12-letter words containing b, i, s, h
- paki-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked physical assaults upon Pakistani immigrants or people of Pakistani descent
- peeblesshire — a historic county in S Scotland.
- phillipsburg — a city in NW New Jersey, on the Delaware River.
- phlebotomist — a specialist in phlebotomy.
- postbrachial — belonging to the arm, foreleg, wing, pectoral fin, or other forelimb of a vertebrate.
- preestablish — to establish beforehand.
- prepublished — to publish in advance of a scheduled date.
- public house — British. a tavern.
- rabbitfishes — Plural form of rabbitfish.
- rainbow fish — guppy.
- raised beach — a wave-cut platform raised above the shoreline by a relative fall in the water level
- 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.
- red bandfish — a fish, Cepola haastii, found on the inner continental shelf around New Zealand: family Cepolidae
- rubbish dump — a place or area where waste materials are dumped
- ryobu shinto — a fusion of Shinto and Buddhism, which flourished in Japan in the 13th century
- 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
- sandwich bar — a place where sandwiches are sold
- sandy blight — trachoma.
- satanophobia — a morbid fear of the devil or Satan
- scabbardfish — any of several marine fishes having a long, compressed, silvery body, especially a cutlassfish, Trichiurus lepturus, of the western Atlantic.
- schoolboyish — like or characteristic of a schoolboy
- scratchbuild — to build a scale model of something from scratch, that is, from raw materials like wood, clay or paper
- scratchbuilt — describing something which has been constructed by scratchbuilding
- second birth — spiritual rebirth.
- shareability — the state or property of being able to be shared
- ship biscuit — hardtack.
- shipbuilding — a person whose occupation is the designing or constructing of ship.
- shooting box — a small house or lodge for use during the shooting season.
- shopbreaking — the act of breaking into a shop
- shopping bag — a strong, usually paper or plastic, bag with handles, used to carry purchases or belongings.
- shut-out bid — a pre-emptive bid
- silbury hill — the largest prehistoric artificial mound in Europe, located near Avebury, England, and dating from 2600 b.c.
- silver birch — tree with silvery-white bark
- slab dashing — the act or process of covering an exterior wall with roughcast.
- sleigh bells — a number of small, spherical bells fixed to the harness straps of an animal drawing a sleigh
- slipper bath — a bath in the shape of a slipper, with a covered end
- slobbishness — the state or characteristic of being a slob
- south arabia — Protectorate of, a former protectorate of Great Britain in S Arabia, now part of the Republic of Yemen.
- spinach beet — chard, a plant cultivated for its edible leaves
- spud-bashing — the task of peeling potatoes, given as a punishment
- stabilograph — an instrument for measuring body sway.
- straight bat — a bat held vertically
- 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.
- subarachnoid — of, relating to, or situated below the arachnoid membrane.
- subhastation — a public auction or sale
- 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 brownies — (in the US) the junior division of the Girl Scouts, usually for girls six to eight years old