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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
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