11-letter words containing b, a, s, h, e
- bearishness — The characteristic of being bearish.
- beauharnais — Alexandre (alɛksãdr), Vicomte de. 1760–94, French general, who served in the War of American Independence and the French Revolutionary wars; first husband of Empress Joséphine: guillotined
- beauty bush — a hardy shrub (Kolkwitzia amabilis) of the honeysuckle family, having tubular pink flowers with white bristly hairs on the ovary
- beauty shop — A beauty shop is the same as a beauty parlour.
- beauty-bush — a Chinese shrub, Kolkwitzia amabilis, of the honeysuckle family, having showy, pinkish flowers and grown as an ornamental.
- bedchambers — Plural form of bedchamber.
- behaviorism — Behaviorism is the belief held by some psychologists that the only valid method of studying the psychology of people or animals is to observe how they behave.
- behaviorist — the theory or doctrine that human or animal psychology can be accurately studied only through the examination and analysis of objectively observable and quantifiable behavioral events, in contrast with subjective mental states.
- behind bars — If you say that someone is behind bars, you mean that they are in prison.
- bell-shaped — shaped like a bell
- bhubaneswar — an ancient city in E India, the capital of Odisha (formerly Orissa) state: many temples built between the 7th and 16th centuries. Pop: 647 302 (2001)
- bicephalous — having two heads
- bioresearch — the investigation of the nature of living organisms; biological research.
- black house — a type of thatched house, usually made of turf, formerly found in the highlands and islands of Scotland
- black sheep — If you describe someone as the black sheep of their family or of a group that they are a member of, you mean that they are considered bad or worthless by other people in that family or group.
- blank shell — a shotgun shell containing powder but no shot.
- blasphemers — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
- blasphemies — impious utterance or action concerning God or sacred things.
- blaspheming — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
- blasphemous — You can describe someone who shows disrespect for God or a religion as blasphemous. You can also describe what they are saying or doing as blasphemous.
- blastochyle — the fluid in a blastocoel
- bleak house — a novel (1852) by Charles Dickens.
- blepharitis — inflammation of the eyelids
- boat-shaped — shaped like a boat
- body search — If a person is body searched, someone such as a police officer searches them while they remain clothed. Compare strip-search.
- body-search — to search all parts of the body of: Police ordered the suspects to strip and then body-searched them for hidden caches of narcotics.
- bohemianism — unconventional behaviour or appearance, esp of an artist
- bone shaker — an early-model bicycle, especially one with hard rubber tires.
- 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
- boost phase — the portion of the flight of a ballistic missile or spacecraft during which the booster and sustainer engines operate to bring it near or to peak velocity.
- 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 jacket — a casual jacket or shirt having four patch pockets and a belt
- bush lawyer — any of several prickly trailing plants of the genus Rubus
- bush league — In baseball, a bush league is the same as a minor league.
- bush parole — an escape from prison.
- bush-league — inferior or amateurish; mediocre: a bush-league theatrical performance.
- bushelwoman — a woman who alters clothes
- 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
- chargebacks — Plural form of chargeback.