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11-letter words containing s, h, r, a

  • sea leather — the skin of sharks, porpoises, dogfishes, etc., prepared and used for the same purposes as ordinary leather.
  • sea-poacher — poacher1 (def 2).
  • search term — Computers. a word or other term used to electronically retrieve data, Web pages, or other information from files, databases, etc.: When you search the shopping website, ads relating to your search terms will appear along with your search results.
  • searchingly — examining carefully or thoroughly: a searching inspection.
  • searchlight — a device, usually consisting of a light and reflector, for throwing a beam of light in any direction.
  • sedan chair — an enclosed vehicle for one person, borne on poles by two bearers and common during the 17th and 18th centuries.
  • sefer torah — Sepher Torah.
  • seismograph — any of various instruments for measuring and recording the vibrations of earthquakes.
  • self-hatred — the feeling of one who hates; intense dislike or extreme aversion or hostility.
  • senatorship — the office or position of a senator
  • sennacherib — died 681 b.c, king of Assyria 705–681.
  • serigrapher — someone who engages in serigraphy
  • serigraphic — of or pertaining to serigraphy
  • serotherapy — therapy by means of injections of a serum obtained especially from an immune animal.
  • serrano ham — cured ham from Spain
  • servanthood — the condition of being a servant
  • sex therapy — treatment of sexual disorders that have psychological causes, employing psychiatric counseling, behavior modification, and education.
  • shade-grown — grown in the shade, especially in artificial shade, as under a cloth.
  • shadow roll — sheepskin that is placed just below the eyes of a pacing horse in order to prevent it from seeing moving shadows cast by its body.
  • shadowgraph — a picture produced by throwing a shadow, as of the hands, on a lighted screen, wall, or the like.
  • shaft grave — a grave consisting of a deep, rectangular pit with vertical sides, roofed over with a stone slab.
  • shaftesbury — Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of, 1621–83, English statesman.
  • shag carpet — shag pile carpet
  • shakespeare — William ("the Bard"; "the Bard of Avon") 1564–1616, English poet and dramatist.
  • shameworthy — deserving shame; denoting something a person ought to be ashamed of
  • share draft — an interest-bearing checking account in a credit union.
  • share index — A share index is a number that indicates the state of a stock market. It is based on the combined share prices of a set of companies.
  • share issue — When there is a share issue, shares in a company are made available for people to buy.
  • share price — cost of financial stocks
  • shared care — an arrangement between a welfare agency and a family with a dependent handicapped member, whereby the agency takes the handicapped person into a home for respite care or in emergencies
  • shared line — a telephone number that is assigned to more than one person, for example in an office. When somebody calls the number, all of the phones will ring until somebody picks up their phone to answer the call
  • sharefarmer — a farmer who pays a fee to another in return for use of land to raise crops, etc
  • shareholder — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
  • shark siren — a siren sounded to warn swimmers of the presence of sharks
  • sharksucker — any of several remoras, as Echeneis naucrates, usually found attached to sharks.
  • sharonville — a town in SW Ohio.
  • sharp-eared — having pointed ears.
  • sharp-edged — having a fine edge or edges.
  • sharp-nosed — having a thin, pointed nose.
  • sharpbender — an organization that has been underperforming its competitors but suddenly becomes more successful, often as a result of new management or changes in its business strategy
  • sharpeville — a town in E South Africa: scene of riots in 1960 (when 69 demonstrators died), 1984, and 1985 (when 19 died)
  • shastracara — an action in accordance with the principles of the shastras.
  • shcharansky — (Natan) Anatoly [nah-tahn an-uh-toh-lee;; Russian uh-nuh-taw-lyee] /nɑˈtɑn ˌæn əˈtoʊ li;; Russian ʌ nʌˈtɔ lyi/ (Show IPA), born 1948, Soviet mathematician and human-rights activist, in Israel since 1986.
  • shcherbakov — a former name (1946–57) of Andropov.
  • shea butter — a solid, greenish, yellowish, or whitish fat derived from the seeds of the shea tree, used for food and in the manufacture of soaps and candles.
  • shear force — Shear force is force that makes one surface of a substance move over another parallel surface.
  • sheep track — a pathway made by and used by sheep, often in rocky or mountainous terrain, and sometimes followed by hikers
  • sheherazade — a legendary Persian queen who is a character in (and the storyteller of) 'One Thousand and One Nights'
  • shelf paper — paper used for covering shelves, especially those of a cupboard or kitchen cabinet.
  • shelftalker — a promotional sign used by a retailer to draw attention to a featured product on the shelf
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