11-letter words containing s, h, r
- artzybashev — Mikhail [myi-khuh-yeel] /myɪ xʌˈyil/ (Show IPA), 1878–1927, Russian writer.
- ashlar line — a horizontal line, indicated at a building site with a taut string, that corresponds to the exterior surface plane of a masonry wall.
- aspheterise — to deny the right of private property
- aspheterism — the teaching that all property should be in common ownership and no individual should benefit from personal possession
- aspheterize — to observe or engage in aspheterism
- asphyxiator — to produce asphyxia in.
- astraphobia — a fear of thunder and lightning
- astrography — The art of describing or delineating the stars; a description or mapping of the heavens.
- astrophobia — A fear of stars and celestial space.
- astrophyton — The giant basket star, an early Mesozoic invertebrate.
- astrosphere — the part of the aster excluding the centrosome
- athermanous — capable of stopping radiant heat or infrared radiation
- athwartship — having a position across a vessel from side to side at right angles to the keel
- atmosphered — having an intellectual or psychological climate or feeling
- atmospheres — Plural form of atmosphere.
- atmospheric — Atmospheric is used to describe something which relates to the Earth's atmosphere.
- auditorship — the position or function of auditor
- authorising — Present participle of authorise.
- authorities — the power to determine, adjudicate, or otherwise settle issues or disputes; jurisdiction; the right to control, command, or determine.
- awash-river — a river in E Ethiopia, flowing NE through the Great Rift Valley to near the Djibouti border. 500 miles (805 km) long.
- azores high — a subtropical high centered near the Azores.
- baby shower — gift-giving party for unborn baby
- bachelorism — bachelorhood
- backhanders — Plural form of backhander.
- backscratch — a favour done for someone in return for another
- backstretch — the part of a racetrack farthest from the grandstand and opposite and parallel to the homestretch
- bahia grass — a grass, Paspalum notatum, of tropical America, grown in the southern United States for lawns and pasturage.
- barber shop — A barber shop is a shop where a barber works.
- barber-shop — Also called, especially British, barber's shop. the place of business of a barber.
- barbershops — Plural form of barbershop.
- baresthesia — the sense or perception of pressure.
- barrelheads — Plural form of barrelhead.
- barrelhouse — a cheap and disreputable drinking establishment
- barthianism — the theological doctrines and principles of Karl Barth and his followers, especially in reference to neoorthodoxy.
- baryshnikov — Mikhail. born 1948, Soviet-born ballet dancer, who defected (1974) to the West while on tour with the Kirov Ballet: director (1980–90) of the American Ballet Theatre
- basehearted — having a low, mean, or contemptible nature or character; meanspirited.
- basset horn — an obsolete woodwind instrument of the clarinet family
- bath pearls — dissolvable granules added to bath water to impart scent or other qualities
- bathometers — Plural form of bathometer.
- bathysphere — a strong steel deep-sea diving sphere, lowered by cable
- batrachians — Plural form of batrachian.
- beach aster — a seaside plant, Erigeron glaucus, of the temperate western coast of North America, having solitary, violet- or lilac-colored flowers.
- beach grass — any of a genus (Ammophila) of deeply rooted, tough, perennial grasses that grow on sandy beaches and are often planted to combat beach erosion
- beach scarp — a steep slope or miniature cliff, formed by wave action, fronting the berm on a beach.
- beachmaster — a bull fur seal having its own territory in the breeding grounds.
- beam search — (algorithm) An optimisation of the best first search graph search algorithm where only a predetermined number of paths are kept as candidates. The number of paths is the "width of the beam". If more paths than this are generated, the worst paths are discarded. This reduces the space requirements of best first search.
- beanshooter — peashooter
- bearishness — The characteristic of being bearish.
- beauharnais — Alexandre (alɛksãdr), Vicomte de. 1760–94, French general, who served in the War of American Independence and the French Revolutionary wars; first husband of Empress Joséphine: guillotined
- bedchambers — Plural form of bedchamber.