11-letter words containing s, t, h, r
- shitkickers — an unsophisticated farmer, cowboy, or other rural person; country person.
- shock front — the forward boundary surface of a shock wave.
- shoe-string — a shoelace.
- shoot craps — to play this game
- shootaround — an informal match or practice session
- short field — the area of the infield between third base and second, covered by the shortstop.
- short hairs — pubic hair.
- short jenny — an in-off into a middle pocket
- short metre — a stanza form, used esp for hymns, consisting of four lines, the third of which has eight syllables, while the rest have six
- short money — (in Britain) the annual payment made to Opposition parties in the House of Commons to help them pay for certain services necessary to the carrying out of their parliamentary duties; established in 1975
- short novel — a prose narrative midway between the novel and the short story in length and scope
- short score — a condensed version of the score for a musical composition, usually written for piano
- short sight — myopia
- short snort — a quick drink of liquor
- short story — a piece of prose fiction, usually under 10,000 words.
- 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-dated — (of a gilt-edged security) having less than five years to run before redemption
- short-lived — living or lasting only a little while.
- short-order — of, relating to, or specializing in short orders: a short-order cook; short-order diner.
- short-range — having a limited extent, as in distance or time: a short-range shot; a short-range plan.
- short-sheet — to fold and tuck in the top sheet of (a bed) so that it simulates both the top and bottom sheets: when the victim of this joke enters the bed, his or her legs are obstructed by the fold.
- short-timer — a person, as a soldier, who has a short period of time left to serve on a tour of duty.
- shortchange — to give less than the correct change to.
- shortcoming — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
- shorthaired — (of an animal) having hair that is short and lies close to the body.
- shortweight — to give less than the weight charged for: The firm is accused of shortweighting grain.
- shot putter — a sportsperson who competes in the shot put
- shot-putter — a participant in shot put.
- shower unit — fitted shower
- showstopper — Theater. a performer or performance that wins enthusiastic or prolonged applause.
- shunt motor — A shunt motor is a direct current motor whose two windings are in parallel, with the same voltage across each.
- shutter-bug — an amateur photographer, especially one who is greatly devoted to the hobby.
- shutterless — lacking a shutter
- sight draft — a draft payable upon presentation.
- sight rhyme — agreement in spelling, but not in sound, of the ends of words or of lines of verse, as in have, grave.
- sightscreen — a white screen set in line with the wicket as an aid to the batsman in seeing the ball when it is bowled.
- sightworthy — worth seeing
- silk thread — thread that is manufactured from silk
- silver thaw — glaze (def 17).
- silversmith — a person whose occupation is making and repairing articles of silver.
- sir anthony — Sir Anthony, Van Dyck, Sir Anthony.
- sit through — endure the whole of
- six-shooter — a revolver from which six shots can be fired without reloading.
- sixth chord — an inversion of a triad in which the second note (next above the root) is in the bass.
- sixth grade — (in the US) the sixth school year after kindergarten, usually containing pupils around 11 or 12 years old
- sixty-third — next after the sixty-second; being the ordinal number for 63.
- sixty-three — a cardinal number, 60 plus 3.
- slant rhyme — rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
- slaughtered — the killing or butchering of cattle, sheep, etc., especially for food.
- slit trench — a narrow trench for one or more persons for protection against enemy fire and fragmentation bombs.