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11-letter words containing h, e, i, s, t

  • silhouetted — a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a person's face in profile.
  • silk thread — thread that is manufactured from silk
  • silver thaw — glaze (def 17).
  • silversmith — a person whose occupation is making and repairing articles of silver.
  • simethicone — an active ingredient in many antacid preparations that causes small mucus-entrapped air bubbles in the intestines to coalesce into larger bubbles that are more easily passed.
  • single-shot — (of a firearm) requiring loading before each shot; not having or using a cartridge magazine.
  • six-shooter — a revolver from which six shots can be fired without reloading.
  • sixteenthly — in sixteenth place
  • sixth grade — (in the US) the sixth school year after kindergarten, usually containing pupils around 11 or 12 years old
  • sixth sense — a power of perception beyond the five senses; intuition: His sixth sense warned him to be cautious.
  • sixty-eight — a cardinal number, 60 plus 8.
  • sixty-three — a cardinal number, 60 plus 3.
  • sketchiness — like a sketch; giving only outlines or essentials. Synonyms: cursory, rough, meager, crude.
  • sleep tight — Sleep well
  • slit trench — a narrow trench for one or more persons for protection against enemy fire and fragmentation bombs.
  • small white — a small white butterfly, Artogeia rapae, with scanty black markings, the larvae of which feed on brassica leaves
  • smithereens — If something is smashed or blown to smithereens, it breaks into very small pieces.
  • smithsonite — a native carbonate of zinc, ZnCO 3 , that is an important ore of the metal.
  • sneak thief — a burglar who sneaks into houses through open doors, windows, etc.
  • snitch line — a direct telephone or other communications link set up to allow people to report neighbours, colleagues, etc suspected of wrongdoing
  • somewhither — to some unspecified place; somewhere.
  • sophistries — Sophistries are clever arguments that sound convincing but are in fact false.
  • sothic year — the fixed year of the ancient Egyptians, determined by the heliacal rising of Sirius, and equivalent to 365 days.
  • sottishness — the state of being sottish
  • south river — a borough in central New Jersey.
  • southbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
  • southernism — a pronunciation, expression, or behavioral trait characteristic of the U.S. South.
  • southernize — to make or become southern
  • sow thistle — any composite plant belonging to the genus Sonchus, especially S. oleraceus, a weed having thistlelike leaves, yellow flowers, and a milky juice.
  • spaceflight — the flying of manned or unmanned spacecraft into or in outer space.
  • spaghettini — pasta in the form of long thin strings
  • speed light — an electronic flash lamp.
  • spendthrift — a person who spends possessions or money extravagantly or wastefully; prodigal.
  • spike heath — a Eurasian evergreen shrub, Bruckenthalia spiculifolia, of the heath family, having narrow leaves and bell-shaped, pink flowers, growing in gritty soil.
  • spinsterish — Disparaging and Offensive. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • spot height — the elevation of a certain point.
  • sprightless — without any spirit or liveliness
  • square with — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
  • stage right — Stage right is the right side of the stage for an actor who is standing facing the audience.
  • starchiness — of, relating to, or of the nature of starch.
  • starchitect — a well-known and well-paid architect noted for his or her landmark buildings
  • starlighted — lit by the stars
  • static head — Static head is the pressure resulting from a column of liquid acting under gravity.
  • stenobathic — of or relating to marine or freshwater life that can tolerate only limited changes in depth (opposed to eurybathic).
  • stenohaline — (of an aquatic organism) unable to withstand wide variation in salinity of the surrounding water.
  • stenohygric — able to withstand only a narrow range of humidity
  • stephanotis — any vine belonging to the genus Stephanotis, of the milkweed family, having fragrant, waxy, white flowers and leathery leaves.
  • stephen iii — died a.d. 772, pope 768–772.
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