12-letter words containing ash
- gully-washer — a usually short, heavy rainstorm.
- gullywashers — Plural form of gullywasher.
- haberdashers — Plural form of haberdasher.
- haberdashery — a haberdasher's shop.
- hash cookies — biscuits containing cannabis
- hash-slinger — a waiter or waitress, especially in a hash house.
- helium flash — the explosive burning of helium in the case of a star of low mass that occurs when the core is so dense that the matter has become degenerate. The burning causes a rapid rise in temperature until it is so high that the gas ceases to be degenerate, after which there is a rapid expansion
- higashiosaka — a city on S Honshu, in Japan, W of Osaka.
- high fashion — haute couture.
- ismail pasha — 1830–95, viceroy and khedive of Egypt 1863–79.
- kashmir goat — one of a long-haired breed of goat raised in Tibet and the higher elevations of China, the Indian subcontinent, Afghanistan, and Turkey for its meat, milk, and cashmere wool.
- lemon squash — lemon soda; a soft drink of lemon juice and soda water.
- mashrebeeyah — meshrebeeyeh.
- mashrebeeyeh — (in Islamic countries) an oriel screened by latticework.
- memory smash — (jargon) A Xerox PARC term for writing to the location addressed by a dangling pointer.
- misfashioned — Simple past tense and past participle of misfashion.
- mountain ash — variety of tree
- newfashioned — Alternative form of new-fashioned.
- oldfashioned — Rare spelling of old-fashioned.
- overrashness — the act of being overrash
- paki-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked physical assaults upon Pakistani immigrants or people of Pakistani descent
- pebbledashed — covered with a finish for external walls consisting of small stones embedded in plaster
- picture sash — a large window sash, as for a picture window.
- rosh hashana — the Jewish New Year, celebrated on the 1st and 2d days of Tishri
- slab dashing — the act or process of covering an exterior wall with roughcast.
- slap dashing — slab dashing.
- slash pocket — a pocket set into a garment, especially below the waistline, to which easy access is provided by an exterior, vertical or diagonal slit.
- spatter dash — roughcast (def 1).
- spatter-dash — Also called spatter dash. an exterior wall finish composed of mortar and fine pebbles mixed together and dashed against the wall. Compare pebble dash.
- splash guard — a large flap behind a rear tire to prevent mud, water, etc., from being splashed on the following vehicle.
- spud-bashing — the task of peeling potatoes, given as a punishment
- squash court — an enclosed court used in the game of squash
- stinking ash — hoptree.
- stone-washed — Stone-washed jeans are jeans which have been specially washed with small pieces of stone so that when you buy them they are fairly pale and soft.
- storm-lashed — badly affected by storms
- swash letter — an ornamental italic capital letter having a flourish extending beyond the body of the type.
- swashbuckler — a swaggering swordsman, soldier, or adventurer; daredevil.
- synchroflash — of or relating to photography employing a device that synchronizes the photoflash with the shutter.
- thrash about — flail, throw oneself around
- thrash metal — a type of very fast, very loud rock music that combines elements of heavy metal and punk rock
- thunderflash — a pyrotechnic device which is noisy, but not dangerous, and which is used in military exercises
- trash talker — to use disparaging or boastful language.
- unwashedness — the quality or state of being unwashed
- volcanic ash — ash1 (def 2).
- wash drawing — a watercolor painting executed by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other.
- wash leather — a soft leather, usually made of sheepskin
- wash-leather — a soft leather, usually sheepskin, dressed in imitation of chamois.
- washer-dryer — a washing machine and a clothes dryer combined in one unit.
- washfountain — a large, usually circular wash basin, as in an industrial plant, in which a spray of water activated by foot pedal allows several workers to wash simultaneously.
- washing line — cord for hanging laundry to dry