11-letter words containing ha
- archaeology — Archaeology is the study of the societies and peoples of the past by examining the remains of their buildings, tools, and other objects.
- archaeornis — an extinct primitive Jurassic bird, formerly placed in the genus Archaeornis but now thought to be a species of archaeopteryx
- archaeozoic — Archeozoic
- archaically — marked by the characteristics of an earlier period; antiquated: an archaic manner; an archaic notion.
- archaicisms — Plural form of archaicism.
- archangelic — Theology. a chief or principal angel; in medieval angelology one of the nine orders of celestial attendants on God. Compare angel (def 1).
- arctic char — a char, Salvelinus alpinus, that occurs in northern and arctic seas
- arctic hare — a large hare, Lepus arcticus, of the Canadian Arctic whose fur is white in winter
- arkhangelsk — seaport in NW Russia, at the mouth of the Northern Dvina River: pop. 407,000
- as all that — as one might expect or hope
- ash-shaytan — (in Muslim usage) Satan; the devil.
- ashamedness — the condition of feeling ashamed
- atchafalaya — a river in S central Louisiana, flowing S to an inlet (Atchafalaya Bay) on the Gulf of Mexico; a heavily engineered distributary of the Mississippi. 225 miles (362 km).
- autocephaly — the state of being autocephalous.
- autochanger — a device in a record player or CD player that enables a small stack of records or CDs to be dropped automatically onto the turntable or player tray one at a time and played separately
- autophagous — self-consuming or devouring of itself
- autophanous — illuminated by a self-contained power source
- 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.
- bacchanalia — orgiastic rites associated with Bacchus
- backchannel — an unofficial or covert means of conveying information, originally or esp in political or diplomatic circles
- backhanders — Plural form of backhander.
- backhanding — Present participle of backhand.
- bahā' allah — (born Mirzā Ḥoseyn ʼAli Nūrī) 1817-92; Iran. Muslim religious leader: founder of Bahaism
- ballhandler — a player particularly skilled at passing and dribbling
- be all that — to be exceptionally good, talented, or attractive
- be hard hit — To be hard hit by something means to be affected very severely by it.
- beach chair — A beach chair is a simple chair with a folding frame, and a piece of canvas as the seat and back. Beach chairs are usually used on the beach, on a ship, or in the yard.
- bear a hand — to give assistance
- beauharnais — Alexandre (alɛksãdr), Vicomte de. 1760–94, French general, who served in the War of American Independence and the French Revolutionary wars; first husband of Empress Joséphine: guillotined
- bedchambers — Plural form of bedchamber.
- behaviorism — Behaviorism is the belief held by some psychologists that the only valid method of studying the psychology of people or animals is to observe how they behave.
- 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.
- behavioural — Behavioural means relating to the behaviour of a person or animal, or to the study of their behaviour.
- bell-shaped — shaped like a bell
- bethanechol — a substance, C 7 H 17 ClN 2 O 2 , used to treat urinary retention, especially postoperatively.
- better half — one's spouse
- better than — superior to
- bhartrihari — a.d. 570?–650? Indian grammarian and poet.
- bibliophage — an ardent reader; a bookworm.
- bicephalous — having two heads
- birobidzhan — a city in SE Russia: capital of the Jewish Autonomous Region. Pop: 77 250 (2002)
- black chaff — a disease of wheat, characterized by dark, elongated stripes on the chaff, caused by a bacterium, Xanthomonas translucens undulosum.
- black shank — a disease of tobacco, characterized by wilting and by decayed, blackened roots and stems, caused by a fungus, Phytophthora parasitica nicotianae.
- black whale — a black, dolphinlike whale, Globicephala melaena, of the North Atlantic.
- blackhander — a member of a Black Hand group
- blepharitis — inflammation of the eyelids
- boat-shaped — shaped like a boat
- bodhidharma — 6th century ad, Indian Buddhist monk, who taught in China (from 520): considered to be the founder of Zen Buddhism
- bokhara rug — a Turkoman rug having a tan or red background and decorated with varied octagon patterns.
- bone shaker — an early-model bicycle, especially one with hard rubber tires.