10-letter words containing i, s, o, h, a
- of fashion — of high social standing
- oireachtas — the parliament of the Republic of Ireland, consisting of the president, the Dail Eireann, and the Seanad Eireann.
- old danish — the Danish language as spoken and written from the 9th to the 14th centuries.
- old-siwash — a conventional designation for any small, provincial college or for such colleges collectively (often preceded by old): students from old Siwash.
- orchardist — a person who owns, manages, or cultivates an orchard.
- orpharions — Plural form of orpharion.
- outlandish — freakishly or grotesquely strange or odd, as appearance, dress, objects, ideas, or practices; bizarre: outlandish clothes; outlandish questions.
- overlavish — expended, bestowed, or occurring in profusion: lavish spending.
- pansophism — a claim or pretension to pansophy.
- pansophist — someone with universal knowledge
- parrotfish — any of various chiefly tropical marine fishes, especially of the family Scaridae: so called because of their brilliant coloring and the shape of their jaws.
- pastorship — the position, authority, or office of a pastor.
- patronship — a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
- peacockish — the male of the peafowl distinguished by its long, erectile, greenish, iridescent tail coverts that are brilliantly marked with ocellated spots and that can be spread in a fan.
- phantomish — resembling or reminiscent of a phantom
- phosphatic — of, relating to, or containing phosphates: phosphatic slag.
- phototaxis — movement of an organism toward or away from a source of light.
- physiocrat — one of a school of political economists who followed Quesnay in holding that an inherent natural order properly governed society, regarding land as the basis of wealth and taxation, and advocating a laissez-faire economy.
- poachiness — the state of being poachy
- poison haw — a shrub, Viburnum molle, of the central U.S., having white flowers and bluish-black fruit.
- polyphasic — having more than two phases.
- rhapsodist — a person who rhapsodizes.
- rhapsodize — to talk with extravagant enthusiasm.
- rheostatic — an adjustable resistor so constructed that its resistance may be changed without opening the circuit in which it is connected, thereby controlling the current in the circuit.
- richardson — Henry Handel (Henrietta Richardson Robertson) 1870–1946, Australian novelist.
- rose aphid — a dark green aphid, Macrosiphum rosae, that feeds on roses and related plants.
- saccharoid — having a granular texture like that of loaf sugar.
- sailor hat — a hat with a flat round crown and fairly broad brim that is rolled upwards
- saint john — Andrew, 1862–1928, Australian statesman, born in Scotland: prime minister 1908–09, 1910–13, 1914–15.
- sarcophagi — a stone coffin, especially one bearing sculpture, inscriptions, etc., often displayed as a monument.
- sarcophile — a flesh-eating animal, especially the Tasmanian devil.
- schizocarp — a dry, dehiscent fruit that at maturity splits into two or more one-seeded carpels.
- schizogamy — reproduction characterized by division of the organism into sexual and asexual parts, as in certain polychaetes.
- schizoidal — relating to a person with a schizoid personality disorder
- scholastic — of or relating to schools, scholars, or education: scholastic attainments.
- schooligan — a person of school age who engages in acts of public disorder
- schoolmaid — a schoolgirl
- semaphoric — an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
- 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.
- shadowlike — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
- shopaholic — a frequent shopper, especially one who is unable to control his or her spending.
- short-laid — hard-laid.
- shotmaking — the playing of good shots (by a sports player)
- 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.
- showcasing — a glass case for the display and protection of articles in shops, museums, etc.
- shylockian — a relentless and revengeful moneylender in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
- sinophobia — a fear or dislike of China, or Chinese people, their language or culture
- siphonogam — a plant that is pollinated by siphonogamy
- sitophobia — abnormal aversion to food.
- slavophile — a person who greatly admires the Slavs and Slavic ways.