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10-letter words containing l, h, s

  • shirt-tail — the part of a shirt below the waistline.
  • shockingly — causing intense surprise, disgust, horror, etc.
  • shockstall — the loss of lift and increase of drag experienced by transonic aircraft when strong shock waves on the wings cause the airflow to separate from the wing surfaces
  • shop floor — The shop floor is used to refer to all the ordinary workers in a factory or the area where they work, especially in contrast to the people who are in charge.
  • shopaholic — a frequent shopper, especially one who is unable to control his or her spending.
  • shoplifter — a person who steals goods from the shelves or displays of a retail store while posing as a customer.
  • shopsoiled — worn, faded, tarnished, etc, from being displayed in a shop or store
  • shopwalker — a floorwalker.
  • shore lark — a bird: Eremophila alpestris
  • short bill — a bill of exchange that is payable at sight, on demand, or within less than ten days
  • short line — a bus or rail route covering only a limited distance.
  • short loin — the front part of a loin of beef, from the ribs to the sirloin
  • short sale — an act or instance of selling short.
  • short-haul — of, relating to, or engaged in transportation over short distances: a short-haul trucking firm.
  • short-laid — hard-laid.
  • short-life — not designed to last
  • short-list — to put on a short list.
  • shosholoza — a popular Zulu choral song
  • shot angle — the angle from which a shot is taken
  • shot clock — a clock used in basketball games to limit to a specific length the time taken between shots.
  • shot glass — a small, heavy glass for serving a shot of whiskey or liquor.
  • shot metal — lead hardened with antimony and arsenic, used to manufacture shot for cartridges.
  • shoutingly — by way of shouting
  • shovel hat — a hat with a broad brim turned up at the sides and projecting with a shovellike curve in front and behind; worn by some ecclesiastics, chiefly in England.
  • shovelhead — bonnethead.
  • shovelnose — any of various animals with a shovellike snout or head, as a guitarfish, Rhinobatos productus, of California.
  • show a leg — to get up in the morning
  • 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.
  • show-place — an estate, mansion, or the like, usually open to the public, renowned for its beauty, excellent design and workmanship, historical interest, etc.
  • shower gel — liquid soap product
  • showerless — without showers; rain-free
  • shrew mole — a grayish-black mole, Neurotrichus gibbsii, of the western coast of the U.S. and Canada, that grows to a length of about 3 inches (7.6 cm).
  • shrievalty — the office, term, or jurisdiction of a sheriff.
  • shrimplike — any of several small, long-tailed, chiefly marine crustaceans of the decapod suborder Natania, certain species of which are used as food.
  • shrivelled — shrunken and withered
  • shylockian — a relentless and revengeful moneylender in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
  • shylocking — a relentless and revengeful moneylender in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
  • side-light — an item of incidental information.
  • side-wheel — having a paddle wheel on each side, as a steamboat.
  • 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.
  • silverfish — a white or silvery goldfish, Carassius auratus.
  • silverhorn — any of various usually darkish caddis flies of the family Leptoceridae, characterized by very long pale antennae. The larvae are a favourite food of trout
  • singhalese — Sinhalese
  • singlehood — the status of being unmarried.
  • sinhailien — Xinhailian.
  • skaithless — without injury or damage
  • sketchable — suitable for being sketched.
  • skylighted — having or illuminated by a skylight.
  • slap happy — severely befuddled; punch-drunk: a slaphappy boxer.
  • slap-happy — severely befuddled; punch-drunk: a slaphappy boxer.
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