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11-letter words containing a, s, h, r, e

  • 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
  • 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)
  • breathiness — (of the voice) characterized by audible or excessive emission of breath.
  • brickshaped — resembling the shape of a brick
  • brush aside — If you brush aside or brush away an idea, remark, or feeling, you refuse to consider it because you think it is not important or useful, even though it may be.
  • brush maker — a manufacturer or crafter of brushes
  • 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
  • bush lawyer — any of several prickly trailing plants of the genus Rubus
  • bush parole — an escape from prison.
  • bushwhacker — a person who travels around or lives in thinly populated woodlands
  • buzz phrase — a phrase that comes into vogue in the same way as a buzz word
  • camphorates — Plural form of camphorate.
  • can crusher — a device which presses empty metal food containers in order to reduce their volume before they are disposed of
  • 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
  • cardholders — Plural form of cardholder.
  • cardsharper — (rare) alternative spelling of cardsharp.
  • carpophores — Plural form of carpophore.
  • 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.
  • cash letter — a deposit list from one bank to another containing items to be credited to the account of the depositing bank.
  • cashierment — the action of rejecting or dismissing
  • castlereagh — a district of E Northern Ireland, in Co Down. Pop: 66 076 (2003 est). Area: 85 sq km (33 sq miles)
  • catachresis — the incorrect use of words, as luxuriant for luxurious
  • catarrhines — Plural form of catarrhine.
  • catastrophe — A catastrophe is an unexpected event that causes great suffering or damage.
  • catchphrase — A catchphrase is a sentence or phrase which becomes popular or well-known, often because it is frequently used by a famous person.
  • cavalierish — like a cavalier
  • cedar chest — a chest made of cedar, in which woolens, furs, etc. are stored for protection against moths
  • cellar sash — a window sash of relatively small size, having two or three panes horizontally arranged.
  • cesarevitch — the eldest son of a czar.
  • 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.
  • chain store — A chain store is one of several similar shops that are owned by the same person or company, especially one that sells a variety of things.
  • chairperson — The chairperson of a meeting, committee, or organization is the person in charge of it.
  • chalkstripe — clothing with a pattern of thin white stripes on a dark background
  • challengers — Plural form of challenger.
  • champerties — Plural form of champerty.
  • champertous — a sharing in the proceeds of litigation by one who agrees with either the plaintiff or defendant to help promote it or carry it on.
  • chancellors — Plural form of chancellor.
  • chandeliers — Plural form of chandelier.
  • chandleries — Plural form of chandlery.
  • changeovers — Plural form of changeover.
  • chansonnier — a writer of chansons
  • chaperonins — Plural form of chaperonin.
  • charchemish — an ancient city in S Turkey, on the upper Euphrates: important city in the Mitanni kingdom; later the capital of the Hittite empire.
  • chargebacks — Plural form of chargeback.
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