11-letter words containing h, e, r, t, s
- showstopper — Theater. a performer or performance that wins enthusiastic or prolonged applause.
- shutter-bug — an amateur photographer, especially one who is greatly devoted to the hobby.
- shutterless — lacking a shutter
- sight rhyme — agreement in spelling, but not in sound, of the ends of words or of lines of verse, as in have, grave.
- sightscreen — a white screen set in line with the wicket as an aid to the batsman in seeing the ball when it is bowled.
- 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.
- six-shooter — a revolver from which six shots can be fired without reloading.
- sixth grade — (in the US) the sixth school year after kindergarten, usually containing pupils around 11 or 12 years old
- sixty-three — a cardinal number, 60 plus 3.
- slant rhyme — rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
- slaughtered — the killing or butchering of cattle, sheep, etc., especially for food.
- slit trench — a narrow trench for one or more persons for protection against enemy fire and fragmentation bombs.
- smart phone — a device that combines a cell phone with a handheld computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, email capability, etc.
- smear-sheet — a newspaper, magazine, or other periodical specializing in gossip, scandal, malicious innuendo, etc.
- smithereens — If something is smashed or blown to smithereens, it breaks into very small pieces.
- smooth over — free from projections or unevenness of surface; not rough: smooth wood; a smooth road.
- snapshooter — an amateur photographer, especially one who takes snapshots with a simple camera.
- softhearted — very sympathetic or responsive; generous in spirit: a soft-hearted judge.
- solo mother — a mother with a dependent child or dependent children and no spouse
- somersworth — a town in SE New Hampshire.
- somewhither — to some unspecified place; somewhere.
- sophistries — Sophistries are clever arguments that sound convincing but are in fact false.
- sore throat — a painful or sensitive condition of the throat exaggerated by swallowing or talking, usually caused by bacteria or viruses; laryngitis; pharyngitis; tonsillitis.
- sothic year — the fixed year of the ancient Egyptians, determined by the heliacal rising of Sirius, and equivalent to 365 days.
- south korea — a country in E Asia: formed 1948 after the division of the former country of Korea at 38° N. 36,600 sq. mi. (94,795 sq. km). Capital: Seoul. Compare Korea.
- south river — a borough in central New Jersey.
- southbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
- southeaster — a wind or storm from the southeast.
- southernism — a pronunciation, expression, or behavioral trait characteristic of the U.S. South.
- southernize — to make or become southern
- southlander — a person from the south
- southwester — a wind, gale, or storm from the southwest.
- spatterdash — a long gaiter to protect the trousers or stockings, as from mud while riding.
- speechcraft — the art of rhetoric
- spendthrift — a person who spends possessions or money extravagantly or wastefully; prodigal.
- spermaphyte — the placenta of a plant
- spermatheca — a small sac or cavity in female or hermaphroditic invertebrates used to store sperm for fertilizing eggs, as in the queen bee.
- spermophyte — spermatophyte.
- spherometer — an instrument for measuring the curvature of spheres and curved surfaces.
- spheroplast — a Gram-negative bacterial cell with a cell wall that has been altered or is partly missing, resulting in a spherical shape.
- 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.
- spreadsheet — Accounting. a worksheet that is arranged in the manner of a mathematical matrix and contains a multicolumn analysis of related entries for easy reference on a single sheet.
- sprightless — without any spirit or liveliness
- square with — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
- st. charles — a city in E Missouri, on the Missouri River.
- stadtholder — stadholder.
- stage right — Stage right is the right side of the stage for an actor who is standing facing the audience.