12-letter words containing b, u, s, h, e
- debaucheries — Plural form of debauchery.
- debaucherous — tending toward or involving debauchery, or excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures: a night of debaucherous fun.
- disburthened — Simple past tense and past participle of disburthen.
- dishabituate — to cause to be no longer habituated or accustomed.
- double sharp — a symbol (× or ) that raises by two semitones the pitch of the following note.
- duchesse bed — a bed having a suspended, full-length tester.
- gaithersburg — a town in central Maryland.
- ghostbusters — Plural form of ghostbuster.
- habitualness — The characteristic of being habitual.
- 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
- harquebusier — a soldier armed with a harquebus.
- hebetudinous — the state of being dull; lethargy.
- heliogabalus — (Varius Avitus Bassianus"Marcus Aurelius Antoninus") a.d. 204–222, Roman emperor 218–222.
- herbivourous — Misspelling of herbivorous.
- hobblebushes — Plural form of hobblebush.
- homebuilders — Plural form of homebuilder.
- house number — the unique number given to each building on a street which forms part of that building's address
- house-broken — (of a pet) trained to avoid excreting inside the house or in improper places.
- housebreaker — a person who breaks into and enters a house with a felonious intent.
- housebuilder — One who builds houses, particularly one who does so professionally.
- househusband — a man whose spouse works and who stays home to manage their household.
- hubble's law — the law that the velocity of recession of distant galaxies from our own is proportional to their distance from us.
- hubertusburg — a castle in E Germany, E of Leipzig: treaty ending the Seven Years' War signed here 1763.
- johannesburg — a city in S Transvaal, in the NE Republic of South Africa.
- just the job — If you say that something is just the job, you mean that it is exactly what you wanted or needed.
- misbehaviour — (British) alternative spelling of misbehavior.
- miss the bus — lose opportunity
- muscle beach — a beach where young men display their muscles, engage in calisthenics, etc.
- nielsbohrium — dubnium: symbol, Ns: the name originally proposed by Russian scientists for this element
- noncrushable — (of a container, material, etc) not easily crushed
- pollen brush — the mass of stiff hairs on the legs or abdomen of an insect, for collecting pollen.
- prepublished — to publish in advance of a scheduled date.
- public house — British. a tavern.
- rauschenberg — Robert, 1925–2008, U.S. artist.
- safe harbour — a place that offers protection from the weather, attack, etc
- 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
- schussboomer — a skier who is skilled at schussing.
- shoulder bag — a handbag with shoulder strap attached.
- shoulder-bag — A shoulder-bag is a bag that has a long strap so that it can be carried on a person's shoulder.
- shuffleboard — a game in which standing players shove or push wooden or plastic disks with a long cue toward numbered scoring sections marked on a floor or deck.
- slumbershade — sleep shade.
- sorghum beer — beer made from sorghum or millet
- soul brother — a black male, especially a fellow black male.
- store-bought — commercially made rather than homemade.
- subthreshold — (of a stimulus) too weak to produce a response.
- swashbuckler — a swaggering swordsman, soldier, or adventurer; daredevil.
- the absolute — ultimate reality regarded as uncaused, unmodified, unified and complete, timeless, etc.
- the bosporus — a strait between European and Asian Turkey, linking the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara