobe — abnormal fear of or anxiety about the effects of advanced technology.
- the lebanon — a republic in W Asia, on the Mediterranean: an important centre of the Phoenician civilization in the third millennium bc; part of the Ottoman Empire from 1516 until 1919; gained independence in 1941 (effective by 1945). Official language: Arabic; French and English are also widely spoken. Religion: Muslim and Christian. Currency: Lebanese pound. Capital: Beirut. Pop: 4 131 583 (2013 est). Area: 10 400 sq km (4015 sq miles)
- theobromine — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous powder, C 7 H 8 N 4 O 2 , an isomer of theophylline and lower homologue of caffeine, occurring in tea and obtained from the cacao bean: used chiefly as a diuretic, myocardial stimulant, and vasodilator.
- thingamabob — thingamajig.
- thingumabob — thingamajig.
- thromboxane — a compound, C 20 H 32 O 5 , formed in blood platelets, that constricts blood vessels and promotes clotting.
- thumb piano — any of various African boxlike musical instruments, such as the kalimba or mbira, having tuned strips of metal or wood that vibrate when played with the thumbs.
- thumbs down — the short, thick, inner digit of the human hand, next to the forefinger.
- thumbs-down — an act or instance of dissent, disapproval, etc.
- thunderbolt — a flash of lightning with the accompanying thunder.
- to the bone — Anatomy, Zoology. one of the structures composing the skeleton of a vertebrate. the hard connective tissue forming the substance of the skeleton of most vertebrates, composed of a collagen-rich organic matrix impregnated with calcium, phosphate, and other minerals.
- tocharian b — the western dialect of Tocharian
- transphobia — unreasoning hostility, aversion, etc., toward transgender people.
- tudorbethan — (of a contemporary building) imitative of Tudor and Elizabethan architecture