11-letter words containing ha
- bone-shaker — an early-model bicycle, especially one with hard rubber tires.
- bonus share — a share from stock given by a company to existing shareholders
- booby hatch — a hoodlike covering for a hatchway on a ship
- boost phase — the portion of the flight of a ballistic missile or spacecraft during which the booster and sustainer engines operate to bring it near or to peak velocity.
- brahmachari — a student of the Vedas, especially one committed to brahmacharya.
- breathalyse — to apply a Breathalyser test to (someone)
- breathalyze — If the driver of a car is breathalyzed by the police, they ask him or her to breathe into a special bag or device in order to test whether he or she has drunk too much alcohol.
- breatharian — a person who believes that it is possible to subsist healthily on air alone
- bremerhaven — a port in NW Germany: an outport for Bremen. Pop: 118 276 (2003 est)
- brickshaped — resembling the shape of a brick
- bridle hand — (of a horseback rider) the hand, usually the left hand, that holds both reins or both pairs of reins, leaving the other hand free to manage a whip, crop, lariat, or the like.
- brochantite — a mineral, hydrous copper sulfate, Cu 4 (OH) 6 SO 4 , occurring in green fibrous masses and similar in physical properties to antlerite: formerly a major ore of copper.
- bukhara rug — a kind of rug, typically having a black-and-white geometrical pattern on a reddish ground
- bullwhacker — (especially in the early 19th century) the driver of a team of oxen.
- bundelkhand — a region of central India: formerly native states, now mainly part of Madhya Pradesh
- burnt shale — carbonaceous shale formed by destructive distillation of oil shale or by spontaneous combustion of shale after it has been some years in a tip: sometimes used in road making
- bushwhacker — a person who travels around or lives in thinly populated woodlands
- butorphanol — a narcotic analgesic, C 21 H 29 NO 2 , administered by injection to treat moderate to severe pain.
- cack-handed — If you describe someone as cack-handed, you mean that they handle things in an awkward or clumsy way.
- caipirinhas — Plural form of caipirinha.
- call a halt — to put an end (to something); stop
- cantharidal — relating to or made of cantharides
- cantharides — a diuretic and urogenital stimulant or irritant prepared from the dried bodies of Spanish fly (family Meloidae, not Cantharidae), once thought to be an aphrodisiac
- cantharidic — cantharidal
- cantharidin — the compound C10H12O4, which is the active ingredient in cantharides and is secreted by many species of blister beetle
- cap in hand — If you go cap in hand to someone, you ask them very humbly to give you something or to do something for you.
- cap-haitien — a port in N Haiti: capital during the French colonial period. Pop: 134 000 (2005 est)
- cardophagus — a donkey
- cardsharper — (rare) alternative spelling of cardsharp.
- case-harden — to form a hard surface layer of high carbon content on (a steel component) by heating in a carburizing environment with subsequent quenching or heat treatment
- casehardens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of caseharden.
- cashability — money or an equivalent, as a check, paid at the time of making a purchase.
- catarrhally — in a manner relating to the inflammation of a mucous membrane
- cathartical — Cathartic.
- cebocephaly — A developmental anomaly of the head, characterized by a monkey-like head with a defective small, flattened nose with a single nostril or absent nose and closely set eyes.
- centre half — a defender who plays in the middle of the defence
- cephalalgia — headache (def 1).
- cephalalgic — relating to or affected by headache
- cephalocele — a protrusion of the brain or cranial matter through an opening in the skull
- cephalogram — An X-ray of the craniofacial area.
- cephalopode — Archaic form of cephalopod.
- cephalopods — Plural form of cephalopod.
- cephalothin — a cephalosporin antibiotic often used in the treatment of bacterial infections
- cephalotomy — the dissection of the head
- cesca chair — a chair, with or without arms, designed by Marcel Breuer in 1928, having a cantilevered frame of chromium-plated or stainless tubular steel and a seat and back of bentwood-framed canework.
- ch'iungshan — Qiongshan.
- cha-cha-cha — a Latin-American ballroom dance with small steps and swaying hip movements
- chaenomeles — any of a genus of deciduous shrubs within the family Rosaceae, native to East Asia
- chaetognath — any small wormlike marine invertebrate of the phylum Chaetognatha, including the arrowworms, having a coelom and a ring of bristles around the mouth
- chaffinches — Plural form of chaffinch.