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11-letter words containing h, a, t, s

  • stevengraph — a small picture woven in colored silk thread: introduced in 1879 and mass-produced on a Jacquard-type loom.
  • stewardship — the position and duties of a steward, a person who acts as the surrogate of another or others, especially by managing property, financial affairs, an estate, etc.
  • stickhandle — (in hockey and lacrosse) to control and skillfully maneuver the ball or puck with the stick.
  • stitchcraft — needlework or embroidery
  • stockhausen — Karlheinz [kahrl-hahynts] /ˈkɑrlˌhaɪnts/ (Show IPA), 1928–2007, German composer.
  • stomachache — pain in the stomach or abdomen; colic.
  • stomachless — lacking or not having a stomach
  • stone china — hard earthenware containing china stone.
  • stonewashed — to wash (cloth) with pebbles or stones so as to give the appearance of wear.
  • storm watch — watch (def 20).
  • straichtest — straightest
  • straight up — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
  • straight-up — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
  • straightest — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
  • straightish — almost but not quite straight
  • straightway — straightaway.
  • strap hinge — a hinge having a flap, especially a long one, attached to one face of a door or the like.
  • strap-hinge — a hinge having a flap, especially a long one, attached to one face of a door or the like.
  • straphanger — a passenger who stands in a crowded bus or subway train and holds onto a strap or other support suspended from above.
  • strathclyde — a region in SW Scotland. 5300 sq. mi. (13,727 sq. km).
  • strawweight — a boxer of the lightest competitive class, especially a boxer weighing up to 104 pounds (47.2 kg).
  • stump ranch — (in British Columbia) an undeveloped ranch in the bush where animals graze among the stumps of felled trees
  • stylography — the art of writing, tracing, drawing, etc., with a style.
  • sub-charter — a document, issued by a sovereign or state, outlining the conditions under which a corporation, colony, city, or other corporate body is organized, and defining its rights and privileges.
  • sublethally — in a sublethal manner
  • sulphurator — an apparatus used in treating anything with sulphur or sulphur fumes, such as in fumigating
  • super-earth — a hypothetical planet larger than the earth but smaller than the four gas giants Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus, thought to be orbiting the sun beyond the Kuiper belt but nearer than the Oort cloud: its existence is suggested by two known dwarf planets in a similar orbit
  • superheated — If a liquid is superheated, it has been heated to a temperature that is higher than its boiling point without being allowed to boil.
  • svarabhakti — the process of inserting vowel sounds into a consonant cluster, as in a loanword to make it conform to the pattern of the speaker's language and, hence, more easily pronounceable, as in the Italian pronunciation [lahn-tsee-ke-nek-kaw] /ˌlɑn tsi kɛˈnɛk kɔ/ (Show IPA) for German Landsknecht [lahnts-knekht] /ˈlɑntsˌknɛxt/ (Show IPA).
  • swarthiness — (of skin color, complexion, etc.) dark.
  • 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.
  • sweat shirt — a heavy, loose, usually long-sleeved pullover made of cotton jersey, worn as by athletes to absorb sweat during or after exercise, sometimes with loose trousers (sweat pants) of the same material, forming an ensemble (sweat suit)
  • switch cane — a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
  • switch yard — a railroad yard in which rolling stock is distributed or made up into trains.
  • switchblade — a pocketknife, the blade of which is held by a spring and can be released suddenly, as by pressing a button.
  • switchboard — a structural unit on which are mounted switches and instruments necessary to complete telephone circuits manually.
  • switchgrass — a North American prairie grass
  • sycophantic — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
  • sympathetic — characterized by, proceeding from, exhibiting, or feeling sympathy; sympathizing; compassionate: a sympathetic listener.
  • sympathique — pleasing or congenial
  • sympathizer — a person who sympathizes.
  • synanthesis — the simultaneous ripening of a flower's stigmas and stamens
  • synanthetic — relating to synanthesis
  • synesthesia — a sensation produced in one modality when a stimulus is applied to another modality, as when the hearing of a certain sound induces the visualization of a certain color.
  • syngnathous — (of fish) having a tubular snout, e.g. pipefish, seahorse
  • synthespian — a computer-generated image of a film actor, esp used in place of the real actor when shooting special effects or stunts
  • synthetical — of, pertaining to, proceeding by, or involving synthesis (opposed to analytic).
  • szombathely — a city in W Hungary: founded a.d. 48.
  • tachyphasia — a communication disorder characterized by excessively rapid or voluble speech
  • tachysterol — an isomer of ergosterol, C28H44O, formed during the production of calciferol by the irradiation of ergosterol
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