11-letter words containing l, e, i, s, h
- siderophile — (of a cell or tissue) having an affinity for iron.
- sidewheeler — having a paddle wheel on each side, as a steamboat.
- silhouetted — a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a person's face in profile.
- silk thread — thread that is manufactured from silk
- silver hake — a common hake, Merluccius bilinearis, occurring off the Atlantic coast of North America and popular as a food fish.
- silver thaw — glaze (def 17).
- silverchair — Australian rock group (formed 1994): comprising Daniel Johns (born 1979; vocals, guitar), Ben Gillies (born 1979, drums) and Chris Joannou (born 1979, bass guitar); their albums include Frogstomp (1995) and Young Modern (2007)
- silversmith — a person whose occupation is making and repairing articles of silver.
- single whip — an instrument for striking, as in driving animals or in punishing, typically consisting of a lash or other flexible part with a more rigid handle.
- single-hand — to sail (a craft) without help from others.
- single-hung — (of a window) having two sashes, only one of which is movable.
- single-shot — (of a firearm) requiring loading before each shot; not having or using a cartridge magazine.
- sir michael — Sir Michael (Kemp) 1905–98, British composer.
- six-wheeler — a truck or other vehicle having six wheels.
- sixteenthly — in sixteenth place
- slavishness — of or befitting a slave: slavish subjection.
- sleep tight — Sleep well
- sleigh bell — any of several kinds of small bells, as a jingle bell, attached to a sleigh or to the harness of the animal drawing the sleigh.
- sleigh ride — trip on a sledge
- slit trench — a narrow trench for one or more persons for protection against enemy fire and fragmentation bombs.
- small white — a small white butterfly, Artogeia rapae, with scanty black markings, the larvae of which feed on brassica leaves
- snail shell — the spirally coiled shell of a snail
- snitch line — a direct telephone or other communications link set up to allow people to report neighbours, colleagues, etc suspected of wrongdoing
- soldierfish — any of several squirrelfishes of the family Holocentridae.
- soldiership — a person who serves in an army; a person engaged in military service.
- sow thistle — any composite plant belonging to the genus Sonchus, especially S. oleraceus, a weed having thistlelike leaves, yellow flowers, and a milky juice.
- spaceflight — the flying of manned or unmanned spacecraft into or in outer space.
- speed light — an electronic flash lamp.
- 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.
- spider hole — a foxhole with a camouflaged lid or cover in which a sniper hides
- spike heels — Spike heels are women's shoes with very high narrow heels.
- spinachlike — resembling or characteristic of spinach
- split-phase — pertaining to or noting a current in one of two parallel circuits that have a single-phase current source but unequal impedances and that produce currents of different phase.
- sprightless — without any spirit or liveliness
- starlighted — lit by the stars
- stenohaline — (of an aquatic organism) unable to withstand wide variation in salinity of the surrounding water.
- stickhandle — (in hockey and lacrosse) to control and skillfully maneuver the ball or puck with the stick.
- streetlight — a light, usually supported by a lamppost, for illuminating a street or road.
- subchloride — a chloride containing a relatively small proportion of chlorine, as mercurous chloride.
- switchblade — a pocketknife, the blade of which is held by a spring and can be released suddenly, as by pressing a button.
- swivel head — A swivel head is a bearing between the traveling block and the kelly.
- synthetical — of, pertaining to, proceeding by, or involving synthesis (opposed to analytic).
- technopolis — a society with a concentration of technology-based businesses or an emphasis on technology
- telearchics — the remote control of electronic devices
- telepathist — a student of or believer in telepathy.
- telephonist — a telephone switchboard operator.
- telesthesia — sensation or perception received at a distance without the normal operation of the recognized sense organs.
- telesthetic — sensation or perception received at a distance without the normal operation of the recognized sense organs.
- test flight — a flight made to observe the performance characteristics of a new aircraft or spacecraft.
- thalassemia — a hereditary form of anemia, occurring chiefly in people of Mediterranean origin, marked by the abnormal synthesis of hemoglobin and a consequent shortened life span of red blood cells.