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11-letter words containing d, h, i

  • say kaddish — to be a mourner
  • schizopodal — pertaining to a split-foot or appendage
  • schoolchild — a child attending school.
  • schrödinbug — (jargon, programming)   /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
  • schrodinger — Erwin [er-vin] /ˈɛr vɪn/ (Show IPA), 1887–1961, German physicist: Nobel prize 1933.
  • scripholder — a person who owns a scrip or scrips
  • 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.
  • sedan chair — an enclosed vehicle for one person, borne on poles by two bearers and common during the 17th and 18th centuries.
  • seed shrimp — ostracod
  • share index — A share index is a number that indicates the state of a stock market. It is based on the combined share prices of a set of companies.
  • shared line — a telephone number that is assigned to more than one person, for example in an office. When somebody calls the number, all of the phones will ring until somebody picks up their phone to answer the call
  • shepherding — a person who herds, tends, and guards sheep.
  • shield fern — any of numerous ferns of the genera Dryopteris and Polystichum, having shield-shaped indusia.
  • shifty-eyed — having the appearance of being dishonest, esp as signified by a lack of eye contact
  • ship-rigged — (of a sailing vessel) rigged as a ship; full-rigged.
  • shipbuilder — a person whose occupation is the designing or constructing of ship.
  • shipwrecked — the destruction or loss of a ship, as by sinking.
  • shirt-dress — shirtwaist (def 2).
  • shit-scared — very scared
  • shittimwood — the wood of the shittah tree, believed to be a species of acacia
  • shock radio — broadcasting by a commercial radio station whose humor includes tasteless jokes, sexual innuendo, and ethnic insults.
  • shop window — storefront display
  • shop-window — a window used for display of merchandise.
  • short field — the area of the infield between third base and second, covered by the shortstop.
  • short-lived — living or lasting only a little while.
  • shorthaired — (of an animal) having hair that is short and lies close to the body.
  • show window — a display window in a store.
  • shroud-laid — noting a fiber rope of four strands laid right-handed with or without a heart.
  • shroud-line — a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
  • shrubberied — having a shrubbery
  • siderophile — (of a cell or tissue) having an affinity for iron.
  • sidewheeler — having a paddle wheel on each side, as a steamboat.
  • sight draft — a draft payable upon presentation.
  • silhouetted — a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a person's face in profile.
  • silk thread — thread that is manufactured from silk
  • single-hand — to sail (a craft) without help from others.
  • sir galahad — (in Arthurian legend) the most virtuous knight of the Round Table, destined to regain the Holy Grail; son of Lancelot and Elaine
  • sixth chord — an inversion of a triad in which the second note (next above the root) is in the bass.
  • sixth grade — (in the US) the sixth school year after kindergarten, usually containing pupils around 11 or 12 years old
  • sixty-third — next after the sixty-second; being the ordinal number for 63.
  • sleigh ride — trip on a sledge
  • soda siphon — fizzy water dispenser
  • soldierfish — any of several squirrelfishes of the family Holocentridae.
  • soldiership — a person who serves in an army; a person engaged in military service.
  • solid south — the states of the southern U.S. that traditionally supported the Democratic Party after the Civil War.
  • sound shift — a gradual alteration or series of alterations in the pronunciation of a set of sounds, esp of vowels
  • southbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
  • speed light — an electronic flash lamp.
  • spendthrift — a person who spends possessions or money extravagantly or wastefully; prodigal.
  • sphaeridium — a round body found on sea urchins
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