10-letter words containing s, h, a, r, e
- autarchies — Plural form of autarchy.
- authorised — Alternative spelling of authorized.
- authorises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of authorise.
- authorizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of authorize.
- authorless — having no author; anonymous
- bachelor's — a person who has been awarded a bachelor's degree.
- backlasher — something or someone who produces a backlash
- backwasher — (textiles) A machine used for washing wool after carding to remove the impurities.
- bakersheet — dripping pan.
- balderdash — If you say that something that has been said or written is balderdash, you think it is completely untrue or very stupid.
- banffshire — (until 1975) a county of NE Scotland: formerly (1975–96) part of Grampian region, now part of Aberdeenshire
- barbershop — Barbershop is a style of singing where a small group of people, usually men, sing in close harmony and without any musical instruments accompanying them.
- barkhausen — Heinrich Georg. 1881–1956, German physicist; discovered that ferromagnetic material in an increasing magnetic field becomes magnetized in discrete jumps (the Barkhausen effect)
- barrelfish — a blackish stromateid fish, Hyperoglyphe perciformis, inhabiting New England coastal waters.
- barysphere — centrosphere (def 2).
- beachgoers — Plural form of beachgoer.
- behaviours — manner of behaving or acting.
- belshazzar — 6th century bc, the son of Nabonidus, coregent of Babylon with his father for eight years: referred to as king and son of Nebuchadnezzar in the Old Testament (Daniel 5:1, 17; 8:1); described as having received a divine message of doom written on a wall at a banquet (Belshazzar's Feast)
- bestraught — distraught; distracted
- betrothals — the act or state of being betrothed; engagement.
- birthrates — birthrate
- blandisher — someone who blandishes
- blasphemer — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
- blepharism — spasm of the eyelids, causing rapid involuntary blinking
- blue shark — a shark of the species Prionace glauca, found in temperate and tropical waters
- bluehearts — a hairy, purple-flowered perennial plant (Buchnera americana) of the figwort family, found in the S U.S.
- bodyshaper — an undergarment which flattens the stomach, bottom etc
- boneshaker — an early type of bicycle having solid tyres and no springs
- book share — a share of a mutual fund credited to the account of a shareholder without the physical issuance of a certificate evidencing ownership.
- brake shoe — the curved metal casting to which the brake lining is riveted in a drum brake
- brandished — to shake or wave, as a weapon; flourish: Brandishing his sword, he rode into battle.
- bread shop — a baker's shop
- breathless — If you are breathless, you have difficulty in breathing properly, for example because you have been running or because you are afraid or excited.
- broadsheet — A broadsheet is a newspaper that is printed on large sheets of paper. Broadsheets are generally considered to be more serious than other newspapers. Compare tabloid.
- bruschetta — Bruschetta is a slice of toasted bread which is brushed with olive oil and usually covered with chopped tomatoes.
- bushbeater — a person who conducts a thorough search to recruit talented people, as for an athletic team.
- bushhammer — a hammer with small pyramids projecting from its working face, used for dressing stone
- bushmaster — a large greyish-brown highly venomous snake, Lachesis muta, inhabiting wooded regions of tropical America: family Crotalidae (pit vipers)
- bushranger — an escaped convict or robber living in the bush
- bushwalker — a person who hikes through bushland
- camelshair — (attributive) The hair of a camel, used for paintbrushes etc.
- camera-shy — Someone who is camera-shy is nervous and uncomfortable about being filmed or about having their photograph taken.
- campership — financial aid given to a needy youngster to attend summer camp.
- canephoros — in ancient Greece, any of the maidens who carried on her head a basket holding the sacred things used at feasts
- carchemish — an ancient city in Syria on the Euphrates, lying on major trade routes; site of a victory of the Babylonians over the Egyptians (605 bc)
- cardphones — Plural form of cardphone.
- careership — An approach to career-related decision-making, combining rationality, interactions with others, and responses to sometimes unpredictable events.
- cart horse — A cart horse is a large, powerful horse that is used to pull carts or farm machinery.
- carthorses — Plural form of carthorse.
- cartouches — Plural form of cartouche.