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12-letter words containing b, e, s, h, t

  • hessian boot — a knee-high tasseled boot, fashionable in England in the early 19th century.
  • heteroblasty — the morphological changes that occur in plants between juvenility and adulthood
  • hibernations — Plural form of hibernation.
  • hobble skirt — a woman's skirt that is very narrow at the bottom, causing the wearer to walk with short, mincing steps.
  • hospital bed — a bed having side rails that can be raised or lowered and a mattress base in three jointed sections so that the head, foot, or middle may be raised by a crank or motor, allowing a patient to lie in various positions, as a therapeutic aid or for comfort.
  • hubertusburg — a castle in E Germany, E of Leipzig: treaty ending the Seven Years' War signed here 1763.
  • hypnotisable — Alternative spelling of hypnotizable.
  • inhospitable — not inclined to, or characterized by, hospitality, as persons or actions; unfriendly.
  • joseph brant — Joseph (Thayendanegea) 1742–1807, Mohawk Indian chief who fought on the side of the British in the American Revolution.
  • just the job — If you say that something is just the job, you mean that it is exactly what you wanted or needed.
  • lay sth bare — If you lay bare something or someone, you reveal or expose them.
  • leatherbacks — Plural form of leatherback.
  • liberty ship — a slow cargo ship built in large numbers for the U.S. merchant marine during World War II and having a capacity of about 11,000 deadweight tons.
  • lobster moth — a large sombre-hued prominent moth, Stauropus fagi, that when at rest resembles dead leaves. The modified thoracic legs of the larva, carried curled over its body, look like a lobster's claw
  • mephibosheth — a son of Jonathan, and the grandson of Saul. II Sam 4:4.
  • miss the bus — lose opportunity
  • mob hysteria — the heightened and extreme emotions that can be experienced by people in a large crowd
  • mother's boy — mama's boy.
  • motherboards — Plural form of motherboard.
  • on the books — registered
  • 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.
  • phlebotomist — a specialist in phlebotomy.
  • phytobenthos — microscopic plants that live in the bottom of the ocean
  • 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
  • second birth — spiritual rebirth.
  • shareability — the state or property of being able to be shared
  • shelter belt — a row of trees planted to protect an area from the wind
  • sketch-books — Also, sketchpad. a book or pad of drawing paper for sketches.
  • slipper bath — a bath in the shape of a slipper, with a covered end
  • soul brother — a black male, especially a fellow black male.
  • 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.
  • stephen jobs — (person)   Stephen P. Jobs (born 24 February 1955). The co-founder and ex-president of Apple Computer, leader of the team that produced the Macintosh. In 1979, when he was president of Apple, Steven Jobs saw a demonstration of Smalltalk at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center. He and other Apple employees were "very impressed with the unique and revolutionary user-friendly design". The first Macintosh was released in January 1984. Jobs described it as insanely great. Jobs was ousted from Apple in 1985 and founded Next, Inc.. In December 1996 he was re-employed by Apple when they bought NeXT. See also lithium lick, Mathematica.
  • store-bought — commercially made rather than homemade.
  • straightbred — (of animals) purebred; having parents of the same breed
  • strobe light — a device for studying the motion of a body, especially a body in rapid revolution or vibration, by making the motion appear to slow down or stop, as by periodically illuminating the body or viewing it through widely spaced openings in a revolving disk.
  • strobe-light — a device for studying the motion of a body, especially a body in rapid revolution or vibration, by making the motion appear to slow down or stop, as by periodically illuminating the body or viewing it through widely spaced openings in a revolving disk.
  • subthreshold — (of a stimulus) too weak to produce a response.
  • 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 bollocks — something excellent
  • the bosporus — a strait between European and Asian Turkey, linking the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara
  • the brownies — (in the US) the junior division of the Girl Scouts, usually for girls six to eight years old
  • the bushveld — an area of low altitude in N South Africa, having scrub vegetation
  • the business — If you say that someone or something is the business, you mean that they are the best of their kind.
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