8-letter words containing s, h, e, l
- shingled — a thin piece of wood, slate, metal, asbestos, or the like, usually oblong, laid in overlapping rows to cover the roofs and walls of buildings.
- shingles — small, waterworn stones or pebbles such as lie in loose sheets or beds on a beach.
- shinleaf — a North American plant, Pyrola elliptica, having leaves used formerly for shinplasters.
- shipless — free of ships
- shiralee — swag2 (def 2).
- shirleen — a female given name, form of Shirley.
- shitless — If someone says that they are scared shitless or bored shitless, they are emphasizing that they are extremely scared or bored.
- shlemiel — an awkward and unlucky person for whom things never turn out right.
- shockley — William Bradford, 1910–1989, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1956.
- shoebill — a large, African, storklike bird, Balaeniceps rex, having a broad, flattened bill shaped somewhat like a shoe.
- shoelace — a string or lace for fastening a shoe.
- shoeless — an external covering for the human foot, usually of leather and consisting of a more or less stiff or heavy sole and a lighter upper part ending a short distance above, at, or below the ankle.
- shothole — a hole drilled in rock, coal, ore, etc., to hold explosives used in blasting.
- shotwell — James Thomson, 1874–1965, U.S. diplomat, historian, and educator.
- shoulder — the part of each side of the body in humans, at the top of the trunk, extending from each side of the base of the neck to the region where the arm articulates with the trunk.
- shoveled — an implement consisting of a broad blade or scoop attached to a long handle, used for taking up, removing, or throwing loose matter, as earth, snow, or coal.
- shoveler — a person or thing that shovels.
- showable — to cause or allow to be seen; exhibit; display.
- shrapnel — Military. a hollow projectile containing bullets or the like and a bursting charge, designed to explode before reaching the target, and to set free a shower of missiles. such projectiles collectively.
- shrewdly — astute or sharp in practical matters: a shrewd politician.
- shrieval — of, belonging to, or relating to a sheriff.
- shrilled — high-pitched and piercing in sound quality: a shrill cry.
- shriller — high-pitched and piercing in sound quality: a shrill cry.
- shuffler — a person who shuffles.
- shunless — unable to be shunned
- shuttler — a person who weaves
- sidehill — a hillside.
- sighless — without uttering a sigh
- sighlike — resembling a sigh
- sinkhole — a hole formed in soluble rock by the action of water, serving to conduct surface water to an underground passage.
- skelloch — a shriek
- slaphead — a bald person
- slathers — to spread or apply thickly: to slather butter on toast.
- slighted — small in amount, degree, etc.: a slight increase; a slight odor.
- slithery — 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.
- sloebush — a bush on which sloes grow
- slouched — to sit or stand with an awkward, drooping posture.
- sloucher — to sit or stand with an awkward, drooping posture.
- sloughed — the outer layer of the skin of a snake, which is cast off periodically.
- spherule — a small sphere or spherical body.
- splasher — a person or thing that splashes.
- stealthy — done, characterized, or acting by stealth; furtive: stealthy footsteps.
- stendhal — (Marie Henri Beyle) 1783–1842, French novelist and critic.
- subshell — a group of electrons in an atom belonging to the same shell and also having the same azimuthal quantum number.
- suchlike — of any such kind; similar.
- suckhole — a sycophant; toady
- sulphate — A sulphate is a salt of sulphuric acid.
- sulphide — A sulphide is a compound of sulphur with some other chemical elements.
- sulphite — any salt or ester of sulphurous acid, containing the ions SO32– or HSO3– (hydrogen sulphite) or the groups –SO3 or –HSO3. The salts are usually soluble crystalline compounds
- sulphone — any of a class of organic compounds containing the divalent group –SO2 linked to two other organic groups. Certain sulphones are used in the treatment of leprosy and tuberculosis