10-letter words containing b, e, s, h
- sheathbill — either of two white sea birds, Chionis alba or C. minor, of the colder parts of the Southern Hemisphere: so called from the horny sheath covering the base of the upper bill.
- shebagging — the practice by a female passenger on public transport of placing a bag on the seat beside her, so denying it to another passenger
- shed blood — to pour forth (water or other liquid), as a fountain.
- sheepberry — a North American shrub or small tree, Viburnum lentago, of the honeysuckle family, having flat-topped clusters of small white flowers and edible, berrylike black drupes.
- sheet bend — a knot used esp for joining ropes of different sizes
- shell back — an underside of a spoon bowl ornamented with a shell motif.
- shell bean — any of various kinds of bean of which the unripe seeds are removed from the pods before cooking.
- shellbound — encased in, or confined to, a shell
- sherbrooke — a city in S Quebec, in SE Canada.
- shibboleth — a peculiarity of pronunciation, behavior, mode of dress, etc., that distinguishes a particular class or set of persons.
- shield bug — any shield-shaped herbivorous heteropterous insect of the superfamily Pentamoidea, esp any of the family Pentatomidae
- ship-bread — hardtack.
- shock tube — an apparatus in which a gas is heated to very high temperatures by means of a shock wave, usually for spectroscopic investigation of the natures and reactions of the resulting radicals and excited molecules
- shore bird — a bird that frequents seashores, estuaries, etc., as the snipe, sandpiper, plover, and turnstone; a limicoline bird.
- shore crab — any of numerous crabs that live along the shoreline between the tidemarks, as Hemigrapsus nudus (purple shore crab) of the Pacific coast of North America.
- shortbread — a butter cookie commonly made in thick, pie-shaped wheels or rolled and cut in fancy shapes.
- showboater — a boat, especially a paddle-wheel steamer, used as a traveling theater.
- shrewsbury — a city now part of Shrewsbury and Atcham, in Salop, in W England.
- shutterbug — an amateur photographer, especially one who is greatly devoted to the hobby.
- sketchable — suitable for being sketched.
- sketchbook — Also, sketchpad. a book or pad of drawing paper for sketches.
- slavophobe — a person who fears or hates the Slavs, their influence, or things Slavic.
- sleigh bed — a bed resembling a sleigh in shape, with curved boards at the head and foot
- sloth bear — a coarse-haired, long-snouted bear, Ursus ursinus, of India and Indochina: now rare.
- smoothbore — (of firearms) having a bore that is smooth; not rifled.
- south bend — a city in N Indiana.
- squabasher — a person who squabashes someone or something
- squashable — easily squashed; soft
- stablished — establish.
- steam bath — a bath of steam, usually in a specially equipped room or enclosure, for cleansing or refreshing oneself.
- stonebrash — a type of subsoil consisting of small or broken stones or rock
- subchapter — a subdivision especially of a body of laws.
- subcharter — to rent a chartered vehicle
- subchelate — having a claw with one pincer longer than the other
- subheading — a subordinate division of a title or heading.
- subhepatic — of or relating to the liver.
- subphrenic — underneath the diaphragm
- subtrahend — a number that is subtracted from another.
- superbitch — an exceptionally spiteful woman, a very bitchy person
- switchable — a slender, flexible shoot, rod, etc., used especially in whipping or disciplining.
- tetterbush — an evergreen shrub, Lyonia lucida, of the southeastern U.S., having leathery leaves and white to pink flowers.
- the absurd — the conception of the world, esp in Existentialist thought, as neither designed nor predictable but irrational and meaningless
- the boards — the acting profession; the stage
- the breaks — to smash, split, or divide into parts violently; reduce to pieces or fragments: He broke a vase.
- the bushes — rural or small-town districts
- the buskin — tragic drama
- the rabbis — the early Jewish scholars whose teachings are recorded in the Talmud
- the tables — laws, as the Ten Commandments or ancient Roman codes, inscribed on flat stone slabs
- third base — the third in counterclockwise order of the bases from home plate.
- thrombosed — affected with a thrombus or blood clot