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11-letter words containing s, h, o, t, l

  • short field — the area of the infield between third base and second, covered by the shortstop.
  • short novel — a prose narrative midway between the novel and the short story in length and scope
  • 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.
  • shuttlecock — Also called shuttle. the object that is struck back and forth in badminton and battledore, consisting of a feathered cork head and a plastic crown.
  • 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.
  • sleuthhound — a bloodhound.
  • slow-twitch — of or relating to muscle fiber that contracts relatively slowly and is resistant to fatigue (distinguished from fast-twitch).
  • smooth-talk — to persuade by flattery, cajolery, coaxing, or the like: We smooth-talked the company into a huge donation.
  • soft launch — the launch of a website in stages, with regular updating
  • solar month — month (def 4).
  • solar-month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
  • solid south — the states of the southern U.S. that traditionally supported the Democratic Party after the Civil War.
  • solo mother — a mother with a dependent child or dependent children and no spouse
  • soothfastly — in a soothfast manner
  • sophistical — of the nature of sophistry; fallacious.
  • south tyrol — a former part of the Austrian state of Tyrol: ceded to Italy in 1919, becoming the Bolzano and Trento provinces of the Trentino-Alto Adige Autonomous Region. Area: 14 037 sq km (5420 sq miles)
  • south wales — an area of Wales bordered by England and the Bristol Channel to the east and south, and Mid Wales and West Wales to the north and west. Includes the capital city, Cardiff, as well as Swansea and Newport. Welsh name: De Cymru
  • southlander — a person from the south
  • southwardly — toward the south
  • sow thistle — any composite plant belonging to the genus Sonchus, especially S. oleraceus, a weed having thistlelike leaves, yellow flowers, and a milky juice.
  • spheroplast — a Gram-negative bacterial cell with a cell wall that has been altered or is partly missing, resulting in a spherical shape.
  • sports hall — venue for physical activities
  • stadtholder — stadholder.
  • stakeholder — the holder of the stakes of a wager.
  • stallholder — A stallholder is a person who sells goods at a stall in a market.
  • stenohaline — (of an aquatic organism) unable to withstand wide variation in salinity of the surrounding water.
  • stockholder — Also called stockowner. a holder or owner of stock in a corporation.
  • stomachless — lacking or not having a stomach
  • stroke hole — (in a handicap match) a hole at which players with a handicap deduct a stroke from the number taken to play the hole.
  • stylography — the art of writing, tracing, drawing, etc., with a style.
  • sulphurator — an apparatus used in treating anything with sulphur or sulphur fumes, such as in fumigating
  • sulphurwort — an umbelliferous perennial plant, Peucedanum officinale, of which the roots produce a smell like that of sulphur
  • szombathely — a city in W Hungary: founded a.d. 48.
  • tachysterol — an isomer of ergosterol, C28H44O, formed during the production of calciferol by the irradiation of ergosterol
  • talent show — a theatrical show in which a series of usually amateur or aspiring singers, dancers, comedians, instrumentalists, etc., perform in the hope of gaining recognition.
  • technopolis — a society with a concentration of technology-based businesses or an emphasis on technology
  • telephonist — a telephone switchboard operator.
  • telesphorus — pope a.d. 125?–136?.
  • the gallows — execution by hanging
  • the gorbals — a district of Glasgow, formerly known for its slums
  • the jobless — those who are unemployed
  • the old sod — one's native land
  • the schools — the medieval Schoolmen collectively
  • theftuously — in a theftuous or thievish manner
  • thelytokous — pertaining to or produced by thelytoky.
  • 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.
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