9-letter words containing b, i, s, h
- 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
- blindfish — any of various small fishes, esp the cavefish, that have rudimentary or functionless eyes and occur in subterranean streams
- blinglish — a form of spoken English that blends British English with Black youth slang
- blockship — a ship used to block a river or channel
- 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
- bobsleigh — A bobsleigh is a vehicle with long thin strips of metal fixed to the bottom, which is used for racing downhill on ice.
- 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.
- bombsight — a mechanical or electronic device in an aircraft for aiming bombs
- bony fish — any fish of the class Osteichthyes, including most of the extant species, having a skeleton of bone rather than cartilage
- boresight — to verify the alignment of the sights and bore of (a firearm).
- brainwash — If you brainwash someone, you force them to believe something by continually telling them that it is true, and preventing them from thinking about it properly.
- brash ice — small, floating fragments of sea ice or river ice.
- 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.
- brightish — fairly bright
- 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.
- brushfire — a fire in bushes and scrub
- buckishly — in a buckish manner
- bullishly — in a bullish manner
- bullshits — nonsense, lies, or exaggeration.
- burnished — You can describe something as burnished when it is bright or smooth.
- bush-line — the contour at which the growth of the bush ceases
- bushiness — a bushy quality or state
- buteshire — (until 1975) a county of SW Scotland, consisting of islands in the Firth of Clyde and Kilbrannan Sound: formerly part of Strathclyde region (1975–96), now part of Argyll and Bute council area
- by inches — a unit of length, 1/12 (0.0833) foot, equivalent to 2.54 centimeters.
- by rights — If something is not the case but you think that it should be, you can say that by rights it should be the case.
- chabasite — Alternative form of chabazite.
- charybdis — a ship-devouring monster in classical mythology, identified with a whirlpool off the north coast of Sicily, lying opposite Scylla on the Italian coast
- chemisorb — to take up (a substance) by chemisorption
- choirboys — Plural form of choirboy.
- choriambs — Plural form of choriamb.
- chubbiest — Superlative form of chubby.
- cohesible — capable of cohesion
- coolibahs — Plural form of coolibah.
- dabchicks — Plural form of dabchick.
- dihybrids — Plural form of dihybrid.
- disbranch — to break or cut (a branch) off a tree or shrub.
- elisabeth — a feminine name
- embellish — Make (something) more attractive by the addition of decorative details or features.
- establish — Set up (an organization, system, or set of rules) on a firm or permanent basis.
- fish ball — a fried ball (or patty) of minced fish, often mixed with mashed potatoes
- fish bass — a bast fibre bag for holding an angler's catch
- fishbones — Plural form of fishbone.
- fishbowls — Plural form of fishbowl.
- fishyback — a cargo supply chain involving container transfer from lorry to ship
- fribblish — having the quality of a fribble
- frobisher — Sir Martin, 1535?–94, English navigator and explorer.
- funabashi — a city in E central Honshu, Japan, on Tokyo Bay.