5-letter words containing l, s, h
- leash — a chain, strap, etc., for controlling or leading a dog or other animal; lead.
- leish — active or athletic
- leshy — (Slavic mythology) A male woodland spirit in Slavic mythology who protects wild animals and forests.
- lhasa — Also, Thibet. Also called Sitsang, Xizang. Official name Tibet Autonomous Region. an administrative division of China, N of the Himalayas: prior to 1950 a theocracy under the Dalai Lama; the highest country in the world, average elevation about 16,000 feet (4877 meters). 471,660 sq. mi. (1,221,599 sq. km). Capital: Lhasa.
- lochs — Plural form of loch.
- lushy — drunk; tipsy.
- plash — a gentle splash.
- plush — a fabric, as of silk, cotton, or wool, whose pile is more than ⅛ inch (0.3 cm) high.
- sahel — the arid area on the S flank of the Sahara desert that stretches across six countries from Senegal to Chad.
- salah — salat.
- schul — shul.
- selah — an expression occurring frequently in the Psalms, thought to be a liturgical or musical direction, probably a direction by the leader to raise the voice or perhaps an indication of a pause.
- shale — a rock of fissile or laminated structure formed by the consolidation of clay or argillaceous material.
- shall — used to make a suggestion
- shalt — 2nd person singular of shall.
- shaly — of, like, or containing shale
- shaul — a wooden scoop made for winnowing corn
- shawl — a square, triangular, or oblong piece of wool or other material worn, especially by women, about the shoulders, or the head and shoulders, in place of a coat or hat outdoors, and indoors as protection against chill or dampness.
- sheal — a shell or pod
- shelf — a thin slab of wood, metal, etc., fixed horizontally to a wall or in a frame, for supporting objects.
- shell — a hard outer covering of an animal, as the hard case of a mollusk, or either half of the case of a bivalve mollusk.
- sheol — the abode of the dead or of departed spirits.
- shiel — a pasture or grazing ground.
- shilh — a member of a mountain people of Morocco.
- shill — a person who poses as a customer in order to decoy others into participating, as at a gambling house, auction, confidence game, etc.
- shily — a less common spelling of shyly
- shlep — to carry; lug: to schlep an umbrella on a sunny day.
- shlub — zhlob.
- shluh — plural of Shilh.
- shoal — any large number of persons or things.
- shola — a high-altitude evergreen forest in southern India
- shorl — the black variety of tourmaline
- shula — Donald Francis ("Don") born 1930, U.S. football coach.
- shull — Clifford Glenwood, 1915–2001, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1994.
- shuln — a synagogue.
- shyly — bashful; retiring.
- slash — to cut with a violent sweeping stroke or by striking violently and at random, as with a knife or sword.
- slish — a cut, slit or slash
- slosh — to splash or move through water, mud, or slush.
- sloth — habitual disinclination to exertion; indolence; laziness.
- slush — partly melted snow.
- stahl — Georg Ernst [gey-ork ernst] /geɪˈɒrk ɛrnst/ (Show IPA), 1660–1734, German chemist and physician.
- sylph — a slender, graceful woman or girl.
- walsh — Courtney (Andrew). born 1962, West Indian cricketer, born in Jamaica: a fast bowler, he took 519 wickets in 132 test matches (1984–2001)
- welsh — to cheat by failing to pay a gambling debt: You aren't going to welsh on me, are you?
- whsle — wholesale