11-letter words containing s, h, a, k
- safety hook — a hook that can be transformed into an eye by locking a hinged piece in place.
- sales check — sales slip.
- salt shaker — a container for salt with a perforated top to allow the salt to be shaken out.
- saltchucker — a saltwater angler
- savannakhet — a city in S central Laos.
- say kaddish — to be a mourner
- schecklaton — a gilded leather used for embroidering jacks
- schmierkase — cottage cheese.
- schwarzkopf — Elisabeth, 1915–2006, German soprano, born in Poland.
- scratchback — an implement for scratching the back
- shacklebone — the wrist
- shadow mask — a perforated metal sheet mounted close to the phosphor-dotted screen in some colour television tubes. The holes are positioned so that each of the three electron beams strikes the correct phosphor dot producing the required colour mixture in the image
- shake a leg — an act or instance of shaking, rocking, swaying, etc.
- shake hands — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- shake on it — to shake hands in agreement, reconciliation, etc
- shakespeare — William ("the Bard"; "the Bard of Avon") 1564–1616, English poet and dramatist.
- shark siren — a siren sounded to warn swimmers of the presence of sharks
- sharksucker — any of several remoras, as Echeneis naucrates, usually found attached to sharks.
- shcharansky — (Natan) Anatoly [nah-tahn an-uh-toh-lee;; Russian uh-nuh-taw-lyee] /nɑˈtɑn ˌæn əˈtoʊ li;; Russian ʌ nʌˈtɔ lyi/ (Show IPA), born 1948, Soviet mathematician and human-rights activist, in Israel since 1986.
- shcherbakov — a former name (1946–57) of Andropov.
- sheep track — a pathway made by and used by sheep, often in rocky or mountainous terrain, and sometimes followed by hikers
- sheep-shank — a kind of knot, hitch, or bend made on a rope to shorten it temporarily.
- shelftalker — a promotional sign used by a retailer to draw attention to a featured product on the shelf
- 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.
- 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.
- shipka pass — a mountain pass in central Bulgaria, in the Balkan Mountains. 4375 feet (1335 meters) high.
- shirtjacket — a jacket styled like a shirt
- shish kebab — meat on skewer
- shish-kebab — to broil or roast food on a skewer.
- shock radio — broadcasting by a commercial radio station whose humor includes tasteless jokes, sexual innuendo, and ethnic insults.
- shockheaded — having a shock or thick mass of hair on the head.
- shopbreaker — a robber who breaks into a shop
- shovel beak — a deformity of the beak in intensively reared chicks
- 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.
- 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.
- skin-search — strip-search.
- sky marshal — an armed plainclothes federal marshal riding on an airliner to protect against skyjacking.
- smokechaser — a person who fights forest fires, especially one with lightweight equipment.
- smooth-talk — to persuade by flattery, cajolery, coaxing, or the like: We smooth-talked the company into a huge donation.
- snakishness — the state or quality of being like a snake
- sneak thief — a burglar who sneaks into houses through open doors, windows, etc.
- south korea — a country in E Asia: formed 1948 after the division of the former country of Korea at 38° N. 36,600 sq. mi. (94,795 sq. km). Capital: Seoul. Compare Korea.
- sparrowhawk — a small, short-winged European hawk, Accipiter nisus, that preys on smaller birds.
- speakership — a person who speaks.
- speechmaker — a person who delivers speeches.
- spike heath — a Eurasian evergreen shrub, Bruckenthalia spiculifolia, of the heath family, having narrow leaves and bell-shaped, pink flowers, growing in gritty soil.