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11-letter words containing s, t, h, r

  • sulphurator — an apparatus used in treating anything with sulphur or sulphur fumes, such as in fumigating
  • sulphurwort — an umbelliferous perennial plant, Peucedanum officinale, of which the roots produce a smell like that of sulphur
  • super-earth — a hypothetical planet larger than the earth but smaller than the four gas giants Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus, thought to be orbiting the sun beyond the Kuiper belt but nearer than the Oort cloud: its existence is suggested by two known dwarf planets in a similar orbit
  • superbright — exceptionally bright
  • supergrowth — exceptional growth; very rapid growth
  • superheated — If a liquid is superheated, it has been heated to a temperature that is higher than its boiling point without being allowed to boil.
  • supersleuth — a detective. Synonyms: investigator, private investigator; private eye, gumshoe, shamus.
  • supersmooth — exceptionally smooth
  • svarabhakti — the process of inserting vowel sounds into a consonant cluster, as in a loanword to make it conform to the pattern of the speaker's language and, hence, more easily pronounceable, as in the Italian pronunciation [lahn-tsee-ke-nek-kaw] /ˌlɑn tsi kɛˈnɛk kɔ/ (Show IPA) for German Landsknecht [lahnts-knekht] /ˈlɑntsˌknɛxt/ (Show IPA).
  • swarthiness — (of skin color, complexion, etc.) dark.
  • sweat shirt — a heavy, loose, usually long-sleeved pullover made of cotton jersey, worn as by athletes to absorb sweat during or after exercise, sometimes with loose trousers (sweat pants) of the same material, forming an ensemble (sweat suit)
  • sweet birch — a North American tree, Betula lenta, having smooth, blackish bark and twigs that are a source of methyl salicylate.
  • sweet herbs — sweet-smelling herbs that are grown specifically for cooking
  • sweet shrub — Carolina allspice.
  • swipe right — to move a finger from left to right across a touchscreen in order to approve an image
  • switch over — If you switch over when you are watching television, you change to another channel.
  • switch yard — a railroad yard in which rolling stock is distributed or made up into trains.
  • switchboard — a structural unit on which are mounted switches and instruments necessary to complete telephone circuits manually.
  • switchgrass — a North American prairie grass
  • sword fight — duel with long-bladed weapons
  • sympathizer — a person who sympathizes.
  • synchrotron — a type of cyclotron consisting of magnetic sections alternately spaced with sections in which particles are electrostatically accelerated.
  • synthesiser — a person who, or thing which, synthesizes
  • synthesizer — a person or thing that synthesizes.
  • synthetizer — a person or thing that synthetizes
  • tachysterol — an isomer of ergosterol, C28H44O, formed during the production of calciferol by the irradiation of ergosterol
  • tax sharing — revenue sharing.
  • tax shelter — any financial arrangement (as a certain kind of investment or allowance) that results in a reduction or elimination of taxes due.
  • teachership — a person who teaches or instructs, especially as a profession; instructor.
  • telearchics — the remote control of electronic devices
  • telesphorus — pope a.d. 125?–136?.
  • tenterhooks — one of the hooks or bent nails that hold cloth stretched on a tenter.
  • terpsichore — Classical Mythology. the Muse of dancing and choral song.
  • tertianship — (in the Jesuit order) a period of strict discipline before the taking of final vows, beginning one or two years after ordination.
  • tetratheism — the belief that the Christian God is four persons
  • thale cress — a small cruciferous plant, Arabidopsis thaliana
  • thanksgiver — a person who gives thanks.
  • thar desert — a desert in NW India and S Pakistan. About 77,000 sq. mi. (200,000 sq. km).
  • thatcherism — the conservative policies, political philosophy, and leadership style of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, characterized especially by monetarism, privatization, and labor union reform.
  • the archers — a long-running soap opera broadcast six days a week on BBC Radio 4; created in 1950, it is set in a fictional village called Ambridge, and deals with the lives of the people who live and work there, especially the farming family called Archer
  • the borders — the area either side of the border between England and Scotland
  • the british — the people of Great Britain
  • the cornish — the natives or inhabitants of Cornwall
  • the diggers — a radical English Puritan group, led by Gerrard Winstanley, which advocated communal ownership of land (1649–50)
  • the forties — the numbers 40–49 in a particular century, esp the 20th century
  • the gorbals — a district of Glasgow, formerly known for its slums
  • the horrors — a fit of extreme nervousness, panic, depression, revulsion, etc.
  • the jitters — nervousness and anxiety
  • the marches — borderlands between England & Scotland and between England & Wales
  • the midrash — these commentaries and notes collectively
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