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11-letter words containing h, i, r, s, t

  • shirt-waist — a tailored blouse or shirt worn by women.
  • shirtjacket — a jacket styled like a shirt
  • shirtsleeve — not wearing a jacket; informally dressed: a shirt-sleeve mob.
  • shit-scared — very scared
  • shitkickers — an unsophisticated farmer, cowboy, or other rural person; country person.
  • shoe-string — a shoelace.
  • short field — the area of the infield between third base and second, covered by the shortstop.
  • short hairs — pubic hair.
  • short sight — myopia
  • 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.
  • shortcoming — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
  • 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
  • sight draft — a draft payable upon presentation.
  • 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.
  • sightworthy — worth seeing
  • 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.
  • sir anthonySir Anthony, Van Dyck, Sir Anthony.
  • sit through — endure the whole of
  • six-shooter — a revolver from which six shots can be fired without reloading.
  • sixth chord — an inversion of a triad in which the second note (next above the root) is in the bass.
  • sixth grade — (in the US) the sixth school year after kindergarten, usually containing pupils around 11 or 12 years old
  • sixty-third — next after the sixty-second; being the ordinal number for 63.
  • sixty-three — a cardinal number, 60 plus 3.
  • slit trench — a narrow trench for one or more persons for protection against enemy fire and fragmentation bombs.
  • smithereens — If something is smashed or blown to smithereens, it breaks into very small pieces.
  • 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
  • spendthrift — a person who spends possessions or money extravagantly or wastefully; prodigal.
  • sphragistic — of or relating to seals or signet rings.
  • 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.
  • split hairs — any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals; a pilus.
  • sport shirt — a long- or short-sleeved soft shirt for informal wear by men, having a squared-off shirttail that may be left outside the trousers, usually worn without a tie.
  • sprightless — without any spirit or liveliness
  • spur blight — a disease of raspberries, characterized by reddish-brown spots on the stems, caused by a fungus, Didymella applanata.
  • square with — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
  • stage right — Stage right is the right side of the stage for an actor who is standing facing the audience.
  • starchiness — of, relating to, or of the nature of starch.
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