11-letter words containing s, i, n, h
- shopkeeping — a retail merchant or tradesman; a person who owns or operates a small store or shop.
- shoplifting — to steal (merchandise) as a shoplifter.
- shortcoming — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
- show window — a display window in a store.
- shower unit — fitted shower
- showeriness — the state or quality of being showery
- showing-off — behaviour designed to impress people
- showjumping — horseriding event
- showmanship — the skill or ability of a showman.
- showrooming — the practice of looking at an item of merchandise in a shop, often using a smartphone app to compare its price elsewhere, before buying it from an online distributor
- shriekingly — with shrieking
- shrink wrap — transparent film for wrapping food
- shrink-wrap — to wrap and seal (a book, a food product, etc.) in a flexible film of plastic that, when exposed to a heating process, shrinks to the contour of the merchandise.
- shroud-line — a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
- shufflingly — in the manner of a shuffle
- shunamitism — the rejuvenation of an old man by sleeping with a young woman, although not necessarily having sex with her
- sickishness — the state of being sickish
- sightscreen — a white screen set in line with the wicket as an aid to the batsman in seeing the ball when it is bowled.
- sightseeing — the act of visiting and seeing places and objects of interest.
- silk finish — the appearance of paint, fabric etc with regard to its smoothness and light reflecting quality
- simethicone — an active ingredient in many antacid preparations that causes small mucus-entrapped air bubbles in the intestines to coalesce into larger bubbles that are more easily passed.
- singingfish — midshipman (def 3).
- single whip — an instrument for striking, as in driving animals or in punishing, typically consisting of a lash or other flexible part with a more rigid handle.
- single-hand — to sail (a craft) without help from others.
- single-hung — (of a window) having two sashes, only one of which is movable.
- single-shot — (of a firearm) requiring loading before each shot; not having or using a cartridge magazine.
- siphonogamy — a mode of pollination in which pollen tubes develop to facilitate the passage of male cells to eggs
- sir anthony — Sir Anthony, Van Dyck, Sir Anthony.
- sixteenthly — in sixteenth place
- sixth sense — a power of perception beyond the five senses; intuition: His sixth sense warned him to be cautious.
- sixty-ninth — next after the sixty-eighth; being the ordinal number for 69.
- sketchiness — like a sketch; giving only outlines or essentials. Synonyms: cursory, rough, meager, crude.
- skin-search — strip-search.
- slavishness — of or befitting a slave: slavish subjection.
- slightingly — derogatory and disparaging; belittling.
- sling chair — any of several varieties of chairs having a seat and back formed from a single sheet of canvas, leather, or the like, hanging loosely in a frame.
- slit trench — a narrow trench for one or more persons for protection against enemy fire and fragmentation bombs.
- smithereens — If something is smashed or blown to smithereens, it breaks into very small pieces.
- smithsonite — a native carbonate of zinc, ZnCO 3 , that is an important ore of the metal.
- snail shell — the spirally coiled shell of a snail
- snakishness — the state or quality of being like a snake
- snatchingly — in a snatching manner
- sneak thief — a burglar who sneaks into houses through open doors, windows, etc.
- snitch line — a direct telephone or other communications link set up to allow people to report neighbours, colleagues, etc suspected of wrongdoing
- snow chains — device that gives tyres extra grip
- snowshoeing — the activity of taking part in cross-country walks over snow
- soda siphon — fizzy water dispenser
- sonofabitch — an abusive term of address or of description
- soothsaying — the practice or art of foretelling events.
- sottishness — the state of being sottish