11-letter words containing l, a, s, h
- aschelminth — in some systems of classification, any of a phylum (Aschelminthes) of wormlike animals, including rotifers, gastrotrichs, gordian worms, and nematodes: these animals are usually considered to be in separate phyla
- ashen light — a faint glow visible on the unlit side of the planet Venus in its crescent phase.
- ashlar line — a horizontal line, indicated at a building site with a taut string, that corresponds to the exterior surface plane of a masonry wall.
- asplanchnic — having no gut
- asthmatical — Dated form of asthmatic.
- atheistical — pertaining to or characteristic of atheists or atheism; containing, suggesting, or disseminating atheism: atheistic literature; atheistic people.
- athleticism — Athleticism is someone's fitness and ability to perform well at sports or other physical activities.
- audiophiles — Plural form of audiophile.
- bacchylides — flourished 5th century b.c, Greek poet.
- bachelorism — bachelorhood
- backlashing — a sudden, forceful backward movement; recoil.
- backslashed — Simple past tense and past participle of backslash.
- backslashes — Plural form of backslash.
- bailiffship — the office of a bailiff
- ballet shoe — a flexible, lightweight shoe designed for ballet dancing; typically made of leather or silk, and often fastened with ribbons
- balloonfish — a porcupinefish, Diodon holacanthus, inhabiting tropical and subtropical waters.
- baluchistan — a mountainous region of SW Asia, in SW Pakistan and SE Iran
- bangladeshi — Bangladeshi means belonging to or relating to Bangladesh, or to its people or culture.
- barrelheads — Plural form of barrelhead.
- barrelhouse — a cheap and disreputable drinking establishment
- bashfulness — The quality or property of being bashful; shyness; reserve; timidity.
- basil thyme — a plant, Acinos thymoides, of the mint family, having egg-shaped leaves and purplish flowers.
- basil-thyme — a European plant, Acinos arvensis, having clusters of small violet-and-white flowers: family Lamiaceae
- basket hilt — a hilt fitted to a broadsword, with a generally padded basket-shaped guard to protect the hand
- bath pearls — dissolvable granules added to bath water to impart scent or other qualities
- battleships — Plural form of battleship.
- bell-shaped — shaped like a bell
- bicephalous — having two heads
- biophysical — the branch of biology that applies the methods of physics to the study of biological structures and processes.
- black hills — a group of mountains in W South Dakota and NE Wyoming: famous for the gigantic sculptures of US presidents on the side of Mount Rushmore. Highest peak: Harney Peak, 2207 m (7242 ft)
- black house — a type of thatched house, usually made of turf, formerly found in the highlands and islands of Scotland
- black shank — a disease of tobacco, characterized by wilting and by decayed, blackened roots and stems, caused by a fungus, Phytophthora parasitica nicotianae.
- black sheep — If you describe someone as the black sheep of their family or of a group that they are a member of, you mean that they are considered bad or worthless by other people in that family or group.
- black shirt — a member of any fascist organization (specif., the former Italian Fascist party) with a black-shirted uniform
- blank shell — a shotgun shell containing powder but no shot.
- blasphemers — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
- blasphemies — impious utterance or action concerning God or sacred things.
- blaspheming — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
- blasphemous — You can describe someone who shows disrespect for God or a religion as blasphemous. You can also describe what they are saying or doing as blasphemous.
- blastochyle — the fluid in a blastocoel
- bleak house — a novel (1852) by Charles Dickens.
- blepharitis — inflammation of the eyelids
- breadthless — the measure of the second largest dimension of a plane or solid figure; width.
- breathalyse — to apply a Breathalyser test to (someone)
- bridal shop — a shop that specializes in selling bridal wear
- buffalofish — any of several freshwater North American hump-backed cyprinoid fishes of the genus Ictiobus: family Catostomidae (suckers)
- 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
- bush ballad — an old Australian bush poem in a ballad metre dealing with aspects of life and characters in the bush
- bush lawyer — any of several prickly trailing plants of the genus Rubus
- bush league — In baseball, a bush league is the same as a minor league.