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

  • 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.
  • brickshaped — resembling the shape of a brick
  • 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
  • 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 jacket — a casual jacket or shirt having four patch pockets and a belt
  • 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.
  • bush parole — an escape from prison.
  • bush-league — inferior or amateurish; mediocre: a bush-league theatrical performance.
  • bushelwoman — a woman who alters clothes
  • bushwhacker — a person who travels around or lives in thinly populated woodlands
  • buzz phrase — a phrase that comes into vogue in the same way as a buzz word
  • cacophonies — Plural form of cacophony.
  • caddishness — the state of being caddish
  • calisthenic — Of, or relating to calisthenics.
  • 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
  • cape helles — a cape in NW Turkey, at the S end of the Gallipoli Peninsula
  • capiz shell — whitish, translucent shell of the Philippines, used in making lamp shades, decorative articles, etc.
  • cardholders — Plural form of cardholder.
  • cardsharper — (rare) alternative spelling of cardsharp.
  • carpophores — Plural form of carpophore.
  • case method — Also called case-study method [keys-stuhd-ee] /ˈkeɪsˈstʌd i/ (Show IPA). the teaching or elucidation of a subject or issue through analysis and discussion of actual cases, as in business education.
  • case*method — An analysis and design method from Oracle targeted at information management applications.
  • 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.
  • cash income — income received in the form of cash during a specified period, esp that of rural and farming households
  • cash letter — a deposit list from one bank to another containing items to be credited to the account of the depositing bank.
  • cashierment — the action of rejecting or dismissing
  • casing shoe — A casing shoe is the bottom of the casing string, including the cement around it.
  • castlereagh — a district of E Northern Ireland, in Co Down. Pop: 66 076 (2003 est). Area: 85 sq km (33 sq miles)
  • catachresis — the incorrect use of words, as luxuriant for luxurious
  • catarrhines — Plural form of catarrhine.
  • catastrophe — A catastrophe is an unexpected event that causes great suffering or damage.
  • catch flies — any of various plants, especially of the genera Silene and Lychnis, having a viscid secretion on the stem and calyx in which small insects are sometimes caught.
  • catchphrase — A catchphrase is a sentence or phrase which becomes popular or well-known, often because it is frequently used by a famous person.
  • catechetics — the branch of theology that deals with catechesis
  • catechising — Present participle of catechise.
  • catechismal — Of or pertaining to a catechism; having the form of questions and answers; catechical.
  • catechistic — a person who catechizes.
  • catechumens — Plural form of catechumen.
  • cattishness — The property of being cattish.
  • cattle shed — a shed for cattle
  • cattle show — a competitive event at which farmers show their best cattle
  • cavalierish — like a cavalier
  • cedar chest — a chest made of cedar, in which woolens, furs, etc. are stored for protection against moths
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