10-letter words containing n, o, a, h
- secondhand — not directly known or experienced; obtained from others or from books: Most of our knowledge is secondhand.
- shackleton — Sir Ernest Henry, 1874–1922, English explorer of the Antarctic.
- shadow pin — a vertical pin set in an azimuth instrument or at the center of a compass card, indicating by the direction of its shadow the azimuth of the sun.
- shadowland — a land or region of shadows, phantoms, unrealities, or uncertainties: the shadowland of imagination.
- shake down — an act or instance of shaking, rocking, swaying, etc.
- shake-down — an act or instance of shaking, rocking, swaying, etc.
- shantytown — a section, as of a city or town, characterized by shanties and crudely built houses.
- shape note — a musical note in which the degree of the scale is indicated by the shape of the note's head.
- shear zone — Geology. a zone of closely spaced, approximately parallel faults or dispersed displacements.
- shenandoah — a river flowing NE from N Virginia to the Potomac at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. About 200 miles (322 km) long.
- short-hand — a method of rapid handwriting using simple strokes, abbreviations, or symbols that designate letters, words, or phrases (distinguished from longhand).
- shoshonean — (in some, especially earlier, classifications) a grouping of four branches of the Uto-Aztecan language family including Numic, Hopi, and several languages of southern California.
- shot angle — the angle from which a shot is taken
- shotmaking — the playing of good shots (by a sports player)
- showcasing — a glass case for the display and protection of articles in shops, museums, etc.
- shylockian — a relentless and revengeful moneylender in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
- sinophobia — a fear or dislike of China, or Chinese people, their language or culture
- siphonogam — a plant that is pollinated by siphonogamy
- smartphone — a device that combines a cell phone with a handheld computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, email capability, etc.
- smash down — If you smash down a door, building, or other large heavy object, you hit it hard and break it until it falls on the ground.
- snakemouth — rose pogonia.
- sonography — the medical diagnostic imaging technique used to see internal organs, muscles, etc
- sophoclean — 495?–406? b.c, Greek dramatist.
- 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.
- sousaphone — a form of bass tuba, similar to the helicon, used in brass bands.
- sphenogram — a cuneiform character.
- sphenoidal — relating to the sphenoid bone
- splanchno- — the viscera
- splashdown — the landing of a space vehicle in a body of water, especially the ocean.
- stanchions — an upright bar, beam, post, or support, as in a window, stall, ship, etc.
- stenograph — any of various keyboard instruments, somewhat resembling a typewriter, used for writing in shorthand, as by means of phonetic or arbitrary symbols.
- sticharion — a white tunic of silk or linen, corresponding to the alb, worn by deacons, priests, and bishops.
- stonebrash — a type of subsoil consisting of small or broken stones or rock
- stracchino — a soft cheese from North Italy
- sulphonate — a salt or ester of any sulphonic acid containing the ion RSO2O– or the group RSO2O–, R being an organic group
- sycophancy — self-seeking or servile flattery.
- 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.
- synanthous — relating to plants whose leaves and flowers expand simultaneously
- synchronal — synchronous.
- tachypnoea — excessively rapid respiration.
- talcahuano — a seaport in central Chile.
- tautophony — the repetition of a sound
- technocrat — a proponent, adherent, or supporter of technocracy.
- technofear — fear of using technological devices, such as computers; technophobia
- tetrathlon — a contest featuring four sporting disciplines
- thanatosis — (of an animal) the ability to fake death in order to evade a predator or any other unwelcome intrusion
- thanatotic — an ancient Greek personification of death.
- the dragon — the constellation Draco
- the ogaden — a region of SE Ethiopia, bordering on Somalia: consists of a desert plateau, inhabited by Somali nomads; a secessionist movement, supported by Somalia, has existed within the region since the early 1960s and led to bitter fighting between Ethiopia and Somalia (1977–78)
- the oneida — a North American Indian people formerly living east of Lake Ontario; one of the Iroquois peoples