12-letter words containing b, r, a, s, h
- breathlessly — without breath or breathing with difficulty; gasping; panting: We were breathless after the steep climb.
- bright spark — If you say that some bright spark had a particular idea or did something, you mean that their idea or action was clever, or that it seemed clever but was silly in some way.
- brinkmanship — Brinkmanship is a method of behaviour, especially in politics, in which you deliberately get into dangerous situations which could result in disaster but which could also bring success.
- british rail — the organization that ran the British railway system from 1948 until privatization in the mid-1990s
- british warm — an army officer's short thick overcoat
- bronchospasm — an abnormal contraction of the bronchi resulting in restriction of the airway
- brushability — the quality of being brushable
- buccaneerish — of or relating to a buccaneer
- bush leaguer — Also called busher. Baseball. a player in a minor league. an incompetent player, as one who behaves or plays as if he or she belonged in a minor league.
- bush-leaguer — (in baseball) someone who plays in a minor league
- by-a-whisker — whiskers, a beard.
- carbohydrase — a digestive enzyme that breaks down carbohydrates through hydrolysis
- carbon brush — a small block of carbon used to convey current between the stationary and moving parts of an electric generator, motor, etc
- chamberlains — Plural form of chamberlain.
- chambermaids — Plural form of chambermaid.
- chambersburg — a city in central Pennsylvania.
- chapeau bras — a small three-cornered hat, worn by gentlemen in full dress in the 18th century, that could be folded flat and carried under the arm.
- charlesbourg — city in S Quebec, Canada: pop. 71,000
- chartbusters — Plural form of chartbuster.
- chatterboxes — Plural form of chatterbox.
- cheese board — A cheese board is a board from which cheese is served at a meal.
- cheeseboards — Plural form of cheeseboard.
- child abuser — someone who abuses a child, esp someone convicted of this
- chinaberries — Plural form of chinaberry.
- chondroblast — a type of cell that develops into a chondrocyte or cartilage cell
- crushability — to press or squeeze with a force that destroys or deforms.
- dasher block — a block at the end of a yard or gaff for supporting a signal or ensign halyard.
- debaucheries — Plural form of debauchery.
- debaucherous — tending toward or involving debauchery, or excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures: a night of debaucherous fun.
- dishonorable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- dishonorably — In a dishonorable manner.
- dithyrambist — a writer or performer of dithyrambs
- double sharp — a symbol (× or ) that raises by two semitones the pitch of the following note.
- elasmobranch — A cartilaginous fish of a group that comprises the sharks, rays, and skates.
- erev shabbat — the day before the Sabbath, i.e. Friday
- erythroblast — An immature erythrocyte containing a nucleus.
- featherbacks — Plural form of featherback.
- flabberghast — (archaic) Alternative form of flabbergast.
- franchisable — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- gainsborough — Thomas, 1727–88, English painter.
- gaithersburg — a town in central Maryland.
- haberdashers — Plural form of haberdasher.
- haberdashery — a haberdasher's shop.
- hairsbreadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
- handbreadths — Plural form of handbreadth.
- handsbreadth — A small distance.
- harbormaster — A harbormaster is the official in charge of a harbor.
- harbour dues — the fees or charges paid for using a harbour
- harbour seal — a common earless seal, Phoca vitulina, that is greyish-black with paler markings: found off the coasts of North America, N Europe, and NE Asia
- hardscrabble — providing or yielding meagerly in return for much effort; demanding or unrewarding: the hardscrabble existence of mountainside farmers.