10-letter words containing e, c, h, o
- ricocheted — the motion of an object or a projectile in rebounding or deflecting one or more times from the surface over which it is passing or against which it hits a glancing blow.
- rochambeau — Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur [zhahn ba-teest daw-na-syan duh vee-mœr] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist dɔ naˈsyɛ̃ də viˈmœr/ (Show IPA), Count de, 1725–1807, French general: marshal of France 1791–1807; commander of the French army in the American Revolution.
- roche alum — an alumlike substance derived from alunite.
- rockhopper — a small penguin, Eudyptes crestatus, of Antarctica, the Falkland Islands, and New Zealand, with a yellow crest on each side of its head
- routemarch — march in which a unit retains its column formation but individuals are allowed to break step.
- saccharose — sucrose.
- samothrace — a Greek island in the NE Aegean.
- sarcophile — a flesh-eating animal, especially the Tasmanian devil.
- scherzando — (a musical direction) playful; sportive.
- 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.
- school age — the age set by law for children to start school attendance.
- school tie — old school tie.
- schoolmate — a companion or associate at school.
- schooltide — schooldays
- schooltime — the period during which schools are open
- scoresheet — a sheet of paper on which scores are recorded
- scotch egg — British Cookery. a hard-boiled egg encased in sausage meat, breaded, and deep-fried.
- 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.
- screw hook — a hook having a shank in the form of a screw.
- scrollhead — billethead.
- 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.
- search dog — a dog trained to assist rescue workers in finding people buried under rubble by detection by smell
- search out — hunt for, seek
- seborrheic — an excessive and abnormal discharge from the sebaceous glands.
- 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.
- semichorus — half of a chorus; part of a chorus to be sung by a portion but not all of the singers
- shackleton — Sir Ernest Henry, 1874–1922, English explorer of the Antarctic.
- shellshock — loss of sight, memory, etc, resulting from psychological strain during prolonged engagement in warfare
- shellycoat — a mythical creature dressed in shells who haunts rivers and streams
- shevchenko — Taras Grigoryevich [Russian tah-ruh s gryi-gawr-yi-vyich] /Russian ˈtɑ rəs gryɪˈgɔr yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1814–61, Ukrainian national poet.
- shock tube — an apparatus in which a gas is heated to very high temperatures by means of a shock wave, usually for spectroscopic investigation of the natures and reactions of the resulting radicals and excited molecules
- 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.
- shock-test — to test (equipment or matériel) for resistance to sudden impact or stress.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- sketch out — describe briefly
- sketchbook — Also, sketchpad. a book or pad of drawing paper for sketches.
- slop chest — a supply of clothing, boots, tobacco, and other personal goods for sale to the crew of a ship during a voyage.
- somewhence — from somewhere
- sophoclean — 495?–406? b.c, Greek dramatist.
- space shoe — a custom shoe molded to the contours of the wearer's foot
- space shot — the launch of a spacecraft and its subsequent flight in space
- spherocyte — an abnormal blood cell