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

  • riot shield — Riot shields are pieces of equipment made of transparent plastic which are used by the police to protect themselves against angry crowds.
  • saddle horn — horn (def 19).
  • schollander — Donald ("Don") born 1946, U.S. swimmer.
  • school year — the months of the year during which school is open and attendance at school is required.
  • schorlomite — a mineral that is black in colour and belongs to the garnet group
  • sclerophyll — Also, sclerophyllous [skleer-uh-fil-uh s] /ˌsklɪər əˈfɪl əs/ (Show IPA). of, relating to, or exhibiting sclerophylly.
  • screech owl — any of numerous small American owls of the genus Otus, having hornlike tufts of feathers, as O. asio, of eastern North America.
  • scripholder — a person who owns a scrip or scrips
  • scripophile — a person who practices scripophily.
  • sepulchrous — of the nature of a sepulchre
  • shareholder — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
  • sharonville — a town in SW Ohio.
  • shellflower — an eastern Asian plant, Alpinia zerumbet, of the ginger family, having pendulous clusters of fragrant white flowers with variegated markings.
  • sherlockian — pertaining to or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, known for his skill in solving mysteries through deductive reasoning.
  • shore leave — permission to spend time ashore, usually 48 hours or more, granted a member of a ship's company.
  • short field — the area of the infield between third base and second, covered by the shortstop.
  • short novel — a prose narrative midway between the novel and the short story in length and scope
  • 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.
  • shovelboard — the game of shuffleboard.
  • shroud-line — a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
  • sialorrhoea — an abnormally high production of saliva
  • siderophile — (of a cell or tissue) having an affinity for iron.
  • slaveholder — an owner of slaves.
  • sleep rough — to spend the night in the open; be without a home or without shelter
  • slough over — to gloss over; minimize
  • smallholder — owner of small plot of land
  • 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.
  • solo mother — a mother with a dependent child or dependent children and no spouse
  • southlander — a person from the south
  • 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.
  • spheroplast — a Gram-negative bacterial cell with a cell wall that has been altered or is partly missing, resulting in a spherical shape.
  • spider hole — a foxhole with a camouflaged lid or cover in which a sniper hides
  • stadtholder — stadholder.
  • stakeholder — the holder of the stakes of a wager.
  • stallholder — A stallholder is a person who sells goods at a stall in a market.
  • stockholder — Also called stockowner. a holder or owner of stock in a corporation.
  • stroke hole — (in a handicap match) a hole at which players with a handicap deduct a stroke from the number taken to play the hole.
  • subchloride — a chloride containing a relatively small proportion of chlorine, as mercurous chloride.
  • sulphureous — of the yellow colour of sulphur
  • superschool — a large school
  • tachysterol — an isomer of ergosterol, C28H44O, formed during the production of calciferol by the irradiation of ergosterol
  • telesphorus — pope a.d. 125?–136?.
  • the gorbals — a district of Glasgow, formerly known for its slums
  • thermolysis — Physiology. the dispersion of heat from the body.
  • thorvaldsen — Albert Bertal [ahl-bert bar-tuh l] /ˈɑl bɛrt ˈbær təl/ (Show IPA), 1770–1844, Danish sculptor.
  • tool pusher — A tool pusher is someone who supervises drilling operations on an oil rig.
  • travel shot — a camera shot taken from a mobile platform, dolly, or the like, that keeps within range of a moving subject.
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