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11-letter words containing d, i, s, h

  • phosphatide — phospholipid.
  • postholiday — occurring after a holiday
  • posttyphoid — occurring as a sequela of typhoid fever.
  • preadmonish — to admonish or warn beforehand
  • predispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
  • prefinished — coated or treated before use or sale: prefinished wood.
  • psychedelia — the realm or artifacts of psychedelic drugs, art, writings, or the like.
  • psychedelic — of or noting a mental state characterized by a profound sense of intensified sensory perception, sometimes accompanied by severe perceptual distortion and hallucinations and by extreme feelings of either euphoria or despair.
  • psychic bid — a bid designed to mislead one's opponents that is not based on the strength of one's hand or of the suit named but rather on one's feeling that not bidding would be more costly.
  • psychodelia — the production of, or the culture associated with, psychedelic experiences
  • radio shack — a room or structure, as on a ship, for housing radio equipment.
  • radnorshire — a historic county in Powys, in E Wales.
  • rain shadow — a region in the lee of mountains that receives less rainfall than the region windward of the mountains.
  • rankshifted — that has been shifted from one linguistic rank to another
  • rapid chess — a game of chess played within a fixed amount of time, usually 30 minutes per player for all moves.
  • redshirting — a high-school or college athlete kept out of varsity competition for one year to develop skills and extend eligibility. a child held back from starting kindergarten for one year, the practice of which is believed by some parents to give the child academic, athletic, and social advantages.
  • replenished — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
  • rhabdovirus — any of various RNA-containing viruses of the family Rhabdoviridae, including the rabies virus.
  • rhapsodical — extravagantly enthusiastic; ecstatic.
  • rhinestoned — adorned with rhinestones
  • rhomboideus — either of two back muscles that function to move the scapula.
  • ridesharing — of or relating to the sharing of rides or transportation, especially among commuters: The agency was set up to devise a ridesharing program.
  • riot shield — Riot shields are pieces of equipment made of transparent plastic which are used by the police to protect themselves against angry crowds.
  • rudesheimer — any of the Rheingau wines from the vineyards near Rüdesheim, a town on the Rhine River in W Germany.
  • sandringham — a village in N Norfolk, England: site of Sandringham House, Royal Family mansion.
  • sandwiching — two or more slices of bread or the like with a layer of meat, fish, cheese, etc., between each pair.
  • sapphic ode — Horatian ode.
  • sash window — A sash window is a window which consists of two frames placed one above the other. The window can be opened by sliding one frame over the other.
  • 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
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