11-letter words starting with sh
- shear force — Shear force is force that makes one surface of a substance move over another parallel surface.
- shed dormer — a dormer with a flat roof sloping in the same direction as the roof from which the dormer projects.
- sheep track — a pathway made by and used by sheep, often in rocky or mountainous terrain, and sometimes followed by hikers
- sheep-shank — a kind of knot, hitch, or bend made on a rope to shorten it temporarily.
- sheepherder — shepherd (def 1).
- sheet glass — glass in sheet form produced by drawing or by the cylinder glass process.
- sheet metal — metal in sheets or thin plates.
- sheet music — music printed on unbound sheets of paper.
- sheherazade — a legendary Persian queen who is a character in (and the storyteller of) 'One Thousand and One Nights'
- shelbyville — a city in central Indiana.
- shelf angle — an angle iron attached to or suspended from a girder to carry masonry or the ends of a number of joists.
- shelf paper — paper used for covering shelves, especially those of a cupboard or kitchen cabinet.
- shelf space — amount of room on shelves
- shelftalker — a promotional sign used by a retailer to draw attention to a featured product on the shelf
- shell gland — a gland in certain invertebrates that secretes the components required for forming the shell of an egg
- shell shock — battle fatigue.
- shell steak — a cut of steak from the short loin
- shellacking — lac that has been purified and formed into thin sheets, used for making varnish.
- shellflower — an eastern Asian plant, Alpinia zerumbet, of the ginger family, having pendulous clusters of fragrant white flowers with variegated markings.
- shelterbelt — a row of trees providing shelter from the wind
- shelterless — something beneath, behind, or within which a person, animal, or thing is protected from storms, missiles, adverse conditions, etc.; refuge.
- shenanigans — Usually, shenanigans. mischief; prankishness: Halloween shenanigans. deceit; trickery.
- shepherdess — a girl or woman who herds sheep.
- shepherding — a person who herds, tends, and guards sheep.
- shergottite — a type of igneous rock or meteorite thought to originate on Mars
- sheriffalty — shrievalty.
- sheriffwick — shrievalty.
- sherlockian — pertaining to or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, known for his skill in solving mysteries through deductive reasoning.
- sherrington — Sir Charles Scott, 1861–1952, English physiologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1932.
- shield fern — any of numerous ferns of the genera Dryopteris and Polystichum, having shield-shaped indusia.
- shift gears — change speed manually in a vehicle
- shift lever — the lever mounted on the steering column or floor of a vehicle that enables the driver to shift gears.
- shifty-eyed — having the appearance of being dishonest, esp as signified by a lack of eye contact
- shigellosis — an acute intestinal infection caused by a bacterium of the genus Shigella, especially S. dysenteriae, common among children and characterized by fever, abdominal pain, and diarrhea.
- shimonoseki — a seaport on SW Honshu, in SW Japan: treaty ending Sino-Japanese War signed 1895.
- shine up to — to give forth or glow with light; shed or cast light.
- shingle oak — an oak, Quercus imbricaria, yielding a wood used for shingles, clapboards, etc.
- shiningness — brightness; brilliance
- shinplaster — a plaster for the shin or leg.
- shinsplints — inflammation of the muscles around the shinbone caused by strenuous exercise
- ship of war — warship.
- ship's boat — a boat for communication between ship and shore
- ship-broker — a person who acts for a shipowner by getting cargo and passengers for his ships and also handling insurance and other matters
- ship-rigged — (of a sailing vessel) rigged as a ship; full-rigged.
- shipbuilder — a person whose occupation is the designing or constructing of ship.
- shipka pass — a mountain pass in central Bulgaria, in the Balkan Mountains. 4375 feet (1335 meters) high.
- shipwrecked — the destruction or loss of a ship, as by sinking.
- shire horse — a large heavy breed of carthorse with long hair on the fetlocks
- shirt front — the front of a shirt, especially the part that is exposed when a jacket or vest is worn.
- shirt-dress — shirtwaist (def 2).