10-letter words containing s, h, e, l
- bell sheep — a sheep that a shearer is just starting to shear (and which he is allowed to finish) as the bell rings for the end of a work period
- belly-wash — any barely drinkable liquid or beverage, as inferior soda, beer, coffee, or soup.
- bellyaches — Informal. a pain in the abdomen or bowels.
- 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)
- betrothals — the act or state of being betrothed; engagement.
- bisulphate — a salt or ester of sulphuric acid containing the monovalent group -HSO4 or the ion HSO4–
- bisulphide — a disulfide.
- bisulphite — a salt or ester of sulphurous acid containing the monovalent group -HSO3 or the ion HSO3–
- 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
- blitheness — joyous, merry, or happy in disposition; glad; cheerful: Everyone loved her for her blithe spirit.
- blithesome — cheery; merry
- blockhouse — (formerly) a wooden fortification with ports or loopholes for defensive fire, observation, etc
- blue flash — green flash.
- blue shark — a shark of the species Prionace glauca, found in temperate and tropical waters
- blue shift — a shift toward shorter wavelengths of the spectral lines of a celestial object, caused by the motion of the object toward the observer.
- bluehearts — a hairy, purple-flowered perennial plant (Buchnera americana) of the figwort family, found in the S U.S.
- blush wine — any of certain wines similar in style to dry white wine although slightly pink in color: made like rosé from red-wine grapes, and often named by the grape's name preceded by “white,” as white zinfandel
- bolsheviks — a member of the more radical majority of the Social Democratic Party, 1903–17, advocating immediate and forceful seizure of power by the proletariat. (after 1918) a member of the Russian Communist Party.
- bolshevism — Bolshevism is the political system and ideas that Lenin and his supporters introduced in Russia after the Russian Revolution of 1917.
- bolshevist — a follower or advocate of the doctrines or methods of the Bolsheviks.
- bolshevize — to bring into line with Communist ideology
- 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.
- breechless — having no breeches or trousers; bare-bottomed
- brushwheel — a toothless wheel with bristles attached to its circumference, used to turn another wheel by friction
- bucephalus — the favourite horse of Alexander the Great
- bushelling — alteration of clothes
- bushwalker — a person who hikes through bushland
- butlership — the skills of a butler
- 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.
- candlefish — a salmonoid food fish, Thaleichthys pacificus, that occurs in the N Pacific and has oily flesh
- cartwheels — Plural form of cartwheel.
- cased hole — A cased hole is the part of the wellbore with metal casing and cementing.
- cash value — the nonforfeiture value of a life-insurance policy payable to the insured in cash upon its surrender.
- catchflies — Plural form of catchfly.
- cathedrals — Plural form of cathedral.
- cattleship — a large vessel for the transportation of livestock.
- cephalitis — encephalitis.
- chaiseless — without a chaise
- chalkiness — of or like chalk.
- chalkstone — tophus
- challenges — Plural form of challenge.
- chameleons — Plural form of chameleon.
- chamomiles — Plural form of chamomile.
- chanceless — the absence of any cause of events that can be predicted, understood, or controlled: often personified or treated as a positive agency: Chance governs all.