13-letter words containing b, a, h, s
- opisthobranch — any gastropod mollusk of the order Opisthobranchia, as the sea slugs, sea butterflies, and sea hares, characterized by a vestigial or absent mantle and shell and two pairs of tentacles.
- paraphrasable — a restatement of a text or passage giving the meaning in another form, as for clearness; rewording.
- pass the buck — Poker. any object in the pot that reminds the winner of some privilege or obligation when his or her turn to deal next comes.
- peach blossom — the flower of the peach tree: the state flower of Delaware.
- perishability — subject to decay, ruin, or destruction: perishable fruits and vegetables.
- pre-establish — to establish, set up, set out, arrange or make secure in advance or previously
- psychobabbler — a person who uses psychobabble
- queer-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked verbal or physical assaults upon homosexuals or supposed homosexuals
- rauschenbusch — Walter, 1861–1918, U.S. clergyman and social reformer.
- reestablished — to found, institute, build, or bring into being on a firm or stable basis: to establish a university; to establish a medical practice.
- replenishable — able to be replenished
- rhumb sailing — sea navigation along rhumb lines.
- rough as bags — uncouth
- saber-toothed — having long, saberlike upper canine teeth, sometimes extending below the margin of the lower jaw.
- sandwich beam — flitch beam.
- scabbard fish — any of several marine fishes having a long, compressed, silvery body, especially a cutlassfish, Trichiurus lepturus, of the western Atlantic.
- school phobia — a fear of going to or returning to school
- scythian lamb — a fern, Cibotium barometz, of southeastern Asia, having stalks covered with shaggy, brownish hair and large, feathery leaves, formerly believed to be a source of vegetable wool.
- sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
- sensible heat — Sensible heat is heat which is exchanged in an energy generation system, and which only affects the temperature of one or more substances.
- shadow boxing — to make the motions of attack and defense, as in boxing, as a training or conditioning procedure.
- shambolically — in a completely disorganized or chaotic manner
- shark biscuit — a bodyboard
- shatt-al-arab — a river in SE Iraq, formed by the junction of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, flowing SE to the Persian Gulf. 123 miles (198 km) long.
- shaving brush — a short, cylindrical brush with long, soft, bristles, used in lathering the face before shaving.
- she-crab soup — a thick, bisquelike soup made with the meat and eggs of the female crab.
- shield bearer — an attendant who carries the shield or arms of a warrior.
- shingle beach — a beach made of a mass of small pieces of rough stone
- shot-blasting — the cleaning of metal, etc, by a stream of shot
- siberian high — the prevailing high pressure system over Asia in winter.
- sketchability — the suitability for being sketched
- slaughterable — (of an animal) ready for slaughter
- smoke chamber — an enlarged area between the throat of a fireplace and the chimney flue.
- snap-brim hat — a hat brim that can be turned up or down.
- snowball bush — guelder rose.
- social phobia — a type of anxiety disorder characterized by shyness and heightened self-consciousness in particular social situations
- south arabian — of or relating to the former South Arabia (now South Yemen) or its inhabitants
- south by east — a point on the compass 11°15′ east of south. Abbreviation: SbE.
- spanish broom — a spiny, often leafless shrub, Genista hispanica, of the legume family, native to southern Europe, having clustered, golden-yellow flowers and hairy pods.
- spark chamber — a device for detecting elementary particles, consisting of a series of charged plates separated by a gas so that the passage of a charged particle causes sparking between adjacent plates.
- spine-bashing — to rest; loaf.
- stamen blight — a disease of blackberries, characterized by a gray, powdery mass of spores covering the anthers, caused by a fungus, Hapalosphaeria deformans.
- state chamber — a room for public ceremonies and celebrations.
- sub-franchise — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- subepithelial — any animal tissue that covers a surface, or lines a cavity or the like, and that, in addition, performs any of various secretory, transporting, or regulatory functions.
- surbased arch — drop arch (def 2).
- surge chamber — a chamber for absorbing surge from a liquid or gas.
- swashbuckling — characteristic of or behaving in the manner of a swashbuckler.
- swimming bath — swimming pool.
- symbolography — the writing of symbolic characters or tracing of symbolic figures