12-letter words containing i, r, s, h, b
- chambermaids — Plural form of chambermaid.
- child abuser — someone who abuses a child, esp someone convicted of this
- chiliburgers — Plural form of chiliburger.
- chinaberries — Plural form of chinaberry.
- chinese burn — a minor torture inflicted by twisting the skin of a person's wrist or arm in two different directions simultaneously
- chokeberries — Plural form of chokeberry.
- crushability — to press or squeeze with a force that destroys or deforms.
- debaucheries — Plural form of debauchery.
- denbighshire — a county of N Wales: split between Clwyd and Gwynedd in 1974; reinstated with different boundaries in 1996: borders the Irish Sea, with the Cambrian Mountains in the south: chiefly agricultural. Administrative centre: Ruthin. Pop: 94 900 (2003 est). Area: 844 sq km (327 sq miles)
- disburthened — Simple past tense and past participle of disburthen.
- dishonorable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- dishonorably — In a dishonorable manner.
- disinhibitor — Something that causes a reduction in one's inhibitions; that makes people, or animals act more impulsively.
- dithyrambist — a writer or performer of dithyrambs
- e-thrombosis — a clot in the bloodstream caused by long periods spent being physically inactive at a computer
- fines herbes — a mixture of finely chopped herbs, used to flavour omelettes, salads, etc
- 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.
- hairsbreadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
- harquebusier — a soldier armed with a harquebus.
- harrisonburg — a city in N Virginia.
- helleborines — Plural form of helleborine.
- herbivourous — Misspelling of herbivorous.
- heron's-bill — stork's-bill (def 1).
- herringbones — Plural form of herringbone.
- hibernations — Plural form of hibernation.
- hillsborough — a town in W California.
- hobble skirt — a woman's skirt that is very narrow at the bottom, causing the wearer to walk with short, mincing steps.
- homebuilders — Plural form of homebuilder.
- horribleness — causing or tending to cause horror; shockingly dreadful: a horrible sight.
- housebuilder — One who builds houses, particularly one who does so professionally.
- hummingbirds — Plural form of hummingbird.
- hybrid basis — A hybrid basis is a system of accounting that combines some of the features of cost basis with some of the features of accrual basis.
- hyperbolised — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- hyperboloids — Plural form of hyperboloid.
- imperishable — not subject to decay; indestructible; enduring.
- imperishably — In an imperishable manner.
- irish bridge — a paved ford.
- ishikari bay — a bay of the Sea of Japan, on the W coast of Hokkaido, Japan.
- khaibar pass — Khyber Pass.
- liberty ship — a slow cargo ship built in large numbers for the U.S. merchant marine during World War II and having a capacity of about 11,000 deadweight tons.
- micropublish — to publish on microfilm or microfiche.
- misbehaviour — (British) alternative spelling of misbehavior.
- mob hysteria — the heightened and extreme emotions that can be experienced by people in a large crowd
- new hebrides — former name of Vanuatu.
- nielsbohrium — dubnium: symbol, Ns: the name originally proposed by Russian scientists for this element
- observership — someone or something that observes.
- of o's birth — The country, town, or village of your birth is the place where you were born.
- ombrophilous — (of plants) tolerant of wet conditions