11-letter words containing s, h, v, e
- savannakhet — a city in S central Laos.
- servanthood — the condition of being a servant
- seven hills — a town in N Ohio.
- seventeenth — next after the sixteenth; being the ordinal number for 17.
- seventh-day — designating certain Christian denominations that make Saturday their chief day of rest and religious observance: Seventh-Day Adventists.
- shaft grave — a grave consisting of a deep, rectangular pit with vertical sides, roofed over with a stone slab.
- sharonville — a town in SW Ohio.
- sharpeville — a town in E South Africa: scene of riots in 1960 (when 69 demonstrators died), 1984, and 1985 (when 19 died)
- shaving gel — product that softens hair growth for shaving
- shcherbakov — a former name (1946–57) of Andropov.
- shelbyville — a city in central Indiana.
- shift lever — the lever mounted on the steering column or floor of a vehicle that enables the driver to shift gears.
- shirtsleeve — not wearing a jacket; informally dressed: a shirt-sleeve mob.
- shiveringly — in a shivering manner, usually from cold or fright
- shore leave — permission to spend time ashore, usually 48 hours or more, granted a member of a ship's company.
- short novel — a prose narrative midway between the novel and the short story in length and scope
- short-lived — living or lasting only a little while.
- shovel beak — a deformity of the beak in intensively reared chicks
- shovelboard — the game of shuffleboard.
- silver hake — a common hake, Merluccius bilinearis, occurring off the Atlantic coast of North America and popular as a food fish.
- silver thaw — glaze (def 17).
- silverchair — Australian rock group (formed 1994): comprising Daniel Johns (born 1979; vocals, guitar), Ben Gillies (born 1979, drums) and Chris Joannou (born 1979, bass guitar); their albums include Frogstomp (1995) and Young Modern (2007)
- silversmith — a person whose occupation is making and repairing articles of silver.
- slaveholder — an owner of slaves.
- slavishness — of or befitting a slave: slavish subjection.
- slough over — to gloss over; minimize
- smooth over — free from projections or unevenness of surface; not rough: smooth wood; a smooth road.
- south devon — a breed of large red cattle originally from South Devon
- south river — a borough in central New Jersey.
- stephen vii — died a.d. 931, pope 928–931.
- stevengraph — a small picture woven in colored silk thread: introduced in 1879 and mass-produced on a Jacquard-type loom.
- survey ship — a vessel designed to carry out research and surveying
- swedish ivy — any of various plants belonging to the genus Plectranthus, of the mint family, native to the Old World tropics, having rounded, scalloped or toothed leaves and widely cultivated as a houseplant.
- switch over — If you switch over when you are watching television, you change to another channel.
- swivel head — A swivel head is a bearing between the traveling block and the kelly.
- thanksgiver — a person who gives thanks.
- the five ks — items traditionally worn or carried by Sikhs, each possessing a symbolic importance
- the heavens — the sky
- the heavies — a serious newspaper
- the shivers — an attack of shivering, esp through fear or illness
- the vapours — a depressed mental condition believed originally to be the result of vaporous exhalations from the stomach
- the wharves — the working area of a dock
- thomasville — a city in S Georgia.
- thorvaldsen — Albert Bertal [ahl-bert bar-tuh l] /ˈɑl bɛrt ˈbær təl/ (Show IPA), 1770–1844, Danish sculptor.
- thrash over — to go over (a problem, etc.) in great detail
- travel shot — a camera shot taken from a mobile platform, dolly, or the like, that keeps within range of a moving subject.
- tu bishevat — the 15th day of the month of Shevat, observed as a new year for trees by planting trees and by eating fruits.
- turishcheva — Ludmilla (lʊdˈmɪlə). born 1952, Soviet gymnast: world champion 1970, 1972 (at the Olympic Games), and 1974
- unharvested — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- unvarnished — plain; clear; straightforward; without vagueness or subterfuge; frank: the unvarnished truth.