11-letter words containing sh
- leaderships — Plural form of leadership.
- leaf sheath — the basal part of a grass leaf that encircles the stem
- least shrew — a small, brownish shrew, Cryptotis parva, of grassy regions of the eastern U.S.
- leatherfish — a filefish.
- lectureship — the office of lecturer.
- leishmanial — Relating to leishmania.
- lemon shark — a common shallow-water shark, Negaprion brevirostris, having a yellowish body and inhabiting inshore regions of the Atlantic from North Carolina to Brazil.
- li shih-min — (Li Shih-min) a.d. 597–649, Chinese emperor of the T'ang dynasty 627–649.
- lickerishly — In a lickerish manner.
- lifemanship — the ability to conduct one's life, career, personal relationships, etc., in a successful manner.
- like a shot — a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
- liu shao qi — 1898–1974, Chinese Communist statesman; chairman of the People's Republic of China (1959–68); deposed during the Cultural Revolution
- lizard fish — any of several large-mouthed fishes of the family Synodontidae, having a lizardlike head.
- lock washer — a washer placed under a nut on a bolt or screw, so made as to prevent the nut from shaking loose.
- longshoring — the work or occupation of a longshoreman.
- loutishness — The state or quality of being loutish, of behaving like a lout.
- lukewarmish — fairly or somewhat lukewarm
- lumpishness — The property of being lumpish.
- luskishness — the state or condition of being luskish
- macintoshes — Plural form of macintosh.
- maharashtra — a state in W central India. 118,800 sq. mi. (307,690 sq. km). Capital: Mumbai.
- make a dash — If you make a dash for a place, you run there very quickly, for example to escape from someone or something.
- managership — a person who has control or direction of an institution, business, etc., or of a part, division, or phase of it.
- mannishness — The condition of being mannish; manliness or masculinity.
- mantelshelf — mantel (def 2).
- marcheshvan — Heshvan.
- marsh buggy — swamp buggy.
- marsh cress — any cress belonging to the genus Rorippa, of the mustard family, especially R. islandica, that grows in marshy areas in North America and Eurasia.
- marsh elder — any of various composite plants of the genus Iva, as I. frutescens, that grow in salt marshes.
- marsh grass — cordgrass.
- marsh tacky — a small, sometimes half-wild horse of the coastal marshes.
- marshallers — Plural form of marshaller.
- marshallese — a native or inhabitant of the Marshall Islands, especially a member of a Micronesian people native to these Islands.
- marshalling — a military officer of the highest rank, as in the French and some other armies. Compare field marshal.
- marshalship — The position or role of a marshal.
- marshlander — a person inhabiting marshland
- marshmallow — a sweetened paste or confection made from the mucilaginous root of the marsh mallow.
- marshmellow — Misspelling of marshmallow.
- mashie iron — a club with an iron head, the face having more slope than a mid-mashie but less slope than a mashie.
- matt finish — a dull finish or surface, as opposed to a shiny one
- mawkishness — characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional; maudlin.
- medium shot — a camera shot in which the subject is in the middle distance, permitting some of the background to be seen. Compare closeup (def 2), long shot (def 3).
- melon shrub — pepino (def 2).
- melpomenish — Tragic; relating to tragedy in a literary or theatrical work.
- memberships — Plural form of membership.
- mesha stele — Moabite Stone.
- meshuggeneh — an insane or stupid person
- meshuggener — Crazy, insane.
- messiahship — the promised and expected deliverer of the Jewish people.
- met-english — A Fortran-like language designed at Metropolitan Life in the early 1960s. It had support for variable-length bit fields. Most MetLife DP in the 1960s and 1970s was in Met-English. It was originally developed for Honeywell machines, but many programs still run under IBM MVS via a Honeywell emulator.