12-letter words containing s, h, i, b
- 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.
- chambermaids — Plural form of chambermaid.
- child abuser — someone who abuses a child, esp someone convicted of this
- chiliburgers — Plural form of chiliburger.
- chinaberries — Plural form of chinaberry.
- chinese burn — a minor torture inflicted by twisting the skin of a person's wrist or arm in two different directions simultaneously
- chokeberries — Plural form of chokeberry.
- climbingfish — climbing perch.
- cohesibility — the nature of being cohesible
- crushability — to press or squeeze with a force that destroys or deforms.
- debaucheries — Plural form of debauchery.
- denbighshire — a county of N Wales: split between Clwyd and Gwynedd in 1974; reinstated with different boundaries in 1996: borders the Irish Sea, with the Cambrian Mountains in the south: chiefly agricultural. Administrative centre: Ruthin. Pop: 94 900 (2003 est). Area: 844 sq km (327 sq miles)
- diminishable — That may be diminished.
- disburthened — Simple past tense and past participle of disburthen.
- disembellish — (transitive) To deprive of embellishment; to disadorn.
- disestablish — to deprive of the character of being established; cancel; abolish.
- dishabituate — to cause to be no longer habituated or accustomed.
- dishonorable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- dishonorably — In a dishonorable manner.
- disinhibited — Simple past tense and past participle of disinhibit.
- disinhibitor — Something that causes a reduction in one's inhibitions; that makes people, or animals act more impulsively.
- dispatch box — a case or box used to hold valuables or documents, esp official state documents
- dispatchable — Capable of being dispatched.
- dithyrambist — a writer or performer of dithyrambs
- e-thrombosis — a clot in the bloodstream caused by long periods spent being physically inactive at a computer
- embellishing — Present participle of embellish.
- english bond — a bond used in brickwork that has a course of headers alternating with a course of stretchers
- establishing — Present participle of establish.
- fines herbes — a mixture of finely chopped herbs, used to flavour omelettes, salads, etc
- fish-bellied — (of a beam or rail) having a convex underside.
- fishing boat — vessel: for fishing
- 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.
- gainsborough — Thomas, 1727–88, English painter.
- gaithersburg — a town in central Maryland.
- 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.
- glossophobia — The fear of public speaking.
- gobind singh — 1666–1708, tenth and last guru of the Sikhs (1675–1708): assassinated
- habitualness — The characteristic of being habitual.
- hack to bits — to damage severely
- hairsbreadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
- haptoglobins — Plural form of haptoglobin.
- harquebusier — a soldier armed with a harquebus.
- harrisonburg — a city in N Virginia.
- hebetudinous — the state of being dull; lethargy.
- heliogabalus — (Varius Avitus Bassianus"Marcus Aurelius Antoninus") a.d. 204–222, Roman emperor 218–222.
- helleborines — Plural form of helleborine.
- herbivourous — Misspelling of herbivorous.