12-letter words containing b, e, c, h, s
- chambersburg — a city in central Pennsylvania.
- channel bass — red drum.
- chapeau bras — a small three-cornered hat, worn by gentlemen in full dress in the 18th century, that could be folded flat and carried under the arm.
- charlesbourg — city in S Quebec, Canada: pop. 71,000
- chartbusters — Plural form of chartbuster.
- chatterboxes — Plural form of chatterbox.
- cheese board — A cheese board is a board from which cheese is served at a meal.
- cheeseboards — Plural form of cheeseboard.
- cheeseburger — A cheeseburger is a flat round piece of cooked meat called a burger with a slice of cheese on top, served in a bread roll.
- child abuser — someone who abuses a child, esp someone convicted of this
- chiliburgers — Plural form of chiliburger.
- chinaberries — Plural form of chinaberry.
- chinese burn — a minor torture inflicted by twisting the skin of a person's wrist or arm in two different directions simultaneously
- chokeberries — Plural form of chokeberry.
- clothesbrush — A brush for the clothes.
- cohesibility — the nature of being cohesible
- crossbencher — A member of the British parliament, or a similar assembly, who does not vote regularly with either the government or the main opposition party.
- dasher block — a block at the end of a yard or gaff for supporting a signal or ensign halyard.
- debaucheries — Plural form of debauchery.
- debaucherous — tending toward or involving debauchery, or excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures: a night of debaucherous fun.
- dispatchable — Capable of being dispatched.
- duchesse bed — a bed having a suspended, full-length tester.
- elasmobranch — A cartilaginous fish of a group that comprises the sharks, rays, and skates.
- featherbacks — Plural form of featherback.
- franchisable — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- hardscrabble — providing or yielding meagerly in return for much effort; demanding or unrewarding: the hardscrabble existence of mountainside farmers.
- king's bench — a court, originally the principal court for criminal cases, gradually acquiring a civil jurisdiction concurrent with that of the Court of Common Pleas, and also possessing appellate jurisdiction over the Court of Common Pleas: now a division of the High Court of Justice.
- leatherbacks — Plural form of leatherback.
- muscle beach — a beach where young men display their muscles, engage in calisthenics, etc.
- noncrushable — (of a container, material, etc) not easily crushed
- psychobabble — writing or talk using jargon from psychiatry or psychotherapy without particular accuracy or relevance.
- public house — British. a tavern.
- raised beach — a wave-cut platform raised above the shoreline by a relative fall in the water level
- rauschenberg — Robert, 1925–2008, U.S. artist.
- researchable — diligent and systematic inquiry or investigation into a subject in order to discover or revise facts, theories, applications, etc.: recent research in medicine.
- schussboomer — a skier who is skilled at schussing.
- second birth — spiritual rebirth.
- silver birch — tree with silvery-white bark
- sketch-books — Also, sketchpad. a book or pad of drawing paper for sketches.
- spinach beet — chard, a plant cultivated for its edible leaves
- 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.
- swashbuckler — a swaggering swordsman, soldier, or adventurer; daredevil.
- the bollocks — something excellent
- thumb-sucker — a person who habitually sucks a thumb.
- ubermenschen — superman (def 2).
- unbesmirched — to soil; tarnish; discolor.
- unsearchable — not searchable; not lending itself to research or exploration; not to be understood by searching; hidden; unfathomable; mysterious: the unsearchable ways of the universe.
- unsearchably — in an unsearchable manner
- unstanchable — unstoppable