15-letter words containing b, u, s, h
- schoolboy crush — an infatuation that a young boy has, usually for an older woman such as a teacher or an actress, which is seen as superficial and unlikely to last for long
- scrubbing brush — a handheld brush with short stiff bristles, used esp for scrubbing floors
- smallmouth bass — a North American freshwater game fish, Micropterus dolomieu, yellowish-green above and lighter below, having the lower jaw extending to the eye.
- snubfin dolphin — Australian dolphin with a small dorsal fin
- southern blight — a disease of peanuts, tomatoes, and other plants, caused by a fungus, Sclerotium rolfsii, affecting the roots and resulting in rapid wilting.
- spinach-rhubarb — an Ethiopian plant, Rumex abyssinicus, of the buckwheat family, having leaves that are sometimes used as spinach and leafstalks sometimes used as rhubarb.
- strawberry bush — an E North American shrub or small tree, Euonymus americanus, having pendulous capsules that split when ripe to reveal scarlet seeds: family Celastraceae
- sub-machine gun — a lightweight automatic or semiautomatic gun, fired from the shoulder or hip.
- subject heading — a title or heading of a category, esp in a bibliography or index
- substratosphere — the upper troposphere.
- subtrochanteric — Anatomy. either of two knobs at the top of the femur, the greater on the outside and the lesser on the inside, serving for the attachment of muscles between the thigh and pelvis.
- susan b anthony — Antony, Mark.
- the black stump — an imaginary marker of the extent of civilization (esp in the phrase beyond the black stump)
- touch base with — the bottom support of anything; that on which a thing stands or rests: a metal base for the table.
- troubleshooting — to act or be employed as a troubleshooter: She troubleshoots for a large industrial firm.
- turkish tobacco — a strongly aromatic tobacco, grown chiefly in Turkey and Greece, used in cigarettes.
- turn the tables — an article of furniture consisting of a flat, slablike top supported on one or more legs or other supports: a kitchen table; an operating table; a pool table.
- unapprehensible — not able to be understood or comprehended
- uninhibitedness — the state or quality of being uninhibited
- unteachableness — the quality or condition of being unteachable
- washing-up bowl — plastic bowl used for washing dishes
- welsbach burner — a type of gaslight in which a mantle containing thorium and cerium compounds becomes incandescent when heated by a gas flame
- winesburg, ohio — a cycle of short stories (1919) by Sherwood Anderson.