10-letter words containing e, c, a, s, h
- scapewheel — escape wheel.
- scatheless — to attack with severe criticism.
- schaerbeek — a city in central Belgium, near Brussels.
- schalstein — a slate-like rock formed by shearing basaltic or andesitic tuff or lava
- scharwenka — (Ludwig) Philipp [loot-vikh fee-lip] /ˈlut vɪx ˈfi lɪp/ (Show IPA), 1847–1917, German composer.
- schefflera — any of various tropical trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Schefflera, of the ginseng family, having glossy, palmately compound leaves and often cultivated as a houseplant.
- 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.
- scherzando — (a musical direction) playful; sportive.
- schliemann — Heinrich [hahyn-rikh] /ˈhaɪn rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1822–90, German archaeologist: excavated ancient cities of Troy and Mycenae.
- schlimazel — an inept, bungling person who suffers from unremitting bad luck.
- schongauer — Martin [mahr-tn;; German mahr-teen] /ˈmɑr tn;; German ˈmɑr tin/ (Show IPA), c1430–91, German engraver and painter.
- school age — the age set by law for children to start school attendance.
- schoolmate — a companion or associate at school.
- schumacher — Ernst Friedrich (ɛrnst ˈfriːdrɪç). 1911–77, British economist, born in Germany. He is best known for his book Small is Beautiful (1973)
- scrap heap — a pile of old, discarded material, as metal.
- scrap-heap — a pile of old, discarded material, as metal.
- scrollhead — billethead.
- 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 change — a striking change, as in appearance, often for the better.
- 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.
- seal beach — a town in S California.
- seannachie — a Gaelic storyteller in the Scottish Highlands or in Ireland
- search dog — a dog trained to assist rescue workers in finding people buried under rubble by detection by smell
- search out — hunt for, seek
- searchable — to go or look through (a place, area, etc.) carefully in order to find something missing or lost: They searched the woods for the missing child. I searched the desk for the letter.
- searchless — unsearchable; inscrutable.
- secondhand — not directly known or experienced; obtained from others or from books: Most of our knowledge is secondhand.
- semaphoric — an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
- sepulchral — of, relating to, or serving as a tomb.
- sex change — the alteration, by surgery and hormone treatments, of a person's physical sex characteristics to approximate those of the opposite sex: Born male, she now lives as a woman but has no plans for a sex change.
- shackleton — Sir Ernest Henry, 1874–1922, English explorer of the Antarctic.
- shade deck — a light deck supported by stanchions.
- shamefaced — modest or bashful.
- shankpiece — a piece of metal or fiber for giving form to the shank of a shoe.
- shear cell — A shear cell is a device for testing how a powder or particle mixture flows.
- sheep race — a single-file walkway for sheep at the entrance to a sheep-dip
- sheeptrack — a small natural terrace on a hillside
- shell back — an underside of a spoon bowl ornamented with a shell motif.
- shellacked — lac that has been purified and formed into thin sheets, used for making varnish.
- shellycoat — a mythical creature dressed in shells who haunts rivers and streams
- shit-faced — very drunk.
- shock wave — a region of abrupt change of pressure and density moving as a wave front at or above the velocity of sound, caused by an intense explosion or supersonic flow over a body.
- shoe cream — cream for polishing shoes
- 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.
- show-place — an estate, mansion, or the like, usually open to the public, renowned for its beauty, excellent design and workmanship, historical interest, etc.
- shower cap — a plastic cap worn in the shower to keep the hair dry
- side chain — a group of atoms bound to an atom, usually a carbon, that forms part of a larger chain or ring in a molecule
- side chair — a straight-backed chair without arms.