11-letter words containing n, s, h
- scotophobin — a peptide isolated from the brains of rats conditioned to avoid darkness, alleged to induce a dark-avoidance response in untrained rats, mice, and other animals.
- screen shot — Also called screen capture. a copy or image of what is seen on a computer screen at a given time: Save the screenshot as a graphics file.
- screen wash — a fluid that is squirted onto a car windscreen to clean it
- screenshort — a screenshot that is shared on a social media website.
- scrimshoner — a person who makes scrimshaw
- sea bathing — the activity of swimming in the sea
- searchingly — examining carefully or thoroughly: a searching inspection.
- second hand — the hand that indicates the seconds on a clock or watch.
- second home — an additional residence, as at the shore or in the country, where one goes on weekends, vacations, and the like.
- second-half — happening in the second half of a game
- second-hand — the hand that indicates the seconds on a clock or watch.
- sedan chair — an enclosed vehicle for one person, borne on poles by two bearers and common during the 17th and 18th centuries.
- 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.
- senatorship — the office or position of a senator
- sennacherib — died 681 b.c, king of Assyria 705–681.
- serrano ham — cured ham from Spain
- servanthood — the condition of being a servant
- seven hills — a town in N Ohio.
- seventeenth — next after the sixteenth; being the ordinal number for 17.
- seventh-day — designating certain Christian denominations that make Saturday their chief day of rest and religious observance: Seventh-Day Adventists.
- sex hormone — any of a class of steroid hormones that regulate the growth and function of the reproductive organs or stimulate the development of the secondary sexual characteristics.
- sex hygiene — a branch of hygiene concerned with sex and sexual behavior as they relate to individual and community well-being.
- shacklebone — the wrist
- shade-grown — grown in the shade, especially in artificial shade, as under a cloth.
- shaggedness — the state or quality of being shaggy
- shaggy-mane — an edible inky-cap mushroom, Coprinus comatus, having an elongated, shaggy pileus.
- shake hands — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- shake on it — to shake hands in agreement, reconciliation, etc
- shallowness — of little depth; not deep: shallow water.
- shamanistic — the animistic religion of northern Asia, embracing a belief in powerful spirits that can be influenced only by shamans.
- shanghaiing — to enroll or obtain (a sailor) for the crew of a ship by unscrupulous means, as by force or the use of liquor or drugs.
- shanhaiguan — a city in NE Hebei province, in NE China, on the Gulf of Liaodong: strategically located at the E end of the Great Wall.
- shanty town — ghetto, slum
- share index — A share index is a number that indicates the state of a stock market. It is based on the combined share prices of a set of companies.
- 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
- shark siren — a siren sounded to warn swimmers of the presence of sharks
- sharonville — a town in SW Ohio.
- sharp-nosed — having a thin, pointed nose.
- sharpbender — an organization that has been underperforming its competitors but suddenly becomes more successful, often as a result of new management or changes in its business strategy
- shaving gel — product that softens hair growth for shaving
- shcharansky — (Natan) Anatoly [nah-tahn an-uh-toh-lee;; Russian uh-nuh-taw-lyee] /nɑˈtɑn ˌæn əˈtoʊ li;; Russian ʌ nʌˈtɔ lyi/ (Show IPA), born 1948, Soviet mathematician and human-rights activist, in Israel since 1986.
- sheep-shank — a kind of knot, hitch, or bend made on a rope to shorten it temporarily.
- 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.
- shenanigans — Usually, shenanigans. mischief; prankishness: Halloween shenanigans. deceit; trickery.
- shepherding — a person who herds, tends, and guards sheep.
- sherlockian — pertaining to or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, known for his skill in solving mysteries through deductive reasoning.