11-letter words containing h, e, l, s, p
- republisher — a person who republishes
- retail shop — a shop which sells goods to individual customers
- reupholster — to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.
- rhône-alpes — a region of E France: mainly mountainous, rising to the edge of the Massif Central in the west and the French Alps in the east; drained by the Rivers Rhône, Saône, and Isère
- sales pitch — promotional talk
- scape wheel — escape wheel.
- sceuophylax — a keeper of sacred vessels
- sclerophyll — Also, sclerophyllous [skleer-uh-fil-uh s] /ˌsklɪər əˈfɪl əs/ (Show IPA). of, relating to, or exhibiting sclerophylly.
- scripholder — a person who owns a scrip or scrips
- scripophile — a person who practices scripophily.
- self-speech — the faculty or power of speaking; oral communication; ability to express one's thoughts and emotions by speech sounds and gesture: Losing her speech made her feel isolated from humanity.
- sepulchrous — of the nature of a sepulchre
- sharpeville — a town in E South Africa: scene of riots in 1960 (when 69 demonstrators died), 1984, and 1985 (when 19 died)
- shelf paper — paper used for covering shelves, especially those of a cupboard or kitchen cabinet.
- shelf space — amount of room on shelves
- shinplaster — a plaster for the shin or leg.
- 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.
- technopolis — a society with a concentration of technology-based businesses or an emphasis on technology
- telepathist — a student of or believer in telepathy.
- telephonist — a telephone switchboard operator.
- telesphorus — pope a.d. 125?–136?.
- thesis play — a play that develops or defends a particular thesis.