9-letter words containing b, e, s, h
- beersheba — a town in S Israel: commercial centre of the Negev. In biblical times it marked the southern limit of Palestine. Pop: 183 000 (2003 est)
- behaviors — manner of behaving or acting.
- behmenism — Boehmenism.
- behmenist — Boehmenist.
- bell push — a button that is pressed to operate an electric bell
- benchless — without a bench or benches
- benchrest — a tablelike support for a target rifle used in target practice.
- berkshire — a historic county of S England: since reorganization in 1974 the River Thames has marked the N boundary while the Berkshire Downs occupy central parts; the county council was replaced by six unitary authorities in 1998. Area: 1259 sq km (486 sq miles)
- beseeched — to implore urgently: They besought him to go at once.
- bethsabee — Bathsheba.
- bethsaida — a ruined town in N Israel, near the N shore of the Sea of Galilee
- bhutanese — a native or inhabitant of Bhutan
- big house — a penitentiary (usually preceded by the).
- bioethics — the study of ethical problems arising from biological research and its applications in such fields as organ transplantation, genetic engineering, or artificial insemination
- biosphere — The biosphere is the part of the earth's surface and atmosphere where there are living things.
- birdhouse — a small shelter or box for birds to nest in
- bishopess — a bishop's wife
- bisphenol — a synthetic organic compound used to make plastics and resins
- bitchfest — a malicious and spiteful discussion of people, events, etc
- bitterish — (of taste) quite bitter
- blaspheme — If someone blasphemes, they say rude or disrespectful things about God or religion, or they use God's name as a swear word.
- blasphemy — You can describe something that shows disrespect for God or a religion as blasphemy.
- bleachers — The bleachers are a part of an outdoor sports stadium, or the seats in that area, which are usually uncovered and are the least expensive place where people can sit.
- blemished — You use blemished to describe something such as someone's skin or a piece of fruit when its appearance is spoiled by small marks.
- blemisher — a person or thing that blemishes
- bloodshed — Bloodshed is violence in which people are killed or wounded.
- blueshift — a shift in the spectral lines of a stellar spectrum towards the blue end of the visible region relative to the wavelengths of these lines in the terrestrial spectrum: a result of the Doppler effect caused by stars approaching the solar system
- blushless — without blushes, shameless
- boat shoe — a shoe, usually in a style somewhat like a moccasin, with a rubber sole suitable for walking on the deck of a boat
- boathouse — A boathouse is a building at the edge of a lake, in which boats are kept.
- bobsleigh — A bobsleigh is a vehicle with long thin strips of metal fixed to the bottom, which is used for racing downhill on ice.
- bodyshell — the external shell of a motor vehicle
- bolshevik — Bolshevik is used to describe the political system and ideas that Lenin and his supporters introduced in Russia after the Russian Revolution of 1917.
- bombshell — A bombshell is a sudden piece of bad or unexpected news.
- bookshelf — A bookshelf is a shelf on which you keep books.
- boresight — to verify the alignment of the sights and bore of (a firearm).
- boughless — (of trees) having no boughs
- box-fresh — unused or unspoiled; straight from the packaging
- brash ice — small, floating fragments of sea ice or river ice.
- brashness — impertinent; impudent; tactless: a brash young man.
- brewhouse — a brewery
- brighouse — a town in N England, in Calderdale unitary authority, West Yorkshire: machine tools, textiles, engineering. Pop: 32 360 (2001)
- brightest — radiating or reflecting light; luminous; shining: The bright coins shone in the gloom.
- britisher — In American English or old-fashioned British English, British people are sometimes informally referred to as Britishers.
- britishes — of or relating to Great Britain or its inhabitants.
- broachers — Machinery. an elongated, tapered, serrated cutting tool for shaping and enlarging holes.
- brushfire — a fire in bushes and scrub
- brushless — (of a motor) not using physical contacts for the communicator
- bucharest — the capital of Romania, in the southeast. Pop: 1 764 000 (2005 est)
- buhrstone — a hard tough rock containing silica, fossils, and cavities, formerly used as a grindstone