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11-letter words containing n, s, h, e, l

  • replenisher — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
  • rhône-alpes — a region of E France: mainly mountainous, rising to the edge of the Massif Central in the west and the French Alps in the east; drained by the Rivers Rhône, Saône, and Isère
  • riefenstahl — Leni [ley-nee] /ˈleɪ ni/ (Show IPA), 1902–2003, German film director.
  • rush candle — a candle made from a dried, partly peeled rush that has been dipped in grease.
  • saddle horn — horn (def 19).
  • saltishness — the condition of being saltish
  • schecklaton — a gilded leather used for embroidering jacks
  • schlesinger — Arthur Meier [mahy-er] /ˈmaɪ ər/ (Show IPA), 1888–1965, U.S. historian.
  • schollander — Donald ("Don") born 1946, U.S. swimmer.
  • searchingly — examining carefully or thoroughly: a searching inspection.
  • second-half — happening in the second half of a game
  • self-hating — harbouring feelings of self-hatred
  • selfishness — devoted to or caring only for oneself; concerned primarily with one's own interests, benefits, welfare, etc., regardless of others.
  • semimonthly — made, occurring, done, or published twice a month.
  • seven hills — a town in N Ohio.
  • shacklebone — the wrist
  • shallowness — of little depth; not deep: shallow water.
  • 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
  • sharonville — a town in SW Ohio.
  • shaving gel — product that softens hair growth for shaving
  • shelf angle — an angle iron attached to or suspended from a girder to carry masonry or the ends of a number of joists.
  • shell gland — a gland in certain invertebrates that secretes the components required for forming the shell of an egg
  • shellacking — lac that has been purified and formed into thin sheets, used for making varnish.
  • 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.
  • shingle oak — an oak, Quercus imbricaria, yielding a wood used for shingles, clapboards, etc.
  • shinplaster — a plaster for the shin or leg.
  • shiveringly — in a shivering manner, usually from cold or fright
  • short novel — a prose narrative midway between the novel and the short story in length and scope
  • shriekingly — with shrieking
  • shroud-line — a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
  • 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.
  • sixteenthly — in sixteenth place
  • slant rhyme — rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
  • slavishness — of or befitting a slave: slavish subjection.
  • sleuthhound — a bloodhound.
  • slit trench — a narrow trench for one or more persons for protection against enemy fire and fragmentation bombs.
  • 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
  • solenoglyph — any poisonous snake of the viper family with hollow, paired, erectile fangs
  • southlander — a person from the south
  • spinachlike — resembling or characteristic of spinach
  • staunchless — not able to be stanched
  • stenohaline — (of an aquatic organism) unable to withstand wide variation in salinity of the surrounding water.
  • stern-wheel — propelled by a paddle wheel at the stern.
  • stickhandle — (in hockey and lacrosse) to control and skillfully maneuver the ball or puck with the stick.
  • strengthful — full of strength, strong
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