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11-letter words containing r, a, b, t, h

  • blepharitis — inflammation of the eyelids
  • boat anchor — 1. Like doorstop but more severe; implies that the offending hardware is irreversibly dead or useless. "That was a working motherboard once. One lightning strike later, instant boat anchor!" 2. A person who just takes up space. 3. Obsolete but still working hardware, especially when used of an old S100-bus hobbyist system; originally a term of annoyance, but became more and more affectionate as the hardware became more and more obsolete.
  • boldhearted — courageous or daring; intrepid.
  • botheration — bother
  • brachiating — Botany. having widely spreading branches in alternate pairs.
  • brachiation — locomotion accomplished by swinging by the arms from one hold to another.
  • brachyodont — (of mammals, such as humans) having teeth with short crowns
  • brahmaputra — a river in S Asia, rising in SW Tibet as the Tsangpo and flowing through the Himalayas and NE India to join the Ganges at its delta in Bangladesh. Length: about 2900 km (1800 miles)
  • brain death — Brain death occurs when someone's brain stops functioning, even though their heart may be kept beating using a machine.
  • brake light — a red light attached to the rear of a motor vehicle that lights up when the brakes are applied, serving as a warning to following drivers
  • branch wilt — a disease of walnut trees, characterized by sudden wilting of the leaves, and cankers and discoloration of the bark and branches, caused by a fungus, Hendersonula toruloidea.
  • brattishing — decorative work along the coping or on the cornice of a building
  • breadthless — the measure of the second largest dimension of a plane or solid figure; width.
  • breadthways — from side to side
  • breadthwise — in the direction of the breadth
  • breath test — A breath test is a test carried out by police in which a driver blows into a piece of equipment to show how much alcohol he or she has drunk.
  • 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
  • breathe out — When you breathe out, you send air out of your lungs through your nose or mouth.
  • breathiness — (of the voice) characterized by audible or excessive emission of breath.
  • 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.
  • bright coal — coal consisting of alternating layers of clarain and vitrain.
  • bright idea — suggestion: clever
  • brith milah — the rite of circumcision on the eighth day after birth
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 heart — a brown discoloration of the flesh of stored apples, resulting from high concentrations of carbon dioxide.
  • brown patch — a fungus disease of turf grass that results in circular areas of brown, dead grass.
  • brunch coat — a knee-length housecoat.
  • 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
  • butorphanol — a narcotic analgesic, C 21 H 29 NO 2 , administered by injection to treat moderate to severe pain.
  • chair table — an article of furniture, produced especially in colonial America, that can serve as either a table or a chair, having, as a chair, a large, usually circular, hinged back that can be pulled down and rested on the arms to form a tabletop.
  • chamber pot — A chamber pot is a round container shaped like a very large cup. Chamber pots used to be kept in bedrooms so that people could urinate in them instead of having to leave their room during the night.
  • chamber-pot — a portable container, especially for urine, used in bedrooms.
  • chamfer bit — a bit for beveling the edge of a hole.
  • chartbuster — A popular singer or group that makes a best-selling recording.
  • chatterbots — Plural form of chatterbot.
  • cohabitator — One who cohabits.
  • dear-bought — having been purchased at great expense
  • dithyrambic — of, relating to, or of the nature of a dithyramb, or an impassioned oration.
  • embryopathy — (pathology) Any developmental disorder of an embryo.
  • erotophobia — an abnormal fear of sexuality
  • erythorbate — erythorbic acid; a food additive used as an antioxidant
  • establisher — A person who establishes something.
  • exhorbitant — Misspelling of exorbitant.
  • feather bed — a mattress or a bed cover, as a quilt, stuffed with soft feathers.
  • feather-bed — a mattress or a bed cover, as a quilt, stuffed with soft feathers.
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