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11-letter words that end in h

  • black watch — a regiment of Scottish infantry in the British army (so called from the dark colors in their tartan).
  • black witch — any of several large noctuid moths of the genus Erebus, especially the blackish E. odora (black witch) of Central and North America.
  • blue cohosh — either of two unrelated plants of the eastern U.S., Cimicifuga racemosa (black cohosh) of the buttercup family, or Caulophyllum thalictroides (blue cohosh) of the barberry family, both used medicinally.
  • body search — If a person is body searched, someone such as a police officer searches them while they remain clothed. Compare strip-search.
  • body-search — to search all parts of the body of: Police ordered the suspects to strip and then body-searched them for hidden caches of narcotics.
  • bondi beach — a beach in Sydney, Australia, popular with surfers
  • booby hatch — a hoodlike covering for a hatchway on a ship
  • boot polish — a resistant polish specially formulated to protect boots of various kinds
  • bottlebrush — a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft, used for cleaning bottles
  • bottom fish — any fish that feeds or lives near the bottom of a body of water, as a flounder or catfish
  • bottom-fish — to fish with a weighted line for fish that feed close to the bottom.
  • bournemouth — a resort in S England, in Bournemouth unitary authority, Dorset, on the English Channel. Pop: 167 527 (2001)
  • braced arch — an arch of steel, timber, etc., having a trusslike framework maintaining rigidity under a variety of eccentric loads: a true arch because it is fixed or tied at both sides of the base.
  • brain death — Brain death occurs when someone's brain stops functioning, even though their heart may be kept beating using a machine.
  • breechcloth — a cloth worn about the loins; loincloth
  • bridewealth — (in some nonindustrial societies) the money or goods given to the family of a bride by the bridegroom or his family.
  • bridle path — A bridle path is a path intended for people riding horses.
  • bring forth — to give birth to
  • brith milah — the rite of circumcision on the eighth day after birth
  • brittlebush — any of several composite plants of the genus Encelia, of desert regions of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having alternate leaves and yellow ray flowers with a yellow or purple center.
  • broad reach — an act or instance of reaching: to make a reach for a gun.
  • broad-brush — A broad-brush approach, strategy, or solution deals with a problem in a general way rather than concentrating on details.
  • brood bitch — a female dog used for breeding.
  • brood patch — a highly vascular, featherless area developed on the abdomen of certain brooding birds that is in direct contact with eggs during incubation and provides additional warmth.
  • brood pouch — a pouch or cavity in certain animals, such as frogs and fishes, in which their eggs develop and hatch
  • brown earth — an intrazonal soil of temperate humid regions typically developed under deciduous forest into a dark rich layer (mull): characteristic of much of southern and central England
  • brown patch — a fungus disease of turf grass that results in circular areas of brown, dead grass.
  • bubble bath — Bubble bath is a liquid that smells nice and makes a lot of bubbles when you add it to your bath water.
  • buffalofish — any of several freshwater North American hump-backed cyprinoid fishes of the genus Ictiobus: family Catostomidae (suckers)
  • butter dish — a small dish designed to hold butter
  • butterworth — George. 1885–1916, British composer, noted for his interest in folk song and his settings of Housman's poems
  • cactus moth — a moth, Cactoblastis cactorum, native to South America and introduced into Australia to control prickly pear cactus, on which the larvae feed.
  • cadet cloth — a heavy woolen cloth of double-cloth construction and bluish-gray color, used especially for uniforms at military schools.
  • calf-length — Calf-length skirts, dresses, and coats come to halfway between your knees and ankles.
  • calico bush — mountain laurel
  • canoe birch — paper birch.
  • cardiograph — an instrument for recording the mechanical force and form of heart movements
  • carpet moth — any of several geometrid moths with black- (or brown-)and-white mottled wings
  • castlereagh — a district of E Northern Ireland, in Co Down. Pop: 66 076 (2003 est). Area: 85 sq km (33 sq miles)
  • cavalierish — like a cavalier
  • cellar sash — a window sash of relatively small size, having two or three panes horizontally arranged.
  • centerpunch — to mark with a center punch.
  • cesarevitch — the eldest son of a czar.
  • chaetognath — any small wormlike marine invertebrate of the phylum Chaetognatha, including the arrowworms, having a coelom and a ring of bristles around the mouth
  • charchemish — an ancient city in S Turkey, on the upper Euphrates: important city in the Mitanni kingdom; later the capital of the Hittite empire.
  • charge with — to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.
  • cheat death — If you say that someone cheats death, you mean they only just avoid being killed.
  • cheek pouch — a membranous pouch inside the mouth of many rodents and some other mammals: used for holding food
  • cheek tooth — any of the three posterior chewing teeth on each side of the upper and lower jaws in human adults; molar.
  • cheesecloth — Cheesecloth is cotton cloth that is very thin and light. There are tiny holes between the threads of the cloth.
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