12-letter words containing s, a, b, t, h
- 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.
- bright spark — If you say that some bright spark had a particular idea or did something, you mean that their idea or action was clever, or that it seemed clever but was silly in some way.
- british rail — the organization that ran the British railway system from 1948 until privatization in the mid-1990s
- british warm — an army officer's short thick overcoat
- brushability — the quality of being brushable
- bushelbasket — a rounded basket with a capacity of one bushel
- bushy-tailed — bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, fresh, alert, eager, and lively
- by the balls — so as to be rendered powerless
- cable stitch — a pattern or series of knitting stitches producing a design like a twisted rope
- cable-stitch — a series of stitches used in knitting to produce a cable effect.
- chartbusters — Plural form of chartbuster.
- chatterboxes — Plural form of chatterbox.
- chondroblast — a type of cell that develops into a chondrocyte or cartilage cell
- crushability — to press or squeeze with a force that destroys or deforms.
- disestablish — to deprive of the character of being established; cancel; abolish.
- dishabituate — to cause to be no longer habituated or accustomed.
- dispatch box — a case or box used to hold valuables or documents, esp official state documents
- dispatchable — Capable of being dispatched.
- dithyrambist — a writer or performer of dithyrambs
- erev shabbat — the day before the Sabbath, i.e. Friday
- erythroblast — An immature erythrocyte containing a nucleus.
- establishing — Present participle of establish.
- featherbacks — Plural form of featherback.
- fishing boat — vessel: for fishing
- flabberghast — (archaic) Alternative form of flabbergast.
- gaithersburg — a town in central Maryland.
- habitualness — The characteristic of being habitual.
- hack to bits — to damage severely
- haematoblast — any of the undifferentiated cells in the bone marrow that develop into blood cells
- hairsbreadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
- handbreadths — Plural form of handbreadth.
- handsbreadth — A small distance.
- haptoglobins — Plural form of haptoglobin.
- harbormaster — A harbormaster is the official in charge of a harbor.
- hematoblasts — Plural form of hematoblast.
- hessian boot — a knee-high tasseled boot, fashionable in England in the early 19th century.
- heteroblasty — the morphological changes that occur in plants between juvenility and adulthood
- hibernations — Plural form of hibernation.
- hospital bed — a bed having side rails that can be raised or lowered and a mattress base in three jointed sections so that the head, foot, or middle may be raised by a crank or motor, allowing a patient to lie in various positions, as a therapeutic aid or for comfort.
- hunt sabbing — the activity of sabotaging a hunt due to the belief that animals should not be harmed by humans
- hypnotisable — Alternative spelling of hypnotizable.
- in mothballs — a small ball of naphthalene or sometimes of camphor for placing in closets or other storage areas to repel moths from clothing, blankets, etc.
- inhospitable — not inclined to, or characterized by, hospitality, as persons or actions; unfriendly.
- inhospitably — not inclined to, or characterized by, hospitality, as persons or actions; unfriendly.
- joseph brant — Joseph (Thayendanegea) 1742–1807, Mohawk Indian chief who fought on the side of the British in the American Revolution.
- lady's-thumb — a smartweed, Polygonum persicaria, of the buckwheat family, having pink or purplish flowers and lance-shaped leaves with a spot resembling a thumbprint.