10-letter words containing n, i, s, h
- ship money — a tax levied to finance the fitting out of warships: abolished 1640
- shipentine — a four-masted bark.
- shirtfront — front of a shirt
- shittiness — inferior or contemptible.
- shockingly — causing intense surprise, disgust, horror, etc.
- shoddiness — of poor quality or inferior workmanship: a shoddy bookcase.
- shoe-shine — an act or instance of cleaning and polishing a pair of shoes.
- shoestring — a shoelace.
- shopwindow — a window used for display of merchandise.
- short iron — a club, as a pitcher, pitching niblick, or niblick, with a short shaft and an iron head the face of which has great slope, for hitting approach shots.
- 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
- shortening — butter, lard, or other fat, used to make pastry, bread, etc., short.
- shot noise — random fluctuations in the emission of electrons from a hot cathode, causing a hissing or sputtering sound (shot noise) in an audio amplifier and causing snow on a television screen.
- shotmaking — the playing of good shots (by a sports player)
- shoutingly — by way of shouting
- showcasing — a glass case for the display and protection of articles in shops, museums, etc.
- shrimp net — a net for catching shrimps
- shrink fit — a tight fit of a collar or wheel boss on a shaft obtained by expanding the collar or boss by heating to enable it to be threaded onto the shaft and then allowing it to cool, or by freezing the shaft to reduce its diameter to enable it to be threaded into the collar or boss and then allowing the shaft temperature to rise
- shrinkpack — flexible plastic used for shrink-wrapping goods
- shuddering — trembling or quivering with fear, dread, cold, etc.
- shuttering — a solid or louvered movable cover for a window.
- 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 chain — a group of atoms bound to an atom, usually a carbon, that forms part of a larger chain or ring in a molecule
- sighthound — gazehound.
- 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.
- sinophobia — a fear or dislike of China, or Chinese people, their language or culture
- siphonogam — a plant that is pollinated by siphonogamy
- skid chain — a chain fitting over the tire of a car, truck, or other vehicle, to increase traction and prevent skidding on roads covered with ice or snow.
- skin patch — an adhesive patch stuck to the skin to slowly and steadily release medicine into the bloodstream
- skin-tight — fitting almost as tightly as skin: skintight trousers.
- slash pine — a pine, Pinus elliotii, found in slashes and swamps in the southeastern U.S., yielding a hard, durable wood.
- slathering — to spread or apply thickly: to slather butter on toast.
- sling hash — a device for hurling stones or other missiles that consists, typically, of a short strap with a long string at each end and that is operated by placing the missile in the strap, and, holding the ends of the strings in one hand, whirling the instrument around in a circle and releasing one of the strings to discharge the missile.
- 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.
- smashingly — impressive or wonderful: a smashing display.
- smithereen — to break into small fragments
- smothering — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
- snappishly — in a sharp or irritable manner
- sneakishly — in a stealthy or underhanded manner
- sniffishly — in a sniffy or disdainful manner
- snobbishly — of, relating to, or characteristic of a snob: snobbish ideas about rank.
- snow-white — white as snow.
- somethings — Informal. a person or thing of some value or consequence: He is really something! This writer has something to say and she says it well.
- soothingly — that soothes: a soothing voice.
- sphenoidal — relating to the sphenoid bone