11-letter words containing n, s, h, e
- aron kodesh — Holy Ark.
- as the next — If you say that you do something or experience something as much as the next person, you mean that you are no different from anyone else in the respect mentioned.
- aschelminth — in some systems of classification, any of a phylum (Aschelminthes) of wormlike animals, including rotifers, gastrotrichs, gordian worms, and nematodes: these animals are usually considered to be in separate phyla
- ashamedness — the condition of feeling ashamed
- ashen light — a faint glow visible on the unlit side of the planet Venus in its crescent phase.
- ashen-faced — Someone who is ashen-faced looks very pale, especially because they are ill, shocked, or frightened.
- 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.
- ashwaubenon — a town in E Wisconsin.
- athermanous — capable of stopping radiant heat or infrared radiation
- attachments — Plural form of attachment.
- babyishness — The state or quality of being babyish.
- backbenches — The backbenches are the seats in the British House of Commons where backbenchers sit. The Members of Parliament who sit on the backbenches are also referred to as the backbenches.
- backhanders — Plural form of backhander.
- bangladeshi — Bangladeshi means belonging to or relating to Bangladesh, or to its people or culture.
- bashfulness — The quality or property of being bashful; shyness; reserve; timidity.
- basset horn — an obsolete woodwind instrument of the clarinet family
- bath sponge — any of various common sponges, of the family Spongiidae, that have a skeletal network composed of fibers of spongin: collected in the Gulf of Mexico, the Mediterranean, and the Caribbean for their commercial value.
- bbc english — Received Pronunciation.
- 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
- behind bars — If you say that someone is behind bars, you mean that they are in prison.
- behind post — one of the smaller outer posts inside which the ball must be kicked to score a behind
- bench press — a weight-training exercise in which a person lies on a bench and pushes a barbell upwards with both hands from chest level until the arms are straight, then lowers it again
- bench screw — a wooden or metal screw rotated by a handle fixed to one end within a threaded block fixed to a workbench: used with various jaws to form a vise.
- bench-press — a weightlifting exercise in which one lies supine on a bench and with both hands pushes a barbell or fixed weight upward from chest level to arm's length and then lowers it back to chest level: usually repeated in sets.
- benchership — the position of a bencher at the Inns of Court
- benthoscope — a deep-sea diving vessel
- bergschrund — a crevasse at the head of a glacier
- bhubaneswar — an ancient city in E India, the capital of Odisha (formerly Orissa) state: many temples built between the 7th and 16th centuries. Pop: 647 302 (2001)
- blank shell — a shotgun shell containing powder but no shot.
- blaspheming — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
- blemishment — a flaw or blemish
- bohemianism — unconventional behaviour or appearance, esp of an artist
- 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.
- breathiness — (of the voice) characterized by audible or excessive emission of breath.
- breconshire — (until 1974) a county of SE Wales, now mainly in Powys: over half its area forms the Brecon Beacons National Park
- burnishment — the act or process of burnishing
- burnt shale — carbonaceous shale formed by destructive distillation of oil shale or by spontaneous combustion of shale after it has been some years in a tip: sometimes used in road making
- bushelwoman — a woman who alters clothes
- cacophonies — Plural form of cacophony.
- caddishness — the state of being caddish
- calisthenic — Of, or relating to calisthenics.
- can crusher — a device which presses empty metal food containers in order to reduce their volume before they are disposed of
- cantharides — a diuretic and urogenital stimulant or irritant prepared from the dried bodies of Spanish fly (family Meloidae, not Cantharidae), once thought to be an aphrodisiac
- case-harden — to form a hard surface layer of high carbon content on (a steel component) by heating in a carburizing environment with subsequent quenching or heat treatment