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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.
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