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11-letter words containing h, e, r, s, i, o

  • rompishness — the state or condition of being rompish
  • roosterfish — a large, edible fish, Nematistius pectoralis, inhabiting the warmer waters of the Pacific Ocean, having the first dorsal fin composed of brightly colored filamentous rays.
  • rope stitch — (in embroidery) a stitch formed from the entwining of stitches.
  • schorlomite — a mineral that is black in colour and belongs to the garnet group
  • schrodinger — Erwin [er-vin] /ˈɛr vɪn/ (Show IPA), 1887–1961, German physicist: Nobel prize 1933.
  • scrimshoner — a person who makes scrimshaw
  • scripholder — a person who owns a scrip or scrips
  • scripophile — a person who practices scripophily.
  • seismograph — any of various instruments for measuring and recording the vibrations of earthquakes.
  • senatorship — the office or position of a senator
  • sharonville — a town in SW Ohio.
  • shergottite — a type of igneous rock or meteorite thought to originate on Mars
  • sherlockian — pertaining to or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, known for his skill in solving mysteries through deductive reasoning.
  • sherrington — Sir Charles Scott, 1861–1952, English physiologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1932.
  • ship-broker — a person who acts for a shipowner by getting cargo and passengers for his ships and also handling insurance and other matters
  • shire horse — a large heavy breed of carthorse with long hair on the fetlocks
  • shoe-string — a shoelace.
  • short field — the area of the infield between third base and second, covered by the shortstop.
  • short title — an abridged listing in a catalog or bibliography, giving only such essential information as the author's name and the book's title, publisher, and date and place of publication.
  • short-lived — living or lasting only a little while.
  • short-timer — a person, as a soldier, who has a short period of time left to serve on a tour of duty.
  • shorthaired — (of an animal) having hair that is short and lies close to the body.
  • shortweight — to give less than the weight charged for: The firm is accused of shortweighting grain.
  • shower unit — fitted shower
  • showeriness — the state or quality of being showery
  • shroud-line — a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
  • sialorrhoea — an abnormally high production of saliva
  • siderophile — (of a cell or tissue) having an affinity for iron.
  • six-shooter — a revolver from which six shots can be fired without reloading.
  • soldierfish — any of several squirrelfishes of the family Holocentridae.
  • soldiership — a person who serves in an army; a person engaged in military service.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • spheroidize — to turn or be turned into spheroids
  • spider hole — a foxhole with a camouflaged lid or cover in which a sniper hides
  • 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.
  • springhouse — a small storehouse built over a spring or part of a brook, for keeping such foods as meat and dairy products cool and fresh.
  • stenohygric — able to withstand only a narrow range of humidity
  • stichometry — the practice of writing a prose text in lines, often of slightly differing lengths, that correspond to units of sense and indicate phrasal rhythms.
  • strike home — to deliver an effective blow
  • subchloride — a chloride containing a relatively small proportion of chlorine, as mercurous chloride.
  • superheroic — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
  • surgeonfish — any tropical, coral-reef fish of the family Acanthuridae, with one or more sharp spines near the base of the tail fin.
  • surgeonship — the position or responsibility of a surgeon
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