10-letter words containing e, r, c, h
- schweitzer — Albert, 1875–1965, Alsatian writer, missionary, doctor, and musician in Africa: Nobel Peace Prize 1952.
- schwitters — Kurt [koo rt] /kʊərt/ (Show IPA), 1887–1948, German artist.
- scoresheet — a sheet of paper on which scores are recorded
- scrap heap — a pile of old, discarded material, as metal.
- scrap-heap — a pile of old, discarded material, as metal.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- seborrheic — an excessive and abnormal discharge from the sebaceous glands.
- 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
- sepulchral — of, relating to, or serving as a tomb.
- 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
- shitkicker — an unsophisticated farmer, cowboy, or other rural person; country person.
- 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.
- shower cap — a plastic cap worn in the shower to keep the hair dry
- side chair — a straight-backed chair without arms.
- sphericity — a spherical state or form.
- 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.
- spycatcher — a person who works in counterintelligence to detect enemy espionage activities
- squirearch — a member of the squirearchy.
- starchedly — in a starched manner
- stockhorse — a horse or pony used in herding cattle.
- stretching — the activity of straightening the arms and legs and tightening the muscles
- stretchout — a deliberate extension of time for meeting a production quota.
- 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.
- subchapter — a subdivision especially of a body of laws.
- subcharter — to rent a chartered vehicle
- subphrenic — underneath the diaphragm
- suckerfish — remora.
- super-rich — having wealth or great possessions; abundantly supplied with resources, means, or funds; wealthy: a rich man; a rich nation.
- superbitch — an exceptionally spiteful woman, a very bitchy person
- supermacho — extremely macho
- superthick — extremely thick
- switcheroo — an unexpected or sudden change or reversal in attitude, character, position, action, etc.
- switchgear — switching equipment used in an electric power station.