11-letter words containing s, h, e, l
- fellowships — Plural form of fellowship.
- fiddleheads — Plural form of fiddlehead.
- fiddlerfish — any of several guitarfishes, especially Trygonorhina fasciata, of Australia.
- field house — a building housing the dressing facilities, storage spaces, etc., used in connection with an athletic field.
- fingerholes — hole in a wind instrument
- finish line — a line marking the end of a race.
- fire-polish — to smooth (glass) by reheating to remove tool marks or other imperfections in the surface.
- fish kettle — an oval pan used for cooking a whole fish
- fish ladder — a series of ascending pools constructed to enable salmon or other fish to swim upstream around or over a dam.
- fish tackle — a tackle for fishing an anchor.
- flash drive — Also called flash memory drive, thumb drive, USB drive. a very small, portable, solid-state hard drive that can be inserted into a USB port for storage and retrieval of data.
- flash eprom — Flash Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
- flash meter — a meter that measures the light emitted by a flash unit
- flashpacker — a backpacker who has a considerable disposable income
- flesh color — (no longer in common use; now considered offensive) a yellowish pink or pinkish cream color (approximating the skin color of a white person).
- flesh tints — the colours used to represent (white) skin in painting
- flesh wound — a wound that does not penetrate beyond the flesh; a slight or superficial wound.
- fleshliness — (obsolete) Indulgence in concerns of the flesh; carnality, bodily appetites.
- fleshmonger — (archaic) One who deals in flesh; hence, a pimp, procurer, or pander.
- fletcherism — the practice of chewing food until it is reduced to a finely divided, liquefied mass: advocated by Horace Fletcher, 1849–1919, U.S. nutritionist.
- fletschhorn — a mountain in S Switzerland, in the Pennine Alps. 13,110 feet (3999 meters).
- flight test — to test (an airplane or the like) in flight.
- flight-test — to test (an airplane or the like) in flight.
- flightiness — The quality of being flighty.
- flourisheth — Archaic third-person singular form of flourish.
- flower shop — a shop where flowers and pot plants are sold
- flower show — a display or exhibition, often competitive, of flowers and plants
- flowerheads — Plural form of flowerhead.
- flushometer — a device for flushing toilets that uses system pressure rather than gravity and automatically shuts off after a measured amount of water flow in order to conserve water.
- flycatchers — Plural form of flycatcher.
- fo' shizzle — for sure; certainly; without question
- folkishness — The quality of being folkish.
- foolishness — resulting from or showing a lack of sense; ill-considered; unwise: a foolish action, a foolish speech.
- forest hill — a town in N Texas.
- fourflusher — a person who makes false or pretentious claims; bluffer.
- free school — a privately run school organized as an alternative to the traditional public or private school, usually following a highly flexible approach to the curriculum and teaching methods.
- freeholders — Plural form of freeholder.
- fundholders — Plural form of fundholder.
- fushionless — lacking strength or spirit
- gas lighter — device: produces flame
- generalship — skill as commander of a large military force or unit.
- gentileschi — Artemisia [ahr-tuh-mizh-uh,, -mizh-ee-uh;; Italian ahr-te-mee-zyah] /ˌɑr təˈmɪʒ ə,, -ˈmɪʒ i ə;; Italian ˌɑr tɛˈmi zyɑ/ (Show IPA), 1593?–1652? Italian painter.
- geophysical — the branch of geology that deals with the physics of the earth and its atmosphere, including oceanography, seismology, volcanology, and geomagnetism.
- ghastliness — The state of being ghastly.
- ghostliness — of, characteristic of, or resembling a ghost; phantasmal; spectral.
- girlishness — The quality of being girlish.
- glasshouses — Plural form of glasshouse.
- globefishes — Plural form of globefish.
- god help us — If you say God help us, you mean that you have negative feelings about the person or situation you are talking about.
- goldfinches — Plural form of goldfinch.