12-letter words containing r, e, s, h
- boiled shirt — a dress shirt with a stiff front
- boiler house — a building housing a boiler
- bomb shelter — a shelter, usually underground, in which people take refuge from bomb attacks
- booster shot — an injection of a vaccine or other antigen some time after the initial series of injections, for maintaining immunity
- borscht belt — (sometimes initial capital letters) the hotels of the predominantly Jewish resort area in the Catskill Mountains, many of them offering nightclub or cabaret entertainment.
- bottlewasher — a person or machine that washes bottles.
- bourne shell — (sh, Shellish). The original command-line interpreter shell and script language for Unix written by S.R. Bourne of Bell Laboratories in 1978. sh has been superseded for interactive use by the Berkeley C shell, csh but still widely used for writing shell scripts. There were even earlier shells, see glob. [Details?]
- bow thruster — a propeller located in a ship's bow to provide added maneuverability, as when docking.
- boxer shorts — Boxer shorts are loose-fitting men's underpants that are shaped like the shorts worn by boxers.
- brachycerous — (of insects) having short antennae
- braunschweig — Brunswick
- breast wheel — a waterwheel onto which the propelling water is fed at the height of a horizontal axle.
- breastplough — a plough driven by the worker's breast, often used to pare turf
- breathalyser — a device for estimating the amount of alcohol in the breath: used in testing people suspected of driving under the influence of alcohol
- breathe easy — to take air, oxygen, etc., into the lungs and expel it; inhale and exhale; respire.
- breathlessly — without breath or breathing with difficulty; gasping; panting: We were breathless after the steep climb.
- breed's hill — a hill in E Massachusetts, adjoining Bunker Hill: the true site of the Battle of Bunker Hill (1775)
- brick cheese — a ripened, semisoft American cheese shaped like a brick and containing many small holes
- bridge house — a deckhouse including a bridge or bridges for navigation.
- brine shrimp — any of a genus (Artemia) of small fairy shrimp found in salt lakes and marshes and used as living, frozen, or dried food in aquariums
- bristlemouth — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Gonostomatidae, having numerous sharp, slender teeth covering the jaws.
- bronchoscope — an instrument for examining and providing access to the interior of the bronchial tubes
- brunelleschi — Filippo (fiˈlippo). 1377–1446, Italian architect, whose works in Florence include the dome of the cathedral, the Pazzi chapel of Santa Croce, and the church of San Lorenzo
- brush border — a layer of tightly packed minute finger-like protuberances on cells that line absorptive surfaces, such as those of the intestine and kidney
- brush flower — a flower or inflorescence with numerous long stamens, usually pollinated by birds or bats
- brush turkey — any of several gallinaceous birds, esp Alectura lathami, of New Guinea and Australia, having a black plumage: family Megapodidae (megapodes)
- buccaneerish — of or relating to a buccaneer
- bush leaguer — Also called busher. Baseball. a player in a minor league. an incompetent player, as one who behaves or plays as if he or she belonged in a minor league.
- bush-leaguer — (in baseball) someone who plays in a minor league
- butcher shop — a shop in which meat, poultry, and sometimes fish are sold.
- butterscotch — Butterscotch is a hard yellowish-brown sweet made from butter and sugar boiled together.
- by the score — If things happen or exist by the score, they happen or exist in large numbers.
- by-a-whisker — whiskers, a beard.
- camel's hair — the hair of the camel
- camel's-hair — made of camel's hair.
- carbohydrase — a digestive enzyme that breaks down carbohydrates through hydrolysis
- carpet shark — any of various sharks of the family Orectolobidae, having two dorsal fins and a patterned back, typically marked with white and brown
- case history — A person's case history is the record of past events or problems that have affected them, especially their medical history.
- casehardened — Simple past tense and past participle of caseharden.
- cash receipt — A cash receipt is a proof of purchase issued when the buyer has paid in cash.
- cash-starved — A cash-starved company or organization does not have enough money to operate properly, usually because another organization, such as the government, is not giving them the money that they need.
- catachrestic — Constituting or related to catachresis.
- cataphoreses — Plural form of cataphoresis.
- cataphoresis — electrophoresis
- catastrophes — Plural form of catastrophe.
- catch phrase — a phrase that attracts or is meant to attract attention.
- catch-phrase — A catch-phrase is a sentence or phrase which becomes popular or well-known, often because it is frequently used by a famous person.
- catchphrases — Plural form of catchphrase.
- catheterizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of catheterize.
- cathode rays — a stream of electrons emitted from the surface of a cathode in a valve