11-letter words containing s, h, i, l, o
- short field — the area of the infield between third base and second, covered by the shortstop.
- short title — an abridged listing in a catalog or bibliography, giving only such essential information as the author's name and the book's title, publisher, and date and place of publication.
- short-lived — living or lasting only a little while.
- shroud-laid — noting a fiber rope of four strands laid right-handed with or without a heart.
- shroud-line — a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
- sialography — radiography of salivary glands once they have been injected with a contrast medium
- sialorrhoea — an abnormally high production of saliva
- siderophile — (of a cell or tissue) having an affinity for iron.
- silhouetted — 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.
- single-shot — (of a firearm) requiring loading before each shot; not having or using a cartridge magazine.
- slow-twitch — of or relating to muscle fiber that contracts relatively slowly and is resistant to fatigue (distinguished from fast-twitch).
- soldierfish — any of several squirrelfishes of the family Holocentridae.
- soldiership — a person who serves in an army; a person engaged in military service.
- solid south — the states of the southern U.S. that traditionally supported the Democratic Party after the Civil War.
- sophistical — of the nature of sophistry; fallacious.
- sow thistle — any composite plant belonging to the genus Sonchus, especially S. oleraceus, a weed having thistlelike leaves, yellow flowers, and a milky juice.
- spermophile — any of various burrowing rodents of the squirrel family, especially of the genus Spermophilus (or Citellus), sometimes sufficiently numerous to do much damage to crops, as the ground squirrels and susliks.
- spider hole — a foxhole with a camouflaged lid or cover in which a sniper hides
- stenohaline — (of an aquatic organism) unable to withstand wide variation in salinity of the surrounding water.
- subchloride — a chloride containing a relatively small proportion of chlorine, as mercurous chloride.
- syphilology — the branch of medicine concerned with the study and treatment of syphilis
- technopolis — a society with a concentration of technology-based businesses or an emphasis on technology
- telephonist — a telephone switchboard operator.
- thermolysis — Physiology. the dispersion of heat from the body.
- thiosulfate — a salt or ester of thiosulfuric acid.
- thistledown — the mature, silky pappus of a thistle.
- thomasville — a city in S Georgia.
- thrasonical — boastful; vainglorious.
- trial horse — an opponent who performs against a superior foe in a workout or exhibition.
- triphyllous — having three leaves.
- ulotrichous — belonging to a group of people having woolly or crisply curly hair.
- unabolished — not abolished or revoked
- unlightsome — without light; dark
- vowel shift — a systematic phonetic change in a language's vowels
- waistcloths — Plural form of waistcloth.
- weight loss — slimming
- welsh corgi — one of either of two Welsh breeds of dogs having short legs, erect ears, and a foxlike head. Compare Cardigan (def 2), Pembroke (def 3).
- werewolfish — characteristic of a werewolf
- whirlabouts — Plural form of whirlabout.
- whistle for — 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.
- whistleblow — Alternative form of whistle-blow.
- whistlestop — (US, dated) A minor railway station at which a train would stop if requested.
- white lotus — either of two Egyptian water lilies of the genus Nymphaea, as N. caerulea (blue lotus) having light blue flowers, or N. lotus (white lotus) having white flowers.
- whole snipe — the common snipe. See under snipe (def 1).
- wholegrains — Wholegrains are the grains of cereals such as wheat and maize that have not been processed.
- wholesaling — the sale of goods in quantity, as to retailers or jobbers, for resale (opposed to retail).
- wholestitch — a type of stitch producing an effect similar to woven cloth
- wolfishness — The quality of being wolfish.
- workaholics — Plural form of workaholic.
- workaholism — a person who works compulsively at the expense of other pursuits.