10-letter words containing s, h, i, l, e
- sea dahlia — a garden plant, Coreopsis maritima, of the southwestern coast of North America, having long-stalked, solitary, yellow flower heads nearly 3 inches (7.6 cm) wide.
- seethingly — to surge or foam as if boiling.
- semilethal — a semilethal gene
- set chisel — a chisel having a broad edge at the end of a tapered shaft; used to cut the heads off bolts, rivets, etc.
- shadowlike — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
- sheathbill — either of two white sea birds, Chionis alba or C. minor, of the colder parts of the Southern Hemisphere: so called from the horny sheath covering the base of the upper bill.
- sheepishly — embarrassed or bashful, as by having done something wrong or foolish.
- sheet film — a flat piece of film cut to a required size before being loaded into a camera.
- sheet pile — one of a number of piles, usually flat, driven side by side to retain earth, etc., or to prevent seepage into an excavation.
- shelf life — the term or period during which a stored commodity remains effective, useful, or suitable for consumption: Many medicines have a very short shelf life.
- shell pink — delicate whitish to yellow pink.
- shell suit — A shell suit is a casual suit which is made of thin nylon.
- shell-like — a hard outer covering of an animal, as the hard case of a mollusk, or either half of the case of a bivalve mollusk.
- shelliness — the state or quality of being covered with shells
- shibboleth — a peculiarity of pronunciation, behavior, mode of dress, etc., that distinguishes a particular class or set of persons.
- shield bug — any shield-shaped herbivorous heteropterous insect of the superfamily Pentamoidea, esp any of the family Pentatomidae
- shield law — a law protecting journalists from forced disclosure of confidential sources of information.
- shieldless — lacking a shield or its protection
- shieldling — a person that is protected or guarded
- shieldwall — a protective wall formed by interlocking the shields of foot soldiers
- shillelagh — a cudgel, traditionally of blackthorn or oak.
- shiplapped — of, related to, or resembling shiplap
- shoplifter — a person who steals goods from the shelves or displays of a retail store while posing as a customer.
- shopsoiled — worn, faded, tarnished, etc, from being displayed in a shop or store
- short line — a bus or rail route covering only a limited distance.
- short-life — not designed to last
- shrievalty — the office, term, or jurisdiction of a sheriff.
- shrimplike — any of several small, long-tailed, chiefly marine crustaceans of the decapod suborder Natania, certain species of which are used as food.
- shrivelled — shrunken and withered
- side-light — an item of incidental information.
- side-wheel — having a paddle wheel on each side, as a steamboat.
- silhouette — a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a person's face in profile.
- silverfish — a white or silvery goldfish, Carassius auratus.
- silverhorn — any of various usually darkish caddis flies of the family Leptoceridae, characterized by very long pale antennae. The larvae are a favourite food of trout
- singhalese — Sinhalese
- singlehood — the status of being unmarried.
- sinhailien — Xinhailian.
- skaithless — without injury or damage
- skylighted — having or illuminated by a skylight.
- slash pine — a pine, Pinus elliotii, found in slashes and swamps in the southeastern U.S., yielding a hard, durable wood.
- slathering — to spread or apply thickly: to slather butter on toast.
- slave ship — a ship for transporting slaves from their native homes to places of bondage.
- slavophile — a person who greatly admires the Slavs and Slavic ways.
- sleep with — to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake.
- sleepshirt — a shirtlike garment, usually knee-length or shorter, worn for sleeping.
- sleigh bed — a bed resembling a sleigh in shape, with curved boards at the head and foot
- slide show — a presentation of photographic slides, or images on a transparent base, placed in a projector and viewed sequentially on a screen.
- slithering — 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.
- slush pile — a collection of unsolicited manuscripts submitted to a publisher.
- smithfield — a town in N Rhode Island.