10-letter words containing c, r, e, n, s, h
- hand screw — a screw that can be tightened by the fingers, without the aid of a tool.
- heroicness — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
- hindrances — Plural form of hindrance.
- horse corn — field corn.
- hurricanes — Plural form of hurricane.
- hypersonic — noting or pertaining to speed that is at least five times that of sound in the same medium.
- hystricine — Like or pertaining to porcupines.
- increaseth — Archaic third-person singular form of increase.
- intershock — To shock mutually, as if by collision.
- intrenches — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intrench.
- lancashire — a county in NW England. 1174 sq. mi. (3040 sq. km).
- macpherson — James, 1736–96, Scottish author and translator.
- manchester — a city in NW England: connected with the Mersey estuary by a ship canal (35½ mi. [57 km] long).
- mischanter — mishanter.
- monarchies — a state or nation in which the supreme power is actually or nominally lodged in a monarch. Compare absolute monarchy, limited monarchy.
- nomarchies — Plural form of nomarchy.
- parischane — a parish
- phenocryst — any of the conspicuous crystals in a porphyritic rock.
- phrenesiac — hypochondriacal
- phrensical — frenzical; frenzied
- preachings — the act or practice of a person who preaches.
- princeship — a nonreigning male member of a royal family.
- ranshackle — to ransack
- rechristen — to christen or baptize (someone) again
- reichsbank — the former German national bank.
- reichstein — Tadeus [tah-dey-oo s] /tɑˈdeɪ ʊs/ (Show IPA), 1897–1996, Swiss chemist, born in Poland: Nobel Prize in medicine 1950.
- revanchism — an advocate or supporter of a political policy of revanche, especially in order to seek vengeance for a previous military defeat.
- revanchist — an advocate or supporter of a political policy of revanche, especially in order to seek vengeance for a previous military defeat.
- rhinoceros — any of several large, thick-skinned, perissodactyl mammals of the family Rhinocerotidae, of Africa and India, having one or two upright horns on the snout: all rhinoceroses are endangered.
- rhinoscope — a special instrument used to examine the nasal passages
- saccharine — of the nature of or resembling that of sugar: a powdery substance with a saccharine taste.
- sand perch — squirrelfish.
- scharwenka — (Ludwig) Philipp [loot-vikh fee-lip] /ˈlut vɪx ˈfi lɪp/ (Show IPA), 1847–1917, German composer.
- scherzando — (a musical direction) playful; sportive.
- schnitzler — Arthur [ahr-ther;; German ahr-too r] /ˈɑr θər;; German ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1862–1931, Austrian dramatist and novelist.
- schoenberg — Arnold (ˈarnɔlt). 1874–1951, Austrian composer and musical theorist, in the US after 1933. The harmonic idiom of such early works as the string sextet Verklärte Nacht (1899) gave way to his development of atonality, as in the song cycle Pierrot Lunaire (1912), and later of the twelve-tone technique. He wrote many choral, orchestral, and chamber works and the unfinished opera Moses and Aaron
- schongauer — Martin [mahr-tn;; German mahr-teen] /ˈmɑr tn;; German ˈmɑr tin/ (Show IPA), c1430–91, German engraver and painter.
- screeching — causing or uttering screeches: screeching bats.
- screenshot — Also called screen capture. a copy or image of what is seen on a computer screen at a given time: Save the screenshot as a graphics file.
- scruncheon — (in Newfoundland) a small crisp piece of fried pork fat
- scunthorpe — a town in E England, in North Lincolnshire unitary authority, Lincolnshire: developed rapidly after the discovery of local iron ore in the late 19th century; iron and steel industries have declined. Pop: 72 660 (2001)
- sea anchor — any of various devices, as a drogue, that have great resistance to being pulled through the water and are dropped forward of a vessel at the end of a cable to hold the bow into the wind or sea during a storm.
- sea urchin — any echinoderm of the class Echinoidea, having a somewhat globular or discoid form, and a shell composed of many calcareous plates covered with projecting spines.
- stretching — the activity of straightening the arms and legs and tightening the muscles
- strychnine — Pharmacology. a colorless, crystalline poison, C 2 1 H 2 2 N 2 O 2 , obtained chiefly by extraction from the seeds of nux vomica, formerly used as a central nervous system stimulant.
- subphrenic — underneath the diaphragm
- tchernosem — chernozem.
- the screen — the film industry or films collectively
- trichinose — to infest with parasitic worms (trichinae)
- ubermensch — superman (def 2).