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11-letter words containing s, a, h, r, n

  • shinplaster — a plaster for the shin or leg.
  • shootaround — an informal match or practice session
  • shop around — compare prices
  • short-range — having a limited extent, as in distance or time: a short-range shot; a short-range plan.
  • shortchange — to give less than the correct change to.
  • show around — guide round a new place
  • 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.
  • sir anthony — Sir Anthony, Van Dyck, Sir Anthony.
  • skin-search — strip-search.
  • slant rhyme — rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
  • sling chair — any of several varieties of chairs having a seat and back formed from a single sheet of canvas, leather, or the like, hanging loosely in a frame.
  • smart phone — a device that combines a cell phone with a handheld computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, email capability, etc.
  • snapshooter — an amateur photographer, especially one who takes snapshots with a simple camera.
  • snobography — an account or description of snobs
  • solar month — month (def 4).
  • solar-month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
  • sonographer — a diagnostic technician who operates a sonograph
  • southlander — a person from the south
  • spanish fir — a species of fir native to S Spain and N Morocco, Abies pinsapo
  • square inch — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one inch on each side; 6.452 square centimeters. 2 , sq. in. Abbreviation: in.
  • stag's horn — the antlers of a stag used as a material for carved implements
  • starchiness — of, relating to, or of the nature of starch.
  • stench trap — a trap in a sewer that by means of a water seal prevents the upward passage of foul-smelling gases
  • stenography — the art of writing in shorthand.
  • stevengraph — a small picture woven in colored silk thread: introduced in 1879 and mass-produced on a Jacquard-type loom.
  • strap hinge — a hinge having a flap, especially a long one, attached to one face of a door or the like.
  • strap-hinge — a hinge having a flap, especially a long one, attached to one face of a door or the like.
  • straphanger — a passenger who stands in a crowded bus or subway train and holds onto a strap or other support suspended from above.
  • stump ranch — (in British Columbia) an undeveloped ranch in the bush where animals graze among the stumps of felled trees
  • sub-saharan — of, relating to, or in Africa south of the Sahara Desert: a sub-Saharan country; sub-Saharan peoples.
  • subchairman — a subordinate or substitute chairman.
  • subchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
  • subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
  • súgán chair — a chair with a seat made from woven súgáns
  • superharden — harden (def 6).
  • sure-handed — using the hands with skill and confidence; dexterous.
  • swarthiness — (of skin color, complexion, etc.) dark.
  • tax sharing — revenue sharing.
  • tertianship — (in the Jesuit order) a period of strict discipline before the taking of final vows, beginning one or two years after ordination.
  • thanksgiver — a person who gives thanks.
  • the narrows — strait between Upper & Lower New York Bay, separating Staten Island & Long Island
  • thermonasty — a nastic movement in response to a temperature change, as occurs in the opening of certain flowers
  • thorvaldsen — Albert Bertal [ahl-bert bar-tuh l] /ˈɑl bɛrt ˈbær təl/ (Show IPA), 1770–1844, Danish sculptor.
  • thrasonical — boastful; vainglorious.
  • train crash — a type of accident involving one or more trains
  • train smash — a disaster or serious setback (esp in the phrase it's not a train smash)
  • traineeship — the state or position of being a trainee.
  • transhipper — a person who tranships
  • transhumant — the seasonal migration of livestock, and the people who tend them, between lowlands and adjacent mountains.
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