10-letter words containing h, o, p, s, t
- shop right — the right of an employer to use an employee's invention without compensating the employee for the use, in cases where the invention was made at the place of and during the hours of employment.
- shopfitter — a worker who makes and installs fittings for commercial premises
- shoplifter — a person who steals goods from the shelves or displays of a retail store while posing as a customer.
- shreveport — a city in NW Louisiana, on the Red River.
- sitophobia — abnormal aversion to food.
- slop chest — a supply of clothing, boots, tobacco, and other personal goods for sale to the crew of a ship during a voyage.
- slow pitch — a variety of softball in which the ball is pitched with an underhand motion at moderate speed in an arc that rises at least six feet above the ground
- slow-pitch — a type of softball with ten players per side and in which each pitch must travel in an arc from three to ten feet high.
- smartphone — a device that combines a cell phone with a handheld computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, email capability, etc.
- smoothpate — a bald person with a smooth head
- sociopathy — a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.
- soul patch — a small patch of facial hair below the centre of the lower lip and above the chin
- south pass — a mountain pass in SW Wyoming, cutting through the Rocky Mountains at the S of the Wind River range: part of the Oregon Trail.
- 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 shot — the launch of a spacecraft and its subsequent flight in space
- spatchcock — a fowl that has been dressed and split open for grilling.
- speleothem — a natural structure within a cave
- sphenodont — a member of the Sphenodont group of lizards
- spherocyte — an abnormal blood cell
- 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.
- spitchcock — an eel that is split, cut into pieces, and broiled or fried.
- splash out — If you splash out on something, especially on a luxury, you buy it even though it costs a lot of money.
- sporophyte — the form of a plant in the alternation of generations that produces asexual spores.
- sport fish — a type of fish that is prized for the sport it gives the angler in its capture rather than for its value as food.
- 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.
- staphyloma — a condition in which the sclera or cornea of the eye projects outwards due to inflammation
- 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.
- stock whip — a whip with a long lash and a short handle, as used to herd cattle
- strip show — a form of entertainment in which one or more people take off their clothes in a titillating and erotic manner, often to music
- strophiole — a small growth on some plants' seeds
- strophulus — a papular eruption of the skin, especially in infants, occurring in several forms and usually harmless.
- stylograph — a fountain pen in which the writing point is a fine, hollow tube instead of a nib.
- 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
- 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.
- symphonist — a composer who writes symphonies.
- 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.
- thriftshop — a retail store that sells secondhand goods at reduced prices.
- tight spot — a serious, difficult, or dangerous situation
- toolpusher — a foreman who supervises drilling operations on an oil rig