11-letter words containing h, g, e
- shaft grave — a grave consisting of a deep, rectangular pit with vertical sides, roofed over with a stone slab.
- shag carpet — shag pile carpet
- shaggedness — the state or quality of being shaggy
- shaggy-mane — an edible inky-cap mushroom, Coprinus comatus, having an elongated, shaggy pileus.
- shake a leg — an act or instance of shaking, rocking, swaying, etc.
- sharp-edged — having a fine edge or edges.
- shaving gel — product that softens hair growth for shaving
- sheet glass — glass in sheet form produced by drawing or by the cylinder glass process.
- shelf angle — an angle iron attached to or suspended from a girder to carry masonry or the ends of a number of joists.
- shell gland — a gland in certain invertebrates that secretes the components required for forming the shell of an egg
- shellacking — lac that has been purified and formed into thin sheets, used for making varnish.
- shenanigans — Usually, shenanigans. mischief; prankishness: Halloween shenanigans. deceit; trickery.
- shepherding — a person who herds, tends, and guards sheep.
- shergottite — a type of igneous rock or meteorite thought to originate on Mars
- sherrington — Sir Charles Scott, 1861–1952, English physiologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1932.
- shift gears — change speed manually in a vehicle
- shigellosis — an acute intestinal infection caused by a bacterium of the genus Shigella, especially S. dysenteriae, common among children and characterized by fever, abdominal pain, and diarrhea.
- shingle oak — an oak, Quercus imbricaria, yielding a wood used for shingles, clapboards, etc.
- shiningness — brightness; brilliance
- ship-rigged — (of a sailing vessel) rigged as a ship; full-rigged.
- shiveringly — in a shivering manner, usually from cold or fright
- shoe-string — a shoelace.
- shopkeeping — a retail merchant or tradesman; a person who owns or operates a small store or shop.
- short-range — having a limited extent, as in distance or time: a short-range shot; a short-range plan.
- shortchange — to give less than the correct change to.
- shortweight — to give less than the weight charged for: The firm is accused of shortweighting grain.
- shriekingly — with shrieking
- shutter-bug — an amateur photographer, especially one who is greatly devoted to the hobby.
- 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.
- sightseeing — the act of visiting and seeing places and objects of interest.
- 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.
- sixth grade — (in the US) the sixth school year after kindergarten, usually containing pupils around 11 or 12 years old
- sixty-eight — a cardinal number, 60 plus 8.
- slaughtered — the killing or butchering of cattle, sheep, etc., especially for food.
- sleep rough — to spend the night in the open; be without a home or without shelter
- 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
- slough over — to gloss over; minimize
- snowshoeing — the activity of taking part in cross-country walks over snow
- solenoglyph — any poisonous snake of the viper family with hollow, paired, erectile fangs
- sonographer — a diagnostic technician who operates a sonograph
- south ogden — a town in N Utah.
- southbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
- spaceflight — the flying of manned or unmanned spacecraft into or in outer space.
- spaghettini — pasta in the form of long thin strings