11-letter words containing sh
- backslashes — Plural form of backslash.
- backwashing — A form of water treatment in which water is pumped backwards through the filter media, sometimes with intermittent use of compressed air.
- bailiffship — the office of a bailiff
- baking dish — a usually ceramic dish in which items can be baked
- ballet shoe — a flexible, lightweight shoe designed for ballet dancing; typically made of leather or silk, and often fastened with ribbons
- balloonfish — a porcupinefish, Diodon holacanthus, inhabiting tropical and subtropical waters.
- bangladeshi — Bangladeshi means belonging to or relating to Bangladesh, or to its people or culture.
- 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.
- 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
- bashfulness — The quality or property of being bashful; shyness; reserve; timidity.
- bashibazouk — (in the 19th century) one of a group of irregular Turkish soldiers notorious for their brutality
- basket fish — basket star.
- batsmanship — (cricket) A skilled or courteous display of skill as a batsman.
- battleships — Plural form of battleship.
- bbc english — Received Pronunciation.
- beanshooter — peashooter
- bearishness — The characteristic of being bearish.
- beauty bush — a hardy shrub (Kolkwitzia amabilis) of the honeysuckle family, having tubular pink flowers with white bristly hairs on the ovary
- beauty shop — A beauty shop is the same as a beauty parlour.
- beauty-bush — a Chinese shrub, Kolkwitzia amabilis, of the honeysuckle family, having showy, pinkish flowers and grown as an ornamental.
- bell-shaped — shaped like a bell
- benchership — the position of a bencher at the Inns of Court
- bit bashing — (Also "bit diddling" or bit twiddling). Any of several kinds of low-level programming characterised by manipulation of bit, flag, nibble, and other smaller-than-character-sized pieces of data. These include low-level device control, encryption algorithms, checksum and error-correcting codes, hash functions, some flavours of graphics programming (see bitblt), and assembler/compiler code generation. May connote either tedium or a real technical challenge (more usually the former). "The command decoding for the new tape driver looks pretty solid but the bit-bashing for the control registers still has bugs." See also bit bang, mode bit.
- bitterbrush — a flowering plant of the genus Purshia, native to North America
- black shank — a disease of tobacco, characterized by wilting and by decayed, blackened roots and stems, caused by a fungus, Phytophthora parasitica nicotianae.
- black sheep — If you describe someone as the black sheep of their family or of a group that they are a member of, you mean that they are considered bad or worthless by other people in that family or group.
- black shirt — a member of any fascist organization (specif., the former Italian Fascist party) with a black-shirted uniform
- blank shell — a shotgun shell containing powder but no shot.
- blemishment — a flaw or blemish
- blue cohosh — either of two unrelated plants of the eastern U.S., Cimicifuga racemosa (black cohosh) of the buttercup family, or Caulophyllum thalictroides (blue cohosh) of the barberry family, both used medicinally.
- blue shield — Blue Cross and Blue Shield.
- blushlessly — in a manner without blushing, shamelessly
- boat-shaped — shaped like a boat
- boatmanship — boatsmanship.
- body shield — a small bulletproof shield attached to the arm for fending off projectiles, especially in a riot situation.
- bondmanship — the state of being a bondman; serfdom
- bone shaker — an early-model bicycle, especially one with hard rubber tires.
- bone-shaker — an early-model bicycle, especially one with hard rubber tires.
- bonefishing — the activity of fishing for bonefish
- bonus share — a share from stock given by a company to existing shareholders
- boorishness — of or like a boor; unmannered; crude; insensitive.
- boot polish — a resistant polish specially formulated to protect boots of various kinds
- bottle shop — A bottle shop is a shop which sells wine, beer, and other alcoholic drinks.
- bottlebrush — a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft, used for cleaning bottles
- bottom fish — any fish that feeds or lives near the bottom of a body of water, as a flounder or catfish
- bottom-fish — to fish with a weighted line for fish that feed close to the bottom.
- brattishing — decorative work along the coping or on the cornice of a building
- breconshire — (until 1974) a county of SE Wales, now mainly in Powys: over half its area forms the Brecon Beacons National Park