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11-letter words containing s, h, i, b

  • rubbish tip — dump for refuse
  • rugby shirt — a knitted pullover sport shirt usually in bold horizontal stripes and having a white collar and neckline placket, styled after the shirts traditionally worn by the members of Rugby teams.
  • russophobia — an intense and often irrational hatred for Russia, or esp the former Soviet Union, its political system, etc
  • sash ribbon — a strip of steel or aluminum alloy for connecting a vertically sliding window sash with a counterweight.
  • schiff base — the product of the chemical association of an aldehyde with a primary amine
  • schrödinbug — (jargon, programming)   /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
  • scopophobia — the fear of being observed
  • scotophobin — a peptide isolated from the brains of rats conditioned to avoid darkness, alleged to induce a dark-avoidance response in untrained rats, mice, and other animals.
  • sea bathing — the activity of swimming in the sea
  • semishrubby — somewhat resembling a shrub; shrubby in some respects; having characteristics somewhat like those of a shrub; partly covered in shrubs
  • sennacherib — died 681 b.c, king of Assyria 705–681.
  • shabby chic — Shabby Chic is a style of decorating the inside of a house in which the furniture and house look slightly used or old in a way that is attractive.
  • shelbyville — a city in central Indiana.
  • ship's boat — a boat for communication between ship and shore
  • ship-broker — a person who acts for a shipowner by getting cargo and passengers for his ships and also handling insurance and other matters
  • shipbuilder — a person whose occupation is the designing or constructing of ship.
  • shish kebab — meat on skewer
  • shish-kebab — to broil or roast food on a skewer.
  • shrubberied — having a shrubbery
  • sleigh bell — any of several kinds of small bells, as a jingle bell, attached to a sleigh or to the harness of the animal drawing the sleigh.
  • sonofabitch — an abusive term of address or of description
  • southbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
  • spur blight — a disease of raspberries, characterized by reddish-brown spots on the stems, caused by a fungus, Didymella applanata.
  • stenobathic — of or relating to marine or freshwater life that can tolerate only limited changes in depth (opposed to eurybathic).
  • sub-chronic — constant; habitual; inveterate: a chronic liar.
  • sub-heading — a title or heading of a subdivision, as in a chapter, essay, or newspaper article.
  • subchairman — a subordinate or substitute chairman.
  • subchloride — a chloride containing a relatively small proportion of chlorine, as mercurous chloride.
  • subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
  • subjectship — the state of being a subject or citizen
  • superbright — exceptionally bright
  • svarabhakti — the process of inserting vowel sounds into a consonant cluster, as in a loanword to make it conform to the pattern of the speaker's language and, hence, more easily pronounceable, as in the Italian pronunciation [lahn-tsee-ke-nek-kaw] /ˌlɑn tsi kɛˈnɛk kɔ/ (Show IPA) for German Landsknecht [lahnts-knekht] /ˈlɑntsˌknɛxt/ (Show IPA).
  • sweet birch — a North American tree, Betula lenta, having smooth, blackish bark and twigs that are a source of methyl salicylate.
  • switchblade — a pocketknife, the blade of which is held by a spring and can be released suddenly, as by pressing a button.
  • switchboard — a structural unit on which are mounted switches and instruments necessary to complete telephone circuits manually.
  • textbookish — suggesting a textbook, especially in literary style or composition.
  • the baptist — John the Baptist
  • the british — the people of Great Britain
  • the sublime — sublime quality; sublimity
  • theophobist — a person who fears or despises God or religion
  • therebeside — next to; beside that
  • thigh boots — boots that cover the thighs
  • three-birds — nodding pogonia.
  • tishah b'ab — a Jewish fast day commemorating the destruction of the Temple, observed on the 9th day of Ab
  • tishah b'av — a Jewish fast day observed on the ninth day of the month of Av in memory of the destruction in Jerusalem of the First and Second Temples.
  • transphobia — unreasoning hostility, aversion, etc., toward transgender people.
  • triphibious — employing or involving land, naval, and air forces in a combined operation.
  • tu bishevat — the 15th day of the month of Shevat, observed as a new year for trees by planting trees and by eating fruits.
  • unabolished — not abolished or revoked
  • unblemished — to destroy or diminish the perfection of: The book is blemished by those long, ineffective descriptions.
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