11-letter words containing a, i, s, h
- slavishness — of or befitting a slave: slavish subjection.
- sling chair — any of several varieties of chairs having a seat and back formed from a single sheet of canvas, leather, or the like, hanging loosely in a frame.
- small white — a small white butterfly, Artogeia rapae, with scanty black markings, the larvae of which feed on brassica leaves
- snail shell — the spirally coiled shell of a snail
- snakishness — the state or quality of being like a snake
- snatchingly — in a snatching manner
- sneak thief — a burglar who sneaks into houses through open doors, windows, etc.
- snow chains — device that gives tyres extra grip
- sociography — the branch of sociology that uses statistical data to describe social phenomena.
- sociopathic — a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.
- soda siphon — fizzy water dispenser
- sonofabitch — an abusive term of address or of description
- soothsaying — the practice or art of foretelling events.
- sophistical — of the nature of sophistry; fallacious.
- sothic year — the fixed year of the ancient Egyptians, determined by the heliacal rising of Sirius, and equivalent to 365 days.
- south miami — a town in S Florida.
- spaceflight — the flying of manned or unmanned spacecraft into or in outer space.
- spaghettini — pasta in the form of long thin strings
- spanish fir — a species of fir native to S Spain and N Morocco, Abies pinsapo
- spanish fly — Also called cantharides. a preparation of powdered blister beetles, especially the Spanish fly, used medicinally as a counterirritant, diuretic, and aphrodisiac.
- speakership — a person who speaks.
- sphaeridium — a round body found on sea urchins
- sphragistic — of or relating to seals or signet rings.
- spike heath — a Eurasian evergreen shrub, Bruckenthalia spiculifolia, of the heath family, having narrow leaves and bell-shaped, pink flowers, growing in gritty soil.
- spinachlike — resembling or characteristic of spinach
- spirochaete — any of various spiral-shaped motile bacteria of the family Spirochaetaceae, certain species, as Treponema, Leptospira, and Borrelia, being pathogenic to humans and other animals, and other species being free-living, saprophytic, or parasitic.
- spirography — the study of breathing using a spirograph
- split hairs — any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals; a pilus.
- split-phase — pertaining to or noting a current in one of two parallel circuits that have a single-phase current source but unequal impedances and that produce currents of different phase.
- square inch — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one inch on each side; 6.452 square centimeters. 2 , sq. in. Abbreviation: in.
- square with — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
- squirearchy — the collective body of squires or landed gentry of a country.
- stage right — Stage right is the right side of the stage for an actor who is standing facing the audience.
- standoffish — somewhat aloof or reserved; cold and unfriendly.
- staphylinid — rove beetle.
- staphylitis — inflammation of the soft palate or uvula
- starchiness — of, relating to, or of the nature of starch.
- starchitect — a well-known and well-paid architect noted for his or her landmark buildings
- starlighted — lit by the stars
- stasimorphy — structural modification by arrested development
- static head — Static head is the pressure resulting from a column of liquid acting under gravity.
- stenobathic — of or relating to marine or freshwater life that can tolerate only limited changes in depth (opposed to eurybathic).
- stenohaline — (of an aquatic organism) unable to withstand wide variation in salinity of the surrounding water.
- stephanotis — any vine belonging to the genus Stephanotis, of the milkweed family, having fragrant, waxy, white flowers and leathery leaves.
- stewardship — the position and duties of a steward, a person who acts as the surrogate of another or others, especially by managing property, financial affairs, an estate, etc.
- stickhandle — (in hockey and lacrosse) to control and skillfully maneuver the ball or puck with the stick.
- stitchcraft — needlework or embroidery
- stone china — hard earthenware containing china stone.
- straichtest — straightest
- straight up — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.