11-letter words containing s, a, l, h
- shareholder — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
- sharonville — a town in SW Ohio.
- sharpeville — a town in E South Africa: scene of riots in 1960 (when 69 demonstrators died), 1984, and 1985 (when 19 died)
- shaving gel — product that softens hair growth for shaving
- sheet glass — glass in sheet form produced by drawing or by the cylinder glass process.
- sheet metal — metal in sheets or thin plates.
- shelf angle — an angle iron attached to or suspended from a girder to carry masonry or the ends of a number of joists.
- shelf paper — paper used for covering shelves, especially those of a cupboard or kitchen cabinet.
- shelf space — amount of room on shelves
- shelftalker — a promotional sign used by a retailer to draw attention to a featured product on the shelf
- shell gland — a gland in certain invertebrates that secretes the components required for forming the shell of an egg
- shell steak — a cut of steak from the short loin
- shellacking — lac that has been purified and formed into thin sheets, used for making varnish.
- sheriffalty — shrievalty.
- sherlockian — pertaining to or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, known for his skill in solving mysteries through deductive reasoning.
- shingle oak — an oak, Quercus imbricaria, yielding a wood used for shingles, clapboards, etc.
- shinplaster — a plaster for the shin or leg.
- shore leave — permission to spend time ashore, usually 48 hours or more, granted a member of a ship's company.
- shovel beak — a deformity of the beak in intensively reared chicks
- shovelboard — the game of shuffleboard.
- shroud-laid — noting a fiber rope of four strands laid right-handed with or without a heart.
- sialography — radiography of salivary glands once they have been injected with a contrast medium
- sialorrhoea — an abnormally high production of saliva
- silk thread — thread that is manufactured from silk
- silver hake — a common hake, Merluccius bilinearis, occurring off the Atlantic coast of North America and popular as a food fish.
- silver thaw — glaze (def 17).
- silverchair — Australian rock group (formed 1994): comprising Daniel Johns (born 1979; vocals, guitar), Ben Gillies (born 1979, drums) and Chris Joannou (born 1979, bass guitar); their albums include Frogstomp (1995) and Young Modern (2007)
- single-hand — to sail (a craft) without help from others.
- sir galahad — (in Arthurian legend) the most virtuous knight of the Round Table, destined to regain the Holy Grail; son of Lancelot and Elaine
- sir michael — Sir Michael (Kemp) 1905–98, British composer.
- sky marshal — an armed plainclothes federal marshal riding on an airliner to protect against skyjacking.
- slant rhyme — rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
- slaughtered — the killing or butchering of cattle, sheep, etc., especially for food.
- slaveholder — an owner of slaves.
- slavishness — of or befitting a slave: slavish subjection.
- sleep shade — an opaque, masklike covering for the eyes, usually fitted with an elasticized cord that passes around the head, worn to aid sleep by shutting out light.
- 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.
- small hours — pre-dawn
- small white — a small white butterfly, Artogeia rapae, with scanty black markings, the larvae of which feed on brassica leaves
- smallholder — owner of small plot of land
- smooth-talk — to persuade by flattery, cajolery, coaxing, or the like: We smooth-talked the company into a huge donation.
- snail shell — the spirally coiled shell of a snail
- snatchingly — in a snatching manner
- soft launch — the launch of a website in stages, with regular updating
- solar house — a house designed to absorb and store solar heat.
- 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.
- soothfastly — in a soothfast manner
- sophistical — of the nature of sophistry; fallacious.
- south wales — an area of Wales bordered by England and the Bristol Channel to the east and south, and Mid Wales and West Wales to the north and west. Includes the capital city, Cardiff, as well as Swansea and Newport. Welsh name: De Cymru