11-letter words containing c, o, s, h
- scotch mist — a combination of mist or fog and drizzle, occurring frequently in Scotland and parts of England.
- scotch pine — a pine, Pinus sylvestris, of Eurasia, having a reddish trunk and twisted, bluish-green needles.
- scotch rose — a rose, Rosa spinosissima, of Eurasia, having pink, white, or yellow flowers.
- scotch snap — a rhythmic pattern consisting of a short note followed by a long one
- scotch tape — clear adhesive tape
- scotch-tape — to fasten or mend with Scotch tape.
- scotchwoman — Scotswoman.
- scotophilic — living and flourishing in darkness.
- scotophobin — a peptide isolated from the brains of rats conditioned to avoid darkness, alleged to induce a dark-avoidance response in untrained rats, mice, and other animals.
- scots-irish — Scotch-Irish
- screech owl — any of numerous small American owls of the genus Otus, having hornlike tufts of feathers, as O. asio, of eastern North America.
- screen shot — Also called screen capture. a copy or image of what is seen on a computer screen at a given time: Save the screenshot as a graphics file.
- screenshort — a screenshot that is shared on a social media website.
- scrimshoner — a person who makes scrimshaw
- scripholder — a person who owns a scrip or scrips
- scripophile — a person who practices scripophily.
- scripophily — the collecting by hobbyists of old stock certificates and bonds that have no intrinsic value other than their aesthetic appeal or relative rarity.
- scuffle hoe — a hoe with a flat blade, pushed back and forth through the surface soil, as to weed
- scyphistoma — a stage in the life cycle of a jellyfish or other scyphozoan when it is fixed in place and reproduces asexually to produce free-swimming medusas.
- sea-poacher — poacher1 (def 2).
- second hand — the hand that indicates the seconds on a clock or watch.
- second home — an additional residence, as at the shore or in the country, where one goes on weekends, vacations, and the like.
- second-half — happening in the second half of a game
- second-hand — the hand that indicates the seconds on a clock or watch.
- sepulchrous — of the nature of a sepulchre
- seychellois — a native or inhabitant of Seychelles.
- shacklebone — the wrist
- shade cloth — a covering made of cloth or plastic, especially one used to control the amount of sunlight to which plants are exposed.
- shcherbakov — a former name (1946–57) of Andropov.
- shear force — Shear force is force that makes one surface of a substance move over another parallel surface.
- shell shock — battle fatigue.
- sherlockian — pertaining to or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, known for his skill in solving mysteries through deductive reasoning.
- shock front — the forward boundary surface of a shock wave.
- shock radio — broadcasting by a commercial radio station whose humor includes tasteless jokes, sexual innuendo, and ethnic insults.
- shockheaded — having a shock or thick mass of hair on the head.
- shoot craps — to play this game
- short score — a condensed version of the score for a musical composition, usually written for piano
- shortchange — to give less than the correct change to.
- shortcoming — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
- shot effect — random fluctuations in the emission of electrons from a hot cathode, causing a hissing or sputtering sound (shot noise) in an audio amplifier and causing snow on a television screen.
- shuttlecock — Also called shuttle. the object that is struck back and forth in badminton and battledore, consisting of a feathered cork head and a plastic crown.
- simethicone — an active ingredient in many antacid preparations that causes small mucus-entrapped air bubbles in the intestines to coalesce into larger bubbles that are more easily passed.
- sixth chord — an inversion of a triad in which the second note (next above the root) is in the bass.
- sketch book — a collection of essays and stories (1819–20) by Washington Irving.
- sketch show — a show, such as a TV show or public performance, consisting of a variety of short comedy scenes
- slow-twitch — of or relating to muscle fiber that contracts relatively slowly and is resistant to fatigue (distinguished from fast-twitch).
- smokechaser — a person who fights forest fires, especially one with lightweight equipment.
- snow chains — device that gives tyres extra grip
- so much for — So much for is used to indicate that you have finished talking about a subject.
- sociography — the branch of sociology that uses statistical data to describe social phenomena.