10-letter words containing h, o, a, r
- shopwalker — a floorwalker.
- 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.
- shore lark — a bird: Eremophila alpestris
- short game — the aspect of golf considered in relation to the ability of a player to hit medium or short shots, as chip shots, pitch shots, and putts, with accuracy. Compare long game (def 1).
- short head — a distance shorter than the length of a horse's head
- short rate — a charge, proportionately higher than the annual rate, made for insurance issued or continued in force by the insured for less than one year.
- short ream — 480 sheets of paper
- short sale — an act or instance of selling short.
- short wave — Electricity. a radio wave, shorter than that used in AM broadcasting, corresponding to frequencies of over 1600 kilohertz: used for long-distance reception or transmission.
- short-arse — a small man
- short-hand — a method of rapid handwriting using simple strokes, abbreviations, or symbols that designate letters, words, or phrases (distinguished from longhand).
- short-haul — of, relating to, or engaged in transportation over short distances: a short-haul trucking firm.
- short-laid — hard-laid.
- short-stay — available or valid for a limited time
- short-wave — Electricity. a radio wave, shorter than that used in AM broadcasting, corresponding to frequencies of over 1600 kilohertz: used for long-distance reception or transmission.
- shortboard — a type of surfboard that is shorter than standard
- shortbread — a butter cookie commonly made in thick, pie-shaped wheels or rolled and cut in fancy shapes.
- shortgrass — any of several range grasses of short stature, as buffalo grass, prevalent in semiarid regions of the Great Plains.
- show trial — (especially in a totalitarian state) the public trial of a political offender conducted chiefly for propagandistic purposes, as to suppress further dissent against the government by making an example of the accused.
- showboater — a boat, especially a paddle-wheel steamer, used as a traveling theater.
- shower cap — a plastic cap worn in the shower to keep the hair dry
- shower tea — kitchen tea.
- showerhead — a brief fall of rain or, sometimes, of hail or snow.
- sloth bear — a coarse-haired, long-snouted bear, Ursus ursinus, of India and Indochina: now rare.
- slow march — a march in slow time
- smart home — a dwelling equipped with systems and appliances that can be operated remotely using a computer or mobile phone
- smartmouth — a witty or sarcastic person
- smartphone — a device that combines a cell phone with a handheld computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, email capability, etc.
- solar myth — a myth explaining or allegorizing the origin or movement of the sun
- solar ship — (in ancient Egypt) a boat placed in or near the tomb of a king to transport him to the sun.
- solar-heat — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
- sonography — the medical diagnostic imaging technique used to see internal organs, muscles, etc
- soothsayer — a person who professes to foretell events.
- southwards — moving, bearing, facing, or situated toward the south.
- sphenogram — a cuneiform character.
- spheroidal — pertaining to a spheroid or spheroids.
- spirograph — an instrument for recording respiratory movements.
- stadholder — the chief magistrate of the former republic of the United Provinces of the Netherlands.
- stenograph — any of various keyboard instruments, somewhat resembling a typewriter, used for writing in shorthand, as by means of phonetic or arbitrary symbols.
- sticharion — a white tunic of silk or linen, corresponding to the alb, worn by deacons, priests, and bishops.
- stonebrash — a type of subsoil consisting of small or broken stones or rock
- stracchino — a soft cheese from North Italy
- stylograph — a fountain pen in which the writing point is a fine, hollow tube instead of a nib.
- sugarhouse — a shed or other building where maple syrup or maple sugar is made.
- supermacho — extremely macho
- synchronal — synchronous.
- tachograph — a recording tachometer.
- tachometer — any of various instruments for measuring or indicating velocity or speed, as of a machine, a river, or the blood.
- tachometry — any of various instruments for measuring or indicating velocity or speed, as of a machine, a river, or the blood.
- taha māori — a Māori perspective or dimension of a subject