10-letter words containing e, n, a, h
- saehrimnir — a boar that is roasted and served up every night in Valhalla and grows whole by morning.
- safe haven — an area near a combat zone that is maintained as being free from military attack.
- sand perch — squirrelfish.
- sandwiched — two or more slices of bread or the like with a layer of meat, fish, cheese, etc., between each pair.
- sanmicheli — Michele [mee-ke-le] /miˈkɛ lɛ/ (Show IPA), 1484–1559, Italian architect and military engineer.
- sapphirine — consisting of sapphire; like sapphire, especially in color.
- 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.
- 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.
- schongauer — Martin [mahr-tn;; German mahr-teen] /ˈmɑr tn;; German ˈmɑr tin/ (Show IPA), c1430–91, German engraver and painter.
- 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.
- seamanship — knowledge and skill pertaining to the operation, navigation, management, safety, and maintenance of a ship.
- seannachie — a Gaelic storyteller in the Scottish Highlands or in Ireland
- secondhand — not directly known or experienced; obtained from others or from books: Most of our knowledge is secondhand.
- 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.
- shabbiness — impaired by wear, use, etc.; worn: shabby clothes.
- shackleton — Sir Ernest Henry, 1874–1922, English explorer of the Antarctic.
- shagginess — covered with or having long, rough hair.
- shaggymane — an edible and elongated fungus or mushroom, Coprinus comatus, with shaggy scales across the cap and black spores
- shagreened — made, covered with, or resembling shagreen
- shake down — an act or instance of shaking, rocking, swaying, etc.
- shake-down — an act or instance of shaking, rocking, swaying, etc.
- shan state — a state in E Burma (Myanmar), along the Saiween River. About 56,000 sq. mi. (145,040 sq. km).
- shanghaied — to enroll or obtain (a sailor) for the crew of a ship by unscrupulous means, as by force or the use of liquor or drugs.
- shanghaier — a person who shanghais
- shankpiece — a piece of metal or fiber for giving form to the shank of a shoe.
- shape note — a musical note in which the degree of the scale is indicated by the shape of the note's head.
- sharenting — the habitual use of social media to share news, images, etc of one’s children
- sharpen up — hone, refine
- sharpening — the act of making the edge of something very thin or of making its end pointed
- shattering — to break (something) into pieces, as by a blow.
- shear zone — Geology. a zone of closely spaced, approximately parallel faults or dispersed displacements.
- shebagging — the practice by a female passenger on public transport of placing a bag on the seat beside her, so denying it to another passenger
- sheepshank — a kind of knot, hitch, or bend made on a rope to shorten it temporarily.
- shell bean — any of various kinds of bean of which the unripe seeds are removed from the pods before cooking.
- shenandoah — a river flowing NE from N Virginia to the Potomac at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. About 200 miles (322 km) long.
- shenanigan — Usually, shenanigans. mischief; prankishness: Halloween shenanigans. deceit; trickery.
- shetlander — a native or inhabitant of Shetland
- shoshonean — (in some, especially earlier, classifications) a grouping of four branches of the Uto-Aztecan language family including Numic, Hopi, and several languages of southern California.
- shot angle — the angle from which a shot is taken
- 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
- singhalese — Sinhalese
- sinhailien — Xinhailian.
- slash pine — a pine, Pinus elliotii, found in slashes and swamps in the southeastern U.S., yielding a hard, durable wood.
- slathering — to spread or apply thickly: to slather butter on toast.
- sleevehand — a sleeve's cuff or wristband
- smartphone — a device that combines a cell phone with a handheld computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, email capability, etc.