11-letter words containing e, c, a, s, h
- schollander — Donald ("Don") born 1946, U.S. swimmer.
- school meal — lunch served at educational institution
- school year — the months of the year during which school is open and attendance at school is required.
- schwarmerei — excessive enthusiasm or sentimentality.
- 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.
- screen wash — a fluid that is squirted onto a car windscreen to clean it
- 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.
- second hand — the hand that indicates the seconds on a clock or watch.
- 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.
- sennacherib — died 681 b.c, king of Assyria 705–681.
- serigraphic — of or pertaining to serigraphy
- 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
- shelf space — amount of room on shelves
- shellacking — lac that has been purified and formed into thin sheets, used for making varnish.
- sherlockian — pertaining to or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, known for his skill in solving mysteries through deductive reasoning.
- shirtjacket — a jacket styled like a shirt
- shit-scared — very scared
- shockheaded — having a shock or thick mass of hair on the head.
- shortchange — to give less than the correct change to.
- 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)
- sir michael — Sir Michael (Kemp) 1905–98, British composer.
- skin-search — strip-search.
- smokechaser — a person who fights forest fires, especially one with lightweight equipment.
- sothic year — the fixed year of the ancient Egyptians, determined by the heliacal rising of Sirius, and equivalent to 365 days.
- spaceflight — the flying of manned or unmanned spacecraft into or in outer space.
- spathaceous — of the nature of or resembling a spathe.
- speechcraft — the art of rhetoric
- speechmaker — a person who delivers speeches.
- 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.