8-letter words containing sh
- broguish — having or tending to a brogue
- brownish — Something that is brownish is slightly brown in colour.
- brush up — If you brush up something or brush up on it, you practise it or improve your knowledge of it.
- brush-on — fit to be applied with a brush: a brush-on paint remover.
- brushier — covered or overgrown with brush or brushwood.
- brushoff — an abrupt or rude dismissal, esp. in the phrase give (or get) the brushoff
- buckshee — without charge; free
- buckshot — Buckshot consists of pieces of lead fired from a gun when hunting animals.
- bullshit — If you say that something is bullshit, you are saying that it is nonsense or completely untrue.
- bullshot — a cocktail of vodka and beef stock
- bulrushy — made of or resembling bulrushes
- bum-rush — to force one's way into; crash: to bum-rush a rap concert.
- burrfish — any of several porcupinefishes of the genus Chilomycterus, covered with short, immovable spines.
- bush lot — a tract of timberland
- bush pig — any of a genus (Potamochoerus) of wild African pigs that live in forested regions
- bush tea — a leguminous shrub of the genus Cyclopia, of southern Africa
- bush tit — any of several North American titmice of the genus Psaltriparus, which construct long, pendent nests.
- bush-hog — to clear (land) by using a bush hog.
- bushbaby — any agile nocturnal arboreal prosimian primate of the genera Galago and Euoticus, occurring in Africa south of the Sahara: family Lorisidae (lorises). They have large eyes and ears and a long tail
- bushbuck — a small nocturnal spiral-horned antelope, Tragelaphus scriptus, of the bush and tropical forest of Africa. Its coat is reddish-brown with a few white markings
- bushfire — an uncontrolled fire in the bush; a scrub or forest fire
- bushgoat — a S African antelope
- bushland — uncultivated land (esp in Australia) that is covered with trees, shrubs, or other natural vegetation
- bushless — devoid of vegetation
- bushlike — resembling a bush
- bushline — an airline that flies over sparsely inhabited territory to serve isolated settlements.
- bushmeat — meat taken from any animal native to African forests, including species that may be endangered or not usually eaten outside Africa
- bushnell — David, 1742?–1824, U.S. inventor: pioneered in submarine construction.
- bushwalk — to hike through bushland
- buzkashi — a game played in Afghanistan, in which opposing teams of horsemen strive for possession of the headless carcass of a goat
- caboshed — (of an animal, as a deer) shown facing forward without a neck: a stag's head caboshed.
- calabash — a tropical American evergreen tree, Crescentia cujete, that produces large round gourds: family Bignoniaceae
- calipash — the greenish glutinous edible part of the turtle found next to the upper shell, considered a delicacy
- camelish — similar to a camel
- campshed — to line (the bank of a river) with campshot.
- campshot — a facing of planks and piles placed along the bank of a river to prevent erosion.
- camshaft — A camshaft is a rod in an engine and works to change circular motion into motion up and down or from side to side.
- capsheaf — The top sheaf of a stook of wheat etc.
- car wash — a place or structure having special equipment for washing automobiles.
- carshare — to take turns in driving fellow commuters to and from work or friends' children to school and back, so as to avoid the unnecessary use of several underoccupied vehicles
- cash bar — A cash bar is a bar at a party or similar event where guests can buy drinks.
- cash cow — In business, a cash cow is a product or investment that steadily continues to be profitable.
- cash mob — a group of people coordinated to meet and spend money at a local, independent business at a particular time
- cash out — cash in1 (sense 1)
- cash-out — Also, cashout. a direct cash payment or a cash profit or remainder: The store owner lived on a cash-out of fifty dollars a day.
- cashable — Able to be converted into cash.
- cashback — a discount offered in return for immediate payment
- cashbook — a book in which all receipts and payments of money are entered
- cashflow — Of or pertaining to a cash flow.
- cashiers — Plural form of cashier.