11-letter words containing i, s, h, k
- lymphokines — Plural form of lymphokine.
- makeweights — Plural form of makeweight.
- malt whisky — whisky, as Scotch, made entirely from malted barley.
- matchsticks — Plural form of matchstick.
- mawkishness — characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional; maudlin.
- mekhitarist — a member of an order of Armenian monks founded in Constantinople in the 18th century and following the rule of St. Benedict.
- monkeyshine — Usually, monkeyshines. a frivolous or mischievous prank; monkey business.
- musk orchid — a small Eurasian orchid, Herminium monorchis, with dense spikes of musk-scented greenish-yellow flowers
- night snake — a nocturnal, mildly venomous New World snake, Hypsiglena torquata, having a gray or yellowish body marked with dark brown spots.
- night stick — a special club carried by a policeman; billy.
- nightsticks — Plural form of nightstick.
- nizhnekamsk — a city in the E Russian Federation in Europe, SE of Kazan.
- opisthokont — (biology) Any of very many eukaryotes whose flagellate cells propel themselves with a single posterior flagellum.
- ostrichlike — a large, two-toed, swift-footed flightless bird, Struthio camelus, indigenous to Africa and Arabia, domesticated for its plumage: the largest of living birds.
- peckishness — the state or condition of being peckish
- phitsanulok — a city in central Thailand.
- pinkishness — a pinkish quality or colouring
- pooh sticks — a children's game: each player throws a stick into a stream from one side of a bridge and the winner is the person whose stick emerges first on the other side
- prickly ash — Also called Northern prickly ash, toothache tree. a citrus shrub or small tree, Zanthoxylum americanum, having aromatic leaves and usually prickly branches.
- puckishness — the state of being puckish
- pukka sahib — (in British India) a term of respectful address used to British colonial authorities.
- radio shack — a room or structure, as on a ship, for housing radio equipment.
- ramakrishna — Sri [sree,, shree] /sri,, ʃri/ (Show IPA), 1836–86, Hindu religious reformer and mystic.
- rankshifted — that has been shifted from one linguistic rank to another
- rocket ship — a rocket-propelled aircraft or spacecraft.
- rye whiskey — rye1 (defs 4, 5).
- say kaddish — to be a mourner
- schick test — a diphtheria immunity test in which diphtheria toxoid is injected intracutaneously, nonimmunity being indicated by an inflammation at the injection site.
- schmierkase — cottage cheese.
- school milk — (formerly, in Britain) a third of a pint of milk, originally provided free by the local education authority to all young pupils, then later given only to children who passed a needs or means test
- schrecklich — frightful or horrible
- secchi disk — an opaque, white or black-and-white disk used to measure the cloudiness or turbidity of ocean water by the point at which it is no longer visible from the surface.
- shake on it — to shake hands in agreement, reconciliation, etc
- shark siren — a siren sounded to warn swimmers of the presence of sharks
- shellacking — lac that has been purified and formed into thin sheets, used for making varnish.
- sheriffwick — shrievalty.
- sherlockian — pertaining to or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, known for his skill in solving mysteries through deductive reasoning.
- shimonoseki — a seaport on SW Honshu, in SW Japan: treaty ending Sino-Japanese War signed 1895.
- shingle oak — an oak, Quercus imbricaria, yielding a wood used for shingles, clapboards, etc.
- ship-broker — a person who acts for a shipowner by getting cargo and passengers for his ships and also handling insurance and other matters
- 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.
- shirtjacket — a jacket styled like a shirt
- shish kebab — meat on skewer
- shish-kebab — to broil or roast food on a skewer.
- shitkickers — an unsophisticated farmer, cowboy, or other rural person; country person.
- shock radio — broadcasting by a commercial radio station whose humor includes tasteless jokes, sexual innuendo, and ethnic insults.
- shopkeeping — a retail merchant or tradesman; a person who owns or operates a small store or shop.
- shriekingly — with shrieking
- shrink wrap — transparent film for wrapping food