11-letter words containing h, o, a, r
- ship of war — warship.
- shock radio — broadcasting by a commercial radio station whose humor includes tasteless jokes, sexual innuendo, and ethnic insults.
- shoot craps — to play this game
- shootaround — an informal match or practice session
- shop around — compare prices
- shopbreaker — a robber who breaks into a shop
- shore leave — permission to spend time ashore, usually 48 hours or more, granted a member of a ship's company.
- short hairs — pubic hair.
- short-dated — (of a gilt-edged security) having less than five years to run before redemption
- 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.
- shorthaired — (of an animal) having hair that is short and lies close to the body.
- shovelboard — the game of shuffleboard.
- show around — guide round a new place
- shower head — nozzle of a shower attachment
- shroud-laid — noting a fiber rope of four strands laid right-handed with or without a heart.
- sialography — radiography of salivary glands once they have been injected with a contrast medium
- sialorrhoea — an abnormally high production of saliva
- sir anthony — Sir Anthony, Van Dyck, Sir Anthony.
- slaveholder — an owner of slaves.
- small hours — pre-dawn
- smallholder — owner of small plot of land
- smart phone — a device that combines a cell phone with a handheld computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, email capability, etc.
- smokechaser — a person who fights forest fires, especially one with lightweight equipment.
- snapshooter — an amateur photographer, especially one who takes snapshots with a simple camera.
- snobography — an account or description of snobs
- sociography — the branch of sociology that uses statistical data to describe social phenomena.
- softhearted — very sympathetic or responsive; generous in spirit: a soft-hearted judge.
- soho square — a formerly fashionable residential district of London, England.
- solar house — a house designed to absorb and store solar heat.
- solar month — month (def 4).
- solar-month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
- sonographer — a diagnostic technician who operates a sonograph
- 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.
- southeaster — a wind or storm from the southeast.
- southlander — a person from the south
- southwardly — toward the south
- sparrowhawk — a small, short-winged European hawk, Accipiter nisus, that preys on smaller birds.
- spheroplast — a Gram-negative bacterial cell with a cell wall that has been altered or is partly missing, resulting in a spherical shape.
- sphygmogram — a tracing or diagram produced by a sphygmograph.
- 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.
- spirography — the study of breathing using a spirograph
- splashboard — a board, guard, or screen to protect from splashing, as a dashboard of a vehicle or a guard placed over a wheel to intercept water, dirt, etc.
- splashproof — resistant to splashing
- sports hall — venue for physical activities
- stadtholder — stadholder.
- stag's horn — the antlers of a stag used as a material for carved implements
- stake horse — a horse that is regularly entered in stake races.