7-letter words containing s, h
- beshrew — to wish evil on; curse (used in mild oaths such as beshrew me)
- bhaskar — Sanjeev (ˈsændʒiːv). born 1964, British actor and writer of Indian origin, known for the TV comedy series Goodness Gracious Me (1998–2001) and The Kumars at No. 42 (2001–06)
- bheesty — (in India) a water carrier.
- bhikshu — a monk.
- bhishti — (formerly in India) a water-carrier
- biggish — Something that is biggish is fairly big.
- bishkek — the capital of Kyrgyzstan. Pop: 828 000 (2005 est)
- bismuth — a brittle pinkish-white crystalline metallic element having low thermal and electrical conductivity, which expands on cooling. It is widely used in alloys, esp low-melting alloys in fire safety devices; its compounds are used in medicines. Symbol: Bi; atomic no: 83; atomic wt: 208.98037; valency: 3 or 5; relative density: 9.747; melting pt: 271.4°C; boiling pt: 1564±5°C
- blemish — A blemish is a small mark on something that spoils its appearance.
- blithes — a female given name.
- blueish — bluish
- blusher — Blusher is a coloured substance that women put on their cheeks.
- blushet — a modest young woman, perceived as prone to blushing
- boarish — coarse, cruel, or sensual
- bobbish — cheerful, in good health and mood
- boggish — like a bog
- bolshie — Bolshevik
- boobish — stupid, doltish
- bookish — Someone who is bookish spends a lot of time reading serious books.
- boorish — Boorish behaviour is rough, uneducated, and rude.
- booshit — very good; excellent
- boppish — in the style of bop music.
- borscht — a Russian and Polish soup based on beetroot
- boswash — the heavily populated area extending from Boston to Washington and including New York City, Philadelphia, and Baltimore.
- bowshot — the distance an arrow travels from the bow
- boxfish — trunkfish.
- brashly — impertinent; impudent; tactless: a brash young man.
- breaths — the air inhaled and exhaled in respiration.
- brights — the high beam of the headlights of a motor vehicle
- british — British means belonging or relating to the United Kingdom, or to its people or culture.
- broches — (in weaving tapestries) a device on which the filling yarn is wound, used as a shuttle in passing through the shed of the loom to deposit the yarn.
- brushed — Brushed cotton, nylon, or other fabric feels soft and furry.
- brusher — an implement consisting of bristles, hair, or the like, set in or attached to a handle, used for painting, cleaning, polishing, grooming, etc.
- brushup — the act or process of reviewing a subject, technique, or the like, for the purpose of renewing the memory, skill, etc.: He gave his Spanish a brushup before his trip to Mexico.
- brutish — If you describe a person or their behaviour as brutish, you think that they are brutal and uncivilised.
- buckish — dandyish; foppish
- bugshah — (formerly) an aluminum-copper coin and monetary unit of the Yemen Arab Republic, the 40th part of a riyal.
- bukshee — a paymaster-general in the Anglo-Indian army
- bullish — On the stock market, if there is a bullish mood, prices are expected to rise. Compare bearish.
- bulrush — a grasslike cyperaceous marsh plant, Scirpus lacustris, used for making mats, chair seats, etc
- bunches — a hairstyle in which hair is tied into two sections on either side of the head at the back
- burdash — a fringed sash worn over a coat
- burnish — To burnish the image of someone or something means to improve their image.
- bush it — to camp out in the bush
- bushers — bush leaguer (def 1).
- bushfly — any of various small black dipterous flies of Australia, esp Musca vetustissima, that breed in faeces and dung: family Calliphoridae
- bushido — the feudal code of the Japanese samurai, stressing self-discipline, courage and loyalty
- bushing — an adaptor having ends of unequal diameters, often with internal screw threads, used to connect pipes of different sizes
- bushire — a port in SW Iran, on the Persian Gulf; nuclear power station. Pop: 166 000 (2005 est)
- bushism — any apparently fatuous statement attributed to George W. Bush