10-letter words containing a, s, h, t
- saint john — Andrew, 1862–1928, Australian statesman, born in Scotland: prime minister 1908–09, 1910–13, 1914–15.
- salt chuck — the ocean.
- salt horse — salted beef; salt junk.
- salt marsh — a marshy tract that is wet with salt water or flooded by the sea.
- salt shake — a salt shaker.
- saltshaker — table-salt dispenser
- samothrace — a Greek island in the NE Aegean.
- sand yacht — land yacht.
- saprophyte — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
- saprotroph — any organism, esp a fungus or bacterium, that lives and feeds on dead organic matter
- satchelful — the amount a satchel will hold
- satyagraha — the policy of nonviolent resistance adopted by Mahatma Gandhi from about 1919 to oppose British rule in India
- satyagrahi — an exponent of nonviolent resistance, esp as a form of political protest
- saurashtra — a former state in W India, comprising most of Kathiawar peninsula: now part of Gujarat state. 21,062 sq. mi. (54,550 sq. km).
- scatheless — to attack with severe criticism.
- scatophagy — the act of eating dung or excrement
- schalstein — a slate-like rock formed by shearing basaltic or andesitic tuff or lava
- schematism — the particular form or disposition of a thing.
- schematist — a person who forms schemes; a schemer
- schematize — to reduce to or arrange according to a scheme.
- schismatic — Also, schismatical. of, relating to, or of the nature of schism; guilty of schism.
- scholastic — of or relating to schools, scholars, or education: scholastic attainments.
- schoolmate — a companion or associate at school.
- schwarzlot — a type of black decoration on German glassware and ceramics that was popular in the 17th and 18th centuries
- scratching — to break, mar, or mark the surface of by rubbing, scraping, or tearing with something sharp or rough: to scratch one's hand on a nail.
- scratchpad — pad of paper for rough notes
- search out — hunt for, seek
- semilethal — a semilethal gene
- shacharith — the religious service celebrated by Jews every morning.
- shackleton — Sir Ernest Henry, 1874–1922, English explorer of the Antarctic.
- shade tree — a tree planted or valued for its shade.
- shade-tree — a tree planted or valued for its shade.
- shadowcast — to enhance (a microscope image) by exposing it to a stream of a vapour of a heavy metal in order to create a shadow
- shagtastic — sexually attractive; sexy
- shahaptian — Sahaptian
- shakuntala — Sakuntala.
- shallowest — of little depth; not deep: shallow water.
- shan state — a state in E Burma (Myanmar), along the Saiween River. About 56,000 sq. mi. (145,040 sq. km).
- shantytown — a section, as of a city or town, characterized by shanties and crudely built houses.
- shape note — a musical note in which the degree of the scale is indicated by the shape of the note's head.
- shapetools — (tool, programming) A code management system for Unix from The Technical University of Berlin.
- sharenting — the habitual use of social media to share news, images, etc of one’s children
- shattering — to break (something) into pieces, as by a blow.
- shear stud — a stud that transfers shear stress between metal and concrete in composite structural members in which the stud is welded to the metal component
- shearwater — any of several long-winged petrels of the genus Puffinus that appear to shear the water with their wing tips when flying low.
- sheathbill — either of two white sea birds, Chionis alba or C. minor, of the colder parts of the Southern Hemisphere: so called from the horny sheath covering the base of the upper bill.
- sheathless — lacking a sheath or a covering
- sheeptrack — a small natural terrace on a hillside
- sheetmetal — metal in sheets or thin plates.
- shell star — a type of star showing bright emission lines superimposed on its normal absorption spectrum, presumably caused by a gaseous shell around the star.