11-letter words containing n, s, h
- axanthopsia — a defect of vision in which the retina fails to respond to yellow.
- 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.
- backlashing — a sudden, forceful backward movement; recoil.
- backwashing — A form of water treatment in which water is pumped backwards through the filter media, sometimes with intermittent use of compressed air.
- baking dish — a usually ceramic dish in which items can be baked
- balloonfish — a porcupinefish, Diodon holacanthus, inhabiting tropical and subtropical waters.
- baluchistan — a mountainous region of SW Asia, in SW Pakistan and SE Iran
- bangladeshi — Bangladeshi means belonging to or relating to Bangladesh, or to its people or culture.
- barthianism — the theological doctrines and principles of Karl Barth and his followers, especially in reference to neoorthodoxy.
- 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.
- 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.
- batrachians — Plural form of batrachian.
- batsmanship — (cricket) A skilled or courteous display of skill as a batsman.
- 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)
- 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.
- black shank — a disease of tobacco, characterized by wilting and by decayed, blackened roots and stems, caused by a fungus, Phytophthora parasitica nicotianae.
- 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
- boatmanship — boatsmanship.
- bohemianism — unconventional behaviour or appearance, esp of an artist
- 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.
- brattishing — decorative work along the coping or on the cornice of a building
- 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
- brown shirt — (in Nazi Germany) a storm trooper
- bunch grass — any of various grasses that grow in tufts
- burnishment — the act or process of burnishing
- burns night — (in Scotland) 25 January, the traditional date for holding a celebratory meal (Burns supper) in honour of Robert Burns