10-letter words containing h, y, a
- shantytown — a section, as of a city or town, characterized by shanties and crudely built houses.
- sharp-eyed — having keen sight or perception.
- shellycoat — a mythical creature dressed in shells who haunts rivers and streams
- short-stay — available or valid for a limited time
- shrievalty — the office, term, or jurisdiction of a sheriff.
- shylockian — a relentless and revengeful moneylender in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
- sixth year — (in Scotland) the most senior class in a secondary school to which pupils, usually above the legal leaving age, may proceed to take sixth-year studies, retake or take additional Highers, etc
- slap happy — severely befuddled; punch-drunk: a slaphappy boxer.
- slap-happy — severely befuddled; punch-drunk: a slaphappy boxer.
- slaughtery — a slaughterhouse
- sleepyhead — a sleepy person.
- smashingly — impressive or wonderful: a smashing display.
- snappishly — in a sharp or irritable manner
- sneakishly — in a stealthy or underhanded manner
- sociopathy — a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.
- solar myth — a myth explaining or allegorizing the origin or movement of the sun
- sonography — the medical diagnostic imaging technique used to see internal organs, muscles, etc
- soothsayer — a person who professes to foretell events.
- sparkishly — in a sparkish manner
- speech day — In some British schools, speech day is a day, usually at the end of the school year, when prizes are presented to pupils and speeches are made by guest speakers and the head teacher.
- spreaghery — the activity or crime of raiding cattle
- spycatcher — a person who works in counterintelligence to detect enemy espionage activities
- squarishly — in a squarish manner
- squirarchy — squirearchy.
- staphyline — having a form resembling a bunch of grapes
- staphyloma — a condition in which the sclera or cornea of the eye projects outwards due to inflammation
- starchedly — in a starched manner
- stealthily — done, characterized, or acting by stealth; furtive: stealthy footsteps.
- strathspey — a slow Scottish dance in quadruple meter.
- study hall — (in some schools) a room used solely or chiefly for studying.
- stylograph — a fountain pen in which the writing point is a fine, hollow tube instead of a nib.
- superheavy — Chemistry, Physics. pertaining to any of a series of elements having an atomic number greater than 103.
- switchyard — a railroad yard in which rolling stock is distributed or made up into trains.
- sycophancy — self-seeking or servile flattery.
- sympathies — harmony of or agreement in feeling, as between persons or on the part of one person with respect to another.
- sympathise — to be in sympathy or agreement of feeling; share in a feeling (often followed by with).
- sympathize — to be in sympathy or agreement of feeling; share in a feeling (often followed by with).
- symphysial — of, relating to, or noting a symphysis.
- 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.
- synanthous — relating to plants whose leaves and flowers expand simultaneously
- synchronal — synchronous.
- synthetase — ligase.
- tachometry — any of various instruments for measuring or indicating velocity or speed, as of a machine, a river, or the blood.
- tachygraph — tachygraphic writing.
- tachymeter — any of several instruments for rapidly determining distances, directions, and differences of elevation.
- tachymetry — any of several instruments for rapidly determining distances, directions, and differences of elevation.
- tachypneic — excessively rapid respiration.
- tachypnoea — excessively rapid respiration.
- tachytelic — of or relating to evolution at a rate faster than the standard for a given group of plants or animals.
- tail-heavy — noting or pertaining to a craft or vehicle that is too heavy in the rear, from overloading or poor design.