11-letter words containing c, s, h, e
- scotch tape — clear adhesive tape
- scotch-tape — to fasten or mend with Scotch tape.
- scratchless — to break, mar, or mark the surface of by rubbing, scraping, or tearing with something sharp or rough: to scratch one's hand on a nail.
- 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.
- screen wash — a fluid that is squirted onto a car windscreen to clean it
- 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.
- scuffle hoe — a hoe with a flat blade, pushed back and forth through the surface soil, as to weed
- sea-poacher — poacher1 (def 2).
- search term — Computers. a word or other term used to electronically retrieve data, Web pages, or other information from files, databases, etc.: When you search the shopping website, ads relating to your search terms will appear along with your search results.
- searchingly — examining carefully or thoroughly: a searching inspection.
- searchlight — a device, usually consisting of a light and reflector, for throwing a beam of light in any direction.
- secchi disk — an opaque, white or black-and-white disk used to measure the cloudiness or turbidity of ocean water by the point at which it is no longer visible from the surface.
- 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.
- sedan chair — an enclosed vehicle for one person, borne on poles by two bearers and common during the 17th and 18th centuries.
- self-speech — the faculty or power of speaking; oral communication; ability to express one's thoughts and emotions by speech sounds and gesture: Losing her speech made her feel isolated from humanity.
- semispheric — shaped like half a sphere; hemispheric.
- sennacherib — died 681 b.c, king of Assyria 705–681.
- sepulchrous — of the nature of a sepulchre
- serigraphic — of or pertaining to serigraphy
- 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.
- shag carpet — shag pile carpet
- share price — cost of financial stocks
- shared care — an arrangement between a welfare agency and a family with a dependent handicapped member, whereby the agency takes the handicapped person into a home for respite care or in emergencies
- sharksucker — any of several remoras, as Echeneis naucrates, usually found attached to sharks.
- 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.
- sheep track — a pathway made by and used by sheep, often in rocky or mountainous terrain, and sometimes followed by hikers
- sheet music — music printed on unbound sheets of paper.
- shelf space — amount of room on shelves
- shell shock — battle fatigue.
- shellacking — lac that has been purified and formed into thin sheets, used for making varnish.
- sheriffwick — shrievalty.
- sherlockian — pertaining to or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, known for his skill in solving mysteries through deductive reasoning.
- shipwrecked — the destruction or loss of a ship, as by sinking.
- shirtjacket — a jacket styled like a shirt
- shit-scared — very scared
- shitkickers — an unsophisticated farmer, cowboy, or other rural person; country person.
- shockheaded — having a shock or thick mass of hair on the head.
- 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.
- 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.