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11-letter words containing sh

  • breshkovskyCatherine, 1844–1934, Russian revolutionary of noble birth: called “the little grandmother of the Russian Revolution.”.
  • brickshaped — resembling the shape of a brick
  • bridal shop — a shop that specializes in selling bridal wear
  • british gum — dextrin.
  • british lop — a breed of large white pig with large drooping ears, originating from Wales, Cumberland, and Ulster
  • brittlebush — any of several composite plants of the genus Encelia, of desert regions of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having alternate leaves and yellow ray flowers with a yellow or purple center.
  • broad-brush — A broad-brush approach, strategy, or solution deals with a problem in a general way rather than concentrating on details.
  • brown shirt — (in Nazi Germany) a storm trooper
  • brush aside — If you brush aside or brush away an idea, remark, or feeling, you refuse to consider it because you think it is not important or useful, even though it may be.
  • brush broom — Northeastern U.S. a whisk broom.
  • brush maker — a manufacturer or crafter of brushes
  • brushpopper — a cowboy, especially one who works in the brush.
  • brushstroke — Brushstrokes are the marks made on a surface by a painter's brush.
  • bucket shop — an unregistered firm of stockbrokers that engages in speculation with clients' funds
  • buffalofish — any of several freshwater North American hump-backed cyprinoid fishes of the genus Ictiobus: family Catostomidae (suckers)
  • bullshitter — nonsense, lies, or exaggeration.
  • bumbershoot — an umbrella
  • 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
  • bus shelter — A bus shelter is a bus stop that has a roof and at least one open side.
  • bush ballad — an old Australian bush poem in a ballad metre dealing with aspects of life and characters in the bush
  • bush clover — any of several plants or shrubs belonging to the genus Lespedeza, of the legume family, having pinnately trifoliate leaves and heads of pink, purple, cream, or white flowers.
  • bush jacket — a casual jacket or shirt having four patch pockets and a belt
  • bush lawyer — any of several prickly trailing plants of the genus Rubus
  • bush league — In baseball, a bush league is the same as a minor league.
  • bush oyster — a bull's testicle when cooked and eaten
  • bush parole — an escape from prison.
  • bush shrike — any shrike of the African subfamily Malaconotinae, such as Chlorophoneus nigrifrons (black-fronted bush shrike)
  • bush tucker — any wild animal, insect, plant or plant extract, etc traditionally used as food by native Australians
  • bush-league — inferior or amateurish; mediocre: a bush-league theatrical performance.
  • bushbashing — the process of forcing a path through the bush
  • bushelwoman — a woman who alters clothes
  • bushhogging — to clear (land) by using a bush hog.
  • bushmanship — the skills necessary for survival in the bush; bushcraft
  • bushranging — the life of a bushranger
  • bushwalking — an expedition on foot in the bush
  • bushwhacker — a person who travels around or lives in thinly populated woodlands
  • butter dish — a small dish designed to hold butter
  • caddishness — the state of being caddish
  • calico bush — mountain laurel
  • can crusher — a device which presses empty metal food containers in order to reduce their volume before they are disposed of
  • cannon-shot — the range of a cannon
  • capiz shell — whitish, translucent shell of the Philippines, used in making lamp shades, decorative articles, etc.
  • captainship — captaincy.
  • cardsharper — (rare) alternative spelling of cardsharp.
  • cash income — income received in the form of cash during a specified period, esp that of rural and farming households
  • cash letter — a deposit list from one bank to another containing items to be credited to the account of the depositing bank.
  • cashability — money or an equivalent, as a check, paid at the time of making a purchase.
  • cashierment — the action of rejecting or dismissing
  • casing shoe — A casing shoe is the bottom of the casing string, including the cement around it.
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