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

  • biochemistry — Biochemistry is the study of the chemical processes that happen in living things.
  • biohazardous — a pathogen, especially one used in or produced by biological research.
  • biomechanics — the study of the mechanics of the movement of living organisms
  • biorhythmics — the study of biorhythms
  • biosynthesis — the formation of complex compounds from simple substances by living organisms
  • biosynthetic — of, relating to, or characterized by biosynthesis, the formation of chemical compounds by a living organism, or a laboratory process modeled after these reactions in living organisms.
  • bird's mouth — a right-angled notch cut in the underside of a rafter for fitting over a longitudinal member, as a wall plate.
  • bishop's-cap — any of a genus (Mitella) of small woodland plants of the saxifrage family, with two-lobed seedcases shaped like a bishop's hat
  • bismuthinite — a grey mineral consisting of bismuth sulphide in orthorhombic crystalline form. It occurs in veins associated with tin, copper, silver, lead, etc, and is a source of bismuth. Formula: Bi2S3
  • blandishment — the act of blandishing; cajolery
  • blatherskite — a talkative silly person
  • blimpishness — actions or behaviour akin to those of the fictional character of Colonel Blimp, or the quality of resembling this character
  • blind stitch — a type of stitch that is visible on one side of the material only
  • bloodthirsty — Bloodthirsty people are eager to use violence or display a strong interest in violent things. You can also use bloodthirsty to refer to very violent situations.
  • bloody shirt — something, as a political issue or historical event, that can be used to stir up outrage, partisan support, etc.
  • blue catfish — a large freshwater catfish, Ictalurus furcatus, that is a popular food fish in the states of the Mississippi River valley.
  • blue thistle — blueweed (def 1).
  • blue-thistle — Also called blue thistle. a bristly weed, Echium vulgare, of the borage family, having showy blue flowers, a native of Europe naturalized in the U.S.
  • boatsmanship — seamanship as applied to boats, especially rowboats and motorboats.
  • body english — a follow-through motion of the body, as after bowling a ball, in a semi-involuntary or joking effort to control the ball's movement
  • boiled shirt — a dress shirt with a stiff front
  • boiler house — a building housing a boiler
  • bolshevikism — the doctrines, methods, or procedure of the Bolsheviks.
  • bolshevistic — of, relating to, or characteristic of Bolshevists or Bolshevism.
  • bombay hills — a row of hills marking the southern boundary of greater Auckland on the North Island, New Zealand
  • bond washing — a series of deals in bonds made with the intention of avoiding taxation
  • brainwashing — the process of brainwashing.
  • braunschweig — Brunswick
  • breed's hill — a hill in E Massachusetts, adjoining Bunker Hill: the true site of the Battle of Bunker Hill (1775)
  • brick cheese — a ripened, semisoft American cheese shaped like a brick and containing many small holes
  • bridge house — a deckhouse including a bridge or bridges for navigation.
  • bright spark — If you say that some bright spark had a particular idea or did something, you mean that their idea or action was clever, or that it seemed clever but was silly in some way.
  • brine shrimp — any of a genus (Artemia) of small fairy shrimp found in salt lakes and marshes and used as living, frozen, or dried food in aquariums
  • brinkmanship — Brinkmanship is a method of behaviour, especially in politics, in which you deliberately get into dangerous situations which could result in disaster but which could also bring success.
  • bristlemouth — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Gonostomatidae, having numerous sharp, slender teeth covering the jaws.
  • british list — a list, maintained by the British Ornithologists' Union, of birds accepted as occurring at least once in the British Isles
  • british rail — the organization that ran the British railway system from 1948 until privatization in the mid-1990s
  • british warm — an army officer's short thick overcoat
  • bromhidrosis — the secretion of foul-smelling sweat.
  • brunelleschi — Filippo (fiˈlippo). 1377–1446, Italian architect, whose works in Florence include the dome of the cathedral, the Pazzi chapel of Santa Croce, and the church of San Lorenzo
  • brushability — the quality of being brushable
  • buccaneerish — of or relating to a buccaneer
  • buffalo fish — any of a genus (Ictiobus) of large, humpbacked, freshwater sucker fishes found in North America
  • bull thistle — a tall, spiny thistle, Cirsium vulgare, having heads of pink to purple flowers: a common weed in North America.
  • burning bush — a rutaceous shrub, Dictamnus fraxinella, of S Europe and Asia, whose glands release a volatile inflammable oil that can burn without harming the plant: identified as the bush from which God spoke to Moses (Exodus 3:2–4)
  • bush singlet — a black woollen singlet often worn by farm labourers
  • bushfighting — fighting in the bush
  • bushwhacking — to make one's way through woods by cutting at undergrowth, branches, etc.
  • bushy-tailed — bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, fresh, alert, eager, and lively
  • by-a-whisker — whiskers, a beard.
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