13-letter words containing sh
- black english — the group of related dialects of American English spoken variously by many black people in the U.S.
- blandishments — Blandishments are pleasant things that someone says to another person in order to persuade them to do something.
- blanket sheet — a newspaper of larger than average size, common in the mid 19th century.
- blue rockfish — a bluish-black rockfish, Sebastodes mystinus, inhabiting Pacific coastal waters of North America.
- body shopping — the purchasing of manpower from another country, usually one where wages are cheap
- bone-crushing — powerful or constricting enough to crush one's bones: a bone-crushing handshake.
- bottle-washer — a menial or factotum
- bottomfishing — to fish with a weighted line for fish that feed close to the bottom.
- bounced flash — a flash bounced off a reflective surface, as a ceiling or wall, to illuminate a subject indirectly.
- box jellyfish — any of various highly venomous jellyfishes of the order Cubomedusae, esp Chironex fleckeri, of Australian tropical waters, having a cuboidal body with tentacles hanging from each of the lower corners
- bridal shower — a party, held for a woman before her wedding, to which her friends bring gifts
- bridging shot — a shot inserted in a film to indicate the passage of time between two scenes, as of a series of newspaper headlines or calendar pages being torn off.
- brinksmanship — the technique or practice of maneuvering a dangerous situation to the limits of tolerance or safety in order to secure the greatest advantage, especially by creating diplomatic crises.
- bristle brush — a brush made with animal bristles
- british asian — A British Asian person is someone of Indian, Pakistani, or Bangladeshi origin who has grown up in Britain.
- british india — the 17 provinces of India formerly governed by the British under the British sovereign: ceased to exist in 1947 when the independent states of India and Pakistan were created
- british isles — a group of islands in W Europe, consisting of Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man, Orkney, Shetland, the Channel Islands belonging to Great Britain, and the islands adjacent to these
- british white — a British breed of medium-sized white cattle with black points, bred mainly for meat
- bumblebeefish — any of several gobies of the genus Brachygobius, inhabiting waters of the Malay Archipelago and having brown and yellow bands on the body that resemble the markings of a bumblebee.
- bundle sheath — a layer of cells in plant leaves and stems that surrounds a vascular bundle.
- burgess shale — a bed of Cambrian sedimentary rock in the Rocky Mountains in British Columbia containing many unique invertebrate fossils
- burt standish — Burt L. pseudonym of Gilbert Patten.
- bush sickness — an animal disease caused by a cobalt deficiency in old bush country
- busheled iron — heterogeneous iron made from scrap iron and steel.
- butterflyfish — any small tropical marine percoid fish of the genera Chaetodon, Chelmon, etc, that has a deep flattened brightly coloured or strikingly marked body and brushlike teeth: family Chaetodontidae
- calabash tree — a tropical American evergreen tree, Crescentia cujete, that produces large round gourds: family Bignoniaceae
- candidateship — candidature
- cape crawfish — an edible South African spiny lobster, Jasus lalandii.
- capsule shell — A capsule shell is an outer skin in which a medicinal substance is contained.
- cardiganshire — a former county of W Wales: became part of Dyfed in 1974; reinstated as Ceredigion in 1996
- cardinal fish — a small brightly coloured fish found in shallow tropical seas, of the family Apogonidae, the male of which often broods eggs in its mouth
- cash customer — a purchaser who pays cash rather than by check, credit card, or charge account.
- cash dealings — transactions that are carried out using cash
- cash discount — a discount granted to a purchaser who pays before a stipulated date
- cash holdings — the assets that you hold in ready cash, as opposed to property, shares, bonds, etc
- cash receipts — the money a business receives from its customers over a specified period
- cash register — A cash register is a machine in a shop, pub, or restaurant that is used to add up and record how much money people pay, and in which the money is kept.
- cash reserves — money set aside by an individual or a company for use in an emergency
- cash-strapped — If a person or organization is cash-strapped, they do not have enough money to buy or pay for the things they want or need.
- cashew family — the plant family Anacardiaceae, typified by trees, shrubs, or vines having resinous and sometimes poisonous juice, alternate leaves, small flowers, and a nut or fleshy fruit, and including the cashew, mango, pistachio, poison ivy, and sumac.
- chairmanships — Plural form of chairmanship.
- championships — Plural form of championship.
- chaperoneship — State or position of chaperone.
- charlier shoe — special light horseshoe
- cheshire east — a unitary authority in NW England. Administrative centre: Sandbach. Pop: 358 900 (2008 est). Area: 1160 sq km (448 sq miles)
- chieftainship — the chief of a clan or a tribe.
- chinling shan — Qinling Shan
- churchmanship — The craft or skill of being a churchman. (from 17th c.).
- cigarette ash — the ash created by smoking a cigarette
- climbing fish — an Asian labyrinth fish, Anabas testudineus, that resembles a perch and can travel over land on its spiny gill covers and pectoral fins