12-letter words containing b, a, t, s, h
- lay sth bare — If you lay bare something or someone, you reveal or expose them.
- leatherbacks — Plural form of leatherback.
- lymphoblasts — Plural form of lymphoblast.
- mob hysteria — the heightened and extreme emotions that can be experienced by people in a large crowd
- motherboards — Plural form of motherboard.
- mustard bath — a supposed cure for aches, tired muscles, colds and fevers, consisting of bathing in hot water infused with mustard seeds
- naughty bits — genitals
- nihil obstat — permission to publish a book, granted by an official censor who, upon examining it, has certified that it contains nothing contrary to faith or morals.
- one-base hit — single (def 24).
- oneg shabbat — a Jewish celebration in honor of the Sabbath that takes place on Friday evening or Saturday afternoon and usually includes a program of songs, a lecture, and refreshments.
- pastry brush — a small, flat brush for coating pastry with butter, egg, etc.
- postbrachial — belonging to the arm, foreleg, wing, pectoral fin, or other forelimb of a vertebrate.
- preestablish — to establish beforehand.
- rabbitfishes — Plural form of rabbitfish.
- re-establish — to found, institute, build, or bring into being on a firm or stable basis: to establish a university; to establish a medical practice.
- saint hubert — a borough in S Quebec, Canada, just E of Montreal.
- saint-hubert — town in S Quebec, Canada: part of metropolitan Montreal: pop. 77,000
- sandy blight — trachoma.
- satanophobia — a morbid fear of the devil or Satan
- scratchboard — a cardboard coated with impermeable white clay and covered by a layer of ink that is scratched or scraped in patterns revealing the white surface below.
- scratchbuild — to build a scale model of something from scratch, that is, from raw materials like wood, clay or paper
- scratchbuilt — describing something which has been constructed by scratchbuilding
- shareability — the state or property of being able to be shared
- short ballot — a ballot containing only candidates for the most important legislative and executive posts, leaving judicial and lesser administrative posts to be filled by appointment.
- slipper bath — a bath in the shape of a slipper, with a covered end
- snatch block — a fairlead having the form of a block that can be opened to receive the bight of a rope at any point along its length.
- south arabia — Protectorate of, a former protectorate of Great Britain in S Arabia, now part of the Republic of Yemen.
- spinach beet — chard, a plant cultivated for its edible leaves
- stabilograph — an instrument for measuring body sway.
- star chamber — a former court of inquisitorial and criminal jurisdiction in England that sat without a jury and that became noted for its arbitrary methods and severe punishments, abolished 1641.
- straight bat — a bat held vertically
- straightbred — (of animals) purebred; having parents of the same breed
- subhastation — a public auction or sale
- sulphur bath — a curative bath in which the water used has sulphates dissolved in it, especially one in which the water comes from a natural hot spring
- the absolute — ultimate reality regarded as uncaused, unmodified, unified and complete, timeless, etc.
- the bastille — a state prison in Paris that was stormed and destroyed (1789) in the French Revolution: its destruction is commemorated on Bastille Day, July 14
- the dingbats — delirium tremens
- the disabled — those who are physically or mentally disabled; the handicapped
- thermostable — capable of being subjected to a moderate degree of heat without loss of characteristic properties, as certain toxins and enzymes (opposed to thermolabile).
- thiobacillus — any of several rod-shaped bacteria of the genus Thiobacillus, inhabiting soil, sewage, etc., that derive energy from oxidation of sulfur or sulfur compounds.
- thrash about — flail, throw oneself around
- through bass — figured bass.
- trachybasalt — a fine-grained volcanic rock containing sanidine and calcic plagioclase.
- turkish bath — a bath in which the bather, after copious perspiration in a steam room, showers and has a rubdown.
- two-base hit — a base hit that enables a batter to reach second base safely.
- unhospitable — not hospitable
- unstanchable — unstoppable
- upright bass — double bass
- welsh rabbit — a dish of melted cheese, usually mixed with ale or beer, milk, and spices, served over toast.