7-letter words containing s, h, e, l
- shelton — a city in SW Connecticut.
- shelves — plural of shelf.
- shibeli — river in E Africa, flowing from SE Ethiopia through Somalia into a swamp near the Juba River: c. 1,200 mi (1,931 km)
- shields — a broad piece of armor, varying widely in form and size, carried apart from the body, usually on the left arm, as a defense against swords, lances, arrows, etc.
- shilled — a person who poses as a customer in order to decoy others into participating, as at a gambling house, auction, confidence game, etc.
- shingle — small, waterworn stones or pebbles such as lie in loose sheets or beds on a beach.
- shipley — Dame Jenny, full name Jennifer (Mary) Shipley. born 1952, New Zealand National Party politician; prime minister (1997–1999)
- shirley — James, 1596–1666, English dramatist.
- shively — a city in N Kentucky, near Louisville.
- shizzle — a form of slang popularized by US rap musicians in which the trailing syllables of certain words are replaced by the suffix -izzle
- shoaler — a place where a sea, river, or other body of water is shallow.
- shoggle — to shake or joggle
- shoogle — to shake, sway, or rock back and forth
- shottle — a small drawer in a chest for keeping money and small or special things
- shrivel — shrink, dry up
- shuffle — to walk without lifting the feet or with clumsy steps and a shambling gait.
- shuttle — a device in a loom for passing or shooting the weft thread through the shed from one side of the web to the other, usually consisting of a boat-shaped piece of wood containing a bobbin on which the weft thread is wound.
- sithole — Ndabaningi (əndabaˈnɪŋɡɪ). 1920–2000, Zimbabwean clergyman and politician; leader of the Zimbabwe African National Union (1963–74). He was one of the negotiators of the internal settlement (1978) to pave the way for Black majority rule in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)
- slasher — a person or thing that slashes.
- slather — to spread or apply thickly: to slather butter on toast.
- sleechy — muddy
- sleight — skill; dexterity.
- slither — to slide down or along a surface, especially unsteadily, from side to side, or with some friction or noise: The box slithered down the chute.
- sloshed — drunk.
- spheral — of or relating to a sphere.
- spyhole — peephole in a door, etc.
- squelch — to strike or press with crushing force; crush down; squash.
- stealth — secret, clandestine, or surreptitious procedure.
- thistle — any of various prickly, composite plants having showy, purple flower heads, especially of the genera Cirsium, Carduus, or Onopordum.
- thyself — yourself
- unflesh — to remove flesh from
- unleash — to release from or as if from a leash; set loose to pursue or run at will.
- unshale — to expose
- unshell — to remove or liberate from or as from a shell.
- wealths — a great quantity or store of money, valuable possessions, property, or other riches: the wealth of a city.
- weblish — the shorthand form of English that is used in text messaging, chat rooms, etc
- welches — Plural form of welch.
- welshed — to cheat by failing to pay a gambling debt: You aren't going to welsh on me, are you?
- welsher — to cheat by failing to pay a gambling debt: You aren't going to welsh on me, are you?
- welshes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of welsh.
- whalers — Plural form of whaler.
- whilest — Obsolete form of whilst.
- whistle — to make a clear musical sound, a series of such sounds, or a high-pitched, warbling sound by the forcible expulsion of the breath through a small opening formed by contracting the lips, or through the teeth, with the aid of the tongue.
- z shell — (zsh) 1. sh with list processing and database enhancements. Version 2.1.o (before 1995-10-30). 2. A Unix command interpreter shell by Paul Falstad <[email protected]> some time before 1993-03-23. It is similar to, but not completely compatible with, ksh, with many additions to please csh users and some tcsh features. zsh supports editing of multi-line commands in a single buffer; variable editing; a command buffer stack; recursive globbing; manipulation of arrays; and spelling correction. zsh uses GNU autoconf so should compile and run on any modern version of UNIX, and many not-so-modern.