11-letter words containing p, h, i
- 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.
- scripholder — a person who owns a scrip or scrips
- scripophile — a person who practices scripophily.
- scripophily — the collecting by hobbyists of old stock certificates and bonds that have no intrinsic value other than their aesthetic appeal or relative rarity.
- scyphistoma — a stage in the life cycle of a jellyfish or other scyphozoan when it is fixed in place and reproduces asexually to produce free-swimming medusas.
- seed shrimp — ostracod
- seismograph — any of various instruments for measuring and recording the vibrations of earthquakes.
- semi-sphere — shaped like half a sphere; hemispheric.
- semispheric — shaped like half a sphere; hemispheric.
- senatorship — the office or position of a senator
- serigrapher — someone who engages in serigraphy
- serigraphic — of or pertaining to serigraphy
- share price — cost of financial stocks
- sharpeville — a town in E South Africa: scene of riots in 1960 (when 69 demonstrators died), 1984, and 1985 (when 19 died)
- shepherding — a person who herds, tends, and guards sheep.
- shine up to — to give forth or glow with light; shed or cast light.
- shinplaster — a plaster for the shin or leg.
- shinsplints — inflammation of the muscles around the shinbone caused by strenuous exercise
- ship of war — warship.
- ship's boat — a boat for communication between ship and shore
- ship-broker — a person who acts for a shipowner by getting cargo and passengers for his ships and also handling insurance and other matters
- ship-rigged — (of a sailing vessel) rigged as a ship; full-rigged.
- shipbuilder — a person whose occupation is the designing or constructing of ship.
- shipka pass — a mountain pass in central Bulgaria, in the Balkan Mountains. 4375 feet (1335 meters) high.
- shipwrecked — the destruction or loss of a ship, as by sinking.
- shoe polish — wax for making footwear shiny
- shoofly pie — an open pie filled with a sweet crumb and molasses mixture and baked.
- shop window — storefront display
- shop-window — a window used for display of merchandise.
- shopkeeping — a retail merchant or tradesman; a person who owns or operates a small store or shop.
- shoplifting — to steal (merchandise) as a shoplifter.
- showjumping — horseriding event
- showmanship — the skill or ability of a showman.
- shrink wrap — transparent film for wrapping food
- shrink-wrap — to wrap and seal (a book, a food product, etc.) in a flexible film of plastic that, when exposed to a heating process, shrinks to the contour of the merchandise.
- sialography — radiography of salivary glands once they have been injected with a contrast medium
- siderophile — (of a cell or tissue) having an affinity for iron.
- 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.
- siphonogamy — a mode of pollination in which pollen tubes develop to facilitate the passage of male cells to eggs
- sleep tight — Sleep well
- slip stitch — a sewing stitch for securing hems, etc, in which only two or three threads of the material are caught up by the needle each time, so that the stitches are nearly invisible from the right side
- slip-stitch — a loose stitch taken between two layers of fabric, as on a facing or hem, so as to be invisible on the right side or outside surface, used in stoating.
- sociography — the branch of sociology that uses statistical data to describe social phenomena.
- sociopathic — a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.
- soda siphon — fizzy water dispenser
- soldiership — a person who serves in an army; a person engaged in military service.
- sophistical — of the nature of sophistry; fallacious.
- sophistries — Sophistries are clever arguments that sound convincing but are in fact false.
- spaceflight — the flying of manned or unmanned spacecraft into or in outer space.
- spaghettini — pasta in the form of long thin strings