11-letter words containing s, h, a, d
- mithridates — Plural form of mithridate.
- moshe dayan — Moshe [maw-she;; English moh-shuh] /mɔˈʃɛ;; English ˈmoʊ ʃə/ (Show IPA), 1915–81, Israeli politician and military leader: defense minister 1967–74, foreign minister 1977–79.
- motherlands — Plural form of motherland.
- 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.
- mushyheaded — inadequately thought out: mushyheaded ideas.
- mustachioed — a mustache.
- muttonheads — Plural form of muttonhead.
- nacogdoches — a city in N Texas.
- nearsighted — seeing distinctly at a short distance only; myopic.
- netherlands — the, (used with a singular or plural verb) a kingdom in W Europe, bordering on the North Sea, Germany, and Belgium. 13,433 sq. mi. (34,790 sq. km). Capitals: Amsterdam and The Hague.
- niggerheads — Plural form of niggerhead.
- night stand — small bedside table
- nightdreams — Plural form of nightdream.
- nightshades — Plural form of nightshade.
- nightstands — Plural form of nightstand.
- noah's dove — the constellation Columba.
- nonadhesive — coated with glue, paste, mastic, or other sticky substance: adhesive bandages.
- north adams — a city in NW Massachusetts.
- nudibranchs — Plural form of nudibranch.
- octahedrons — Plural form of octahedron.
- old scratch — the devil; Satan.
- old spanish — the Spanish language of the 12th to the 16th centuries. Abbreviation: OSp.
- old-maidish — characteristic of or resembling an old maid.
- orchardists — Plural form of orchardist.
- pachysandra — any plant of the genus Pachysandra, as the Allegheny spurge or Japanese spurge, the leaves of which grow in a rounded clump, widely used as a ground cover in the U.S.
- parchedness — the state or characteristic of being parched
- pas de chat — a jump of one foot over the other.
- pear-shaped — having the shape of a pear; tapering near the top and bulging toward the base or bottom: a pear-shaped vase.
- pebble dash — an exterior wall finish composed of mortar against which, while still wet, small pebbles have been thrown and pressed in.
- pedagoguish — resembling or reminiscent of a pedagogue
- phase speed — the speed at which the phase of a wave is propagated, the product of the frequency times the wavelength. This is the quantity that is determined by methods using interference. In a dispersive medium it differs from the group speed
- phosphatide — phospholipid.
- photostated — a camera for making facsimile copies of documents, drawings, etc., in the form of paper negatives on which the positions of lines, objects, etc., in the originals are maintained.
- postholiday — occurring after a holiday
- preadmonish — to admonish or warn beforehand
- predispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- pseudograph — a piece of writing that is falsely ascribed
- psychedelia — the realm or artifacts of psychedelic drugs, art, writings, or the like.
- psychodelia — the production of, or the culture associated with, psychedelic experiences
- psychodrama — a method of group psychotherapy in which participants take roles in improvisational dramatizations of emotionally charged situations.
- push around — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
- radio shack — a room or structure, as on a ship, for housing radio equipment.
- radnorshire — a historic county in Powys, in E Wales.
- rain shadow — a region in the lee of mountains that receives less rainfall than the region windward of the mountains.
- rankshifted — that has been shifted from one linguistic rank to another
- rapid chess — a game of chess played within a fixed amount of time, usually 30 minutes per player for all moves.
- rhabdovirus — any of various RNA-containing viruses of the family Rhabdoviridae, including the rabies virus.
- rhapsodical — extravagantly enthusiastic; ecstatic.
- ridesharing — of or relating to the sharing of rides or transportation, especially among commuters: The agency was set up to devise a ridesharing program.
- roman shade — a window shade that, when raised, is drawn up into a series of concertina folds.