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11-letter words containing o, f, s, h

  • second-half — happening in the second half of a game
  • sefer torah — Sepher Torah.
  • shaft house — a structure housing machinery and other equipment at the top of a mine shaft.
  • shear force — Shear force is force that makes one surface of a substance move over another parallel surface.
  • shellflower — an eastern Asian plant, Alpinia zerumbet, of the ginger family, having pendulous clusters of fragrant white flowers with variegated markings.
  • ship of war — warship.
  • shirt front — the front of a shirt, especially the part that is exposed when a jacket or vest is worn.
  • shock front — the forward boundary surface of a shock wave.
  • shoofly pie — an open pie filled with a sweet crumb and molasses mixture and baked.
  • shoplifting — to steal (merchandise) as a shoplifter.
  • short field — the area of the infield between third base and second, covered by the shortstop.
  • shot effect — random fluctuations in the emission of electrons from a hot cathode, causing a hissing or sputtering sound (shot noise) in an audio amplifier and causing snow on a television screen.
  • showerproof — (of clothing, fabric, etc.) treated so as to resist rain; rainproof.
  • showing-off — behaviour designed to impress people
  • shuffle off — to walk without lifting the feet or with clumsy steps and a shambling gait.
  • smoke shelf — a ledge at the bottom of a smoke chamber, so made as to deflect or break downdrafts from the chimney.
  • so much for — So much for is used to indicate that you have finished talking about a subject.
  • soft cheese — a type of cheese that is made in a relatively short time and has a soft, creamy or almost runny texture
  • soft hyphen — a hyphen that is used only in breaking a word at the end of a line of text.
  • soft launch — the launch of a website in stages, with regular updating
  • soft-headed — foolish; stupid.
  • softhearted — very sympathetic or responsive; generous in spirit: a soft-hearted judge.
  • soldierfish — any of several squirrelfishes of the family Holocentridae.
  • sonofabitch — an abusive term of address or of description
  • soothfastly — in a soothfast manner
  • sound shift — a gradual alteration or series of alterations in the pronunciation of a set of sounds, esp of vowels
  • speech form — linguistic form.
  • splashproof — resistant to splashing
  • standoffish — somewhat aloof or reserved; cold and unfriendly.
  • surgeonfish — any tropical, coral-reef fish of the family Acanthuridae, with one or more sharp spines near the base of the tail fin.
  • sword fight — duel with long-bladed weapons
  • the forties — the numbers 40–49 in a particular century, esp the 20th century
  • the offense — the team that has possession of the ball
  • the offside — the side of a vehicle nearest the centre of the road (in Britain, the right side)
  • theftuously — in a theftuous or thievish manner
  • thiosulfate — a salt or ester of thiosulfuric acid.
  • thornproofs — garments that resist penetration by thorns
  • thrift shop — a retail store that sells secondhand goods at reduced prices.
  • thuriferous — producing frankincense
  • tischendorf — Lobegott Friedrich Konstantin von [loh-buh-gawt free-drikh kawn-stahn-teen fuh n] /ˈloʊ bəˌgɔt ˈfri drɪx ˌkɔn stɑnˈtin fən/ (Show IPA), 1815–74, German Biblical critic.
  • toffishness — the quality or state of being toffish
  • unfashioned — not fashioned or made; not formed
  • vowel shift — a systematic phonetic change in a language's vowels
  • werewolfish — characteristic of a werewolf
  • whistle for — to make a clear musical sound, a series of such sounds, or a high-pitched, warbling sound by the forcible expulsion of the breath through a small opening formed by contracting the lips, or through the teeth, with the aid of the tongue.
  • white frost — a heavy coating of frost.
  • wolfishness — The quality of being wolfish.
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