11-letter words containing s, h, i, b
- birtwhistle — Harrison, born 1934, English composer.
- bit bashing — (Also "bit diddling" or bit twiddling). Any of several kinds of low-level programming characterised by manipulation of bit, flag, nibble, and other smaller-than-character-sized pieces of data. These include low-level device control, encryption algorithms, checksum and error-correcting codes, hash functions, some flavours of graphics programming (see bitblt), and assembler/compiler code generation. May connote either tedium or a real technical challenge (more usually the former). "The command decoding for the new tape driver looks pretty solid but the bit-bashing for the control registers still has bugs." See also bit bang, mode bit.
- bitterbrush — a flowering plant of the genus Purshia, native to North America
- black hills — a group of mountains in W South Dakota and NE Wyoming: famous for the gigantic sculptures of US presidents on the side of Mount Rushmore. Highest peak: Harney Peak, 2207 m (7242 ft)
- black shirt — a member of any fascist organization (specif., the former Italian Fascist party) with a black-shirted uniform
- blasphemies — impious utterance or action concerning God or sacred things.
- blaspheming — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
- blemishment — a flaw or blemish
- blepharitis — inflammation of the eyelids
- blue schist — a metamorphic rock formed under conditions of high pressure and relatively low temperature
- blue shield — Blue Cross and Blue Shield.
- boatmanship — boatsmanship.
- bodhisattva — (in Mahayana Buddhism) a divine being worthy of nirvana who remains on the human plane to help men to salvation
- body shield — a small bulletproof shield attached to the arm for fending off projectiles, especially in a riot situation.
- bohemianism — unconventional behaviour or appearance, esp of an artist
- bondmanship — the state of being a bondman; serfdom
- bonefishing — the activity of fishing for bonefish
- book rights — the legal right to make use of the text of a printed book
- boorishness — of or like a boor; unmannered; crude; insensitive.
- boot polish — a resistant polish specially formulated to protect boots of various kinds
- bottom fish — any fish that feeds or lives near the bottom of a body of water, as a flounder or catfish
- bottom-fish — to fish with a weighted line for fish that feed close to the bottom.
- 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
- brattishing — decorative work along the coping or on the cornice of a building
- breadthwise — in the direction of the breadth
- breathiness — (of the voice) characterized by audible or excessive emission of breath.
- breconshire — (until 1974) a county of SE Wales, now mainly in Powys: over half its area forms the Brecon Beacons National Park
- brickshaped — resembling the shape of a brick
- bridal shop — a shop that specializes in selling bridal wear
- british gum — dextrin.
- british lop — a breed of large white pig with large drooping ears, originating from Wales, Cumberland, and Ulster
- brittlebush — any of several composite plants of the genus Encelia, of desert regions of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having alternate leaves and yellow ray flowers with a yellow or purple center.
- brown shirt — (in Nazi Germany) a storm trooper
- 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.
- buffalofish — any of several freshwater North American hump-backed cyprinoid fishes of the genus Ictiobus: family Catostomidae (suckers)
- bullshitter — nonsense, lies, or exaggeration.
- burnishment — the act or process of burnishing
- burns night — (in Scotland) 25 January, the traditional date for holding a celebratory meal (Burns supper) in honour of Robert Burns
- bush shrike — any shrike of the African subfamily Malaconotinae, such as Chlorophoneus nigrifrons (black-fronted bush shrike)
- bushbashing — the process of forcing a path through the bush
- bushhogging — to clear (land) by using a bush hog.
- bushmanship — the skills necessary for survival in the bush; bushcraft
- bushranging — the life of a bushranger
- bushwalking — an expedition on foot in the bush
- butt chisel — any woodworking chisel having a blade less than 4 inches (10 cm) long.
- butter dish — a small dish designed to hold butter
- calico bush — mountain laurel
- cashability — money or an equivalent, as a check, paid at the time of making a purchase.
- catch basin — a pit in a drainage system in which matter that might otherwise block a sewer is collected so that it may periodically be removed