12-letter words containing s, h, a, b, u
- heliogabalus — (Varius Avitus Bassianus"Marcus Aurelius Antoninus") a.d. 204–222, Roman emperor 218–222.
- housebreaker — a person who breaks into and enters a house with a felonious intent.
- househusband — a man whose spouse works and who stays home to manage their household.
- hubble's law — the law that the velocity of recession of distant galaxies from our own is proportional to their distance from us.
- hunt sabbing — the activity of sabotaging a hunt due to the belief that animals should not be harmed by humans
- johannesburg — a city in S Transvaal, in the NE Republic of South Africa.
- 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.
- misbehaviour — (British) alternative spelling of misbehavior.
- muscle beach — a beach where young men display their muscles, engage in calisthenics, etc.
- mustard bath — a supposed cure for aches, tired muscles, colds and fevers, consisting of bathing in hot water infused with mustard seeds
- naughty bits — genitals
- noncrushable — (of a container, material, etc) not easily crushed
- orchard bush — open savanna country with occasional trees and scrub, as found north of the W African forest belt
- pastry brush — a small, flat brush for coating pastry with butter, egg, etc.
- rauschenberg — Robert, 1925–2008, U.S. artist.
- safe harbour — a place that offers protection from the weather, attack, etc
- saint hubert — a borough in S Quebec, Canada, just E of Montreal.
- saint-hubert — town in S Quebec, Canada: part of metropolitan Montreal: pop. 77,000
- scratchbuild — to build a scale model of something from scratch, that is, from raw materials like wood, clay or paper
- scratchbuilt — describing something which has been constructed by scratchbuilding
- shoulder bag — a handbag with shoulder strap attached.
- shoulder-bag — A shoulder-bag is a bag that has a long strap so that it can be carried on a person's shoulder.
- shuffleboard — a game in which standing players shove or push wooden or plastic disks with a long cue toward numbered scoring sections marked on a floor or deck.
- slumbershade — sleep shade.
- south arabia — Protectorate of, a former protectorate of Great Britain in S Arabia, now part of the Republic of Yemen.
- spud-bashing — the task of peeling potatoes, given as a punishment
- subarachnoid — of, relating to, or situated below the arachnoid membrane.
- subhastation — a public auction or sale
- subparagraph — a distinct portion of written or printed matter dealing with a particular idea, usually beginning with an indentation on a new line.
- sulphur bath — a curative bath in which the water used has sulphates dissolved in it, especially one in which the water comes from a natural hot spring
- swashbuckler — a swaggering swordsman, soldier, or adventurer; daredevil.
- the absolute — ultimate reality regarded as uncaused, unmodified, unified and complete, timeless, etc.
- thiobacillus — any of several rod-shaped bacteria of the genus Thiobacillus, inhabiting soil, sewage, etc., that derive energy from oxidation of sulfur or sulfur compounds.
- thrash about — flail, throw oneself around
- through bass — figured bass.
- turkish bath — a bath in which the bather, after copious perspiration in a steam room, showers and has a rubdown.
- ubangi-shari — former name of the Central African Republic.
- unhospitable — not hospitable
- unperishable — imperishable
- unpolishable — incapable of being made smooth or shiny
- unpunishable — not able to be punished
- unpunishably — in an unpunishable manner
- unsearchable — not searchable; not lending itself to research or exploration; not to be understood by searching; hidden; unfathomable; mysterious: the unsearchable ways of the universe.
- unsearchably — in an unsearchable manner
- unshadowable — not able to be shadowed
- unshrinkable — not able to contract or become smaller in size
- unstanchable — unstoppable
- upright bass — double bass
- younghusband — Sir Francis Edward. 1863–1942, British explorer, mainly of N India and Tibet. He used military force to compel the Dalai Lama to sign (1904) a trade agreement with Britain