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.