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.