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10-letter words containing l, e, t, i, s, h

  • shell suit — A shell suit is a casual suit which is made of thin nylon.
  • shibboleth — a peculiarity of pronunciation, behavior, mode of dress, etc., that distinguishes a particular class or set of persons.
  • shoplifter — a person who steals goods from the shelves or displays of a retail store while posing as a customer.
  • short line — a bus or rail route covering only a limited distance.
  • short-life — not designed to last
  • shrievalty — the office, term, or jurisdiction of a sheriff.
  • side-light — an item of incidental information.
  • silhouette — a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a person's face in profile.
  • skaithless — without injury or damage
  • skylighted — having or illuminated by a skylight.
  • slathering — to spread or apply thickly: to slather butter on toast.
  • sleep with — to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake.
  • sleepshirt — a shirtlike garment, usually knee-length or shorter, worn for sleeping.
  • slithering — to slide down or along a surface, especially unsteadily, from side to side, or with some friction or noise: The box slithered down the chute.
  • smithfield — a town in N Rhode Island.
  • southfield — a city in SE Michigan, W of Detroit.
  • sphalerite — a very common mineral, zinc sulfide, ZnS, usually containing some iron and a little cadmium, occurring in yellow, brown, or black crystals or cleavable masses with resinous luster: the principal ore of zinc and cadmium; blackjack.
  • spherulite — a rounded aggregate of radiating crystals found in obsidian and other glassy igneous rocks.
  • st. helier — a British island in the English Channel: the largest of the Channel Islands. 44 sq. mi. (116 sq. km). Capital: St. Helier.
  • st.-mihiel — a town in NE France, on the Meuse River, NW of Nancy: captured by American forces 1918.
  • stablished — establish.
  • staphyline — having a form resembling a bunch of grapes
  • stealthier — done, characterized, or acting by stealth; furtive: stealthy footsteps.
  • stealthily — done, characterized, or acting by stealth; furtive: stealthy footsteps.
  • stillhouse — a distillery or place where the distilling process takes place
  • strophiole — a small growth on some plants' seeds
  • sulphatise — to convert into a sulfate, as by the roasting of ores.
  • superlight — extremely light
  • sweetishly — in a sweetish manner
  • switchable — a slender, flexible shoot, rod, etc., used especially in whipping or disciplining.
  • the flicks — the cinema
  • the salish — the peoples collectively who speak these languages, divided in Canada into the Coast Salish and the Interior Salish
  • the-rivals — a comedy of manners (1775) by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
  • theophilus — a walled plain in the 4th quadrant of the face of the moon: about 65 miles (105 km) in diameter.
  • thessalian — a region in E Greece: a former division of ancient Greece. 5208 sq. mi. (14,490 sq. km).
  • thimerosal — a cream-colored, crystalline, water-soluble powder, C 9 H 9 HgNaO 2 S, used chiefly as an antiseptic.
  • thinsulate — a type of thermal insulation made of synthetic fibers, used esp. as a lining in clothing
  • thirstless — lacking thirst; not driven by thirst
  • thriftless — without thrift; improvident; wasteful.
  • thriveless — not thriving, flourishing or prospering
  • trophesial — involving or relating to trophesy
  • wealthiest — Superlative form of wealthy.
  • weightless — being without apparent weight, as a freely falling body or a body acted upon by a force that neutralizes gravitation.
  • weightloss — (uncountable) The loss of bodily weight.
  • westphalia — a former province in NW Germany, now a part of North Rhine-Westphalia: treaty ending the Thirty Years' War 1648.
  • whistle up — to call or summon (a person or animal) by whistling
  • white lias — a type of rock composed of pale-coloured limestones and marls
  • white list — a list of novels, motion pictures, etc., deemed suitable for juveniles, members of a particular faith, or other specified groups of individuals.
  • white sale — a sale of sheets, pillowcases, and other white goods.
  • whiteflies — Plural form of whitefly.
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