10-letter words containing s, h
- bsp method — (programming) A CASE method from IBM.
- bucephalus — the favourite horse of Alexander the Great
- buchmanism — the principles or the international movement of Moral Re-Armament or of the Oxford Group, or belief in or adherence to them.
- buffoonish — resembling or in the manner of a buffoon
- bull shark — a requiem shark, Carcharhinus leucas, inhabiting shallow waters from North Carolina to Brazil.
- bum's rush — forcible ejection, as from a gathering
- bumpkinish — like a bumpkin
- bunchgrass — grass that grows in tufts
- bundeswehr — the armed forces of Germany.
- bursarship — a scholarship or grant awarded esp in Scottish and New Zealand schools, universities etc
- burushaski — a language of NW Kashmir, not known to be related to any other language.
- bush basil — See under basil.
- bush broom — an evergreen St.-John's-wort, Hypericum prolificum, common from New York to Iowa and southward, having yellow flowers in terminal clusters.
- bush grass — a coarse reedlike grass, Calamagrostis epigejos, 1–11⁄2 metres (3–41⁄2 ft) high that grows on damp clay soils in Europe and temperate parts of Asia
- bush house — a shed or hut in the bush or a garden
- bush knife — a large heavy knife suitable for outdoor use
- bush pilot — a pilot who flies small aircraft over rugged terrain or unsettled regions to serve remote areas inaccessible to or off the route of larger planes: Bush pilots brought supplies to the Alaskan village once a week.
- bush poppy — tree poppy.
- bush shirt — bush jacket.
- bushbeater — a person who conducts a thorough search to recruit talented people, as for an athletic team.
- bushelling — alteration of clothes
- bushhammer — a hammer with small pyramids projecting from its working face, used for dressing stone
- bushmaster — a large greyish-brown highly venomous snake, Lachesis muta, inhabiting wooded regions of tropical America: family Crotalidae (pit vipers)
- bushranger — an escaped convict or robber living in the bush
- bushwalker — a person who hikes through bushland
- bust chops — Usually, chops. the jaw.
- bute house — a house in Charlotte Square, Edinburgh: official residence of the First Minister of Scotland
- butlership — the skills of a butler
- butt heads — an extremely stupid or inept person.
- butt shaft — a blunt-headed unbarbed arrow
- butterfish — an eel-like blennioid food fish, Pholis gunnellus, occurring in North Atlantic coastal regions: family Pholidae (gunnels). It has a slippery scaleless golden brown skin with a row of black spots along the base of the long dorsal fin
- buttonbush — a N American shrub of the genus Cephalanthus
- cache miss — (storage) A request to read from memory which cannot be satisfied from the cache, for which the main memory has to be consulted. Opposite: cache hit.
- cache-sexe — a small cloth or band worn, as by an otherwise nude dancer, to conceal the genitals
- calabashes — Plural form of calabash.
- caliphates — Plural form of caliphate.
- call house — a house or apartment used by prostitutes for arranging or keeping assignations.
- camelshair — (attributive) The hair of a camel, used for paintbrushes etc.
- camera-shy — Someone who is camera-shy is nervous and uncomfortable about being filmed or about having their photograph taken.
- camp shirt — a short-sleeved shirt or blouse with a notched collar and usually two breast pockets.
- campership — financial aid given to a needy youngster to attend summer camp.
- candlefish — a salmonoid food fish, Thaleichthys pacificus, that occurs in the N Pacific and has oily flesh
- canephoros — in ancient Greece, any of the maidens who carried on her head a basket holding the sacred things used at feasts
- carchemish — an ancient city in Syria on the Euphrates, lying on major trade routes; site of a victory of the Babylonians over the Egyptians (605 bc)
- card shark — an expert card player
- cardphones — Plural form of cardphone.
- cardsharps — Plural form of cardsharp.
- careership — An approach to career-related decision-making, combining rationality, interactions with others, and responses to sometimes unpredictable events.
- cargo ship — a ship carrying cargo
- cart horse — A cart horse is a large, powerful horse that is used to pull carts or farm machinery.