11-letter words containing l, s, h, a, p
- scholarship — learning; knowledge acquired by study; the academic attainments of a scholar.
- scopophilia — the obtaining of sexual pleasure by looking at nude bodies, erotic photographs, etc.
- shadow play — a show in which shadows of puppets, flat figures, or live actors are projected onto a lighted screen.
- 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.
- shelf space — amount of room on shelves
- shinplaster — a plaster for the shin or leg.
- sialography — radiography of salivary glands once they have been injected with a contrast medium
- sleep shade — an opaque, masklike covering for the eyes, usually fitted with an elasticized cord that passes around the head, worn to aid sleep by shutting out light.
- sophistical — of the nature of sophistry; fallacious.
- spaceflight — the flying of manned or unmanned spacecraft into or in outer space.
- spanish fly — Also called cantharides. a preparation of powdered blister beetles, especially the Spanish fly, used medicinally as a counterirritant, diuretic, and aphrodisiac.
- spare wheel — A spare wheel is a wheel with a tyre on it that you keep in your car in case you get a flat tyre and need to replace one of your wheels.
- sperm whale — a large, square-snouted whale, Physeter catodon, valued for its oil and spermaceti: now reduced in number and rare in some areas.
- sphagnology — the study of sphagna
- spheroplast — a Gram-negative bacterial cell with a cell wall that has been altered or is partly missing, resulting in a spherical shape.
- spinachlike — resembling or characteristic of spinach
- splashboard — a board, guard, or screen to protect from splashing, as a dashboard of a vehicle or a guard placed over a wheel to intercept water, dirt, etc.
- splashproof — resistant to splashing
- split hairs — any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals; a pilus.
- 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.
- sports hall — venue for physical activities
- staphylinid — rove beetle.
- staphylitis — inflammation of the soft palate or uvula
- stylography — the art of writing, tracing, drawing, etc., with a style.
- sulphurator — an apparatus used in treating anything with sulphur or sulphur fumes, such as in fumigating
- swash plate — an inclined circular plate on a rotating shaft for transferring force and motion to or from parts reciprocating in a direction parallel to the axis of shaft rotation.
- telepathist — a student of or believer in telepathy.
- thesis play — a play that develops or defends a particular thesis.
- trophoblast — the layer of extraembryonic ectoderm that chiefly nourishes the embryo or develops into fetal membranes with nutritive functions.
- trophoplasm — the cytoplasm that is involved in the nutritive processes of a cell
- well-shaped — of a definite form, shape, or character (often used in combination): a U -shaped driveway.
- westphalian — a former province in NW Germany, now a part of North Rhine-Westphalia: treaty ending the Thirty Years' War 1648.
- worshipable — Capable of being worshiped; worthy of veneration.
- xiphocostal — Pertaining to the xiphoid process and the ribs.
- xylophagous — Feeding on wood. (of insects etc.).
- zoophilia's — the state of being zoophilous.