11-letter words containing t, h, a, l
- shelftalker — a promotional sign used by a retailer to draw attention to a featured product on the shelf
- shell steak — a cut of steak from the short loin
- sheriffalty — shrievalty.
- shinplaster — a plaster for the shin or leg.
- silk thread — thread that is manufactured from silk
- silver thaw — glaze (def 17).
- 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.
- small white — a small white butterfly, Artogeia rapae, with scanty black markings, the larvae of which feed on brassica leaves
- smooth-talk — to persuade by flattery, cajolery, coaxing, or the like: We smooth-talked the company into a huge donation.
- snatchingly — in a snatching manner
- soft launch — the launch of a website in stages, with regular updating
- 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.
- soothfastly — in a soothfast manner
- sophistical — of the nature of sophistry; fallacious.
- south wales — an area of Wales bordered by England and the Bristol Channel to the east and south, and Mid Wales and West Wales to the north and west. Includes the capital city, Cardiff, as well as Swansea and Newport. Welsh name: De Cymru
- southlander — a person from the south
- southwardly — toward the south
- spaceflight — the flying of manned or unmanned spacecraft into or in outer space.
- spheroplast — a Gram-negative bacterial cell with a cell wall that has been altered or is partly missing, resulting in a spherical shape.
- split hairs — any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals; a pilus.
- split-phase — pertaining to or noting a current in one of two parallel circuits that have a single-phase current source but unequal impedances and that produce currents of different phase.
- sports hall — venue for physical activities
- st. charles — a city in E Missouri, on the Missouri River.
- stadtholder — stadholder.
- stakeholder — the holder of the stakes of a wager.
- stallholder — A stallholder is a person who sells goods at a stall in a market.
- staphylinid — rove beetle.
- staphylitis — inflammation of the soft palate or uvula
- starlighted — lit by the stars
- staunchless — not able to be stanched
- stealth tax — Journalists sometimes refer to indirect taxes as stealth taxes.
- stenohaline — (of an aquatic organism) unable to withstand wide variation in salinity of the surrounding water.
- stickhandle — (in hockey and lacrosse) to control and skillfully maneuver the ball or puck with the stick.
- stomachless — lacking or not having a stomach
- strathclyde — a region in SW Scotland. 5300 sq. mi. (13,727 sq. km).
- stylography — the art of writing, tracing, drawing, etc., with a style.
- sublethally — in a sublethal manner
- sulphurator — an apparatus used in treating anything with sulphur or sulphur fumes, such as in fumigating
- swash plate — an inclined circular plate on a rotating shaft for transferring force and motion to or from parts reciprocating in a direction parallel to the axis of shaft rotation.
- switchblade — a pocketknife, the blade of which is held by a spring and can be released suddenly, as by pressing a button.
- synthetical — of, pertaining to, proceeding by, or involving synthesis (opposed to analytic).
- szombathely — a city in W Hungary: founded a.d. 48.
- tachina fly — any of numerous dipterous insects of the family Tachinidae, the larvae of which are parasitic on caterpillars, beetles, and other insects.
- tachysterol — an isomer of ergosterol, C28H44O, formed during the production of calciferol by the irradiation of ergosterol
- tailhopping — the act of hopping to lift the tails of the skis off the ground while flexing the knees into a crouching position
- take flight — an act or instance of fleeing or running away; hasty departure.
- talent show — a theatrical show in which a series of usually amateur or aspiring singers, dancers, comedians, instrumentalists, etc., perform in the hope of gaining recognition.
- tallahassee — a state in the SE United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico. 58,560 sq. mi. (151,670 sq. km). Capital: Tallahassee. Abbreviation: FL (for use with zip code), Fla.