11-letter words containing s, e, h, u
- lazar house — (formerly) a hospital for persons with infectious diseases, esp leprosy
- lecherously — given to or characterized by lechery; lustful.
- lectureship — the office of lecturer.
- leper house — a hospital for lepers; leprosarium.
- leprechauns — a dwarf or sprite.
- lethiferous — lethal.
- lighthouses — Plural form of lighthouse.
- lindenhurst — a village on central Long Island, in SE New York.
- lithogenous — of or relating to organisms, as coral, that secrete stony deposits.
- loudhailers — Plural form of loudhailer.
- loutishness — The state or quality of being loutish, of behaving like a lout.
- low hurdles — a race in which runners leap over hurdles 2 feet 6 inches (76 cm) high.
- lower house — one of two branches of a legislature, generally more representative and with more members than the upper branch.
- lüdenscheid — a city in W Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia: manufacturing centre for aluminium and plastics. Pop: 79 829 (2003 est)
- lukewarmish — fairly or somewhat lukewarm
- lumpishness — The property of being lumpish.
- luskishness — the state or condition of being luskish
- lutheranism — of or relating to Luther, adhering to his doctrines, or belonging to one of the Protestant churches that bear his name.
- lythraceous — belonging to the Lythraceae, the loosestrife family of plants.
- machineguns — Plural form of machinegun.
- manor house — the house of the lord of a manor.
- massachuset — a member of an extinct tribe of North American Indians of eastern Massachusetts.
- medium shot — a camera shot in which the subject is in the middle distance, permitting some of the background to be seen. Compare closeup (def 2), long shot (def 3).
- meerschaums — Plural form of meerschaum.
- meliphagous — feeding on honey
- melon shrub — pepino (def 2).
- menthaceous — belonging to the Menthaceae, a former name for the plant family Labiatae.
- meshuggeneh — an insane or stupid person
- meshuggener — Crazy, insane.
- mesophilous — (of bacteria) growing best at moderate temperatures, between 25°C and 40°C.
- mesothelium — epithelium of mesodermal origin, which lines the body cavities.
- mesothorium — one of two radioactive decay products of thorium, an isotope of radium or actinium.
- mischevious — Misconstruction of mischievous.
- mischievous — maliciously or playfully annoying.
- mispurchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- motherhouse — The monastery from which the other 'houses' of a religious order or congregation were (directly or indirectly) founded, often eponymous.
- mouse ahead — The point-and-click analog of "type ahead". To manipulate a computer's pointing device (almost always a mouse in this usage, but not necessarily) and its selection or command buttons before a computer program is ready to accept such input, in anticipation of the program accepting the input. Handling this properly is rare, but it can help make a WIMP environment much more usable, assuming the users are familiar with the behaviour of the user interface.
- mouthpieces — Plural form of mouthpiece.
- movie house — a motion-picture theater.
- multischeme — An implementation of Multilisp built on MIT's C-Scheme, for the BBN Butterfly.
- multitheism — The existence of multiple forms of theism, as in a society.
- multitheist — Of or pertaining to multitheism.
- mumpishness — the state or quality of being mumpish
- munchhausen — Karl Friedrich Hieronymus [kahrl free-drikh hee-ey-roh-ny-moo s] /kɑrl ˈfri drɪx ˌhi eɪˈroʊ nüˌmʊs/ (Show IPA), Baron von [fuh n] /fən/ (Show IPA), 1720–97, German soldier, adventurer, and teller of tales.
- museography — The systematic description of objects in museums.
- mushyheaded — inadequately thought out: mushyheaded ideas.
- mustachioed — a mustache.
- muttonheads — Plural form of muttonhead.
- nailbrushes — Plural form of nailbrush.
- native bush — indigenous forest