10-letter words containing h, o, l, a
- shopwalker — a floorwalker.
- shore lark — a bird: Eremophila alpestris
- short sale — an act or instance of selling short.
- short-haul — of, relating to, or engaged in transportation over short distances: a short-haul trucking firm.
- short-laid — hard-laid.
- shosholoza — a popular Zulu choral song
- shot angle — the angle from which a shot is taken
- shot glass — a small, heavy glass for serving a shot of whiskey or liquor.
- shot metal — lead hardened with antimony and arsenic, used to manufacture shot for cartridges.
- shovel hat — a hat with a broad brim turned up at the sides and projecting with a shovellike curve in front and behind; worn by some ecclesiastics, chiefly in England.
- shovelhead — bonnethead.
- show a leg — to get up in the morning
- 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.
- show-place — an estate, mansion, or the like, usually open to the public, renowned for its beauty, excellent design and workmanship, historical interest, etc.
- shylockian — a relentless and revengeful moneylender in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
- slavophile — a person who greatly admires the Slavs and Slavic ways.
- slavophobe — a person who fears or hates the Slavs, their influence, or things Slavic.
- sloth bear — a coarse-haired, long-snouted bear, Ursus ursinus, of India and Indochina: now rare.
- slouch hat — a soft hat often made of felt and having a supple, usually broad brim.
- slow coach — a slowpoke.
- slow march — a march in slow time
- slow match — a slow-burning match or fuse, often consisting of a rope or cord soaked in a solution of saltpeter.
- small chop — cocktail snacks
- smallmouth — a river fish of the bass family
- 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.
- sophoclean — 495?–406? b.c, Greek dramatist.
- soul patch — a small patch of facial hair below the centre of the lower lip and above the chin
- sphenoidal — relating to the sphenoid bone
- spheroidal — pertaining to a spheroid or spheroids.
- splanchno- — the viscera
- splash out — If you splash out on something, especially on a luxury, you buy it even though it costs a lot of money.
- splashdown — the landing of a space vehicle in a body of water, especially the ocean.
- stadholder — the chief magistrate of the former republic of the United Provinces of the Netherlands.
- staphyloma — a condition in which the sclera or cornea of the eye projects outwards due to inflammation
- stomachful — the amount one's stomach can hold
- stylograph — a fountain pen in which the writing point is a fine, hollow tube instead of a nib.
- sulphonate — a salt or ester of any sulphonic acid containing the ion RSO2O– or the group RSO2O–, R being an organic group
- synaloepha — the blending of two successive vowels into one, especially the coalescence of a vowel at the end of one word with a vowel at the beginning of the next.
- synchronal — synchronous.
- tablecloth — a cloth for covering the top of a table, especially during a meal.
- talcahuano — a seaport in central Chile.
- tchoukball — a non-contact, team-orientated, ballgame developed by the Swiss biologist Dr H. Brandt, the object of the game is to throw the ball at a frame mounted with a springy surface so that it rebounds without being caught by the defending team
- terrachlor — pentachloronitrobenzene.
- tetrathlon — a contest featuring four sporting disciplines
- thalliform — resembling a thallus
- theologate — a seminary or school of theology
- theologian — a person versed in theology, especially Christian theology; divine.
- thimerosal — a cream-colored, crystalline, water-soluble powder, C 9 H 9 HgNaO 2 S, used chiefly as an antiseptic.