10-letter words containing h, a, n, d, s
- marshlands — Plural form of marshland.
- mechanised — to make mechanical.
- midshipman — a student, as at the U.S. Naval Academy, in training for commission as ensign in the Navy or second lieutenant in the Marine Corps. Compare cadet (def 2).
- mishandled — Simple past tense and past participle of mishandle.
- mishandles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mishandle.
- nightshade — any of various plants of the genus Solanum, especially the black nightshade or the bittersweet.
- nightstand — night table.
- nordhausen — a city in central Germany: site of a former Nazi concentration camp.
- northlands — Plural form of northland.
- northwards — Also, northwards, northwardly. toward the north.
- ogden nash — John, 1752–1835, English architect and city planner.
- old danish — the Danish language as spoken and written from the 9th to the 14th centuries.
- outlandish — freakishly or grotesquely strange or odd, as appearance, dress, objects, ideas, or practices; bizarre: outlandish clothes; outlandish questions.
- patchstand — a small tazza.
- ras dashan — the highest mountain in Ethiopia, in the N part. 15,158 feet (4623 meters).
- red shanks — herb Robert.
- richardson — Henry Handel (Henrietta Richardson Robertson) 1870–1946, Australian novelist.
- sand chair — a low folding beach chair with a frame, usually of tubular metal, that slants outward below the seat, forming a base designed to be rested in the sand.
- sand perch — squirrelfish.
- sand shark — sand tiger.
- sand yacht — land yacht.
- sandwiched — two or more slices of bread or the like with a layer of meat, fish, cheese, etc., between each pair.
- sandy hook — a peninsula in E New Jersey, at the entrance to lower New York Bay. 6 miles (10 km) long.
- scherzando — (a musical direction) playful; sportive.
- secondhand — not directly known or experienced; obtained from others or from books: Most of our knowledge is secondhand.
- shadow pin — a vertical pin set in an azimuth instrument or at the center of a compass card, indicating by the direction of its shadow the azimuth of the sun.
- shadowland — a land or region of shadows, phantoms, unrealities, or uncertainties: the shadowland of imagination.
- 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.
- shandrydan — an old-fashioned hooded chaise.
- shandygaff — a mixed drink of beer with ginger beer.
- 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.
- shenandoah — a river flowing NE from N Virginia to the Potomac at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. About 200 miles (322 km) long.
- shetlander — a native or inhabitant of Shetland
- shin guard — a protective covering, usually of leather or plastic and often padded, for the shins and sometimes the knees, worn chiefly by catchers in baseball and goalkeepers in ice hockey.
- short-hand — a method of rapid handwriting using simple strokes, abbreviations, or symbols that designate letters, words, or phrases (distinguished from longhand).
- 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
- skid chain — a chain fitting over the tire of a car, truck, or other vehicle, to increase traction and prevent skidding on roads covered with ice or snow.
- sleevehand — a sleeve's cuff or wristband
- smash down — If you smash down a door, building, or other large heavy object, you hit it hard and break it until it falls on the ground.
- sound head — a mechanism through which film passes in a projector for conversion of the soundtrack into audio-frequency signals that can be amplified and reproduced.
- sphenoidal — relating to the sphenoid bone
- splashdown — the landing of a space vehicle in a body of water, especially the ocean.
- springhead — a spring or fountainhead from which a stream flows.
- subheading — a subordinate division of a title or heading.
- subtrahend — a number that is subtracted from another.
- sutherland — Earl Wilbur, Jr. 1915–74, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1971.
- sweep hand — a hand, usually a second hand, centrally mounted with the minute and hour hands of a timepiece and reaching to the edge of the dial.
- swung dash — a mark of punctuation (∼) used in place of a word or part of a word previously spelled out.