11-letter words containing s, h, e, l, a
- shovel beak — a deformity of the beak in intensively reared chicks
- shovelboard — the game of shuffleboard.
- 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 michael — Sir Michael (Kemp) 1905–98, British composer.
- 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.
- 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
- snail shell — the spirally coiled shell of a snail
- solar house — a house designed to absorb and store solar heat.
- 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
- southlander — a person from the south
- spaceflight — the flying of manned or unmanned spacecraft into or in outer space.
- spare wheel — A spare wheel is a wheel with a tyre on it that you keep in your car in case you get a flat tyre and need to replace one of your wheels.
- sperm whale — a large, square-snouted whale, Physeter catodon, valued for its oil and spermaceti: now reduced in number and rare in some areas.
- spheroplast — a Gram-negative bacterial cell with a cell wall that has been altered or is partly missing, resulting in a spherical shape.
- spinachlike — resembling or characteristic of spinach
- split-phase — pertaining to or noting a current in one of two parallel circuits that have a single-phase current source but unequal impedances and that produce currents of different phase.
- st. charles — a city in E Missouri, on the Missouri River.
- stadtholder — stadholder.
- stakeholder — the holder of the stakes of a wager.
- stallholder — A stallholder is a person who sells goods at a stall in a market.
- starlighted — lit by the stars
- staunchless — not able to be stanched
- stealth tax — Journalists sometimes refer to indirect taxes as stealth taxes.
- stenohaline — (of an aquatic organism) unable to withstand wide variation in salinity of the surrounding water.
- stickhandle — (in hockey and lacrosse) to control and skillfully maneuver the ball or puck with the stick.
- stomachless — lacking or not having a stomach
- strathclyde — a region in SW Scotland. 5300 sq. mi. (13,727 sq. km).
- sublethally — in a sublethal manner
- swash plate — an inclined circular plate on a rotating shaft for transferring force and motion to or from parts reciprocating in a direction parallel to the axis of shaft rotation.
- swashbuckle — to work, behave, or perform as a swashbuckler.
- switchblade — a pocketknife, the blade of which is held by a spring and can be released suddenly, as by pressing a button.
- swivel head — A swivel head is a bearing between the traveling block and the kelly.
- synthetical — of, pertaining to, proceeding by, or involving synthesis (opposed to analytic).
- szombathely — a city in W Hungary: founded a.d. 48.
- tachysterol — an isomer of ergosterol, C28H44O, formed during the production of calciferol by the irradiation of ergosterol
- talent show — a theatrical show in which a series of usually amateur or aspiring singers, dancers, comedians, instrumentalists, etc., perform in the hope of gaining recognition.
- tallahassee — a state in the SE United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico. 58,560 sq. mi. (151,670 sq. km). Capital: Tallahassee. Abbreviation: FL (for use with zip code), Fla.
- tally sheet — a sheet for checking, counting, or scoring, as of cargo loaded or unloaded.
- tax shelter — any financial arrangement (as a certain kind of investment or allowance) that results in a reduction or elimination of taxes due.
- telearchics — the remote control of electronic devices