10-letter words containing a, s, h, t
- steamtight — impervious to steam.
- 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.
- sticharion — a white tunic of silk or linen, corresponding to the alb, worn by deacons, priests, and bishops.
- stochastic — of or relating to a process involving a randomly determined sequence of observations each of which is considered as a sample of one element from a probability distribution.
- stomachful — the amount one's stomach can hold
- stomachous — resentful, sullen, obstinate
- stonebrash — a type of subsoil consisting of small or broken stones or rock
- stracchino — a soft cheese from North Italy
- straight a — achieving or showing the highest grade or superior accomplishment, especially scholastically: a straight A report card.
- straighten — make straight
- straighter — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- strathspey — a slow Scottish dance in quadruple meter.
- stringhalt — a nerve disorder in horses, causing exaggerated flexing movements of the hind legs in walking.
- strip-wash — a thorough, all-over wash with a flannel, sponge, etc, and water but without getting into a bath or shower
- study hall — (in some schools) a room used solely or chiefly for studying.
- 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.
- subcharter — to rent a chartered vehicle
- subchelate — having a claw with one pincer longer than the other
- subhepatic — of or relating to the liver.
- subtrahend — a number that is subtracted from another.
- sulphatase — an enzyme of the esterase group that catalyses the hydrolysis of sulphate esters
- sulphatise — to convert into a sulfate, as by the roasting of ores.
- sulphonate — a salt or ester of any sulphonic acid containing the ion RSO2O– or the group RSO2O–, R being an organic group
- sulphurate — to combine or treat with sulphur or a sulphur compound
- sunbathing — to take a sunbath.
- sutherland — Earl Wilbur, Jr. 1915–74, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1971.
- swatchbook — a booklet containing samples (of paper, cloth, etc)
- sweat-shop — a shop employing workers at low wages, for long hours, and under poor conditions.
- sweathouse — (especially among North American Indians) a special building used for cleansing and purifying one's body by sweating, in which heated water is poured over heated stones to produce steam.
- sweatshirt — a loose, long-sleeved, collarless pullover of soft, absorbent fabric, as cotton jersey, with close-fitting or elastic cuffs and sometimes a drawstring at the waist, commonly worn during athletic activity for warmth or to induce sweating.
- sweetheart — either of a pair of lovers in relation to the other.
- switchable — a slender, flexible shoot, rod, etc., used especially in whipping or disciplining.
- switchback — a highway, as in a mountainous area, having many hairpin curves.
- switchgear — switching equipment used in an electric power station.
- switchyard — a railroad yard in which rolling stock is distributed or made up into trains.
- sympathies — harmony of or agreement in feeling, as between persons or on the part of one person with respect to another.
- sympathise — to be in sympathy or agreement of feeling; share in a feeling (often followed by with).
- sympathize — to be in sympathy or agreement of feeling; share in a feeling (often followed by with).
- synanthous — relating to plants whose leaves and flowers expand simultaneously
- synthetase — ligase.
- take shape — the quality of a distinct object or body in having an external surface or outline of specific form or figure.
- talk trash — to engage in trash talk
- tannhauser — a German lyric poet of the 13th century: a well-known legend tells of his stay with Venus in the Venusberg and his later repentance.
- tashi lama — any of a succession of Tibetan monks and spiritual leaders, second in importance only to the Dalai Lama.
- tatpurusha — a compound of two words in which the first is an attributive noun and the second a substantive, as bookcase, aircraft, or flowerpot.
- tear sheet — a sheet or page torn from a magazine, journal, or the like, as one containing an advertisement and sent to the advertiser as proof of publication.
- tear shell — tear bomb.