10-letter words containing s, h, e, a
- bisulphate — a salt or ester of sulphuric acid containing the monovalent group -HSO4 or the ion HSO4–
- blandisher — someone who blandishes
- blasphemer — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
- blasphemes — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
- blepharism — spasm of the eyelids, causing rapid involuntary blinking
- blue flash — green flash.
- 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.
- boat shoes — shoes for wearing on board boats, often laced moccasins
- 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.
- bucephalus — the favourite horse of Alexander the Great
- 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
- butt heads — an extremely stupid or inept person.
- cache miss — (storage) A request to read from memory which cannot be satisfied from the cache, for which the main memory has to be consulted. Opposite: cache hit.
- cache-sexe — a small cloth or band worn, as by an otherwise nude dancer, to conceal the genitals
- calabashes — Plural form of calabash.
- caliphates — Plural form of caliphate.
- call house — a house or apartment used by prostitutes for arranging or keeping assignations.
- 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.
- candlefish — a salmonoid food fish, Thaleichthys pacificus, that occurs in the N Pacific and has oily flesh
- 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.
- cartwheels — Plural form of cartwheel.
- cased hole — A cased hole is the part of the wellbore with metal casing and cementing.
- caseharden — to form a hard, thin surface on (an iron alloy)
- cash money — cash, as distinguished from a check or money order.
- cash offer — a public equity issue sold to everyone who is interested in it
- cash price — discount
- cash prize — a prize in a competition that takes the form of money
- cash terms — the terms of a business transaction that is conducted in ready money
- cash value — the nonforfeiture value of a life-insurance policy payable to the insured in cash upon its surrender.