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11-letter words containing c, s, h, e

  • 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.
  • sickishness — the state of being sickish
  • sightscreen — a white screen set in line with the wicket as an aid to the batsman in seeing the ball when it is bowled.
  • silverchair — Australian rock group (formed 1994): comprising Daniel Johns (born 1979; vocals, guitar), Ben Gillies (born 1979, drums) and Chris Joannou (born 1979, bass guitar); their albums include Frogstomp (1995) and Young Modern (2007)
  • 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.
  • sir michael — Sir Michael (Kemp) 1905–98, British composer.
  • 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
  • sketchiness — like a sketch; giving only outlines or essentials. Synonyms: cursory, rough, meager, crude.
  • skin-search — strip-search.
  • slit trench — a narrow trench for one or more persons for protection against enemy fire and fragmentation bombs.
  • smokechaser — a person who fights forest fires, especially one with lightweight equipment.
  • snitch line — a direct telephone or other communications link set up to allow people to report neighbours, colleagues, etc suspected of wrongdoing
  • soft cheese — a type of cheese that is made in a relatively short time and has a soft, creamy or almost runny texture
  • sothic year — the fixed year of the ancient Egyptians, determined by the heliacal rising of Sirius, and equivalent to 365 days.
  • sound check — an on-the-spot rehearsal by a band before a gig to enable the sound engineer to set up the mixer
  • sour cherry — a cherry, Prunus cerasus, characterized by gray bark and the spreading habit of its branches.
  • spaceflight — the flying of manned or unmanned spacecraft into or in outer space.
  • spathaceous — of the nature of or resembling a spathe.
  • speech form — linguistic form.
  • speechcraft — the art of rhetoric
  • speechifier — to make a speech or speeches; harangue.
  • speechmaker — a person who delivers speeches.
  • speed check — a method of checking the speed at which vehicles are travelling, used by police
  • speed chess — a form of chess in which each player's game is limited to a total stipulated time, usually half an hour; the first player to exceed the time limit loses
  • spell check — to process (a document) with a spell checker; check the spelling of.
  • spell-check — to process (a document) with a spell checker; check the spelling of.
  • spermatheca — a small sac or cavity in female or hermaphroditic invertebrates used to store sperm for fertilizing eggs, as in the queen bee.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • squirearchy — the collective body of squires or landed gentry of a country.
  • st. charles — a city in E Missouri, on the Missouri River.
  • 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
  • state coach — a horse-drawn coach used by royalty on state occasions
  • static head — Static head is the pressure resulting from a column of liquid acting under gravity.
  • staunchless — not able to be stanched
  • staunchness — firm or steadfast in principle, adherence, loyalty, etc., as a person: a staunch Republican; a staunch friend.
  • steam chest — the chamber from which steam enters the cylinder of an engine.
  • steam-chest — the chamber from which steam enters the cylinder of an engine.
  • stench bomb — a small bomb made to emit a foul smell on exploding.
  • stench trap — a trap in a sewer that by means of a water seal prevents the upward passage of foul-smelling gases
  • stenobathic — of or relating to marine or freshwater life that can tolerate only limited changes in depth (opposed to eurybathic).
  • stenochrome — a printed design made using stenochromy
  • stenochromy — the art of printing designs made of more than one colour using a single impression
  • stenohygric — able to withstand only a narrow range of humidity
  • step change — A step change is a sudden or major change in the way that something happens or the way that someone behaves.
  • stethoscope — an instrument used in auscultation to convey sounds in the chest or other parts of the body to the ear of the examiner.
  • stichometry — the practice of writing a prose text in lines, often of slightly differing lengths, that correspond to units of sense and indicate phrasal rhythms.
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