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11-letter words containing e, p, h, l

  • shipbuilder — a person whose occupation is the designing or constructing of ship.
  • shoe polish — wax for making footwear shiny
  • shoofly pie — an open pie filled with a sweet crumb and molasses mixture and baked.
  • siderophile — (of a cell or tissue) having an affinity for iron.
  • single whip — an instrument for striking, as in driving animals or in punishing, typically consisting of a lash or other flexible part with a more rigid handle.
  • sleep rough — to spend the night in the open; be without a home or without shelter
  • sleep shade — an opaque, masklike covering for the eyes, usually fitted with an elasticized cord that passes around the head, worn to aid sleep by shutting out light.
  • sleep tight — Sleep well
  • soldiership — a person who serves in an army; a person engaged in military service.
  • solenoglyph — any poisonous snake of the viper family with hollow, paired, erectile fangs
  • spaceflight — the flying of manned or unmanned spacecraft into or in outer space.
  • spare wheel — A spare wheel is a wheel with a tyre on it that you keep in your car in case you get a flat tyre and need to replace one of your wheels.
  • speed light — an electronic flash lamp.
  • 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.
  • sperm whale — a large, square-snouted whale, Physeter catodon, valued for its oil and spermaceti: now reduced in number and rare in some areas.
  • spermophile — any of various burrowing rodents of the squirrel family, especially of the genus Spermophilus (or Citellus), sometimes sufficiently numerous to do much damage to crops, as the ground squirrels and susliks.
  • spheroplast — a Gram-negative bacterial cell with a cell wall that has been altered or is partly missing, resulting in a spherical shape.
  • spider hole — a foxhole with a camouflaged lid or cover in which a sniper hides
  • spike heels — Spike heels are women's shoes with very high narrow heels.
  • spinachlike — resembling or characteristic of spinach
  • split-phase — pertaining to or noting a current in one of two parallel circuits that have a single-phase current source but unequal impedances and that produce currents of different phase.
  • sprightless — without any spirit or liveliness
  • steeplebush — the hardhack.
  • sulphureous — of the yellow colour of sulphur
  • superphylum — a category of related phyla within a kingdom.
  • superschool — a large school
  • supersleuth — a detective. Synonyms: investigator, private investigator; private eye, gumshoe, shamus.
  • swash plate — an inclined circular plate on a rotating shaft for transferring force and motion to or from parts reciprocating in a direction parallel to the axis of shaft rotation.
  • technophile — a person who loves or is enthusiastic about advanced technology.
  • technopolis — a society with a concentration of technology-based businesses or an emphasis on technology
  • telegraphed — an apparatus, system, or process for transmitting messages or signals to a distant place, especially by means of an electric device consisting essentially of a sending instrument and a distant receiving instrument connected by a conducting wire or other communications channel.
  • telegraphic — of or relating to the telegraph.
  • telepathist — a student of or believer in telepathy.
  • telepathize — to communicate with by telepathy.
  • telephoning — an apparatus, system, or process for transmission of sound or speech to a distant point, especially by an electric device.
  • telephonist — a telephone switchboard operator.
  • telesphorus — pope a.d. 125?–136?.
  • teletherapy — treatment in which the source of therapy is some distance from the body, as certain radiation therapies.
  • thallophyte — any of the Thallophyta, a plant division in some older classification schemes, comprising algae, fungi, and lichens.
  • the capitol — the main building of the US Congress
  • the dolphin — the constellation Delphinus
  • thermophile — a thermophilic organism.
  • thermopylae — a pass in E Greece, between the cliffs of Mt. Oeta and the Gulf of Lamia: Persian defeat of the Spartans 480 b.c.
  • thesis play — a play that develops or defends a particular thesis.
  • thin-lipped — having mean-looking thin lips
  • thorn apple — any poisonous plant belonging to the genus Datura, of the nightshade family, the species of which bear capsules covered with prickly spines, especially the jimson weed, D. stramonium.
  • thunderclap — a crash of thunder.
  • thunderpeal — a crash of thunder; thunderclap.
  • tool pusher — A tool pusher is someone who supervises drilling operations on an oil rig.
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