10-letter words containing h, o, n, s
- rough-sawn — (of wood) used as originally cut, without smoothing or sanding: shingles of rough-sawn cedar.
- roundheels — a prostitute.
- roundhouse — a building for the servicing and repair of locomotives, built around a turntable in the form of some part of a circle.
- ruthenious — containing bivalent ruthenium.
- saint john — Andrew, 1862–1928, Australian statesman, born in Scotland: prime minister 1908–09, 1910–13, 1914–15.
- 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.
- schizogony — (in the asexual reproduction of certain sporozoans) the multiple fission of a trophozoite or schizont into merozoites.
- schnozzola — a nose, especially one of unusually large size.
- schoenberg — Arnold (ˈarnɔlt). 1874–1951, Austrian composer and musical theorist, in the US after 1933. The harmonic idiom of such early works as the string sextet Verklärte Nacht (1899) gave way to his development of atonality, as in the song cycle Pierrot Lunaire (1912), and later of the twelve-tone technique. He wrote many choral, orchestral, and chamber works and the unfinished opera Moses and Aaron
- schongauer — Martin [mahr-tn;; German mahr-teen] /ˈmɑr tn;; German ˈmɑr tin/ (Show IPA), c1430–91, German engraver and painter.
- school run — The school run is the journey that parents make each day when they take their children to school and bring them home from school.
- schooligan — a person of school age who engages in acts of public disorder
- 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.
- 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)
- scyphozoan — any coelenterate of the class Scyphozoa, comprising the true marine jellyfishes.
- 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.
- secondhand — not directly known or experienced; obtained from others or from books: Most of our knowledge is secondhand.
- send forth — to be a source of; cause to appear; give out or forth; produce, emit, utter, etc.
- sextonship — the office of a sexton
- shackleton — Sir Ernest Henry, 1874–1922, English explorer of the Antarctic.
- 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.
- shake down — an act or instance of shaking, rocking, swaying, etc.
- shake-down — an act or instance of shaking, rocking, swaying, etc.
- shantytown — a section, as of a city or town, characterized by shanties and crudely built houses.
- shape note — a musical note in which the degree of the scale is indicated by the shape of the note's head.
- shear zone — Geology. a zone of closely spaced, approximately parallel faults or dispersed displacements.
- sheet down — (of rain) to fall heavily in sheets
- shellbound — encased in, or confined to, a shell
- shenandoah — a river flowing NE from N Virginia to the Potomac at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. About 200 miles (322 km) long.
- shevchenko — Taras Grigoryevich [Russian tah-ruh s gryi-gawr-yi-vyich] /Russian ˈtɑ rəs gryɪˈgɔr yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1814–61, Ukrainian national poet.
- shift down — When you shift down, you move the gear lever in the vehicle you are driving in order to use a lower gear.
- shikibuton — futon.
- ship money — a tax levied to finance the fitting out of warships: abolished 1640
- shirtfront — front of a shirt
- shockingly — causing intense surprise, disgust, horror, etc.
- shoddiness — of poor quality or inferior workmanship: a shoddy bookcase.
- shoe-shine — an act or instance of cleaning and polishing a pair of shoes.
- shoestring — a shoelace.
- shoot down — the act of shooting with a bow, firearm, etc.
- shop front — A shop front is the outside part of a shop which faces the street, including the door and windows.
- shopwindow — a window used for display of merchandise.
- shorefront — land along a shore.
- short iron — a club, as a pitcher, pitching niblick, or niblick, with a short shaft and an iron head the face of which has great slope, for hitting approach shots.
- short line — a bus or rail route covering only a limited distance.
- short loin — the front part of a loin of beef, from the ribs to the sirloin
- short-hand — a method of rapid handwriting using simple strokes, abbreviations, or symbols that designate letters, words, or phrases (distinguished from longhand).
- shortening — butter, lard, or other fat, used to make pastry, bread, etc., short.