10-letter words containing c, r, o, s, h
- shore crab — any of numerous crabs that live along the shoreline between the tidemarks, as Hemigrapsus nudus (purple shore crab) of the Pacific coast of North America.
- short code — (language) (SHORTCODE) A pseudocode interpreter for mathematics problems, designed by John Mauchly in 1949 to execute on Eckert and Mauchly's BINAC and later on UNIVAC I and II. Short Code was possibly the first attempt at a high level language.
- shortcrust — light crumbly pastry
- shower cap — a plastic cap worn in the shower to keep the hair dry
- slow march — a march in slow time
- sophomoric — of or relating to a sophomore or sophomores.
- spherocyte — an abnormal blood cell
- spirochete — any of various spiral-shaped motile bacteria of the family Spirochaetaceae, certain species, as Treponema, Leptospira, and Borrelia, being pathogenic to humans and other animals, and other species being free-living, saprophytic, or parasitic.
- sticharion — a white tunic of silk or linen, corresponding to the alb, worn by deacons, priests, and bishops.
- stitchwork — embroidery or needlework.
- stitchwort — any of several plants belonging to the genus Stellaria, of the pink family, having white flowers.
- stockhorse — a horse or pony used in herding cattle.
- stracchino — a soft cheese from North Italy
- stretchout — a deliberate extension of time for meeting a production quota.
- supermacho — extremely macho
- switcheroo — an unexpected or sudden change or reversal in attitude, character, position, action, etc.
- switchover — the act or process of changing from one power source, system, etc., to another.
- synchronal — synchronous.
- synchronic — having reference to the facts of a linguistic system as it exists at one point in time without reference to its history: synchronic analysis; synchronic dialectology.
- tchernosem — chernozem.
- the chores — housework
- the forces — the armed services of a nation
- theocritus — flourished c270 b.c, Greek poet.
- theoretics — the theoretical or speculative part of a science or subject.
- thermotics — the scientific study of heat
- threescore — being or containing three times twenty; sixty.
- timocharis — a crater in the second quadrant of the face of the moon: about 25 miles (40 km) in diameter.
- tocherless — without dowry or tocher
- torch song — a popular song concerned with unhappiness or failure in love.
- tovarishch — comrade (used as a term of address in the Soviet Union).
- track shoe — a light, heelless, usually leather shoe having either steel spikes for use outdoors on a cinder or dirt track, or a rubber sole for use indoors on a board floor.
- track shot — a camera shot in which the cameraman follows a specific person or event in the action
- trichinose — to infest with parasitic worms (trichinae)
- trichinous — pertaining to or of the nature of trichinosis.
- trichocyst — an organ of offense and defense embedded in the outer cytoplasm of certain protozoans, consisting of a small elongated sac containing a fine, hairlike filament capable of being ejected.
- trichroism — pleochroism of a biaxial crystal such that it exhibits three different colors when viewed from three different directions under transmitted light.
- unactorish — not resembling or characteristic of actors or acting
- unhistoric — not famous or important in history
- unscorched — to affect the color, taste, etc., of by burning slightly: The collar of the shirt was yellow where the iron had scorched it.
- urosthenic — having a tail which drives movement of the body
- watchwords — Plural form of watchword.
- wordsearch — a puzzle made up of letters arranged in a grid which contains a number of hidden words running in various directions
- zoochorous — (of a plant) having the spores or seeds dispersed by animals