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11-letter words containing h, e, s, l

  • shuttlecock — Also called shuttle. the object that is struck back and forth in badminton and battledore, consisting of a feathered cork head and a plastic crown.
  • shuttleless — functioning without a shuttle
  • shuttlewise — in the manner of a shuttle (i.e. back and forth)
  • sialorrhoea — an abnormally high production of saliva
  • siderophile — (of a cell or tissue) having an affinity for iron.
  • sidewheeler — having a paddle wheel on each side, as a steamboat.
  • 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 hake — a common hake, Merluccius bilinearis, occurring off the Atlantic coast of North America and popular as a food fish.
  • silver thaw — glaze (def 17).
  • silverchair — Australian rock group (formed 1994): comprising Daniel Johns (born 1979; vocals, guitar), Ben Gillies (born 1979, drums) and Chris Joannou (born 1979, bass guitar); their albums include Frogstomp (1995) and Young Modern (2007)
  • silversmith — a person whose occupation is making and repairing articles of silver.
  • 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.
  • single-hand — to sail (a craft) without help from others.
  • single-hung — (of a window) having two sashes, only one of which is movable.
  • single-shot — (of a firearm) requiring loading before each shot; not having or using a cartridge magazine.
  • sir michael — Sir Michael (Kemp) 1905–98, British composer.
  • six-wheeler — a truck or other vehicle having six wheels.
  • sixteenthly — in sixteenth place
  • 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.
  • slaveholder — an owner of slaves.
  • slavishness — of or befitting a slave: slavish subjection.
  • 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
  • sleigh bell — any of several kinds of small bells, as a jingle bell, attached to a sleigh or to the harness of the animal drawing the sleigh.
  • sleigh ride — trip on a sledge
  • sleuthhound — a bloodhound.
  • slit trench — a narrow trench for one or more persons for protection against enemy fire and fragmentation bombs.
  • slough over — to gloss over; minimize
  • small white — a small white butterfly, Artogeia rapae, with scanty black markings, the larvae of which feed on brassica leaves
  • smallholder — owner of small plot of land
  • smoke shelf — a ledge at the bottom of a smoke chamber, so made as to deflect or break downdrafts from the chimney.
  • snail shell — the spirally coiled shell of a snail
  • snitch line — a direct telephone or other communications link set up to allow people to report neighbours, colleagues, etc suspected of wrongdoing
  • solar house — a house designed to absorb and store solar heat.
  • soldierfish — any of several squirrelfishes of the family Holocentridae.
  • 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
  • solo mother — a mother with a dependent child or dependent children and no spouse
  • south wales — an area of Wales bordered by England and the Bristol Channel to the east and south, and Mid Wales and West Wales to the north and west. Includes the capital city, Cardiff, as well as Swansea and Newport. Welsh name: De Cymru
  • southlander — a person from the south
  • 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.
  • 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.
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