12-letter words containing a, b, s, h, e
- gaithersburg — a town in central Maryland.
- haberdashers — Plural form of haberdasher.
- haberdashery — a haberdasher's shop.
- habitualness — The characteristic of being habitual.
- haematoblast — any of the undifferentiated cells in the bone marrow that develop into blood cells
- hairsbreadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
- handbreadths — Plural form of handbreadth.
- handsbreadth — A small distance.
- harbormaster — A harbormaster is the official in charge of a harbor.
- harbour dues — the fees or charges paid for using a harbour
- harbour seal — a common earless seal, Phoca vitulina, that is greyish-black with paler markings: found off the coasts of North America, N Europe, and NE Asia
- hardscrabble — providing or yielding meagerly in return for much effort; demanding or unrewarding: the hardscrabble existence of mountainside farmers.
- harquebusier — a soldier armed with a harquebus.
- hawk's beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
- hawk's-beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
- heliogabalus — (Varius Avitus Bassianus"Marcus Aurelius Antoninus") a.d. 204–222, Roman emperor 218–222.
- hematoblasts — Plural form of hematoblast.
- hessian boot — a knee-high tasseled boot, fashionable in England in the early 19th century.
- heteroblasty — the morphological changes that occur in plants between juvenility and adulthood
- hexasyllable — a word or line of verse of six syllables.
- hibernations — Plural form of hibernation.
- hispanophobe — a person who dislikes Hispanic culture or the Spanish language.
- horsebreaker — One who trains, or breaks in, horses.
- hosepipe ban — a ban, due to water shortage, on using hosepipes to water the garden or wash cars
- hospital bed — a bed having side rails that can be raised or lowered and a mattress base in three jointed sections so that the head, foot, or middle may be raised by a crank or motor, allowing a patient to lie in various positions, as a therapeutic aid or for comfort.
- housebreaker — a person who breaks into and enters a house with a felonious intent.
- househusband — a man whose spouse works and who stays home to manage their household.
- hubble's law — the law that the velocity of recession of distant galaxies from our own is proportional to their distance from us.
- hydrolysable — Alternative spelling of hydrolyzable.
- hypnotisable — Alternative spelling of hypnotizable.
- imperishable — not subject to decay; indestructible; enduring.
- imperishably — In an imperishable manner.
- inhospitable — not inclined to, or characterized by, hospitality, as persons or actions; unfriendly.
- johannesburg — a city in S Transvaal, in the NE Republic of South Africa.
- joseph brant — Joseph (Thayendanegea) 1742–1807, Mohawk Indian chief who fought on the side of the British in the American Revolution.
- kinesophobia — Fear of movement.
- lay sth bare — If you lay bare something or someone, you reveal or expose them.
- leatherbacks — Plural form of leatherback.
- mashrebeeyah — meshrebeeyeh.
- mashrebeeyeh — (in Islamic countries) an oriel screened by latticework.
- misbehaviour — (British) alternative spelling of misbehavior.
- mob hysteria — the heightened and extreme emotions that can be experienced by people in a large crowd
- motherboards — Plural form of motherboard.
- muscle beach — a beach where young men display their muscles, engage in calisthenics, etc.
- noncrushable — (of a container, material, etc) not easily crushed
- omnishambles — Chiefly British Informal. a situation, especially in politics, in which poor judgment results in disorder or chaos with potentially disastrous consequences.
- one-base hit — single (def 24).
- oneg shabbat — a Jewish celebration in honor of the Sabbath that takes place on Friday evening or Saturday afternoon and usually includes a program of songs, a lecture, and refreshments.
- pebbledashed — covered with a finish for external walls consisting of small stones embedded in plaster
- phrasal verb — a combination of verb and one or more adverbial or prepositional particles, as catch on, take off, bring up, or put up with, functioning as a single semantic unit and often having an idiomatic meaning that could not be predicted from the meanings of the individual parts.