11-letter words containing s, p, h, r
- ship-rigged — (of a sailing vessel) rigged as a ship; full-rigged.
- shipbuilder — a person whose occupation is the designing or constructing of ship.
- shipwrecked — the destruction or loss of a ship, as by sinking.
- shoot craps — to play this game
- shop around — compare prices
- shopbreaker — a robber who breaks into a shop
- shot putter — a sportsperson who competes in the shot put
- shot-putter — a participant in shot put.
- show jumper — A show jumper is a person who takes part in the sport of show jumping.
- showerproof — (of clothing, fabric, etc.) treated so as to resist rain; rainproof.
- showstopper — Theater. a performer or performance that wins enthusiastic or prolonged applause.
- 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.
- sialography — radiography of salivary glands once they have been injected with a contrast medium
- siderophile — (of a cell or tissue) having an affinity for iron.
- sleep rough — to spend the night in the open; be without a home or without shelter
- smart phone — a device that combines a cell phone with a handheld computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, email capability, etc.
- snapshooter — an amateur photographer, especially one who takes snapshots with a simple camera.
- snobography — an account or description of snobs
- sociography — the branch of sociology that uses statistical data to describe social phenomena.
- soldiership — a person who serves in an army; a person engaged in military service.
- sonographer — a diagnostic technician who operates a sonograph
- sophistries — Sophistries are clever arguments that sound convincing but are in fact false.
- spanish fir — a species of fir native to S Spain and N Morocco, Abies pinsapo
- spare wheel — A spare wheel is a wheel with a tyre on it that you keep in your car in case you get a flat tyre and need to replace one of your wheels.
- sparrowhawk — a small, short-winged European hawk, Accipiter nisus, that preys on smaller birds.
- spatterdash — a long gaiter to protect the trousers or stockings, as from mud while riding.
- speakership — a person who speaks.
- spearheaded — the sharp-pointed head that forms the piercing end of a spear.
- speech form — linguistic form.
- speechcraft — the art of rhetoric
- speechifier — to make a speech or speeches; harangue.
- speechmaker — a person who delivers speeches.
- spendthrift — a person who spends possessions or money extravagantly or wastefully; prodigal.
- sperm whale — a large, square-snouted whale, Physeter catodon, valued for its oil and spermaceti: now reduced in number and rare in some areas.
- spermaphyte — the placenta of a plant
- spermatheca — a small sac or cavity in female or hermaphroditic invertebrates used to store sperm for fertilizing eggs, as in the queen bee.
- 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.
- spermophyte — spermatophyte.
- sphaeridium — a round body found on sea urchins
- spheroidize — to turn or be turned into spheroids
- spherometer — an instrument for measuring the curvature of spheres and curved surfaces.
- spheroplast — a Gram-negative bacterial cell with a cell wall that has been altered or is partly missing, resulting in a spherical shape.
- sphragistic — of or relating to seals or signet rings.
- sphygmogram — a tracing or diagram produced by a sphygmograph.
- spider hole — a foxhole with a camouflaged lid or cover in which a sniper hides
- spinsterish — Disparaging and Offensive. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
- spirochaete — any of various spiral-shaped motile bacteria of the family Spirochaetaceae, certain species, as Treponema, Leptospira, and Borrelia, being pathogenic to humans and other animals, and other species being free-living, saprophytic, or parasitic.
- spirography — the study of breathing using a spirograph
- splashboard — a board, guard, or screen to protect from splashing, as a dashboard of a vehicle or a guard placed over a wheel to intercept water, dirt, etc.