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11-letter words containing h, i, s, p

  • shinplaster — a plaster for the shin or leg.
  • shinsplints — inflammation of the muscles around the shinbone caused by strenuous exercise
  • ship of war — warship.
  • ship's boat — a boat for communication between ship and shore
  • ship-broker — a person who acts for a shipowner by getting cargo and passengers for his ships and also handling insurance and other matters
  • ship-rigged — (of a sailing vessel) rigged as a ship; full-rigged.
  • shipbuilder — a person whose occupation is the designing or constructing of ship.
  • shipka pass — a mountain pass in central Bulgaria, in the Balkan Mountains. 4375 feet (1335 meters) high.
  • shipwrecked — the destruction or loss of a ship, as by sinking.
  • shoe polish — wax for making footwear shiny
  • shoofly pie — an open pie filled with a sweet crumb and molasses mixture and baked.
  • shop window — storefront display
  • shop-window — a window used for display of merchandise.
  • shopkeeping — a retail merchant or tradesman; a person who owns or operates a small store or shop.
  • shoplifting — to steal (merchandise) as a shoplifter.
  • showjumping — horseriding event
  • showmanship — the skill or ability of a showman.
  • shrink wrap — transparent film for wrapping food
  • shrink-wrap — to wrap and seal (a book, a food product, etc.) in a flexible film of plastic that, when exposed to a heating process, shrinks to the contour of the merchandise.
  • sialography — radiography of salivary glands once they have been injected with a contrast medium
  • siderophile — (of a cell or tissue) having an affinity for iron.
  • 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.
  • siphonogamy — a mode of pollination in which pollen tubes develop to facilitate the passage of male cells to eggs
  • sleep tight — Sleep well
  • slip stitch — a sewing stitch for securing hems, etc, in which only two or three threads of the material are caught up by the needle each time, so that the stitches are nearly invisible from the right side
  • slip-stitch — a loose stitch taken between two layers of fabric, as on a facing or hem, so as to be invisible on the right side or outside surface, used in stoating.
  • sociography — the branch of sociology that uses statistical data to describe social phenomena.
  • sociopathic — a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.
  • soda siphon — fizzy water dispenser
  • soldiership — a person who serves in an army; a person engaged in military service.
  • sophistical — of the nature of sophistry; fallacious.
  • sophistries — Sophistries are clever arguments that sound convincing but are in fact false.
  • spaceflight — the flying of manned or unmanned spacecraft into or in outer space.
  • spaghettini — pasta in the form of long thin strings
  • spanish fir — a species of fir native to S Spain and N Morocco, Abies pinsapo
  • spanish fly — Also called cantharides. a preparation of powdered blister beetles, especially the Spanish fly, used medicinally as a counterirritant, diuretic, and aphrodisiac.
  • speakership — a person who speaks.
  • speechifier — to make a speech or speeches; harangue.
  • speed light — an electronic flash lamp.
  • spendthrift — a person who spends possessions or money extravagantly or wastefully; prodigal.
  • 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.
  • sphaeridium — a round body found on sea urchins
  • spheroidize — to turn or be turned into spheroids
  • sphingosine — a basic unsaturated amino alcohol, C 1 8 H 3 3 (OH) 2 NH 2 , produced by the hydrolysis of sphingomyelin or gangliosides.
  • sphinx moth — hawk moth.
  • sphragistic — of or relating to seals or signet rings.
  • spider hole — a foxhole with a camouflaged lid or cover in which a sniper hides
  • spike heath — a Eurasian evergreen shrub, Bruckenthalia spiculifolia, of the heath family, having narrow leaves and bell-shaped, pink flowers, growing in gritty soil.
  • spike heels — Spike heels are women's shoes with very high narrow heels.
  • spinachlike — resembling or characteristic of spinach
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