13-letter words containing s, h, i, b
- shill bidding — (on an online auction) the illegal practice of a seller or a seller’s acquaintances placing bids on his or her goods in order to drive up the price
- shingle beach — a beach made of a mass of small pieces of rough stone
- shoeshine boy — a man or boy who cleans shoes
- shot-blasting — the cleaning of metal, etc, by a stream of shot
- show business — the entertainment industry, as theater, motion pictures, television, radio, carnival, and circus.
- shub-internet — /shuhb in't*r-net/ (MUD, from H. P. Lovecraft's evil fictional deity "Shub-Niggurath", the Black Goat with a Thousand Young) The harsh personification of the Internet, Beast of a Thousand Processes, Eater of Characters, Avatar of Line Noise, and Imp of Call Waiting; the hideous multi-tendriled entity formed of all the manifold connections of the net. A sect of MUDders worships Shub-Internet, sacrificing objects and praying for good connections. To no avail - its purpose is malign and evil, and is the cause of all network slowdown. Often heard as in "Freela casts a tac nuke at Shub-Internet for slowing her down." (A forged response often follows along the lines of: "Shub-Internet gulps down the tac nuke and burps happily.") Also cursed by users of FTP and telnet when the system slows down. The dread name of Shub-Internet is seldom spoken aloud, as it is said that repeating it three times will cause the being to wake, deep within its lair beneath the Pentagon.
- siberian high — the prevailing high pressure system over Asia in winter.
- siphon bottle — a bottle for aerated water, fitted with a bent tube through the neck, the water being forced out, when a valve is opened, by the pressure on its surface of the gas accumulating within the bottle.
- sketchability — the suitability for being sketched
- snap-brim hat — a hat brim that can be turned up or down.
- social phobia — a type of anxiety disorder characterized by shyness and heightened self-consciousness in particular social situations
- south arabian — of or relating to the former South Arabia (now South Yemen) or its inhabitants
- spanish broom — a spiny, often leafless shrub, Genista hispanica, of the legume family, native to southern Europe, having clustered, golden-yellow flowers and hairy pods.
- sphenoid bone — the large butterfly-shaped compound bone at the base of the skull, containing a protective depression for the pituitary gland
- spine-bashing — to rest; loaf.
- stamen blight — a disease of blackberries, characterized by a gray, powdery mass of spores covering the anthers, caused by a fungus, Hapalosphaeria deformans.
- styling brush — a hairbrush used to style or neaten hair
- sub-franchise — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- subeditorship — the position or office of a subeditor
- subepithelial — any animal tissue that covers a surface, or lines a cavity or the like, and that, in addition, performs any of various secretory, transporting, or regulatory functions.
- subinhibitory — not completely inhibiting
- swashbuckling — characteristic of or behaving in the manner of a swashbuckler.
- swimming bath — swimming pool.
- syphilophobia — the excessive fear of syphilis
- testing bench — a piece of equipment for testing if a machine or device is working properly
- the big house — a penitentiary (usually preceded by the).
- the big issue — a weekly magazine, founded to highlight the plight of the homeless, and sold by homeless people
- the big smoke — a large city, esp London
- the invisible — God
- thinkableness — the state or quality of being conceivable or thinkable
- third baseman — the player whose position is third base.
- thromboclasis — thrombolysis.
- thrombokinase — Biochemistry. a lipoprotein in the blood that converts prothrombin to thrombin.
- thumb-sucking — a person who habitually sucks a thumb.
- timbrophilist — a person who loves stamps or who collects stamps
- toothbrushing — the act or method of cleaning the teeth with a toothbrush.
- unchastisable — not deserving to be chastised; beyond reproach
- unembellished — to beautify by or as if by ornamentation; ornament; adorn.
- unestablished — not established.
- unfashionable — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
- unfashionably — in an unfashionable manner
- unpublishable — not capable of being made available in print for distribution and sale
- untarnishable — to dull the luster of (a metallic surface), especially by oxidation; discolor.
- unwhistleable — incapable of being whistled
- vasoinhibitor — an agent, as a drug, that inhibits the action of the vasomotor nerves.
- visible light — the part of the electromagnetic spectrum that humans perceive
- web publisher — a person or company that uploads, creates, or edits content on Web pages; one who maintains or manages a website.
- webbe shebeli — Webi Shebeli.
- webbe-shibeli — a river in E Africa, flowing SE from central Ethiopia to the Juba River, in the Somali Republic. About 700 miles (1125 km) long.
- weights bench — a piece of equipment for use by someone who is weight-training