10-letter words containing h, i, g, e, s
- shenanigan — Usually, shenanigans. mischief; prankishness: Halloween shenanigans. deceit; trickery.
- shield bug — any shield-shaped herbivorous heteropterous insect of the superfamily Pentamoidea, esp any of the family Pentatomidae
- shieldling — a person that is protected or guarded
- shillelagh — a cudgel, traditionally of blackthorn or oak.
- shimmering — a quivering or vibrating motion or image as produced by reflecting faint light or heat waves.
- shoestring — a shoelace.
- shortening — butter, lard, or other fat, used to make pastry, bread, etc., short.
- shuddering — trembling or quivering with fear, dread, cold, etc.
- shuttering — a solid or louvered movable cover for a window.
- side-light — an item of incidental information.
- sight-read — Someone who can sight-read can play or sing music from a printed sheet the first time they see it, without practising it beforehand.
- singhalese — Sinhalese
- singlehood — the status of being unmarried.
- skylighted — having or illuminated by a skylight.
- slathering — to spread or apply thickly: to slather butter on toast.
- sleigh bed — a bed resembling a sleigh in shape, with curved boards at the head and foot
- slithering — to slide down or along a surface, especially unsteadily, from side to side, or with some friction or noise: The box slithered down the chute.
- smoketight — (of a door, etc) not allowing smoke to pass through
- smothering — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
- somethings — Informal. a person or thing of some value or consequence: He is really something! This writer has something to say and she says it well.
- springhare — a leaping and burrowing rodent, Pedetes capensis, native to southern Africa, having kangaroolike legs and long, pointed ears.
- springhead — a spring or fountainhead from which a stream flows.
- squelching — to strike or press with crushing force; crush down; squash.
- steamtight — impervious to steam.
- straighten — make straight
- straighter — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- stretching — the activity of straightening the arms and legs and tightening the muscles
- subheading — a subordinate division of a title or heading.
- superlight — extremely light
- supertight — extremely tight
- sure thing — something that is or is supposed to be a certain success, as a bet or a business venture: He thinks that real estate is a sure thing.
- switchgear — switching equipment used in an electric power station.
- the guides — an organization for girls equivalent to the Scouts
- thinginess — the state or quality of being real or substantive
- thingstead — the meeting place of a Scandinavian assembly.
- tight-arse — an inhibited or excessively self-controlled person
- tonguefish — any of several flatfishes of the family Cynoglossidae, having the tail tapered to a point.
- un-english — not English; not characteristic of the English.
- undersight — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
- unshingled — not shingled
- upheapings — acts or instances of heaping up
- uptightest — most uptight
- vergership — the position or office of being a verger
- vinegarish — resembling vinegar, as in sourness or acidity: a vinegarish odor; a vinegarish disposition.
- weeknights — Plural form of weeknight.
- weightiest — Superlative form of weighty.
- weightings — Plural form of weighting.
- weightless — being without apparent weight, as a freely falling body or a body acted upon by a force that neutralizes gravitation.
- weightloss — (uncountable) The loss of bodily weight.
- whiskering — (fashion) The fading of creases in blue jeans, especially around the crotch; often added artificially in order to simulate a