10-letter words containing n, s, h, e, l
- mendelsohn — Erich [ey-rikh] /ˈeɪ rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1887–1953, German architect in England and in the U.S.
- mesolonghi — Missolonghi.
- mischannel — to channel wrongly
- mishandled — Simple past tense and past participle of mishandle.
- mishandles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mishandle.
- moon shell — any marine gastropod of the family Naticidae, having a rounded, short-spired, smooth shell.
- mulishness — of or like a mule, as being very stubborn, obstinate, or intractable.
- mush-melon — muskmelon.
- nanoshells — Plural form of nanoshell.
- neckcloths — Plural form of neckcloth.
- needlefish — any fish of the family Belonidae, of warm seas and coastal fresh waters, having a sharp beak and needlelike teeth.
- nettlefish — jellyfish.
- news flash — flash (def 6).
- nonhostile — Not hostile; free of hostility.
- nose wheel — the landing wheel under the nose of an aircraft.
- oenophiles — Plural form of oenophile.
- on the sly — cunning or wily: sly as a fox.
- open flash — a photographic technique employing a flash fired while the camera shutter is held open.
- open-shelf — open-stack.
- penn hills — a town in W Pennsylvania.
- phenoplast — phenolic resin.
- philistine — (sometimes initial capital letter) a person who is lacking in or hostile or smugly indifferent to cultural values, intellectual pursuits, aesthetic refinement, etc., or is contentedly commonplace in ideas and tastes.
- phrensical — frenzical; frenzied
- plushiness — the condition of being plush
- polishment — the state of being polished or the action of polishing
- prehensile — adapted for seizing, grasping, or taking hold of something: a prehensile tail.
- punishable — liable to or deserving punishment.
- quenchless — not capable of being quenched; unquenchable.
- ranshackle — to ransack
- relinquish — to renounce or surrender (a possession, right, etc.): to relinquish the throne.
- roundheels — a prostitute.
- sanmicheli — Michele [mee-ke-le] /miˈkɛ lɛ/ (Show IPA), 1484–1559, Italian architect and military engineer.
- schalstein — a slate-like rock formed by shearing basaltic or andesitic tuff or lava
- 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.
- schlieffen — Alfred (ˈalfreːt), Count von Schlieffen. 1833–1913, German field marshal, who devised the Schlieffen Plan (1905): it was intended to ensure German victory over a Franco-Russian alliance by holding off Russia with minimal strength and swiftly defeating France by a massive flanking movement through the Low Countries. In a modified form, it was unsuccessfully employed in World War I (1914)
- schliemann — Heinrich [hahyn-rikh] /ˈhaɪn rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1822–90, German archaeologist: excavated ancient cities of Troy and Mycenae.
- schnitzler — Arthur [ahr-ther;; German ahr-too r] /ˈɑr θər;; German ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1862–1931, Austrian dramatist and novelist.
- seethingly — to surge or foam as if boiling.
- shackleton — Sir Ernest Henry, 1874–1922, English explorer of the Antarctic.
- shell bean — any of various kinds of bean of which the unripe seeds are removed from the pods before cooking.
- shell pink — delicate whitish to yellow pink.
- shellbound — encased in, or confined to, a shell
- shelliness — the state or quality of being covered with shells
- shetlander — a native or inhabitant of Shetland
- shieldling — a person that is protected or guarded
- short line — a bus or rail route covering only a limited distance.
- shot angle — the angle from which a shot is taken
- shovelnose — any of various animals with a shovellike snout or head, as a guitarfish, Rhinobatos productus, of California.
- 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