10-letter words containing n, e, d, h
- red shanks — herb Robert.
- red sindhi — one of an Indian breed of red Brahman dairy cattle, extensively used in crossbreeding with stocks less adapted to subtropical conditions.
- red-handed — in the act of committing a crime
- rehandling — a part of a thing made specifically to be grasped or held by the hand.
- rhodophane — the red colour found in the inner cones of the retina in animals
- roundheels — a prostitute.
- roundhouse — a building for the servicing and repair of locomotives, built around a turntable in the form of some part of a circle.
- sand perch — squirrelfish.
- sandwiched — two or more slices of bread or the like with a layer of meat, fish, cheese, etc., between each pair.
- scheduling — a plan of procedure, usually written, for a proposed objective, especially with reference to the sequence of and time allotted for each item or operation necessary to its completion: The schedule allows three weeks for this stage.
- scherzando — (a musical direction) playful; sportive.
- secondhand — not directly known or experienced; obtained from others or from books: Most of our knowledge is secondhand.
- send forth — to be a source of; cause to appear; give out or forth; produce, emit, utter, etc.
- shagreened — made, covered with, or resembling shagreen
- shake down — an act or instance of shaking, rocking, swaying, etc.
- shake-down — an act or instance of shaking, rocking, swaying, etc.
- shanghaied — to enroll or obtain (a sailor) for the crew of a ship by unscrupulous means, as by force or the use of liquor or drugs.
- sheet bend — a knot used esp for joining ropes of different sizes
- sheet down — (of rain) to fall heavily in sheets
- shellbound — encased in, or confined to, a shell
- shenandoah — a river flowing NE from N Virginia to the Potomac at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. About 200 miles (322 km) long.
- shetlander — a native or inhabitant of Shetland
- shieldling — a person that is protected or guarded
- shoddiness — of poor quality or inferior workmanship: a shoddy bookcase.
- shrewdness — astute or sharp in practical matters: a shrewd politician.
- shuddering — trembling or quivering with fear, dread, cold, etc.
- side chain — a group of atoms bound to an atom, usually a carbon, that forms part of a larger chain or ring in a molecule
- singlehood — the status of being unmarried.
- sleevehand — a sleeve's cuff or wristband
- sound head — a mechanism through which film passes in a projector for conversion of the soundtrack into audio-frequency signals that can be amplified and reproduced.
- sound hole — an opening in the soundboard of a musical stringed instrument, as a violin or lute, for increasing the soundboard's capacity for vibration.
- south bend — a city in N Indiana.
- south node — the descending node of the moon.
- sphenodont — a member of the Sphenodont group of lizards
- sphenoidal — relating to the sphenoid bone
- sphenopsid — equisetoid.
- springhead — a spring or fountainhead from which a stream flows.
- subheading — a subordinate division of a title or heading.
- subtrahend — a number that is subtracted from another.
- sun-shield — something put over the windscreen of a car to keep the sun out
- sutherland — Earl Wilbur, Jr. 1915–74, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1971.
- sweep hand — a hand, usually a second hand, centrally mounted with the minute and hour hands of a timepiece and reaching to the edge of the dial.
- sylphidine — resembling a sylph
- synecdoche — a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man.
- telephoned — an apparatus, system, or process for transmission of sound or speech to a distant point, especially by an electric device.
- thailander — Also called Thailander [tahy-lan-der, -luh n-] /ˈtaɪˌlæn dər, -lən-/ (Show IPA). a native or descendant of a native of Thailand.
- the beyond — the unknown; the world outside the range of human perception, esp life after death in certain religious beliefs
- the damned — souls doomed to eternal punishment
- the dozens — a form of verbal play in which the participants exchange witty, ribald taunts and insults, often specif. about each other's mother
- the dragon — the constellation Draco