11-letter words containing b, s, c, h
- brachyprism — the four faces parallel to the brachyaxis in a crystal
- brachyurous — shorttailed, as a crab (opposed to macrurous).
- breconshire — (until 1974) a county of SE Wales, now mainly in Powys: over half its area forms the Brecon Beacons National Park
- brickshaped — resembling the shape of a brick
- bucket shop — an unregistered firm of stockbrokers that engages in speculation with clients' funds
- bunch grass — any of various grasses that grow in tufts
- bush clover — any of several plants or shrubs belonging to the genus Lespedeza, of the legume family, having pinnately trifoliate leaves and heads of pink, purple, cream, or white flowers.
- bush jacket — a casual jacket or shirt having four patch pockets and a belt
- bush tucker — any wild animal, insect, plant or plant extract, etc traditionally used as food by native Australians
- bushwhacker — a person who travels around or lives in thinly populated woodlands
- butt chisel — any woodworking chisel having a blade less than 4 inches (10 cm) long.
- butt-cheeks — the flesh of the buttocks
- calico bush — mountain laurel
- cashability — money or an equivalent, as a check, paid at the time of making a purchase.
- catch basin — a pit in a drainage system in which matter that might otherwise block a sewer is collected so that it may periodically be removed
- chalkboards — Plural form of chalkboard.
- chargebacks — Plural form of chargeback.
- chartbuster — A popular singer or group that makes a best-selling recording.
- chatterbots — Plural form of chatterbot.
- cheeseboard — A cheeseboard is a board from which cheese is served at a meal.
- chelsea bun — a rolled yeast currant bun decorated with sugar
- chelyabinsk — an industrial city in SW Russia; in 2013 a large meteor exploded in an airburst over the city's surrounding district. Pop: 1 067 000 (2005 est)
- chemisorbed — Simple past tense and past participle of chemisorb.
- cheque stub — the part of a cheque that is retained as a record of its purpose
- cherishable — to hold or treat as dear; feel love for: to cherish one's native land.
- chess-board — the board, identical with a checkerboard, used for playing chess.
- chessboards — Plural form of chessboard.
- chessboxing — a sport in which participants contest alternating rounds of chess and boxing, of four and two minutes respectively
- chifforobes — Plural form of chifforobe.
- child abuse — physical, sexual, or emotional ill-treatment or neglect of a child, esp by those responsible for its welfare
- childbirths — Plural form of childbirth.
- chile-bells — a vine, Lapageria rosea, native to Chile, having leathery evergreen leaves and showy reddish flowers: the national flower of Chile.
- chip basket — a wire basket for holding potato chips, etc, while frying in deep fat
- chrysarobin — a tasteless odourless powder containing anthraquinone derivatives of araroba, formerly used medicinally to treat chronic skin conditions
- chrysoberyl — a rare very hard greenish-yellow mineral consisting of beryllium aluminate in orthorhombic crystalline form and occurring in coarse granite: used as a gemstone in the form of cat's eye and alexandrite. Formula: BeAl2O4
- chupacabras — Plural form of chupacabra.
- clubmanship — the status of belonging to an active club
- cohabitants — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
- cohabitates — cohabit.
- copublisher — a publisher that publishes a work in conjunction with another publisher
- cotton bush — any of various downy chenopodiaceous shrubs, esp Kochia aphylla, which is used to feed livestock
- cross-bench — a seat in Parliament occupied by a neutral or independent member
- cyberethics — Ethics in cyberspace.
- embouchures — Plural form of embouchure.
- escheatable — Liable to escheat.
- gas chamber — an enclosure used for the execution of prisoners by means of a poisonous gas.
- hackberries — Plural form of hackberry.
- halocarbons — Plural form of halocarbon.
- hash bucket — hash coding
- hibernicism — an idiom or characteristic peculiar to Irish English or to the Irish.