11-letter words containing o, r, t, h, s, i
- retail shop — a shop which sells goods to individual customers
- rh positive — See under Rh factor.
- rh-positive — See under Rh factor.
- rheotropism — the effect of a current of water upon the direction of plant growth.
- rhinestoned — adorned with rhinestones
- rhinoplasty — plastic surgery of the nose.
- rhizanthous — bearing flowers directly from the root.
- rhizomatous — a rootlike subterranean stem, commonly horizontal in position, that usually produces roots below and sends up shoots progressively from the upper surface.
- righteously — characterized by uprightness or morality: a righteous observance of the law.
- riot shield — Riot shields are pieces of equipment made of transparent plastic which are used by the police to protect themselves against angry crowds.
- rocket ship — a rocket-propelled aircraft or spacecraft.
- roosterfish — a large, edible fish, Nematistius pectoralis, inhabiting the warmer waters of the Pacific Ocean, having the first dorsal fin composed of brightly colored filamentous rays.
- rope stitch — (in embroidery) a stitch formed from the entwining of stitches.
- saprophytic — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
- school trip — educational outing
- schorlomite — a mineral that is black in colour and belongs to the garnet group
- scots-irish — Scotch-Irish
- senatorship — the office or position of a senator
- shergottite — a type of igneous rock or meteorite thought to originate on Mars
- sherrington — Sir Charles Scott, 1861–1952, English physiologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1932.
- shirt front — the front of a shirt, especially the part that is exposed when a jacket or vest is worn.
- shoe-string — a shoelace.
- short field — the area of the infield between third base and second, covered by the shortstop.
- short hairs — pubic hair.
- short sight — myopia
- 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.
- short-timer — a person, as a soldier, who has a short period of time left to serve on a tour of duty.
- shortcoming — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
- shorthaired — (of an animal) having hair that is short and lies close to the body.
- shortweight — to give less than the weight charged for: The firm is accused of shortweighting grain.
- shower unit — fitted shower
- sightworthy — worth seeing
- sir anthony — Sir Anthony, Van Dyck, Sir Anthony.
- sit through — endure the whole of
- six-shooter — a revolver from which six shots can be fired without reloading.
- sixth chord — an inversion of a triad in which the second note (next above the root) is in the bass.
- somewhither — to some unspecified place; somewhere.
- sophistries — Sophistries are clever arguments that sound convincing but are in fact false.
- sothic year — the fixed year of the ancient Egyptians, determined by the heliacal rising of Sirius, and equivalent to 365 days.
- south river — a borough in central New Jersey.
- southbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
- southernism — a pronunciation, expression, or behavioral trait characteristic of the U.S. South.
- southernize — to make or become southern
- spirochaete — any of various spiral-shaped motile bacteria of the family Spirochaetaceae, certain species, as Treponema, Leptospira, and Borrelia, being pathogenic to humans and other animals, and other species being free-living, saprophytic, or parasitic.
- sport shirt — a long- or short-sleeved soft shirt for informal wear by men, having a squared-off shirttail that may be left outside the trousers, usually worn without a tie.
- stasimorphy — structural modification by arrested development
- stenohygric — able to withstand only a narrow range of humidity
- stichometry — the practice of writing a prose text in lines, often of slightly differing lengths, that correspond to units of sense and indicate phrasal rhythms.
- strike home — to deliver an effective blow