11-letter words containing l, h, e, r
- sepulchrous — of the nature of a sepulchre
- shared line — a telephone number that is assigned to more than one person, for example in an office. When somebody calls the number, all of the phones will ring until somebody picks up their phone to answer the call
- shareholder — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
- sharonville — a town in SW Ohio.
- sharpeville — a town in E South Africa: scene of riots in 1960 (when 69 demonstrators died), 1984, and 1985 (when 19 died)
- shelf paper — paper used for covering shelves, especially those of a cupboard or kitchen cabinet.
- shelftalker — a promotional sign used by a retailer to draw attention to a featured product on the shelf
- shellflower — an eastern Asian plant, Alpinia zerumbet, of the ginger family, having pendulous clusters of fragrant white flowers with variegated markings.
- shelterbelt — a row of trees providing shelter from the wind
- shelterless — something beneath, behind, or within which a person, animal, or thing is protected from storms, missiles, adverse conditions, etc.; refuge.
- sheriffalty — shrievalty.
- sherlockian — pertaining to or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, known for his skill in solving mysteries through deductive reasoning.
- shield fern — any of numerous ferns of the genera Dryopteris and Polystichum, having shield-shaped indusia.
- shift lever — the lever mounted on the steering column or floor of a vehicle that enables the driver to shift gears.
- shinplaster — a plaster for the shin or leg.
- shipbuilder — a person whose occupation is the designing or constructing of ship.
- shirtsleeve — not wearing a jacket; informally dressed: a shirt-sleeve mob.
- shiveringly — in a shivering manner, usually from cold or fright
- 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.
- shriekingly — with shrieking
- shroud-line — a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
- shutterless — lacking a shutter
- sialorrhoea — an abnormally high production of saliva
- siderophile — (of a cell or tissue) having an affinity for iron.
- sidewheeler — having a paddle wheel on each side, as a steamboat.
- 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.
- sir michael — Sir Michael (Kemp) 1905–98, British composer.
- six-wheeler — a truck or other vehicle having six wheels.
- slant rhyme — rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
- slaughtered — the killing or butchering of cattle, sheep, etc., especially for food.
- slaveholder — an owner of slaves.
- sleep rough — to spend the night in the open; be without a home or without shelter
- sleigh ride — trip on a sledge
- slit trench — a narrow trench for one or more persons for protection against enemy fire and fragmentation bombs.
- 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