11-letter words containing s, h, e, l
- clam shells — the shell of a clam.
- clean hands — freedom from guilt
- clean house — to clean and put a home in order
- clean sheet — an instance of conceding no goals or points in a match or competition (esp in the phrase keep a clean sheet)
- cleanshaven — having all the hairs shaved off
- cleethorpes — a resort in E England, in North East Lincolnshire unitary authority, Lincolnshire. Pop: 31 853 (2001)
- cleisthenes — 6th century bc, Athenian statesman: democratized the political structure of Athens
- clodhoppers — a large heavy shoe or boot
- close reach — an act or instance of reaching: to make a reach for a gun.
- close shave — a narrow escape
- closed shop — If a factory, shop, or other business is a closed shop, the employees must be members of a particular trade union.
- closehauled — having the sails adjusted for heading as nearly as possible into the wind
- clothes peg — A clothes peg is a small device which you use to fasten clothes to a washing line.
- clothes-peg — a clothespin.
- clothes-pin — a device, such as a forked piece of wood or plastic, for fastening articles to a clothesline.
- clothesless — Without clothes.
- clothesline — A clothesline is a thin rope on which you hang washing so that it can dry.
- clothespins — Plural form of clothespin.
- clothespole — a pole for supporting a clothesline
- cockleshell — the shell of the cockle
- coelacanths — Plural form of coelacanth.
- cold chisel — a toughened steel chisel
- cold shower — shower: in cold water
- cold-chisel — to work upon (metal) with a cold chisel.
- colophonies — Plural form of colophony.
- color phase — a variant, atypical coloration of fur, feathers, skin, etc. occurring in an individual or an animal group
- coltishness — The state or condition of being coltish.
- copublisher — a publisher that publishes a work in conjunction with another publisher
- copyholders — Plural form of copyholder.
- creole-fish — a deep-sea fish, Paranthias furcifer, of the sea bass family, inhabiting tropical Atlantic waters.
- cultishness — the quality of being cultish
- cushionless — without a cushion
- daisy wheel — a component of a computer printer in the shape of a wheel with many spokes that prints characters using a disk with characters around the circumference as the print element
- dame school — (formerly) a small school, often in a village, usually run by an elderly woman in her own home to teach young children to read and write
- dame-school — a school in which the rudiments of reading, writing, and arithmetic were taught to neighborhood children by a woman in her own home.
- danish blue — a strong-tasting white cheese with blue veins
- dasht-e-lut — vast desert region of central and SE Iran, extending southward from the Dasht-e-Kavir
- dauerschlaf — a form of therapy, now rarely used, that involves the use of drugs to induce long periods of deep sleep.
- dealerships — Plural form of dealership.
- deathlessly — In a deathless manner.
- deathliness — The state or quality of being deathly.
- decathletes — Plural form of decathlete.
- delightless — not offering delight
- delightsome — highly pleasing; delightful.
- delphiniums — Plural form of delphinium.
- demolishing — Present participle of demolish.
- deschooling — to abolish or phase out traditional schools from, so as to replace them with alternative methods and forms of education.
- deshielding — (physics, chemistry) The situation, in NMR spectroscopy, in which a local magnetic field is strengthened by the presence of neighbouring nuclei.
- deutschland — Germany
- diadelphous — (of stamens) having united filaments so that they are arranged in two groups