10-letter words containing a, p, c, h
- sheep race — a single-file walkway for sheep at the entrance to a sheep-dip
- sheeptrack — a small natural terrace on a hillside
- ship canal — a canal navigable by ships.
- shopaholic — a frequent shopper, especially one who is unable to control his or her spending.
- show-place — an estate, mansion, or the like, usually open to the public, renowned for its beauty, excellent design and workmanship, historical interest, etc.
- shower cap — a plastic cap worn in the shower to keep the hair dry
- shrinkpack — flexible plastic used for shrink-wrapping goods
- sketch map — a rough map of the principal features of a locale, as one drawn from memory.
- skin patch — an adhesive patch stuck to the skin to slowly and steadily release medicine into the bloodstream
- small chop — cocktail snacks
- snaphaunce — an early flintlock mechanism for igniting a charge of gunpowder in a gun.
- sociopathy — a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.
- sophoclean — 495?–406? b.c, Greek dramatist.
- soul patch — a small patch of facial hair below the centre of the lower lip and above the chin
- space shoe — a custom shoe molded to the contours of the wearer's foot
- space shot — the launch of a spacecraft and its subsequent flight in space
- spatchcock — a fowl that has been dressed and split open for grilling.
- speech act — any of the acts that may be performed by a speaker in making an utterance, as stating, asking, requesting, advising, warning, or persuading, considered in terms of the content of the message, the intention of the speaker, and the effect on the listener.
- speech day — In some British schools, speech day is a day, usually at the end of the school year, when prizes are presented to pupils and speeches are made by guest speakers and the head teacher.
- sphacelate — affected with gangrene
- splanchnic — of or relating to the viscera or entrails; visceral.
- splanchno- — the viscera
- splashback — a sheet of glass, plastic, etc, attached to a wall above a basin to protect the wall against splashing
- spycatcher — a person who works in counterintelligence to detect enemy espionage activities
- subchapter — a subdivision especially of a body of laws.
- subhepatic — of or relating to the liver.
- supermacho — extremely macho
- sycophancy — self-seeking or servile flattery.
- tachograph — a recording tachometer.
- tachygraph — tachygraphic writing.
- tachypneic — excessively rapid respiration.
- tachypnoea — excessively rapid respiration.
- teichopsia — a temporary visual impairment associated with migraine
- telepathic — communication between minds by some means other than sensory perception.
- the parcae — the Roman goddesses of fate
- theophanic — a manifestation or appearance of God or a god to a person.
- tocophobia — an abnormal fear of giving birth or becoming pregnant
- tophaceous — a calcareous concretion formed in the soft tissue about a joint, in the pinna of the ear, etc., especially in gout; a gouty deposit.
- touchpaper — paper saturated with potassium nitrate to make it burn slowly, used for igniting explosives and fireworks.
- typhaceous — belonging to the family of flowering plants Typhaceae
- unemphatic — uttered, or to be uttered, with emphasis; strongly expressive.
- unpathetic — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
- urographic — of or relating to urography
- vectograph — a technology that uses special glasses to see a photographic image between two plastic sheets as three dimensional
- watchstrap — fabric strip on a wearable timepiece
- what price — You use what price in front of a word or expression that refers to something happening when you want to ask how likely it is to happen. You usually do this to emphasize either that it is very likely or very unlikely.
- whitespace — Alternative spelling of white space.
- xiphopagic — making up or constituting a xiphopagus
- zincograph — (formerly) a zinc plate produced by zincography.