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11-letter words containing e, s, h, r

  • bioresearch — the investigation of the nature of living organisms; biological research.
  • birtwhistle — Harrison, born 1934, English composer.
  • bitterbrush — a flowering plant of the genus Purshia, native to North America
  • blasphemers — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
  • blepharitis — inflammation of the eyelids
  • bletcherous — /blech'*-r*s/ Disgusting in design or function; aesthetically unappealing. This word is seldom used of people. "This keyboard is bletcherous!" (Perhaps the keys don't work very well, or are misplaced.) The term bletcherous applies to the esthetics of the thing so described; similarly for cretinous. By contrast, something that is "losing" or "bagbiting" may be failing to meet objective criteria.
  • blogosphere — In computer technology, the blogosphere or the blogsphere is all the weblogs on the Internet, considered collectively.
  • body search — If a person is body searched, someone such as a police officer searches them while they remain clothed. Compare strip-search.
  • body-search — to search all parts of the body of: Police ordered the suspects to strip and then body-searched them for hidden caches of narcotics.
  • bone shaker — an early-model bicycle, especially one with hard rubber tires.
  • bone-shaker — an early-model bicycle, especially one with hard rubber tires.
  • bonus share — a share from stock given by a company to existing shareholders
  • boorishness — of or like a boor; unmannered; crude; insensitive.
  • bottlebrush — a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft, used for cleaning bottles
  • breadthless — the measure of the second largest dimension of a plane or solid figure; width.
  • breadthways — from side to side
  • breadthwise — in the direction of the breadth
  • breath test — A breath test is a test carried out by police in which a driver blows into a piece of equipment to show how much alcohol he or she has drunk.
  • breathalyse — to apply a Breathalyser test to (someone)
  • breathiness — (of the voice) characterized by audible or excessive emission of breath.
  • breconshire — (until 1974) a county of SE Wales, now mainly in Powys: over half its area forms the Brecon Beacons National Park
  • breshkovsky — Catherine, 1844–1934, Russian revolutionary of noble birth: called “the little grandmother of the Russian Revolution.”.
  • brickshaped — resembling the shape of a brick
  • brittlebush — any of several composite plants of the genus Encelia, of desert regions of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having alternate leaves and yellow ray flowers with a yellow or purple center.
  • brush aside — If you brush aside or brush away an idea, remark, or feeling, you refuse to consider it because you think it is not important or useful, even though it may be.
  • brush maker — a manufacturer or crafter of brushes
  • brushpopper — a cowboy, especially one who works in the brush.
  • brushstroke — Brushstrokes are the marks made on a surface by a painter's brush.
  • bullshitter — nonsense, lies, or exaggeration.
  • bumbershoot — an umbrella
  • burnishment — the act or process of burnishing
  • burnt shale — carbonaceous shale formed by destructive distillation of oil shale or by spontaneous combustion of shale after it has been some years in a tip: sometimes used in road making
  • bus shelter — A bus shelter is a bus stop that has a roof and at least one open side.
  • 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 lawyer — any of several prickly trailing plants of the genus Rubus
  • bush oyster — a bull's testicle when cooked and eaten
  • bush parole — an escape from prison.
  • bush shrike — any shrike of the African subfamily Malaconotinae, such as Chlorophoneus nigrifrons (black-fronted bush shrike)
  • 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
  • butter dish — a small dish designed to hold butter
  • buzz phrase — a phrase that comes into vogue in the same way as a buzz word
  • camphorates — Plural form of camphorate.
  • can crusher — a device which presses empty metal food containers in order to reduce their volume before they are disposed of
  • cantharides — a diuretic and urogenital stimulant or irritant prepared from the dried bodies of Spanish fly (family Meloidae, not Cantharidae), once thought to be an aphrodisiac
  • cardholders — Plural form of cardholder.
  • cardsharper — (rare) alternative spelling of cardsharp.
  • carpophores — Plural form of carpophore.
  • case-harden — to form a hard surface layer of high carbon content on (a steel component) by heating in a carburizing environment with subsequent quenching or heat treatment
  • casehardens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of caseharden.
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