12-letter words containing s, b, t, h
- clothesbrush — A brush for the clothes.
- cohesibility — the nature of being cohesible
- crushability — to press or squeeze with a force that destroys or deforms.
- disburthened — Simple past tense and past participle of disburthen.
- disestablish — to deprive of the character of being established; cancel; abolish.
- dishabituate — to cause to be no longer habituated or accustomed.
- disinhibited — Simple past tense and past participle of disinhibit.
- disinhibitor — Something that causes a reduction in one's inhibitions; that makes people, or animals act more impulsively.
- 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
- e-thrombosis — a clot in the bloodstream caused by long periods spent being physically inactive at a computer
- 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.
- for the best — of the highest quality, excellence, or standing: the best work; the best students.
- gaithersburg — a town in central Maryland.
- ghostbusters — Plural form of ghostbuster.
- 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.
- hebetudinous — the state of being dull; lethargy.
- 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.
- hiking boots — stout, sturdy boots, suitable for hiking in
- hobble skirt — a woman's skirt that is very narrow at the bottom, causing the wearer to walk with short, mincing steps.
- 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.
- hubertusburg — a castle in E Germany, E of Leipzig: treaty ending the Seven Years' War signed here 1763.
- 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.
- just the job — If you say that something is just the job, you mean that it is exactly what you wanted or needed.
- 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.
- lay sth bare — If you lay bare something or someone, you reveal or expose them.
- leatherbacks — Plural form of leatherback.
- 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.
- lobster moth — a large sombre-hued prominent moth, Stauropus fagi, that when at rest resembles dead leaves. The modified thoracic legs of the larva, carried curled over its body, look like a lobster's claw