11-letter words containing e, n, s, h, r
- screen shot — Also called screen capture. a copy or image of what is seen on a computer screen at a given time: Save the screenshot as a graphics file.
- screen wash — a fluid that is squirted onto a car windscreen to clean it
- screenshort — a screenshot that is shared on a social media website.
- scrimshoner — a person who makes scrimshaw
- searchingly — examining carefully or thoroughly: a searching inspection.
- sedan chair — an enclosed vehicle for one person, borne on poles by two bearers and common during the 17th and 18th centuries.
- senatorship — the office or position of a senator
- sennacherib — died 681 b.c, king of Assyria 705–681.
- serrano ham — cured ham from Spain
- servanthood — the condition of being a servant
- sex hormone — any of a class of steroid hormones that regulate the growth and function of the reproductive organs or stimulate the development of the secondary sexual characteristics.
- shade-grown — grown in the shade, especially in artificial shade, as under a cloth.
- 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
- shark siren — a siren sounded to warn swimmers of the presence of sharks
- sharonville — a town in SW Ohio.
- sharp-nosed — having a thin, pointed nose.
- sharpbender — an organization that has been underperforming its competitors but suddenly becomes more successful, often as a result of new management or changes in its business strategy
- shepherding — a person who herds, tends, and guards sheep.
- sherlockian — pertaining to or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, known for his skill in solving mysteries through deductive reasoning.
- sherrington — Sir Charles Scott, 1861–1952, English physiologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1932.
- shield fern — any of numerous ferns of the genera Dryopteris and Polystichum, having shield-shaped indusia.
- shinplaster — a plaster for the shin or leg.
- shiveringly — in a shivering manner, usually from cold or fright
- shoe-string — a shoelace.
- short jenny — an in-off into a middle pocket
- short money — (in Britain) the annual payment made to Opposition parties in the House of Commons to help them pay for certain services necessary to the carrying out of their parliamentary duties; established in 1975
- short novel — a prose narrative midway between the novel and the short story in length and scope
- short-range — having a limited extent, as in distance or time: a short-range shot; a short-range plan.
- shortchange — to give less than the correct change to.
- shower unit — fitted shower
- showeriness — the state or quality of being showery
- shriekingly — with shrieking
- shroud-line — a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
- sightscreen — a white screen set in line with the wicket as an aid to the batsman in seeing the ball when it is bowled.
- skin-search — strip-search.
- slant rhyme — rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
- slit trench — a narrow trench for one or more persons for protection against enemy fire and fragmentation bombs.
- smart phone — a device that combines a cell phone with a handheld computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, email capability, etc.
- smithereens — If something is smashed or blown to smithereens, it breaks into very small pieces.
- snapshooter — an amateur photographer, especially one who takes snapshots with a simple camera.
- sonographer — a diagnostic technician who operates a sonograph
- southernism — a pronunciation, expression, or behavioral trait characteristic of the U.S. South.
- southernize — to make or become southern
- southlander — a person from the south
- spendthrift — a person who spends possessions or money extravagantly or wastefully; prodigal.
- spinsterish — Disparaging and Offensive. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
- springhouse — a small storehouse built over a spring or part of a brook, for keeping such foods as meat and dairy products cool and fresh.
- 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.
- starchiness — of, relating to, or of the nature of starch.