10-letter words containing b, a, h, s
- seal beach — a town in S California.
- searchable — to go or look through (a place, area, etc.) carefully in order to find something missing or lost: They searched the woods for the missing child. I searched the desk for the letter.
- seborrhoea — an excessive and abnormal discharge from the sebaceous glands.
- shabbiness — impaired by wear, use, etc.; worn: shabby clothes.
- shadow box — a shallow, rectangular frame fronted with a glass panel, used to show and at the same time protect items on display, as paintings, coins, or jewelry.
- shadow-box — a shallow, rectangular frame fronted with a glass panel, used to show and at the same time protect items on display, as paintings, coins, or jewelry.
- shark bell — a bell sounded to warn swimmers of the presence of sharks
- sharpsburg — a town in NW Maryland: nearby is the site of the Civil War battle of Antietam 1862.
- sheathbill — either of two white sea birds, Chionis alba or C. minor, of the colder parts of the Southern Hemisphere: so called from the horny sheath covering the base of the upper bill.
- shebagging — the practice by a female passenger on public transport of placing a bag on the seat beside her, so denying it to another passenger
- shell back — an underside of a spoon bowl ornamented with a shell motif.
- shell bean — any of various kinds of bean of which the unripe seeds are removed from the pods before cooking.
- ship-bread — hardtack.
- shore crab — any of numerous crabs that live along the shoreline between the tidemarks, as Hemigrapsus nudus (purple shore crab) of the Pacific coast of North America.
- shortboard — a type of surfboard that is shorter than standard
- shortbread — a butter cookie commonly made in thick, pie-shaped wheels or rolled and cut in fancy shapes.
- showboater — a boat, especially a paddle-wheel steamer, used as a traveling theater.
- sinophobia — a fear or dislike of China, or Chinese people, their language or culture
- sitophobia — abnormal aversion to food.
- sketchable — suitable for being sketched.
- slavophobe — a person who fears or hates the Slavs, their influence, or things Slavic.
- sloth bear — a coarse-haired, long-snouted bear, Ursus ursinus, of India and Indochina: now rare.
- sobhuza ii — 1899–1982, king of Swaziland 1921–82.
- splashback — a sheet of glass, plastic, etc, attached to a wall above a basin to protect the wall against splashing
- squabasher — a person who squabashes someone or something
- squash bug — a dark-brown bug, Anasa tristis, that sucks the sap from the leaves of squash, pumpkin, and other plants of the gourd family.
- squashable — easily squashed; soft
- stablished — establish.
- steam bath — a bath of steam, usually in a specially equipped room or enclosure, for cleansing or refreshing oneself.
- stonebrash — a type of subsoil consisting of small or broken stones or rock
- sub-branch — a further branch or division of something within an already established branch or division
- subchapter — a subdivision especially of a body of laws.
- subcharter — to rent a chartered vehicle
- subchelate — having a claw with one pincer longer than the other
- subheading — a subordinate division of a title or heading.
- subhepatic — of or relating to the liver.
- subtrahend — a number that is subtracted from another.
- sugar bush — an evergreen shrub, Rhus ovata, of the cashew family, native to the desert regions of the southwestern U.S., having light yellow flowers in short, dense spikes and hairy, dark-red fruit.
- sunbathing — to take a sunbath.
- swatchbook — a booklet containing samples (of paper, cloth, etc)
- switchable — a slender, flexible shoot, rod, etc., used especially in whipping or disciplining.
- switchback — a highway, as in a mountainous area, having many hairpin curves.
- the absurd — the conception of the world, esp in Existentialist thought, as neither designed nor predictable but irrational and meaningless
- the boards — the acting profession; the stage
- the breaks — to smash, split, or divide into parts violently; reduce to pieces or fragments: He broke a vase.
- the rabbis — the early Jewish scholars whose teachings are recorded in the Talmud
- the tables — laws, as the Ten Commandments or ancient Roman codes, inscribed on flat stone slabs
- third base — the third in counterclockwise order of the bases from home plate.
- thumbstall — a protective sheath of rubber, leather, or the like for the thumb.
- tipu sahib — 1750–99, sultan of Mysore 1782–99.