11-letter words containing s, h, a
- blepharitis — inflammation of the eyelids
- boat-shaped — shaped like a boat
- boatmanship — boatsmanship.
- bodhisattva — (in Mahayana Buddhism) a divine being worthy of nirvana who remains on the human plane to help men to salvation
- body search — If a person is body searched, someone such as a police officer searches them while they remain clothed. Compare strip-search.
- body-search — to search all parts of the body of: Police ordered the suspects to strip and then body-searched them for hidden caches of narcotics.
- bohemianism — unconventional behaviour or appearance, esp of an artist
- bondmanship — the state of being a bondman; serfdom
- bone shaker — an early-model bicycle, especially one with hard rubber tires.
- bone-shaker — an early-model bicycle, especially one with hard rubber tires.
- bonus share — a share from stock given by a company to existing shareholders
- boost phase — the portion of the flight of a ballistic missile or spacecraft during which the booster and sustainer engines operate to bring it near or to peak velocity.
- brachiosaur — any of a genus (Brachiosaurus) of huge Jurassic sauropods having longer forelegs than hind legs and nostrils high on the forehead
- brachyprism — the four faces parallel to the brachyaxis in a crystal
- brachyurous — shorttailed, as a crab (opposed to macrurous).
- brattishing — decorative work along the coping or on the cornice of a building
- breadthless — the measure of the second largest dimension of a plane or solid figure; width.
- breadthways — from side to side
- breadthwise — in the direction of the breadth
- 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
- bridal shop — a shop that specializes in selling bridal wear
- broad-brush — A broad-brush approach, strategy, or solution deals with a problem in a general way rather than concentrating on details.
- 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
- buffalofish — any of several freshwater North American hump-backed cyprinoid fishes of the genus Ictiobus: family Catostomidae (suckers)
- bunch grass — any of various grasses that grow in tufts
- 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 ballad — an old Australian bush poem in a ballad metre dealing with aspects of life and characters in the bush
- 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.
- bushbashing — the process of forcing a path through the bush
- bushelwoman — a woman who alters clothes
- bushmanship — the skills necessary for survival in the bush; bushcraft
- bushranging — the life of a bushranger
- bushwalking — an expedition on foot in the bush
- 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.
- cacophonous — If you describe a mixture of sounds as cacophonous, you mean that they are loud and unpleasant.
- cactus moth — a moth, Cactoblastis cactorum, native to South America and introduced into Australia to control prickly pear cactus, on which the larvae feed.
- caddishness — the state of being caddish
- caipirinhas — Plural form of caipirinha.
- calico bush — mountain laurel
- calisthenic — Of, or relating to calisthenics.