11-letter words containing h, o, r, s
- stepbrother — one's stepfather's son or stepmother's son by a previous marriage.
- stereograph — a single or double picture for a stereoscope.
- stereophony — the state or condition of being stereophonic.
- stethometer — an instrument for measuring the expansion of the chest and abdomen during respiration.
- stichometry — the practice of writing a prose text in lines, often of slightly differing lengths, that correspond to units of sense and indicate phrasal rhythms.
- stock horse — a horse or pony used in herding cattle.
- stockholder — Also called stockowner. a holder or owner of stock in a corporation.
- stop chorus — a solo during which the rhythm section plays only the first beat of each phrase of music
- storm house — a storm cellar.
- storm watch — watch (def 20).
- stretch out — lie down, sprawl
- strike home — to deliver an effective blow
- 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.
- stylography — the art of writing, tracing, drawing, etc., with a style.
- sub-chronic — constant; habitual; inveterate: a chronic liar.
- subchloride — a chloride containing a relatively small proportion of chlorine, as mercurous chloride.
- subchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
- subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
- sulphurator — an apparatus used in treating anything with sulphur or sulphur fumes, such as in fumigating
- sulphureous — of the yellow colour of sulphur
- sulphurwort — an umbelliferous perennial plant, Peucedanum officinale, of which the roots produce a smell like that of sulphur
- summerhouse — a simple, often rustic structure in a park or garden, intended to provide shade in the summer.
- sun-worship — the act of worshipping the sun as a deity
- sundry shop — (in Malaysia) a shop, similar to a delicatessen, that sells predominantly Chinese foodstuffs
- supergrowth — exceptional growth; very rapid growth
- superheroic — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
- superschool — a large school
- supersmooth — exceptionally smooth
- sure enough — free from doubt as to the reliability, character, action, etc., of something: to be sure of one's data.
- sure-enough — real; genuine.
- surgeonfish — any tropical, coral-reef fish of the family Acanthuridae, with one or more sharp spines near the base of the tail fin.
- surgeonship — the position or responsibility of a surgeon
- switch over — If you switch over when you are watching television, you change to another channel.
- switchboard — a structural unit on which are mounted switches and instruments necessary to complete telephone circuits manually.
- sword fight — duel with long-bladed weapons
- symposiarch — the president, director, or master of a symposium.
- synchoresis — the act or an instance of conceding an argument in order to make a stronger one
- synchromesh — noting or pertaining to a synchronized shifting mechanism.
- synchromism — a movement of the early 20th century led by American artists and manifested in their experimentation with nonfigurative or entirely abstract paintings containing shapes and volumes of pure color. Compare Orphism (def 2).
- synchronise — to cause to indicate the same time, as one timepiece with another: Synchronize your watches.
- synchronism — coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
- synchronize — to cause to indicate the same time, as one timepiece with another: Synchronize your watches.
- synchronous — occurring at the same time; coinciding in time; contemporaneous; simultaneous.
- synchrotron — a type of cyclotron consisting of magnetic sections alternately spaced with sections in which particles are electrostatically accelerated.
- tachysterol — an isomer of ergosterol, C28H44O, formed during the production of calciferol by the irradiation of ergosterol
- telesphorus — pope a.d. 125?–136?.
- tenterhooks — one of the hooks or bent nails that hold cloth stretched on a tenter.
- terpsichore — Classical Mythology. the Muse of dancing and choral song.
- the borders — the area either side of the border between England and Scotland
- the cornish — the natives or inhabitants of Cornwall