12-letter words containing s, h, e, l, b
- bush singlet — a black woollen singlet often worn by farm labourers
- bush-leaguer — (in baseball) someone who plays in a minor league
- bushelbasket — a rounded basket with a capacity of one bushel
- bushy-tailed — bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, fresh, alert, eager, and lively
- busted flush — a poker hand with four cards of the same suit that fails to form a flush when the final card is dealt
- by the balls — so as to be rendered powerless
- by wholesale — at wholesale
- cable stitch — a pattern or series of knitting stitches producing a design like a twisted rope
- cable-stitch — a series of stitches used in knitting to produce a cable effect.
- chamberlains — Plural form of chamberlain.
- channel bass — red drum.
- charlesbourg — city in S Quebec, Canada: pop. 71,000
- child abuser — someone who abuses a child, esp someone convicted of this
- chiliburgers — Plural form of chiliburger.
- clothesbrush — A brush for the clothes.
- cohesibility — the nature of being cohesible
- dasher block — a block at the end of a yard or gaff for supporting a signal or ensign halyard.
- diminishable — That may be diminished.
- disembellish — (transitive) To deprive of embellishment; to disadorn.
- disestablish — to deprive of the character of being established; cancel; abolish.
- dishonorable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- dispatchable — Capable of being dispatched.
- double sharp — a symbol (× or ) that raises by two semitones the pitch of the following note.
- elasmobranch — A cartilaginous fish of a group that comprises the sharks, rays, and skates.
- embellishing — Present participle of embellish.
- english bond — a bond used in brickwork that has a course of headers alternating with a course of stretchers
- erythroblast — An immature erythrocyte containing a nucleus.
- establishing — Present participle of establish.
- fish-bellied — (of a beam or rail) having a convex underside.
- flabberghast — (archaic) Alternative form of flabbergast.
- flemish bond — a brickwork bond having alternate stretchers and headers in each course, each header being centered above and below a stretcher.
- franchisable — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- give sb hell — If you say that something is giving you hell, you are emphasizing that it is causing you a lot of trouble or pain.
- habitualness — The characteristic of being habitual.
- haematoblast — any of the undifferentiated cells in the bone marrow that develop into blood cells
- harbour seal — a common earless seal, Phoca vitulina, that is greyish-black with paler markings: found off the coasts of North America, N Europe, and NE Asia
- hardscrabble — providing or yielding meagerly in return for much effort; demanding or unrewarding: the hardscrabble existence of mountainside farmers.
- heliogabalus — (Varius Avitus Bassianus"Marcus Aurelius Antoninus") a.d. 204–222, Roman emperor 218–222.
- hell's bells — surprise
- helleborines — Plural form of helleborine.
- hematoblasts — Plural form of hematoblast.
- heron's-bill — stork's-bill (def 1).
- heteroblasty — the morphological changes that occur in plants between juvenility and adulthood
- hexasyllable — a word or line of verse of six syllables.
- hobble skirt — a woman's skirt that is very narrow at the bottom, causing the wearer to walk with short, mincing steps.
- hobblebushes — Plural form of hobblebush.
- hobbledehoys — Plural form of hobbledehoy.
- homebuilders — Plural form of homebuilder.
- horribleness — causing or tending to cause horror; shockingly dreadful: a horrible sight.
- hospital bed — a bed having side rails that can be raised or lowered and a mattress base in three jointed sections so that the head, foot, or middle may be raised by a crank or motor, allowing a patient to lie in various positions, as a therapeutic aid or for comfort.