10-letter words containing h, o, p, e, s
- smoke shop — a shop selling tobacco products.
- smoothpate — a bald person with a smooth head
- so help me — to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.
- sophoclean — 495?–406? b.c, Greek dramatist.
- sophrosyne — moderation; discretion; prudence.
- sousaphone — a form of bass tuba, similar to the helicon, used in brass bands.
- south pole — the region of a magnet toward which the lines of magnetic induction converge (south pole) or from which the lines of induction diverge (north pole)
- space shoe — a custom shoe molded to the contours of the wearer's foot
- space shot — the launch of a spacecraft and its subsequent flight in space
- speed shop — a garage that specializes in fitting cars, especially hot rods, with custom-made mechanical equipment for racing.
- speleothem — a natural structure within a cave
- sphenodont — a member of the Sphenodont group of lizards
- sphenogram — a cuneiform character.
- sphenoidal — relating to the sphenoid bone
- sphenopsid — equisetoid.
- spherocyte — an abnormal blood cell
- spheroidal — pertaining to a spheroid or spheroids.
- spirochete — any of various spiral-shaped motile bacteria of the family Spirochaetaceae, certain species, as Treponema, Leptospira, and Borrelia, being pathogenic to humans and other animals, and other species being free-living, saprophytic, or parasitic.
- spirophore — a device for producing artificial respiration
- spokeshave — a cutting tool having a blade set between two handles, originally for shaping spokes, but now in general use for dressing curved edges of wood and forming round bars and shapes.
- sporophore — a fungus hypha specialized to bear spores.
- sporophyte — the form of a plant in the alternation of generations that produces asexual spores.
- spot check — impromptu inspection
- spot-check — to examine or investigate by means of a spot check.
- st. joseph — a city in NW Missouri, on the Missouri River.
- stenograph — any of various keyboard instruments, somewhat resembling a typewriter, used for writing in shorthand, as by means of phonetic or arbitrary symbols.
- stephenson — George, 1781–1848, English inventor and engineer.
- stepmother — the wife of one's father by a later marriage.
- strophiole — a small growth on some plants' seeds
- stylophone — a type of battery-powered electronic instrument played with a steel-tipped penlike stylus
- sulphonate — a salt or ester of any sulphonic acid containing the ion RSO2O– or the group RSO2O–, R being an organic group
- sulphoxide — any compound containing a sulphinyl group (SO) and a hydrocarbon radical
- supermacho — extremely macho
- superphone — a telephone with a high-speed processor that can perform many of the functions of a computer
- sweat-shop — a shop employing workers at low wages, for long hours, and under poor conditions.
- sweet shop — a store that sells candy.
- sweet-shop — a store that sells candy.
- symphonize — to play or sound together harmoniously.
- 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.
- teichopsia — a temporary visual impairment associated with migraine
- theophilus — a walled plain in the 4th quadrant of the face of the moon: about 65 miles (105 km) in diameter.
- theopneust — inspired by God or a god
- thesprotia — an ancient coastal district in SW Epirus.
- three-spot — a playing card, an upward face of a die, or a domino half bearing three pips.
- toolpusher — a foreman who supervises drilling operations on an oil rig
- toothpaste — a dentifrice in the form of paste.
- tophaceous — a calcareous concretion formed in the soft tissue about a joint, in the pinna of the ear, etc., especially in gout; a gouty deposit.
- trap house — a shelter from which the clay pigeons are released in trapshooting.
- trophesial — involving or relating to trophesy
- trophosome — an organ in deep-sea tube worms that is colonized by bacteria supplying the host worm with food and energy.