6-Letter Words with B,H,I,S,_

• a headscarf worn by Muslim women; conceals the hair and neck and usually has a face veil that covers the face

• the custom in some Islamic societies of women dressing modestly outside the home

• stop from happening or developing

• The top of a ridge.

• The spine of an animal.

• A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.

• A sharp angle in the cross section of a hull.

• A hollowed or bevelled channel in the waterway of a ship's deck.

• The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.

• The back of the blade on a scythe.

• befitting or characteristic of a young boy

• (Judaism) a period of seven days of mourning after the death of close relative

• a senior member of the Christian clergy having spiritual and administrative authority; appointed in Christian churches to oversee priests or ministers; considered in some churches to be successors of the twelve Apostles of Christ

• port wine mulled with oranges and cloves

• (chess) a piece that can be moved diagonally over unoccupied squares of the same color

• The raised platform in the front of a synagogue where the Torah is read on a podium.

• A laundryman or washerman, or laundrywoman or washerwoman, in India and Pakistan.

• a loop in a rope

• a bend or curve (especially in a coastline)

• a broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline

• the middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends)

• fasten with a bight