8-letter words containing s, e, h
- ashqelon — city in SW Israel, on the Mediterranean: nearby is the site of an ancient city-state (often sp. Ashkelon) of the Philistines, 12th cent. b.c. (cf. I Sam. 6:17; Jer. 25:20): pop. 57,000
- aspheric — a lens that has a shape that is not completely round
- asphodel — any of various S European liliaceous plants of the genera Asphodelus and Asphodeline, having clusters of white or yellow flowers
- asscheek — (vulgar slang) A buttock.
- assholes — Plural form of asshole.
- asthenia — an abnormal loss of strength; debility
- asthenic — of, relating to, or having asthenia; weak
- atheists — Plural form of atheist.
- athletes — Plural form of athlete.
- attaches — to fasten or affix; join; connect: to attach a photograph to an application with a staple.
- avouches — to make frank acknowledgment or affirmation of; declare or assert with positiveness.
- ayrshire — a historical county of SW Scotland, formerly part of Strathclyde region (1975–96), now divided into the council areas of North Ayrshire, South Ayrshire, and East Ayrshire
- baalshem — a person who works miracles by calling upon the name of God, especially one of the German and Polish Jews of the 16th–19th centuries considered to be saintly and to possess magical powers.
- babiches — Plural form of babiche.
- backhoes — Plural form of backhoe.
- baghouse — a dust-filtering chamber consisting of fabric filter bags
- bakeshop — Also called bakeshop [beyk-shop] /ˈbeɪkˌʃɒp/ (Show IPA). a baker's shop.
- banished — Simple past tense and past participle of banish.
- banisher — someone who or something which banishes
- banishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of banish.
- banshees — Plural form of banshee.
- barghest — (in the North of England, esp Yorkshire) a goblin that appears in the shape of a dog as an omen of death or other misfortune
- base hit — a play in which the batter hits a fair ball and gets on base without benefit of an opponent's error and without forcing out a runner already on base
- bashless — not ashamed; unabashed
- bashment — (slang, countable, especially Jamaican) A party or rave.
- bathless — without a bath
- bathorse — a horse which carries a military officer's baggage; a military packhorse
- beakfish — Any of certain fishes of the family Oplegnathidae.
- bedights — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bedight.
- bedsheet — a sheet for a bed
- beehives — Plural form of beehive.
- beehouse — A beehive or apiary.
- behistun — a village in W Iran by the ancient road from Ecbatana to Babylon. On a nearby cliff is an inscription by Darius in Old Persian, Elamite, and Babylonian describing his enthronement
- behooves — use; advantage; benefit: The money was spent for his own behoof.
- bellpush — a button that is pressed to operate an electric bell
- bescorch — to scorch badly
- beshadow — to darken with shadow
- beshiver — to shatter
- beshroud — to cover with a shroud
- besmirch — If you besmirch someone or their reputation, you say that they are a bad person or that they have done something wrong, usually when this is not true.
- besmooth — to smooth
- besoothe — to soothe
- besought — beseech
- bethesda — a pool in Jerusalem reputed to have healing powers, where a paralysed man was healed by Jesus (John 5:2)
- bleakish — quite pale
- blokeish — denoting or exhibiting the characteristics believed typical of an ordinary man
- bluchers — a strong, leather half boot.
- bluebush — any of various blue-grey herbaceous Australian shrubs of the genus Maireana
- bluefish — a predatory bluish marine percoid food and game fish, Pomatomus saltatrix, related to the horse mackerel: family Pomatomidae
- boethius — Anicius Manlius Severinus (əˈnɪsɪəs ˈmænlɪəs ˌsɛvəˈraɪnəs). ?480–?524 ad, Roman philosopher and statesman, noted particularly for his work De Consolatione Philosophiae. He was accused of treason and executed by Theodoric