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11-letter words containing s, h, e, l, p, i

  • pilot house — an enclosed structure on the deck of a ship from which it can be navigated.
  • planisphere — a map of half or more of the celestial sphere with a device for indicating the part of a given location visible at a given time.
  • plenishings — furnishings or equipment
  • pleochroism — the property of certain crystals of exhibiting different colors when viewed from different directions under transmitted light. Compare dichroism (def 1), trichroism.
  • prehensible — able to be seized or grasped.
  • prelateship — the rank of a prelate
  • priest-hole — a secret chamber in certain houses in England, built as a hiding place for Roman Catholic priests when they were proscribed in the 16th and 17th centuries
  • psammophile — a plant or animal that thrives in sand
  • psychedelia — the realm or artifacts of psychedelic drugs, art, writings, or the like.
  • psychedelic — of or noting a mental state characterized by a profound sense of intensified sensory perception, sometimes accompanied by severe perceptual distortion and hallucinations and by extreme feelings of either euphoria or despair.
  • psychodelia — the production of, or the culture associated with, psychedelic experiences
  • publishable — to issue (printed or otherwise reproduced textual or graphic material, computer software, etc.) for sale or distribution to the public.
  • publishment — publication.
  • replenished — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
  • replenisher — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
  • republisher — a person who republishes
  • retail shop — a shop which sells goods to individual customers
  • sales pitch — promotional talk
  • scripholder — a person who owns a scrip or scrips
  • scripophile — a person who practices scripophily.
  • sharpeville — a town in E South Africa: scene of riots in 1960 (when 69 demonstrators died), 1984, and 1985 (when 19 died)
  • shinplaster — a plaster for the shin or leg.
  • shipbuilder — a person whose occupation is the designing or constructing of ship.
  • shoe polish — wax for making footwear shiny
  • shoofly pie — an open pie filled with a sweet crumb and molasses mixture and baked.
  • siderophile — (of a cell or tissue) having an affinity for iron.
  • single whip — an instrument for striking, as in driving animals or in punishing, typically consisting of a lash or other flexible part with a more rigid handle.
  • sleep tight — Sleep well
  • soldiership — a person who serves in an army; a person engaged in military service.
  • spaceflight — the flying of manned or unmanned spacecraft into or in outer space.
  • speed light — an electronic flash lamp.
  • spermophile — any of various burrowing rodents of the squirrel family, especially of the genus Spermophilus (or Citellus), sometimes sufficiently numerous to do much damage to crops, as the ground squirrels and susliks.
  • spider hole — a foxhole with a camouflaged lid or cover in which a sniper hides
  • spike heels — Spike heels are women's shoes with very high narrow heels.
  • 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.
  • sprightless — without any spirit or liveliness
  • technopolis — a society with a concentration of technology-based businesses or an emphasis on technology
  • telepathist — a student of or believer in telepathy.
  • telephonist — a telephone switchboard operator.
  • thesis play — a play that develops or defends a particular thesis.
  • trisulphide — any sulphide containing three sulphur atoms per molecule
  • unpublished — to issue (printed or otherwise reproduced textual or graphic material, computer software, etc.) for sale or distribution to the public.
  • westphalian — a former province in NW Germany, now a part of North Rhine-Westphalia: treaty ending the Thirty Years' War 1648.
  • whistle pig — a woodchuck.
  • whistlestop — (US, dated) A minor railway station at which a train would stop if requested.
  • whole snipe — the common snipe. See under snipe (def 1).
  • worshipable — Capable of being worshiped; worthy of veneration.
  • worshipless — lacking worship, not worshipped
  • xerophilous — Botany. growing in or adapted to dry, especially dry and hot, regions.
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