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11-letter words containing h, o, n, e, s, t

  • short money — (in Britain) the annual payment made to Opposition parties in the House of Commons to help them pay for certain services necessary to the carrying out of their parliamentary duties; established in 1975
  • short novel — a prose narrative midway between the novel and the short story in length and scope
  • 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.
  • shower unit — fitted shower
  • simethicone — an active ingredient in many antacid preparations that causes small mucus-entrapped air bubbles in the intestines to coalesce into larger bubbles that are more easily passed.
  • single-shot — (of a firearm) requiring loading before each shot; not having or using a cartridge magazine.
  • sleuthhound — a bloodhound.
  • smart phone — a device that combines a cell phone with a handheld computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, email capability, etc.
  • smithsonite — a native carbonate of zinc, ZnCO 3 , that is an important ore of the metal.
  • snapshooter — an amateur photographer, especially one who takes snapshots with a simple camera.
  • snapshotted — an informal photograph, especially one taken quickly by a handheld camera.
  • soft hyphen — a hyphen that is used only in breaking a word at the end of a line of text.
  • sottishness — the state of being sottish
  • south devon — a breed of large red cattle originally from South Devon
  • south ogden — a town in N Utah.
  • south yemen — Yemen (def 3).
  • southernism — a pronunciation, expression, or behavioral trait characteristic of the U.S. South.
  • southernize — to make or become southern
  • southlander — a person from the south
  • sponge bath — a bath in which the bather is cleaned by a wet sponge or washcloth dipped in water, without getting into a tub of water.
  • stench bomb — a small bomb made to emit a foul smell on exploding.
  • stenobathic — of or relating to marine or freshwater life that can tolerate only limited changes in depth (opposed to eurybathic).
  • stenochrome — a printed design made using stenochromy
  • stenochromy — the art of printing designs made of more than one colour using a single impression
  • stenography — the art of writing in shorthand.
  • stenohaline — (of an aquatic organism) unable to withstand wide variation in salinity of the surrounding water.
  • stenohygric — able to withstand only a narrow range of humidity
  • stephanotis — any vine belonging to the genus Stephanotis, of the milkweed family, having fragrant, waxy, white flowers and leathery leaves.
  • stereophony — the state or condition of being stereophonic.
  • stockhausen — Karlheinz [kahrl-hahynts] /ˈkɑrlˌhaɪnts/ (Show IPA), 1928–2007, German composer.
  • stone china — hard earthenware containing china stone.
  • stone sheep — a wild sheep found in the Yukon and the northern Rocky Mountains
  • stone shoot — a long steeply sloping line of loose boulder-strewn scree
  • stonewashed — to wash (cloth) with pebbles or stones so as to give the appearance of wear.
  • switched on — turned-on (def 1).
  • switched-on — turned-on (def 1).
  • symphonette — a small symphony orchestra that usually specializes in playing short, familiar classical works or salon music.
  • talent show — a theatrical show in which a series of usually amateur or aspiring singers, dancers, comedians, instrumentalists, etc., perform in the hope of gaining recognition.
  • technopolis — a society with a concentration of technology-based businesses or an emphasis on technology
  • technospeak — any abstruse technical jargon
  • telephonist — a telephone switchboard operator.
  • tennis shoe — a sports shoe with a rubber sole (usually pebbled) and a stitched canvas upper that laces over the instep.
  • tenterhooks — one of the hooks or bent nails that hold cloth stretched on a tenter.
  • the cornish — the natives or inhabitants of Cornwall
  • the moonies — the Unification Church
  • the narrows — strait between Upper & Lower New York Bay, separating Staten Island & Long Island
  • the nations — the non-Jewish nations; Gentiles
  • the offense — the team that has possession of the ball
  • the-seasons — an oratorio (1801) by Franz Joseph Haydn.
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