10-letter words containing a, p, h
- small chop — cocktail snacks
- smartphone — a device that combines a cell phone with a handheld computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, email capability, etc.
- smoothpate — a bald person with a smooth head
- snaphaunce — an early flintlock mechanism for igniting a charge of gunpowder in a gun.
- snappishly — in a sharp or irritable manner
- sociopathy — a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.
- solar ship — (in ancient Egypt) a boat placed in or near the tomb of a king to transport him to the sun.
- sonography — the medical diagnostic imaging technique used to see internal organs, muscles, etc
- 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
- sousaphone — a form of bass tuba, similar to the helicon, used in brass bands.
- south pass — a mountain pass in SW Wyoming, cutting through the Rocky Mountains at the S of the Wind River range: part of the Oregon Trail.
- 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
- sparkishly — in a sparkish manner
- spatchcock — a fowl that has been dressed and split open for grilling.
- spathulate — spatulate.
- spaza shop — South African slang for a small shop in a township
- 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
- sphalerite — a very common mineral, zinc sulfide, ZnS, usually containing some iron and a little cadmium, occurring in yellow, brown, or black crystals or cleavable masses with resinous luster: the principal ore of zinc and cadmium; blackjack.
- sphenogram — a cuneiform character.
- sphenoidal — relating to the sphenoid bone
- spheroidal — pertaining to a spheroid or spheroids.
- spirograph — an instrument for recording respiratory movements.
- splanchnic — of or relating to the viscera or entrails; visceral.
- splanchno- — the viscera
- splash dam — a flood dam built to contain water that is released for driving logs.
- splash out — If you splash out on something, especially on a luxury, you buy it even though it costs a lot of money.
- splashback — a sheet of glass, plastic, etc, attached to a wall above a basin to protect the wall against splashing
- splashdown — the landing of a space vehicle in a body of water, especially the ocean.
- spokeshave — a cutting tool having a blade set between two handles, originally for shaping spokes, but now in general use for dressing curved edges of wood and forming round bars and shapes.
- spreaghery — the activity or crime of raiding cattle
- springhaas — a leaping and burrowing rodent, Pedetes capensis, native to southern Africa, having kangaroolike legs and long, pointed ears.
- springhalt — stringhalt.
- springhare — a leaping and burrowing rodent, Pedetes capensis, native to southern Africa, having kangaroolike legs and long, pointed ears.
- springhead — a spring or fountainhead from which a stream flows.
- spycatcher — a person who works in counterintelligence to detect enemy espionage activities
- staphyline — having a form resembling a bunch of grapes
- staphyloma — a condition in which the sclera or cornea of the eye projects outwards due to inflammation
- stenograph — any of various keyboard instruments, somewhat resembling a typewriter, used for writing in shorthand, as by means of phonetic or arbitrary symbols.
- stepfather — the husband of one's mother by a later marriage.
- stephanite — a mineral, silver antimony sulfide, Ag 5 SbS 4 : an ore of silver.
- strathspey — a slow Scottish dance in quadruple meter.
- strip-wash — a thorough, all-over wash with a flannel, sponge, etc, and water but without getting into a bath or shower
- stylograph — a fountain pen in which the writing point is a fine, hollow tube instead of a nib.
- subchapter — a subdivision especially of a body of laws.
- subhepatic — of or relating to the liver.
- sulphatase — an enzyme of the esterase group that catalyses the hydrolysis of sulphate esters