11-letter words containing s, t, h, r
- smart phone — a device that combines a cell phone with a handheld computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, email capability, etc.
- smear-sheet — a newspaper, magazine, or other periodical specializing in gossip, scandal, malicious innuendo, etc.
- smithereens — If something is smashed or blown to smithereens, it breaks into very small pieces.
- smooth over — free from projections or unevenness of surface; not rough: smooth wood; a smooth road.
- snapshooter — an amateur photographer, especially one who takes snapshots with a simple camera.
- softhearted — very sympathetic or responsive; generous in spirit: a soft-hearted judge.
- solar month — month (def 4).
- solar-month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
- solo mother — a mother with a dependent child or dependent children and no spouse
- somersworth — a town in SE New Hampshire.
- somewhither — to some unspecified place; somewhere.
- song thrush — a common, European songbird, Turdus philomelos.
- sophistries — Sophistries are clever arguments that sound convincing but are in fact false.
- sore throat — a painful or sensitive condition of the throat exaggerated by swallowing or talking, usually caused by bacteria or viruses; laryngitis; pharyngitis; tonsillitis.
- sothic year — the fixed year of the ancient Egyptians, determined by the heliacal rising of Sirius, and equivalent to 365 days.
- south korea — a country in E Asia: formed 1948 after the division of the former country of Korea at 38° N. 36,600 sq. mi. (94,795 sq. km). Capital: Seoul. Compare Korea.
- south river — a borough in central New Jersey.
- south tyrol — a former part of the Austrian state of Tyrol: ceded to Italy in 1919, becoming the Bolzano and Trento provinces of the Trentino-Alto Adige Autonomous Region. Area: 14 037 sq km (5420 sq miles)
- southbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
- southeaster — a wind or storm from the southeast.
- southernism — a pronunciation, expression, or behavioral trait characteristic of the U.S. South.
- southernize — to make or become southern
- southlander — a person from the south
- southwardly — toward the south
- southwester — a wind, gale, or storm from the southwest.
- spatterdash — a long gaiter to protect the trousers or stockings, as from mud while riding.
- speechcraft — the art of rhetoric
- spendthrift — a person who spends possessions or money extravagantly or wastefully; prodigal.
- 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.
- spermophyte — spermatophyte.
- 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.
- 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.
- split hairs — any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals; a pilus.
- sport shirt — a long- or short-sleeved soft shirt for informal wear by men, having a squared-off shirttail that may be left outside the trousers, usually worn without a tie.
- sports hall — venue for physical activities
- sports shop — a shop where sports clothes and equipment are sold
- spreadsheet — Accounting. a worksheet that is arranged in the manner of a mathematical matrix and contains a multicolumn analysis of related entries for easy reference on a single sheet.
- sprightless — without any spirit or liveliness
- spur blight — a disease of raspberries, characterized by reddish-brown spots on the stems, caused by a fungus, Didymella applanata.
- square with — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
- st. charles — a city in E Missouri, on the Missouri River.
- stadtholder — stadholder.
- stag's horn — the antlers of a stag used as a material for carved implements
- stage right — Stage right is the right side of the stage for an actor who is standing facing the audience.
- staggerbush — an ericaceous deciduous shrub, Lyonia mariana, of E North America, having white or pinkish flowers: it is poisonous to livestock
- stake horse — a horse that is regularly entered in stake races.