10-letter words containing l, h, s
- striplight — a row of lamps, provided with a reflector for floodlighting the stage, used as border lights, footlights, backing lights, etc.
- stronghold — a well-fortified place; fortress.
- 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.
- 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.
- stylohyoid — of, relating to, or situated between the styloid process of the temporal bone and the hyoid bone.
- stylophone — a type of battery-powered electronic instrument played with a steel-tipped penlike stylus
- subchelate — having a claw with one pincer longer than the other
- sulfhydryl — mercapto.
- sulphatase — an enzyme of the esterase group that catalyses the hydrolysis of sulphate esters
- sulphatise — to convert into a sulfate, as by the roasting of ores.
- sulphonate — a salt or ester of any sulphonic acid containing the ion RSO2O– or the group RSO2O–, R being an organic group
- sulphonium — the hypothetical univalent radical -SH3
- sulphoxide — any compound containing a sulphinyl group (SO) and a hydrocarbon radical
- sulphurate — to combine or treat with sulphur or a sulphur compound
- sulphurise — to combine, treat, or impregnate with sulfur.
- sulphurize — to combine or treat with sulphur or a sulphur compound
- sulphurous — sulfurous (defs 1, 2).
- sun helmet — a rigid hat worn in tropical climates, mainly in the past
- sun-shield — something put over the windscreen of a car to keep the sun out
- superhelix — a coil formed by intertwined helical DNA or by protein chains.
- superlight — extremely light
- sutherland — Earl Wilbur, Jr. 1915–74, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1971.
- sweetishly — in a sweetish manner
- switchable — a slender, flexible shoot, rod, etc., used especially in whipping or disciplining.
- switchgirl — a woman who operates a telephone switchboard
- sylphidine — resembling a sylph
- symphilism — a type of sociable symbiosis by which an insect is a nourished guest of an ant or termite colony
- symphilous — of or relating to symphilism
- 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.
- synchronal — synchronous.
- syphilitic — pertaining to, noting, or affected with syphilis.
- talk trash — to engage in trash talk
- tashi lama — any of a succession of Tibetan monks and spiritual leaders, second in importance only to the Dalai Lama.
- tear shell — tear bomb.
- telemachus — the son of Odysseus and Penelope who helped Odysseus to kill the suitors of Penelope.
- thalassian — a sea turtle
- that's all — You can say that's all at the end of a sentence when you are explaining something and want to emphasize that nothing more happens or is the case.
- the flicks — the cinema
- the latest — most recent; current: latest fashions.
- the salish — the peoples collectively who speak these languages, divided in Canada into the Coast Salish and the Interior Salish
- the scales — the constellation Libra, the seventh sign of the zodiac
- the solent — a strait of the English Channel between the coast of Hampshire, on the English mainland, and the Isle of Wight. Width: up to 6 km (4 miles)
- the tables — laws, as the Ten Commandments or ancient Roman codes, inscribed on flat stone slabs
- the-castle — German Das Schloss. a novel (1926) by Franz Kafka.
- the-clouds — a comedy (423 b.c.) by Aristophanes.
- the-dalles — The, a city in N Oregon.
- the-rivals — a comedy of manners (1775) by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.